Kārati Hākinakina ā-Rohe me ngā Kaupapa Mahi a te Rēhia Sport and Recreation Regional Programme Grant

This grant provides operational funding for a range of programmes that encourage Aucklanders to be more active, more often.

• Sports and recreation

We will assess your application and decide how much funding we can contribute.

Our grants programme will support applications with outcomes that:

• provide affordable and accessible options for participation in informal physical activity, recreation and sport
• ensure our diverse communities enjoy healthy and active lifestyles
• enable our children and young people to develop skills to help them have lifelong participation in sport and recreation.

We will assess applications for the grant on their alignment to and impact on:

• communities of greatest need
• strong benefit to Māori
• inactive communities
• high participation
• catchment (geographical area) of the programme
• environmentally sustainable programmes
• strong strategic alignment
• programmes that fill a gap in the area
• capability and track record of your organisation or group.

Your organisation is eligible to apply for this grant if it is:

• a play, recreation and sport 'umbrella organisation' with a region-wide mandate
• a regional federation, or grouping of local or sub-regional sports code organisations
• a sport and recreation provider or advocacy group
• an iwi or Māori organisation active in the sport and recreation sector.

We will not fund:

• programmes outside our region
• physical works (improvements or development of new or existing community buildings or facilities)
• programmes that have already been delivered
• political parties.

The grants we award will include a mix of:

• 'one-off’ and multi-year project grants for standalone initiatives
• multi-year strategic relationship funding.

To help with your application, we recommend you read the Sport and Recreation Regional Programme Grant application guidelines.

Email sportandrecreation@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz if you have questions about the grant or your application.