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What does Lottery Community Facilities not fund?

Ngā kaupapa kāore e tautokona ā-pūtea / What we don't fund

In addition to what may not be funded by any Lottery Committee, Lottery Community Facilities also does not fund:

  • building projects or equipment purchases where the total project cost is $50,000 or less (requests for minor capital works like these should be made to Lottery Community)
  • individual people
  • activities not directly related to building or improving a community facility, such as:
    • corporate boxes and hospitality suites
    • roading and car parks that are not on the community facility's land
    • housing projects for individuals, including resthome projects
    • landscaping
    • routine maintenance and operating expenses, such as administration or staffing
    • equipment purchases that are not part of a larger capital works project, are not needed to make a facility functional, or do not contribute to finishing a capital works project (such as sports, computer or art equipment, or musical instruments)
  • purchases of bare land.

Lottery grants may not be used for:

Alcohol: The Board does not fund alcohol and similar substances (for example kava).

Capital investment: The Board does not fund capital investment, which includes investments in real estate, stocks, bonds and other financial institutions or trust funds.

Commercial, political, and religious objectives: The Board does not fund requests or projects that look to promote or advance:

  • commercial aims with the sole purpose of profit making which includes employment or business initiatives (private pecuniary gain)
  • political aims which include political advocacy and projects that look to change legislation; or
  • religious aims that support religious activities. Funding requested for social services and activities provided to this community or the wider community, by religious organisations, is not considered a religious aim.

Retrospective funding: Funding projects or activities that are already completed will not be approved. This exclusion does not apply to Emergency Natural Disaster Relief funding.

Private pecuniary gain: The Board does not fund requests that seek to generate private pecuniary profits or gain for an individual or body, except to the extent that the profit or gain is incidental.

Debt repayment: The Board does not fund debt servicing.

Loans, deposits, or underwriting projects: The Board does not fund requests that include costs related to refinancing existing loans or deposits or underwriting projects.

Overseas aid and disaster relief: The Board does not fund requests for overseas aid or overseas disaster relief.

Medical expenses: The Board does not fund medical expenses, operations, or treatments.

Redistribution of funds or fundraisers: The Board does not fund requests from fundraisers or organisations where the purpose is to redistribute it to a third party. The third party should apply on their own behalf and may be supported to do so by a fundraiser. A request that is supported by a fundraiser must show:

  • the fundraiser is paid at a flat fee or hourly rate which is paid irrespective of the outcome of the grant request
  • the financial arrangements of a fundraiser and the organisation

You must not use any part of the funding to pay a commission or success fee to the fundraiser.

Lottery Community Facilities provides grants:

  • to improve or build new community facilities, or
  • for feasibility studies to work out if plans to improve or build community facilities can be achieved and will benefit the community.

The aim is to get more people involved in community and social activities, and to strengthen communities and bring people together by helping to develop their community facilities.

Lottery Community Facilities is for projects where the total project cost is over $50,000.

Requests for funding of projects where the total cost is $50,000 or less should be made to Lottery Community.