The funding programme supports Council’s intent to walk alongside the community to help community achieve its aspirations.
The community funding programme has four priority areas for funding:
- Arts, Culture and Heritage – to support and celebrate the history, language, culture and art of our diverse communities.
- Recreation and Sport – to support and deliver a variety of recreation and sporting opportunities for all ages, abilities and life stages.
- Environment – to support, celebrate and protect our flora, fauna and our special places for current and future generations to enjoy.
- Community Wellbeing – to support and celebrate happy, healthy, connected communities and individuals.
We welcome applications that align with these priority areas and support Council’s various strategies and policies.
Generally, eligible applicants for Council’s support are community organisations that are not-for-profit/charitable with a formal legal structure and founding documents, whose primary aim is to provide services and benefits to the community at large.
Individuals are eligible to apply to the Gen Z Fund (ages 12-20) and the Creative Communities Scheme.
Our criteria is simple and clear: we want to support applications that address local issues, needs and aspirations and that will provide strong benefit to the Whangārei community.