Any properly constituted group serving one or more Bay of Plenty Communities.

How does my Group apply?

• Contact the Community Development Advisor, Terri Eggleton to discuss your situation.
• Applications for $20,000 or more must be discussed with Terri before they are submitted to the Trust.

• Complete an application form and post it, along with all the required documentation, to the Trust Office. (See Apply for Grants).

What sorts of things will the Trust support?

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

These are:-

• Active Communities
• Healthy Communities
• Education
• Cultural Heritage
• Community Economic Development

High Priority:

• Organisations or projects addressing identified areas of need in a community
• Organisations with significant volunteer (unpaid) assistance.
• Important projects where BayTrust funding may act as a lever in attracting additional funding.

The Trust will not accept:

• Applications from individuals or informal groups; or for political or ideological purposes; or to build endowments (i.e. to build capital bases).
• Applications for travel, accommodation or uniforms.
• Applications for the repayment of debt.
• Retrospective applications (i.e. lodged after the event).

The Trust will not usually consider:

• Applications for payment or part-payment of salaries, wages.
• Applications where the funds will be passed on to another organisation or organisations.
• Projects where at least 50% of the costs are not in place or firmly committed.
• More than one application from any organisation within a 12 month period.

Organisations intending to make applications in these four categories immediately above are strongly advised to discuss their proposals with Trust Office staff first.

When can my Group apply and when do we hear the results?

You should apply at least six month before you need the funds.

2nd round closed 30 June with announcement notified towards the end of August 2010.

Where else might I get funding assistance from?

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.