Waiheke Quick Response Grant in New Zealand

Deadline: 19-May-23

The Auckland Council is seeking applications for the Waiheke Quick Response Grant.

Funding Priorities

• Waiheke Local Board prioritises applications that:
  • Create opportunities for community connectedness.
  • Enable diverse participation and inclusion.
  • Develop community capability and capacity, or build local resilience.
  • Promote sustainability, support lower carbon shifts, and protect our natural environments.
  • Recognise Te Ao Māori and contribute towards Māori outcomes.
  • Involve collaboration and working together with other community organisations.
  • Projects are based on the island and use local suppliers.
  • Promotes Waiheke as a sanctuary in the gulf and a sustainable tourism destination.
  • Additionally, grants that align with the local board plan priorities will be more likely to be funded.
• Higher Priority
  • Waiheke Local Board will prioritise projects that:
    • Collaborate with other community organisations
    • Use local procurement.
• Lower priority
  • Waiheke Local Board has identified the following activities as lower priorities:
    • Commercial entities and promotion of commercial entities.
    • Ticketed events.
    • Activities that primarily benefit communities outside the Waiheke Local Board area.
    • Activities that primarily benefit a third party (e.g. activity to gain money for an organisation).
    • Grants to support the purchase of, or maintenance associated with, motor vehicles.
    • Wages and/or operational costs.
    • Individuals with projects on private land

Funding Information

• Grant value: $500 – $2000

Types of projects funded by the grant

• Arts
• Community
• Environment
• Events
• Heritage
• Sports and recreation

Outcomes

• Their grants programme will support the following initiatives:
  • Environmental
  • Cultural
  • Arts
  • Community development
  • Recreational and heritage
  • Supporting our youth.

Eligibility Criteria

• Community organisations with a formal legal structure
• Groups or individuals with no formal legal structure can apply for up to $1,000 (Kaipatiki Local Board will not fund individuals)
• Applicants seeking funding over $1,000 will need to nominate an umbrella organisation or
• Receive funding retrospectively.

Ineligible

• Political parties
• Internal applicants (i.e. to fund projects, programmes or facilities run by Auckland Council or its employees) Auckland Council CCOs (council-controlled organisations), including facilities owned and operated by Regional Facilities Auckland (RFA)
• Organisations receiving statutory funding from council via compulsory annual levies, under the Auckland Regional Amenities Funding Act (ARAFA) or comparable legislation
• Other local authorities, government agencies or public sector entities.

For more information, visit Auckland Council.