2024/25 Waikanae Community Board Discretionary Fund

Eligibility Criteria

1. Applicants must reside in the Waikanae Ward.
2. Groups must be non-profit making.
3. Applications may only be made once in a 12-month period, calculated from the date funding was last received, except in exceptional circumstances and at the Board’s discretion.
   

Applications will be considered for:

1. Community, cultural or sports purposes, including travel both within New Zealand and overseas.
2. Groups or individuals who are unable to receive sufficient grants from other sources because of the time frame or because they are otherwise ineligible.
3. Grants to partially or fully offset the cost of any Council permit, licence or resource consent fees on the basis that the proposed activity falls into a “worthy cause” category.
4. The remission of hall rental for “worthy causes” in line with Council policy that all remissions of hall rentals are accounted for by being funded from approved grants budgets.
5. Where an application for funding for a particular purpose might be received from individual members of an organisation and from the organisation as a whole, preference will be given to ONLY funding the organisation as a whole.
6. Where an organisation anticipates that it will require ongoing annual funding, to be used for the same purpose each year, it may apply for three consecutive years of annual funding within a single application. If such an application is approved, the funding will be released in annual instalments. The second and third instalments will only be released once the Community Board has received a satisfactory accountability report in relation to the previous year’s funding. First-time applicants to the Discretionary Grants Fund will not be eligible for three years of annual funding.
   

Ineligible Purposes:

1. Capital expenditure.
2. Expenses incurred for school curriculum activities.
3. Grants will not be considered retrospectively and must be received by the Kāpiti Coast District Council prior to the event taking place and at least eight working days before the Community Board meeting date.
4. Activities for which funding has already been received from either the Grants Allocation Committee or one of the other community boards in the district will not be eligible for further funding from the Waikanae Community Board for the same activities.
   

Grant allocation guidelines

For sports/competitions (including associated travel costs):

• $100 Participation in a national or international event without selection (i.e. if you pay you can participate)
• $200 Competing in a national event (after selection)
• $500 Competing in an international event (after selection)

For travel:

• $200 To attend coaching/training clinics out of Waikanae (national or international), which will benefit more members of the community
• $200 Attending national AGMs (or similar) for Waikanae community groups
• $250 Attending national AGMs (or similar) for very active or highly beneficial Waikanae community groups
  

For all other application:

• the maximum grant payable is $500 per grant.
  

Consideration of Grants

Accountability