Lottery Environment and Heritage Committee Fund – New Zealand

Deadline: 04-Aug-21

Applications are now open for the Lottery Environment and Heritage Committee Fund to provide grants for plans, reports, and one-off projects that will protect, conserve and promote New Zealand’s natural, cultural and physical heritage.

Lottery Environment and Heritage grants are available for projects that will help protect, conserve or care for their natural, cultural and physical heritage, or allow them to better understand and access these resources.

Priorities

Grant decisions are made by the Lottery Environment and Heritage Committee. Before deciding, the committee looks at how your project will help New Zealand’s natural, physical and cultural heritage

• Natural heritage: 
  • protect and restore habitats and ecosystems for native plants or animals
  • protect and conserve native plants or animals that are rare, in danger or at risk in their habitats
  • improve public access and information about native plants and animals.
• Physical heritage:
  • restore and protect places, structures or large built objects of significance to their history
  • protect and conserve a place, structure or large built object for the future
  • improve public access and information about places, structures or large built objects of significance to their history
• Cultural heritage:
  • protect collections that are at risk of being damaged or lost
  • make collections available to the community
  • improve public access and information, particularly for young people to learn about and experience their cultural heritage
  • conserve and protect moveable cultural property, such as photographs, paintings, furniture and other artefacts.

Funding Information

Lottery Environment and Heritage makes grants for:

• small projects, where the grant requested is for less than $250,000
• large projects, where the grant requested is for $250,000 or more.
• a one-off project may be:
  • a discrete stage of a larger, ongoing project; or
  • a single, stand-alone project.

What they fund?

This fund provides grants for plans, reports and one-off projects that will protect, conserve and promote New Zealand’s natural, cultural and physical heritage.

• Natural heritage projects promote, protect and/or keep their native plants (flora) and animal life (fauna) safe from harm
• Physical heritage projects restore, protect and/or conserve places, structures and large built objects that are important to their history
• Cultural heritage projects conserve, protect and/or promote collections and stories that are important to their cultural heritage and identity.

What they don’t fund?

• Lottery grants may not be used for any of the following:
  • repaying or servicing debt
  • refinancing loans, deposits or underwriting projects
  • commercial, political and/or religious objectives, including employment and/or business initiatives, commercial enterprises, political advocacy or projects which seek to change legislation
  • fundraisers and projects which seek to raise funds in or for a specific sector, or are involved with the training or employment of fundraisers
  • projects which seek to redistribute funding to others
  • overseas aid or disaster relief
  • alcohol and drug treatment, education and support services
  • medical expenses, operations, treatments or the purchase of major items of health equipment
  • capital investment or trust funds
  • projects or activities completed (retrospective funding) or items bought before the request.
• Lottery Environment and Heritage does not fund:
  • projects to conserve, restore or protect privately or commercially owned land, buildings, structures and/or large built objects
  • projects to plan, develop or create historic gardens
  • routine maintenance that is not part of a larger restoration project
  • individual people, including projects undertaken as part of a university qualification
  • projects to landscape or beautify an area, that do not have a conservation, restoration or educational value
  • operating expenses, such as administration, staffing, or ordinary upkeep and maintenance
  • projects to build or restore historic replicas, including copies of vehicles, equipment or buildings
  • projects to install or upgrade services such as kitchens or toilets that are not part of larger construction or restoration projects
  • purchases of bare land
  • recycling schemes or related projects
  • research projects (but requests for applied research that show a clear community benefit may be considered)
  • reunions.
• Costs that are out of scope for plans, studies and reports:
  • The following costs will not be funded by the Lottery Environment and Heritage Committee:
    • legal services
    • architectural design (other than preliminary designs to inform a feasibility study)
    • planning approval
    • fundraising campaign plans
    • business plans
    • feasibility studies that have been completed by the funding round closing date.

Outcomes

Organisations receiving grants are expected to demonstrate how their projects will benefit the community, and contribute to:

• increasing their access to New Zealand’s cultural heritage;
• preserving and protecting New Zealand’s natural environment; or
• preserving New Zealand’s history for future generations.

For more information, visit https://www.communitymatters.govt.nz/lottery-environment-and-heritage/