Deadline: 07-Apr-21
Applications are now open for the Lottery COVID-19 Community Wellbeing Fund to provide one-off grants for community or social initiatives that increase the strength and resilience of communities that are responding to the impacts of COVID-19.
This Fund supports hapu, iwi and community organisations that have lost funding or have an increased demand on their services due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and community or social initiatives that strengthen community resilience and respond to the impacts of COVID-19.
Priorities
The Lottery COVID-19 Community Wellbeing Fund will give priority to supporting:
- Innovative and transformative community or social initiatives that respond to the impact of COVID-19;
- Collaborative community or social initiatives that strengthen and increase resilience in communities; and
- Hapu, iwi and community organisations that are delivering community and social initiatives that have been impacted by COVID-19 – either through the loss of funding sources or through extra or changed demand on their services.
Funding Criteria
The Lottery COVID-19 Community Wellbeing Fund will provide one-off grants to support the following:
- On-going operational costs for organisations that can show that they are impacted by COVID-19 and have had to expand their services and activities
- Projects beyond the day-to-day operations that show innovation or collaboration in relation to COVID-19 recovery
- Social enterprise initiatives that increase community wellbeing where communities are experiencing on-going impacts from COVID-19
- Capital items and works purchases that assist in service delivery or a community initiative up to $30,000.
The Lottery COVID-19 Community Wellbeing Fund will not 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
- Medical expenses, operations, treatments or the purchase of major items of health equipment
- Organisations that do not meet the Fund’s priorities
- Organisations that have been fully funded through additional funding sources for the Fund’s priorities
- Projects or activities completed (retrospective funding) or items bought before the request
- Requests that fit the priorities for the Lottery Minister’s Discretionary Fund.
Which Decision Maker (Committee) should applicants apply to – national or regional?
Grants are distributed through a national and regional Decision Makers.
- Applicants need to apply to the national Decision Makers if:
- They are a national organisation;
- The grant funding request is for an initiative or service with a nationwide benefit; or
- The grant funding request benefits two or more Lottery Community regions.
- Applicants need to apply to the regional Decision Makers if:
- They are delivering an initiative or service which will be carried out in one of the Lottery Community regions, or a majority of the benefit will occur there; or
- They are independent branches of national organisations (i.e. each branch is a separate legal entity), and are making a funding request for a project or service which will benefit the region in which the funding request is made.
For more information, visit https://www.communitymatters.govt.nz/lottery-covid-19-community-wellbeing-fund/