Deadline: 22-Aug-22
Applications are now open for the Trust House Foundation Grant Program.
Every year, they provide more than $4 million in community gaming proceeds to fund community events and organisations through grants.
Authorised Purposes
- Such objects or purposes which tend to promote, advance, or encourage education, science, literature, art, physical welfare, or recreation, or any other purposes that are beneficial to the community or any section of it.
- Such objects or purposes include, but not are not limited to, the provision, or the assistance in the provision of facilities, or playing or training uniforms, for amateur sporting clubs and amateur sporting teams playing in recognised, published amateur leagues or competition. Excludes bar facilities.
- Such objects and purposes which tend to promote religion, relieve poverty or welfare assistance through donations to recognised social services or welfare agencies.
- Donations to educational or training or cultural organisations through the provision of scholarships, safety equipment, or educational tools which are administered by the recipient educational organisation.
- Funds for not-for-profit community, cultural, recreational and sporting groups or organisations, which have been formally
- established and/or legally constituted, to assist those groups to participate and or develop their activities.
- To provide for the conduct of race meetings for the benefit of the public and to promote and control those meetings (excluding stake money for any types of races).
Grants will generally Not be given for?
- Prizes.
- Projects already completed.
- Projects of a non-specific nature.
- Grants to other Charitable Trusts wherein the grant would be redistributed to an organisation who may be able to make an application to the Foundation in their own right.
- Projects that are not of benefit to New Zealand residents.
Eligibility Criteria
- Organisations, or branches of National organisations, that have an association or communal interest with the communities in which Trust House Foundation have gaming machines.
- These communities are: Flaxmere, Wairarapa, Rimutaka, Tawa, Porirua.
- Applications from organisations outside these areas will be declined, except where applicants can demonstrate that they provide a substantial benefit to one or more of these areas.
For more information, visit Trust House Foundation.
For more information, visit https://trusthouse.co.nz/funding/grants/