Deadline: 15-Mar-22
The Community Trust South has launched the Regional Sports Organisation (RSO) Fund to provide programmes and services that encourage active participation and healthy lifestyles.
Priorities
Regional Sports Organisations can use their funding for whatever areas of their operation are a priority and that are particularly aligned to the Active Lifestyle priorities.
- 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
- 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
Funding Information
Total Fund: $580,000 per annum
Eligibility Criteria
- Applying for Regional Sports Organisation Funding For The First Time
- Applications are accepted from organisations recognised as the Regional Sports Organisations for the area – Southland, Queenstown, Glenorchy, Arrowtown, Tapanui and Heriot areas.
- 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 the area
- Affiliated to the appropriate National Sports Organisation
- 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
- Annual Financial Statements and Audit Requirements
- If your annual operating expenditure for your last financial year is:
- Greater than $1 million: Then they need your audited annual financial statements*
- Greater than $500,000 and up to $1 million: Then they need your audited or reviewed annual financial statements*
- $500,000 or below: Then they need your annual financial statements – these don’t need to be audited or reviewed unless your organisation’s Constitution or Trust Deed requires you to do so.
- If your annual operating expenditure for your last financial year is:
*Will need to be undertaken by an independent qualified accountant.
For more information, visit Community Trust South.
For more information, visit https://www.communitytrustsouth.nz/what-we-fund/regional-sports-organisation-fund/