Apply for Grants

The Trust will consider grants for organisations and projects which significantly help build, strengthen or enhance Bay of Plenty Communities. Projects and organisations should fit within the Trust's Strategic Outcome areas, as identified in the Trust's Strategic Plan 2010 - 2013.

Applications for $20,000 or more must be discussed with Terri Eggleton, Community Development Advisor before they are submitted to the Trust, please contact Terri at your earliest opportunity.

Applications should be provided to the Trust at least six months before the funds are required.  Decisions on application outcomes are made on a quarterly basis.

Our Links website page shows a range of other funders in the Bay of Plenty.

A good place to start looking is the Funding Information Service website www.fis.org.nz.  This service is free to use at public libraries. Funding Information Service is a not-for-profit organisation collecting and distributing information about funding by way of three separate searchable computer databases, FundView, CorporateCitizens and BreakOut.

• FundView contains information about funding for community groups in New Zealand.
• BreakOut holds information about awards, scholarships and grants for individual development.
• CorporateCitizens holds details of New Zealand businesses that are committed to building relationships with community and voluntary organisations.

Other Community Trusts include Auckland, Canterbury, Eastern & Central, Mid & South Canterbury, Otago, Southland, Taranaki, Waikato and Wellington, Whanganui and West Coast.