Can you apply for a grant?

You may be eligible for a Buller Community Development Company donation depending on the following:

• Your type of organisation
• The amount of funds available in our region
• How you will use the donation

Type of organisation

Your organisation should ideally be one of the following:

• An incorporated society.
• A charitable body recognised by the Inland Revenue Department.
• If applicable you must also be an organised club or group affiliated to or a member of a recognised national organisation.

You must be able to prove that your organisation operates a bank account by providing either of the following:

• Pre-printed or verified bank deposit slips
• Bank statements with the name of your club or group

Available Donations

There are currently no funds available for distribution to the community

How the donation will be used

• All applications must meet the Department of Internal Affairs criteria and the definition of authorised purposes in the Gambling Act 2003.
• All applicants shall be non-profit organisations correctly incorporated either as charitable organisations or other associations promoting charitable purposes and shall have a valid constitution and a set of rules and be able to produce on request credible financial statements.
• All funds applied for shall be for expenditure for charitable purposes in New Zealand.
• Generally donations paid shall provide some enduring or demonstrable community benefit. As an example this may be asset or facilities funding or contributing towards community or sports development projects.
• Applications shall not be approved where the applicant is not the beneficiary.
• Applications may not be considered where the applicant operates their own gaming machines.
• Applications for property maintenance or purchase costs will be required to have supporting information as to the tenure or ownership of the relevant property.
• Buller Community Development Company donations criteria exclude, in most instances, donations to applicants for general administration and operating expenses (i.e. power, telephone, rent etc); sports clubs registration, entry and affiliation fees.
  Generally funds will be applied and distributed in Buller.
• Applications will need to be within one of the following generic donation distribution groups
• A community/welfare group/organisation
• Education (including pre-school, kindergartens, playgroups, Nga Kohanga Reo)
• Fire brigade, ambulance, life saving
• Health, and health related purposes
• Youth
• Sport, recreation, leisure
• To comply with the class four operator's licence condition 7(d) promulgated by the Department of Internal Affairs there is a prohibition for donations money to be approved for expenditure that has been incurred prior to the application being considered (i.e. retrospective payments)
• Buller Community Development Company is the final arbitrator as to the success or otherwise of any donation application irrespective of such application meeting all or any of the published authorised purposes and/or donation criteria.

Annual Review

This policy will be reviewed on an annual basis.

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