Northland Grassroots Fund in New Zealand

Deadline: 11-Jun-23

The Northland Community Foundation (NCF) is accepting applications for the Northland Grassroots Fund to support community groups and charitable organisations who deliver initiatives that help Families/Whānau by supporting:

• the wellbeing of tamariki/children through their early years
• the wellbeing of rangatahi/young people
• the wellbeing of whānau/families

The Community Fund is kindly supported by The Tindall Foundation in the form of a sub-fund called the Grassroots Fund.

By contributing to this fund, you will enable us to support more of the excellent projects that are proposed by and for their local communities.

The Grassroots Fund provides grants of between $1,000 and $15,000 for initiatives that aim to improve the lives of Northland people in the long-term. The grants panel receives applications once per year and prioritises applications from small organisations run mostly by volunteers in the local community.

Focus Areas

• Please ensure that your project fits within their Focus Areas:
  • Family
  • Community
  • Environment

Funding Information

• The Northland Grassroots Fund grants around $90,000 each year to worthy causes and charities in Northland. Organisations can apply for a grant of up to $15,000.

What they fund?

• They are looking for initiatives for families that:
  • Support the wellbeing of tamariki/children through their early years by:
    • Enhancing the capability of parents.
    • Supporting early childhood development, including language and literacy development, and social behaviour skills.
  • Support the wellbeing of rangatahi/young people by:
    • Promoting a positive youth development sector and growing its capacity.
    • Focusing on early intervention/prevention strategies for young people.
    • Supporting initiatives which promote identity and participation and equality of young people, particularly youth-led initiatives.
    • Working systemically to address youth employment, especially for those most distanced from the labour market.
    • Supporting and advocating for tamariki/children and rangatahi/young people, especially children in care, or the prevention of children needing to be taken into care.
  • Support the wellbeing of whānau/families by:
    • Providing and assisting whānau/families into stable, healthy, and affordable housing – especially home ownership.
    • Supporting the wellbeing of whānau/families in a holistic way, ensuring that their goals and aspirations are at the centre.
    • Promoting violence free homes.
    • Strengthening the identity and culture of whānau/families.
    • support whānau/families back into housing, those which support people who are homeless etc.
  • They are more likely to support initiatives that:
    • Support whānau/families experiencing multiple and intergenerational disadvantage
    • Put whānau/families at the centre
    • Use kaupapa Māori models of practice
    • Work holistically
    • Focus on long-term solutions
    • Work in collaboration

Eligibility Criteria

• To be eligible to apply for a Grassroots grant your group should be working in the Northland community. Your project/initiative should be helping Families/Whānau by supporting the wellbeing of tamariki/children, rangatahi/young people, and/or whānau/families.
• You can apply for up to $15,000 for projects starting no sooner than August in the year the funding is received and finishing within 6 months to 1 year.

Exclusions

• Core or public health services, or initiatives where the children or whānau/families have a healthrelated issue or disability
• Core education, including kindergartens and government and/or privately funded early childhood centres
• Research from outside a community without its direct involvement.
• Sport, leisure and recreation, including initiatives where the outcome is purely sports related
• The arts, including initiatives where the outcome is purely arts related
• House repairs, or housing projects whose main beneficiaries are not low income whānau/families
• Buildings or land
• Animal charities
• Capital assets or equipment over $3,000
• Individuals, personal loans, endowments or sponsorships
• Religious or political advocacy
• Urgent or retrospective applications.

For more information, visit Northland Grassroots Fund.