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What supporting documents are needed for Lottery Environment and Heritage fund requests?

All requests for grants must have:

Lottery Environment and Heritage provides grants for plans, reports and one-off projects that will protect, conserve and promote New Zealand's natural, cultural and physical heritage and each of these have different supporting information requirements. More specific details about what is required for supporting information is included under the questions below.

  • a project plan and timeline and, if your project involves construction, you need to submit simple concept drawings or floor plans.
  • resource consent, and any other consents, permits, licences, advertisements or notifications required for projects such as pest eradication, if required for the project.

As well as the project budget and any other extra documents required, if requesting a grant of:

  • less than $250,000, you need to provide three written quotes (or explain in writing why you were not able to obtain three quotes)
  • if the total project cost is $250,000 or more, you need to provide:
    • a feasibility study, or an ecological restoration plan, or a pest management plan for the project;
    • a quantity surveyor's report or a signed contract or three written quotes.

Your grant request needs to show you can provide at least one-third of the total project cost. If you don't meet this partnership funding requirement by the closing date, a grant is unlikely to be made.

The Committee prefers requests for projects that show appropriate project and/or conservation planning has happened to support the type of project to be undertaken.

You also need to show your project will meet best practice professional standards for the protecting, preserving, restoring, conserving or displaying our natural world, and the native plants and animals that live in it.

  • Requests for grants for plans, studies or reports must be for work to be done by a person or organisation separate from the organisation requesting the grant, and show they have the right experience and qualifications for the type of plan, study or report to be provided.
  • Requests for grants for plans, studies and reports do not need to show you have partnership funding, but must include a written quote for the work to be done.
  • Requests for grants for plans, studies or reports must not be made at the same time as a grant request for the project they relate to.
  • A grant made for a plan, study or report does not mean we agree to fund the project, programme or plan it relates to.
  • Other costs that are not funded by this grant are listed on What Lottery Environment and Heritage does not fund.
  • A project plan and timeline. If your project involves construction, you will also need to submit simple concept drawings or floor plans.
  • A budget.
  • Resource consent, if required for the project.
  • If your project is for a wāhi tapu site, you must provide confirmation of appropriate hapū, whānau and/or iwi authority to carry out your project.

If you are requesting a grant of less than $250,000, you need to provide three written quotes (or explain in writing why you were not able to obtain three quotes)

If the total project cost is $250,000 or more, you need to provide:

  • a feasibility study, an ecological restoration plan or a pest management plan for the project; and either
  • a quantity surveyor's report, signed contract or three written quotes.

If your project involves the conservation or restoration of a building or large built object, you may be able to substitute a conservation plan in place of a feasibility study.

Your grant request needs to show you can provide at least one-third of the total project cost. If you don't meet this partnership funding requirement by the closing date, a grant is unlikely to be made.

The Committee prefers requests for projects that show project and/or conservation planning has already taken place, appropriate to the type of project being undertaken.

You also need to show how your project will meet best practice professional standards for the protecting, preserving, restoring, conserving and/or displaying of places, structures or large built objects of proven heritage significance.

We recommend that you consider the on-going increase in building costs as part of your project planning.

  • a project plan and timeline and, if your project involves construction, you need to submit simple concept drawings or floor plans.
  • resource consent, if required for the project.

As well as the project budget and any other extra documents required, if requesting a grant of:

  • less than $250,000, you need to provide three written quotes (or explain in writing why you were not able to obtain three quotes)
  • if the total project cost is $250,000 or more, you need to provide:
    • a feasibility study, or an ecological restoration plan, or a pest management plan for the project;
    • a quantity surveyor's report or a signed contract or three written quotes.

Your grant request needs to show you can provide at least one-third of the total project cost. If you don't meet this partnership funding requirement by the closing date, a grant is unlikely to be made.

The Committee prefers requests for projects that show appropriate project and/or conservation planning has happened to support the type of project to be undertaken.

You also need to show your project will meet best practice professional standards for the protecting, preserving, restoring, conserving or displaying collections or moveable cultural property of proven heritage significance.

Partnership funding may include:

  • cash donations you've received;
  • confirmed sponsorship amounts;
  • grants made towards your project by others (apart from any Lottery grants);
  • funds your organisation has already raised and tagged for your project, including loans;
  • evidence of what you have spent on, or invested in, project-related work within two years of the date of application, such as the cost of securing resource consent;
  • the value of any land acquired for the project, provided that:
    • the land is specifically for the project;
    • you provide a current certificate of title;
    • you provide a certificate from a registered valuer, or a record of the rateable value, on the date the land was acquired.