Kāpiti Coast District Council is currently accepting applications for its Paekākāriki Community Board Grants Program 2026. Interested applications are encouraged to click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
The purpose of the Paekākāriki Community Board’s Community Grants is to provide financial assistance for projects or activities that promote the wellbeing of the Paekākāriki community and show clear community benefit.
Eligible Organisations/Individuals
The organisation/individual must reside in the Paekākāriki area. The Board may consider financial assistance for events occurring outside the Paekākāriki Community, where it is shown the community will benefit.
Eligible organisations include those that provide cultural, sports, environmental or social services to the Paekākāriki areas.
Criteria
The applicant is unable to receive sufficient grants from other sources.
The applicant must be non-profit-making.
The organisation/individual must use the financial assistance for its activities in the Paekākāriki community. The Board may consider financial assistance for events occurring outside the Paekākāriki community where it is shown the community will benefit.
Organisations must provide the most recent financial statements, and a copy of a resolution noting the decision to apply for funding.
The organisation/individual has not received financial assistance from the Paekākāriki Community Board Community Grants Fund in the last 12 months.
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
Unique or infrequent project or activity.
Special project or activity.
Meritorious project or activity.
To partially or fully offset the cost of any Council permit, licence or resource consent fees.
The remission of hall rental.
Within the current financial year of the project or activity.
Ineligible Purposes
Expenses incurred for school curriculum activities.
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.
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