Tauranga City Council’s Community Development Match Fund is about helping groups deliver new initiatives that foster strong, innovative, and vibrant communities, by contributing 50% of the project costs up to $5,000.
Match Fund purpose
The Community Development Match Fund aims to support small community-led projects that provide community benefit. The projects can be either new initiatives requiring seed funding, or they may be repeat projects seeking funding to enable them to be provided to the community again.
The Match Fund at a glance
To ensure that funds are available throughout the year, please be aware we operate a quarterly budget: July - September, October - December, January - March, April - June.
Who can apply?
- Applications are welcomed from community organisations, not-for-profit groups, communities of interest, iwi, hapū or kaupapa Māori organisations, informal and grass roots neighbourhood groups.
- Groups with no formal legal structure and individuals may also apply provided that the project, activity and/or service they are seeking funding for has some community benefit.
- Applicants are only eligible for one Match Fund grant in the same financial year (July to June).
Guidelines:
Please see guidelines for further information to see the list of exclusions to this fund.
Guidelines for applicants (97kb pdf)
What about the 'Match'?
You need to provide a match of at least 50% of the total value of the project of
- in-kind support, or
- volunteer time, or
- money as your match.
How the process works:
- Application Submission = anytime
- Decision released = within four weeks of receipt of application
- Payment = within two weeks of decision released
- Accountability reporting = within year of payment date or when project is complete (whichever is earlier)
Example of a successful Community Development Match Fund application
The Te Paiaka Advisory panel held a free community event to celebrate and bring awareness to the homeless community. The Match Fund supported the purchase of supplies, printing of posters and flyers, and contributed towards mileage for volunteers.
View example application (173kb pdf)
Apply now