Deadline: 01-Mar-23
The Community Matters is offering grants through its Lottery Environment and Heritage fund for plans, reports, and one-off projects that will protect, conserve and promote New Zealand’s natural, cultural and physical heritage.
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 our 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 our 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 our 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.
- The on-going costs of pest and predator control (considered on a case-by-case basis).
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 the native plants (flora) and animal life (fauna) safe from harm (including the on-going costs of pest and predator control)
- Physical heritage projects restore, protect and/or conserve places, structures and large built objects that are important to the history
- Cultural heritage projects conserve, protect and/or promote collections and stories that are important to the cultural heritage and identity.
Results / Outcomes
Organisations receiving grants are expected to demonstrate how their projects will benefit the community, and contribute to:
- Increasing the 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 Community Matters.
