Deadline: 31-Jul-2024
Mercury is inviting applications for the Oamaru Community Fund.
To help support the community where many of the wonderful people live, work and play, they have created the Ōamaru Community Fund to support those who care for people, place and future.
Funding Information
- Grant ranges from around $200 to $2,000.
What’s important to them?
- When making your application to the Mercury Ōamaru Community Fund, please consider how well your request fits with the criteria opposite.
- These are the things important to them and their people, and it’s what will be used to assess your application.
- Manaakitanga
- He Tāngata – Putting people at the heart of the decision.
- Tiaki – Contributing to care for people and place.
- Mana – Acting with integrity and a moral compass.
- Kaitiakitanga
- Considering your role as kaitiaki (guardians) for the environment.
- Demonstrating a sustainable approach.
- Taking real action towards addressing climate change.
- A Sustainable Future
- Kia Kaha – Having the courage to create opportunities.
- Mahi Tahi – Collaborating to build something stronger.
- Urutau – Adapting, pivoting and changing to continue to provide what is needed.
- Adopting a digital mindset – looking for ways that technology can help, enhance and make positive change for the community.
- Automating processes so ‘people power’ can be better used to achieve more.
- Connecting communities through digital or innovative endeavours.
- Empowering learning and improvement.
- Manaakitanga
Criteria
- Applications must fall within the stipulated criteria to be considered:
- Applications must showcase a connection with ‘what’s important to them’.
- Expenses applied for must be incurred within New Zealand, with the exception of items purchased overseas that are not available in New Zealand.
- All grants must be applied to specific, future-based purposes.
- There must be no conflict of interest existing between the applicant group and the provider of the goods and services.
- Your community organisation based within the outlined area on the map (indicated on the application form).
- If funding is required towards general running costs (power, landline telephone, rates or building insurance) copies of invoices for the previous three months need to be supplied.
- Applications for existing salary positions must provide a signed employment contract clearly stating the term of the contract, employee’s name and rate of pay, together with a position description.
- They will not consider applications that request funding for: individuals or anything that is required to be carried-out as part of a government-funded contract.
For more information, visit Mercury.