Deadline: 5-Aug-22
The Auckland Council is inviting applications for the Waitākere Ranges Quick Response Grant programme to provide contestable community grants to local communities.
Priorities
- They welcome grant applications for projects and events that:
- Create awareness of the values and features of the heritage area, and help residents and visitors respect the area’s fragility.
- Support mana whenua to tell the stories of important cultural and historic sites.
- Promote, preserve and restore their distinctive cultural and historic places.
- Protect their marine and coastal environments, and support protection and restoration of vunerable native species.
- Enable community-based weed and animal pest control on public and private land, and carry out weed removal in specific areas.
- Implement kauri dieback awareness raising and action.
- Improve water quality in coastal lagoons and harbours.
- Inspire and support locals and residents to make sustainable living choices and reduce their impact on the environment.
- Celebrate their diversity and bring people together through community events and activities.
- Help their people feel valued, connected, and like they belong.
- Encourage people to enjoy community spaces, parks, sports and recreation facilities.
- Promote healthy lifestyle choices and provide sporting opportunities, and inspire people to make the best use of their walkways and cycleways.
- Empower young people to realise their full potential, and develop their leadership talent and job skill set.
- Enable mana whenua and mataawaka to achieve their aspirations.
- Support arts and cultural activities that create a sense of place, interest and local identity.
- Value and support their local artists and showcase their work, and promote arts programmes that include emerging talent and creativity.
- Increase the amount of opportunities for Māori arts and cultural expression.
- Celebrate the past, present and future through heritage events.
- Higher priorities for eligibility
- They will prioritise activities that are:
- smokefree
- provide healthy food provision options
- encourage waste minimisation and endorse zero waste practices.
- They will prioritise activities that are:
Types of grants
The Community Grants Policy has three main grant types:
- local grant programmes – each local board has now adopted a grants programme
- regional grant programmes
- multi-board grants: applicants can apply to three or more local boards for the same project.
Funding Information
Grant value: $0 – $1500
Types of projects funded by the grant
- Arts
- Community
- Environment
- Events
- Heritage
- Sports and recreation
Outcomes
Their grants programme will support the following outcomes:
- Their community actively protects the Waitākere Ranges heritage area.
- Their unique natural environment is healthy and enhanced.
- They feel good about where they live.
- Their people experience local arts and culture, and recognise their heritage.
What they don’t fund?
- Projects that community grants don’t fund
- debt servicing or repayment
- legal or medical expenses
- activities that promote religious ministry or political purposes
- public services that are the responsibility of central government, e.g. core education, health
- physical works (e.g. improvements to community buildings) before the appropriate consents have been obtained
- purchase of alcohol.
- Projects that regional grants don’t fund
- In addition to the exclusions listed above, they will also not fund:
- medical expenses
- travel and accommodation outside Auckland
- retrospective costs
- fundraising events or activities.
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 https://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/grants-community-support-housing/grants/grants-calendar/Pages/grant-details.aspx?itemID=39
