Buller Community Funding
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 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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