Trust House Foundation Grant Program in New Zealand

Deadline: 11-Jul-22

The Trust House Foundation Grant Program is now open for applications.

The Foundation aims to enhance the wellbeing of people in the region, by funding local events and organisations and running great local businesses.

Every year, they provide more than $4 million in community gaming proceeds to fund community events and organisations through grants.

Priority Funding

Organisations will be considered more favourably if they provide the following:

Community support, including the development and wellbeing of the young and aged.
Cultural activities and recreation, including the performance and development of music, the arts, history and sport.
Welfare and social services for the prevention and/or rehabilitation of addiction

Authorised Purpose

Grants will only be made in accordance with the Foundation’s authorised purpose. At the time of approving this policy, the Foundation’s authorised purpose was:

Such objects or purposes which tend to promote, advance, or encourage education, science, literature, art, physical welfare, or recreation, or any other purposes that are beneficial to the community or any section of it.
Such objects or purposes include, but not are not limited to, the provision, or the assistance in the provision of facilities, or playing or training uniforms, for amateur sporting clubs and amateur sporting teams playing in recognised, published amateur leagues or competition. Excludes bar facilities.
Such objects and purposes which tend to promote religion, relieve poverty or welfare assistance through donations to recognised social services or welfare agencies.
Donations to educational or training or cultural organisations through the provision of scholarships, safety equipment, or educational tools which are administered by the recipient educational organisation.
Funds for not-for-profit community, cultural, recreational and sporting groups or organisations, which have been formally established and/or legally constituted, to assist those groups to participate and or develop their activities.
To provide for the conduct of race meetings for the benefit of the public and to promote and control those meetings (excluding stake money for any types of race

Eligibility Criteria

Grant applications will be assessed having regard to the following criteria:

Applicants must be non-profit organisations.
Sporting grants can only be made for amateur sports.
Sports clubs should be affiliated to a recognised national organisation.
Applications must be submitted by sports clubs, not individuals.
Administration costs and salaries may be funded if this helps to meet a recognised need within the community.
All uniforms and equipment must remain the property of the recipient organisation. Funding of dress uniforms / socks is not permitted.
Events or trips that are predominantly social in nature will not be funded. This includes family or group reunions.
Grants for social activities to benefit disadvantaged groups may however, be considered, e.g., a Christmas luncheon for the elderly at the town community centre.
Grant applications cannot be for an item that has already been paid for; the application must be future focused
Grants for public education, kindergartens and the like will be considered.
Cultural purposes must be non-commercial and benefit the community. Examples include amateur theatre groups, non-profit museums and art galleries, amateur cultural groups, and non-profit community cultural or arts festivals.
Local not-for-profit organisations such as incorporated societies and registered charities.
Local branches of national not-for-profit organisations.
The funding must go towards an event or initiative that enhances one or more of their communities: Wairarapa, Flaxmere, Pahiatua, Rimutaka or Porirua.