Raumati Community Board Grants

Eligible organisations/individuals

1. The organisation/individual must undertake its activities in the Raumati area. The Board may consider financial assistance for events occurring outside the Raumati Community where it is shown the community will benefit.
2. Eligible organisations include those that provide cultural, sports, environmental or social
   services to the Raumati areas.

Criteria

1. The applicant is unable to receive sufficient grants from other sources.
2. The applicant must be non-profit making.
3. The organisation/individual must use the financial assistance for its activities in the Raumati Community. The Board may consider financial assistance for events occurring outside the Raumati Community where it is shown the community will benefit.
4. Organisations must provide the most recent financial statements and a copy of a resolution noting the decision to apply for funding.
5. The organisation/individual has not received financial assistance from the Raumati Community Board Community Grants Fund in the last twelve months.
6. Only one application will be considered by an organisation for one event (Individual team member applications will not be eligible).

Please note: All applications must have full documentation to support their application (maximum of five pages in total).

Eligible purposes

1. Unique or infrequent project or activity;
2. Special project or activity;
3. Meritorious project or activity;
4. To partially or fully offset the cost of any Council permit, licence or resource consent fees*;
5. The remission of hall rental*.
   * within the current financial year of the project or activity

Ineligible purposes

1. Expenses incurred for school curriculum activities. 
2. Retrospective expenses**.
   **Grants will not be paid retrospectively other than for hall hire or for the cost of a permit, licence
   or resource consent fee.

Maximum Grant

The maximum grant payable is $750.

The above conditions and criteria do not preclude the Raumati Community Board from considering any application at its discretion.

The purpose of the Raumati Community Board’s Vision Raumati Grant is to provide financial assistance for projects or activities that sustainably enhance the Raumati community, that implement or develop a vision and will be implemented within 12 months of receipt of funding. 

Eligible organisations/individuals

1. The organisation/individual must undertake its activities in the Raumati area. 
2. Eligible organisations include those that provide cultural, sports, environmental or social
   services to the Raumati areas.
3. Eligible organisations/individuals must be able to demonstrate community membership,
   the ability to manage and implement grant funding and organisations must be able to
   demonstrate an established governance structure.
4. Eligible organisations must provide their most recent financial statements and a copy of a
   resolution noting the decision to apply for funding.

Criteria

1. The activity must be non-profit making.
2. The applicant should demonstrate that the funding will be used to implement or develop a vision for Raumati.
3. The applicant should show how this funding would be used to catalyse further funding to further support, expand, and sustain the activity beyond the initial project period.
4. The applicant, whether an individual or an organisation, should be based in Raumati.
5. The applicant must use the financial assistance for its activities in the Raumati community. The Board may consider financial assistance for events or activities occurring outside the Raumati community. The Board may consider financial assistance for events or activities occurring outside the Raumati community where it is shown the Raumati community will benefit significantly.
6. The applicant has not received Vision Raumati grant funding in the last 24 months.
7. Only one application will be considered for any single event or project. Separate individual member applications will not be eligible.

Please note: All applications must have full documentation to support their application.

Eligible purposes

1. A project that develops a Vision for Raumati, however big or small;
2. Unique or infrequent project or activity;
3. Special project or activity;
4. Meritorious project or activity.

Ineligible Purposes

1. Expenses incurred for school curriculum activities. 
2. Retrospective expenses.

Maximum Grant

The maximum grant payable is $5000.

The above conditions and criteria do not preclude the Raumati Community Board from considering any application at its discretion.