Funding  

Our strategic goal

To help make our communities better places for everyone to live by supporting social change. We will seek to balance support between social and economic needs with broader recreational, cultural and environmental requirements.

Strategic overview

We aim to collaborate and be innovative in supporting community initiatives through the grants programme and the Maori and Pasifika Education Initiative.

Applying For Funding

  • Organisations can make one application for funding a year.
  • Our funding is focused on the 10 key sectors below.
  • If you are applying for a building project grant of $50,000 or more, please read the community building projects page for more information.   

Find out more about the 10 funding sectors

Radio interview

Improve your chances of gaining funding

Listen to this radio interview with our Grants Advisor, Catherine George, discussing  ways applicants can improve their chances of gaining funding for projects. Our thanks to Radio New Zealand for giving us access to this interview.

Video interview

This short video gives an overview of how we fund and what we look for in an application.