Deadline: 14-Mar-25
The Community Trust South is seeking applications for its Regional Sports Organisation Fund Program to support regional sports organisations to provide programmes and services that encourage active participation and healthy lifestyles.
Funding Information
- Total Fund: $580,000 per annum.
Eligible Activities
- Regional Sports Organisations can use their funding for whatever areas of their operation are a priority and that are particularly aligned to their People & Places priorities:
- Healthy & happy: Encouraging healthy active lifestyles leads to improved wellbeing and positive community outcomes
- Vibrant spaces & places: Activating spaces and places that bring joy and connection for all people and ages including supporting building community through access to art, hertitage, cultural, sport and active recreation programmes and events.
Geographical Focus
- Applications are accepted from organisations recognised as the Regional Sports Organisations for their area – Southland, Queenstown, Glenorchy, Arrowtown, Tapanui and Heriot areas.
Eligibility Criteria
- These Regional Sports Organisations need to be:
- An incorporated society or an incorporated charitable trust
- 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
- 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 Community Trust South.