Deadline: 20-Jul-22
Applications are now open for the Lottery Community Grants program to help improve the quality of people’s lives in their communities.
Lottery Community grants are available for not-for-profit organisations with a community or social service focus for ongoing operating costs or projects which help improve the quality of people’s lives in their communities.
Priorities
- Lottery Community funds organisations that support the needs of:
- Māori, whānau, hapū and iwi
- Pacific people and other ethnic communities
- older people, women, youth and people with disabilities.
- The priorities for Lottery Community are projects, activities, resources or services that focus on:
- parents/families/whānau
- children and youth development
- enhancing the quality of life of older people in the community
- preventing violence
- new migrants/refugees
- people with a long-term/significant disability or illness
- people who are considered to be at risk or disadvantaged
- improving people’s knowledge and use of digital technology.
Funding Information
- Requests for funding must include a budget. The type of budget you need to provide depends on what your request is for.
- Operational costs are all the ongoing costs of running an organisation. For example, salaries, administration, rent, regular programme delivery, regular events and repairs and maintenance.
- Project costs are specific costs related to a one-off project which has a clear start and end date and does not include your business as usual activities. For example, cost related to a pilot programme, a new initiative, redeveloping a facility or building a new facility.
- Duration: This must be for the first 12-month period.
Outcomes
- A Lottery Community committee looks at the outcomes of your project or services and how they will benefit your community and help:
- support volunteers
- help people to help themselves
- promote community wellbeing
- promote community or cultural identity
- support vulnerable people
- help people feel that they belong and can take part in their community.
- Each Lottery Community committee determines the outcomes and priorities it wants to achieve from the investment of the grant money available in its area.
What they fund?
Lottery Community grants may be one-off contributions or multi-year grant investments for up to three years, for:
- ongoing operating costs for existing or expanded services and activities
- projects beyond an organisation’s day-to-day operations
- helping to top-up an organisation’s existing funding
- minor capital works projects valued at $30,000 or less.
What they don’t fund?
- individuals
- research, including: large scale research plans, feasibility studies for capital projects and health research
- major capital works over $30,000, including project management fees
- food for food banks
- alcohol and similar substances, for example kava
- requests that fit the priorities for the Lottery Minister’s Discretionary Fund, which include:
- volunteer fire-fighting services,
- overseas travel,
- animal welfare
- financial and governance training.
Eligibility Criteria
Request a grant from the Lottery National Community committee if:
- your group is a national organisation
- your request is for a project or service with a nationwide benefit, or
- your request will benefit two or more regions.
For more information, visit https://www.communitymatters.govt.nz/lottery-community/