Deadline: 1-Dec-22
Do you use music in some direct way to enrich the lives of New Zealanders in need and to help those New Zealanders to develop as members of the community? If yes, then apply for the MusicHelps Grants Program.
The charity develops & supports a wide range of programmes that use music to help people who are at risk, vulnerable and experiencing health issues. The charity has made projects impacting over 65,000 people possible at youth organisations, hospices, schools, medical charities, rehabilitation centres and more all-over New Zealand.
MusicHelps Grants is the way they partner with people and projects that use the power of music to change the lives of people in need in Aotearoa.
Ineligible Projects
- Retrospective grants – All MusicHelps Grants must be applied to specific and future-based purposes. They can’t fund any transactions or costs that have already been incurred or have been pre-paid. For example, purchases made prior to approval of a grant.
- Travel expenses – Applications for MusicHelps Grants to cover travel expenses will not be considered.
- Vehicles – They do not consider applications for the purchase or subsidy of vehicles.
- Offshore trusts – They do not fund charitable trusts not based in New Zealand.
- Events – MusicHelps does not consider funding applications for events.
Eligibility Criteria
- To apply for a MusicHelps Grant the applicant should be a not-for-profit organisation with a formal legal structure or be a not-for-profit charitable trust registered with the Charities Commission. You should be looking for assistance with a project or programme that uses/will use music to positively address issues or circumstances that are affecting people in need, and have ways of measuring if your initiative has been/will be successful in this.
- They prefer to make grants to entities whose main purpose is to provide a service rather than promote a message.
- They would prefer not to support projects that would be considered part of the government’s social contract responsibilities.
- Project/programmes that have the provision of opportunities to experience, participate in or learn music as their sole aim will ordinarily not qualify.
- The aim of your initiative should be to positively address the issues and challenges facing individuals/groups in need through the use of music (which could include experiences, participation and learning). You should have methods of assessing if you have been successful in addressing these issues/challenges faced by your participants.
For more information, visit https://musichelps.org.nz/grants/