Deadline: 01-Sep-21
The Community Matters is inviting applications to provide grants to improve or build new facilities for communities, and for studies to find out if a community facility is needed and can be achieved.
Lottery Community Facilities provides grants:
- to improve or build new community facilities, or
- for feasibility studies to work out if plans to improve or build community facilities can be achieved and will benefit the community.
The aim is to get more people involved in community and social activities, and to strengthen communities and bring people together by helping to develop their community facilities.
Priorities
Grant decisions are made by the Lottery Community Facilities Committee. Grant requests should show how your project:
- is community-led and well supported by your community
- will meet a community need
- is the right size for your community
- will provide new opportunities for people to be involved with and connected with the community, especially:
- rural and isolated communities
- disadvantaged groups
- people who can’t easily access similar or suitable community facilities.
What they Fund
- The following may be funded:
- projects to build new community buildings or facilities
- projects to improve or enlarge existing community facilities
- feasibility studies to work out if planned projects are needed, can be achieved and fit the long-term vision for the community
- Seismic assessments.
- building purchases (but only if this is a better and less costly option than building a new facility).
- Building or renovation project costs may include:
- earthquake strengthening or building extensions and new construction projects
- lighting and fixed sport or recreational assets such as artificial multi-sport turf, goal posts, net fixtures
- improving or adding kitchens and/or bathrooms, including ovens, fridges and dishwashers
- professional fees for architecture, quantity surveying and/or for managing the project
- professional fees for a suitably qualified project manager, who is not part of the decision-making group for the project.
- The Committee prefers requests that show robust project planning has been done for the type of facility planned and its multi-purpose uses. It is more likely to fund requests that show the project:
- has strong governance and financial management
- involves tradespeople who are qualified or experienced to do the work
- meets all of the regulations and requirements for building, health and safety
- has had resource consent granted
- provides access for disabled people
- provides essential services, such as plumbing, waste water and sewerage systems, and electricity and fire protection
- has support from your community, such as people ready to work as volunteers.
The Committee will want to know that the person in charge of your project has the right qualifications and experience for the type of project you are planning. This may be a volunteer or a paid professional project manager who will regularly report to the project’s decision-making group. They must not be a member of the project’s decision-making group.
Outcomes
- Organisations receiving grants are expected to show how their community facility will help the community and:
- increase the community’s strength and its ability to look after its own needs and achieve more
- provide opportunities for people to join in social, recreational, civil or cultural activities
- reduce or overcome barriers that prevent people taking part in those activities.
- New or improved community facilities should help communities to achieve their outcomes, including:
- providing more or better access to existing community services
- creating more services, or making a bigger range of services available
- improving the ability to respond to community needs
- improving community links and networks.
For more information, visit https://www.communitymatters.govt.nz/lottery-community-facilities/