Deadline: 15-Mar-23
The Community Trust South is seeking applications for Regional Sports Organisation Fund to support regional sports organisations to provide programmes and services that encourage active participation and healthy lifestyles.
What they Fund
- Regional Sports Organisations can use their funding for whatever areas of their operation are a priority and that are particularly aligned to their Active Lifestyle priorities.
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Active Lifestyles Priorities
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Providing grassroots support for life-long active participation and engagement with a focus on:
- The early years (0-13 years)
- Older persons
- Coaching and volunteering
- Inactive people and those experiencing barriers to participation
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Supporting appropriate and sustainable infrastructure (people, services and facilities) with a focus on:
- Partnering and collaboration
- Consolidation/sharing of services
- Multiuse facilities
- And, while a lesser priority, they also support elite sport with a focus on supporting the development of athletes, coaches and officials to excel and reach their potential, and sporting franchises operating within financially viable models
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Providing grassroots support for life-long active participation and engagement with a focus on:
Funding Information
- Total Fund: $580,000 per annum.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications are accepted from organisations recognised as the Regional Sports Organisations for their area – Southland, Queenstown, Glenorchy, Arrowtown, Tapanui and Heriot areas.
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These Regional Sports Organisations need to be:
- An incorporated society or an incorporated charitable trust. You can check if you are incorporated at Societies & Trusts
- A company with charitable purposes that is registered with Charities Services
- To apply your RSO also needs to be:
- Undertaking their activities in their area
- Affiliated to the appropriate National Sports Organisation
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Able to provide:
- Documentation of RSO participation activities, detailing all competitions, programmes and development initiatives to show regular participation levels and activities
- Documentation that clearly shows individual participant numbers, including names, addresses and competition/level of participation
- A strategic plan, a current annual plan and budget
- Annual financial statements
- Demonstrated need for financial assistance.
For more information, visit Regional Sports Organisation Fund.
