Deadline: 12-Feb-23
The Auckland Council is pleased to announce its Thriving Communities Grant Program.
The Ngā Hapori Momoho — Thriving Communities grants are available for organisations across Tāmaki Makaurau to support community-led approaches that support key outcomes of the plan.
Thriving Communities objectives
- These outcomes will be achieved by:
- Increasing financial security so more Aucklanders can live well
- Improving health outcomes so more Aucklanders are happy and healthy
- Increasing access and participation so more Aucklanders can access and take part in the things they care about
- Growing community and intercultural connection so all Aucklanders feel as though they belong
- Enabling local leadership and innovation so they can harness the power and creativity of community
- Increasing community resilience and sustainability so Aucklanders can make the best use of the resources available to them, whilst reducing emissions.
Priorities
- This grant programme’s priority is to build a Tāmaki Makaurau where:
- All whānau have everything they need to live a good life
- Diversity is celebrated
- All Aucklanders feel as though they belong.
Funding Information
- The maximum grant is $60,000 from a total of $295,000 available.
What they do not fund?
- Debt servicing or repayment.
- Legal expenses.
- Activities that promote religious ministry or political purposes.
- Medical expenses.
- Public services that are the responsibility of central government (e.g. core education, primary health care).
- Physical works – e.g. improvements to community buildings – that require consents or permits, prior to the necessary consents or permits being obtained (grants may be awarded in principle but funds will not be released until all conditions are satisfied).
- Purchase of alcohol.
- Travel and accommodation outside Auckland unless they are convinced there will be a tangible benefit for Aucklanders.
- Retrospective costs (where the activity has already taken place) unless this is necessary as a condition of the grant or they are satisfied there are other mitigating circumstances.
- Fundraising events or activities, especially where the beneficiary is a third party (e.g. charity events, sponsored walks), unless they determine the event has a wider community benefit beyond its primary purpose as a fundraiser.
Outcomes
- They hope that all Aucklanders will experience:
- manaakitanga – the essentials of a good life, with the ability to fulfil their potential
- whanaungatanga – connectedness to other people and a feeling of belonging
- kotahitanga – participation in their community, while taking action to meet common goals
- kaitiakitanga – connectedness to the natural environment.
Eligibility Criteria
- To apply, your organisation needs to be available to all Aucklanders. Regional grants such as this are for regionally significant groups and organisations, services, events and activities that benefit residents across Auckland.
- Your organisation also has to:
- Have a formal legal structure (e.g. be a registered not-for-profit, iwi or Māori trust, charitable or voluntary organisation), or
- Identify an umbrella organisation with a legal structure to receive and administer the grant, and be legally accountable to them for the expenditure of it.
For more information, visit Auckland Council.