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Lottery Outdoor Safety Te Tahua Whakaruru-hau

Purpose / Kaupapa

The Lottery Outdoor Safety Committee provides funding for outdoor and water safety projects, including search and rescue activities, undertaken by organisations that have outdoor or water safety as their core business.

Mission / Whakatakanga

To enhance water and outdoor safety for New Zealand communities.

Relationship with Māori

Lottery Outdoor Safety recognises the aspirations and needs of Māori, and their protocols.

E whakatau ana te Tahua Whakaruru-hau i ngā hiahia me ngā tūmanako o te Māori me o rātou kawa.

What we fund

  • Activity, resource and programme costs
  • Administration costs
  • Search and rescue equipment / services
  • Domestic travel costs
  • Salaries
  • Training and supervision costs
  • Feasibility studies
  • Regional and national gatherings or events
  • Volunteer costs and expenses
  • Community awareness
  • Air-based rescue services
  • Minor capital works projects (with a total cost of up to $30,000)

For more detailed explanations, please see the guidance notes.

What we do not fund

In addition to those items, services and projects not funded by any Lottery committee, the Lottery Outdoor Safety Committee does not fund

  • major capital works building projects.  This includes the purchase of land or buildings, and the construction or extensive alteration, repair, or maintenance of buildings costing over $30,000 in total
  • urban search and rescue, i.e. projects concerned with urban emergencies, such as the location and rescue of people trapped following a structural collapse arising for example from a building collapse or as a result of a major landslide or earthquake, or those involving specialist task forces such as Civil Defence and local community volunteer rescue teams
  • general accident prevention, personal safety programmes and projects out of doors (i.e. outside buildings), playground safety, road safety or road accident prevention

Funding priorities

The Lottery Outdoor Safety Committee prioritises applications based on how well they will achieve the desired Committee outcome: enhanced water and outdoor safety for New Zealand communities.

Who can apply?

Lottery Outdoor Safety makes grants to not-for-profit organisations that have outdoor safety and water safety as their main purpose.

For the purposes of Lottery funding 'outdoor safety' refers to safety in remote outdoor regions 'past the road end', such as mountains, bush areas or caves, and which may involve recreational groups such as trampers, hunters, cavers or climbers.

'Water safety' refers to safety on or in lakes, rivers, waterways, the sea or swimming pools, involving water sports, water-based activities, and boating.

Lottery Outdoor Safety is not the appropriate Committee for applications from organisations that do not have water safety or outdoor safety as their main purpose, but which seek funds for projects that have an incidental water safety or outdoor safety component (such as a community swimming pool seeking the costs of pool attendants). Lottery Community may be the appropriate committee, as it provides funding for community projects that primarily have a community development or social service focus.

Funding for outcomes

The Lottery Grants Board aims to maximise the community benefits of Lottery grants by focusing grant decision making on outcomes.

How much to apply for

There is no limit to the amount that your organisation can apply for.  However, because of pressure on funds, Lottery Outdoor Safety is rarely able to provide funding to the level requested and is more likely to consider only a contribution towards the project.

The Committee is less likely to fund activities or projects that it has identified as being of lower priority, such as catering costs.

Regardless of the amount applied for, grants over $10,000 can only be made to groups that have legal status.

Grants to groups without legal status are limited to a total from all Lottery Grants Board distribution committees of no more than $10,000 to any group in any financial year.

The New Zealand Lottery Grants Board financial year is 1 July – 30 June.

Applicants are encouraged to seek other funding bodies that may be able to assist.

Making an application