Franklin Discretionary Community Grant (New Zealand)

Deadline: 24-Mar-23

The Auckland Council is accepting applications for its Franklin Discretionary Community Grant to provide contestable and discretionary grants to local communities.

Priorities

Their grants will be targeted towards supporting the following priorities:
- Support community and iwi driven initiatives that will protect and restore the natural environment and address the impacts of climate change.
- Protect and enhance the mauri (lifeforce) of their awa (waterways), moana (ocean) and ngahere (indigenous forests).
- Enable their people to engage with local history and share their cultures.
- Build and maintain mutually beneficial relationships with Māori.
- Their people are supported to actively contribute to their community and the places they live.
- Support community-led arts and local events that bring people together to meet each other and have fun at no or low cost.
- Their community support agencies, resident groups and marae are supported to coordinate or deliver a range of community wellbeing and resilience services and programmes.
Higher priority for eligibility
- They will prioritise projects that:
  - adhere to the Smokefree Policy
  - promote waste minimisation and endorse zero waste practices.
Lower priority for eligibility
- A lower priority will be given to applications for:
  - retrospective costs
  - vouchers and gifts
  - costs towards travel expenses, salaries, vehicles, electronic and sports equipment, sports uniforms and catering
  - organisations that have a closed membership, i.e. the benefit is for members only and there is limited benefit to the wider community.