Deadline: 20-Feb-23
The Tauranga City Council is pleased to announce the applications for Community Grants Fund to support community-led initiatives, which create positive change in the community, enhance the community’s ability to meet its own needs, and develop local community leadership.
Community grants are provided to support the delivery of a clearly defined activity, project or initiative.
Funding Information
- Grants available: up to $50,000
- When you can apply: twice a year.
What can get funded?
- All applications must demonstrate contribution to at least one of the Principles of Support.
- There are some things they don’t fund, such as lobbying. Refer to Schedule 2 for further details.
- Due to demand, organisations will only receive one Community Grant or Match Fund Medium Grant per year.
Activities
- Activities that will not be funded through community grant funding
- Commercial activity
- Debt servicing or repayment
- Legal expenses (for example, to defend an organisation in Court or to challenge a decision in the Environment Court)
- To employ individual persons
- Building consent fees and resource consent fees
- Activities that promote religious ministry, or political purposes and causes
- Medical expenses
- Public services that are the responsibility of central government (e.g. core education, healthcare, social work, whanau ora services) except where Council has identified it as a strategic outcome e.g. homelessness, or it addresses a need in a priority community.
- Physical works where relevant consent or permit has not yet been issued. Council may agree to a grant subject to consents or permits being granted. The funding would be released on receipt of the required consents or permits.
- Purchase of tobacco, alcohol, vape supplies or other psychoactive substances
- Development of clubrooms on active reserves (based on requirements in the Active Reserves Level of Service Policy).
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications are welcomed from community organisations, schools, kura, not for profit early childhood education providers and organisations delivering kaupapa Maori outcomes.
Principles
- Principles of support to be considered when applying to the Community Grant Fund
- Communities of need and social equity
- They want to their city to be a great place to live for everyone. They are committed to ensuring that those who need support most receive it by providing financial and other support for initiatives focused on areas of high deprivation and priority communities of interest.
- Encourage Kaupapa Māori Outcomes
- They value the importance of strengthening and supporting Kaupapa Māori outcomes and acknowledge the need for nurturing strong relationships founded on Māori values, principles and practices.
- Community pride and belonging
- Celebrating identity, heritage and cultural diversity, and feeling of a sense of belonging and inclusion. They are committed to celebrating their diverse cultural identities and fostering the creative arts to enhance the wellbeing of their community.
- Wellbeing and participation
- So that Tauranga is an inclusive and accessible city that enables healthy living and recreation to support improved wellbeing. Note that this includes healthy and active communities – supporting healthy living and physical activity and having access to health services for all ages, cultures, and disabilities.
- Safe and resilient communities
- People are safe and feel safe in their homes, neighbourhoods and public places.
- Environmental sustainability
- Environmental restoration, helping minimise their impact on the environment and promoting sustainability of their resources in Tauranga Moana.
- Communities of need and social equity
For more information, visit Community Grants Fund.