COGS committees prioritise community-based organisations delivering services to one or more of these priority sectors:
- Māori
- women
- Pacific communities
- other ethnic communities
- older people
- rurally isolated people
- people with disabilities
- families
- youth and children
- unemployed people
- community-based organisations with limited access to other government funding
What supporting documents do I need?
Your COGS funding request requires a budget, and your organisation needs to meet some financial reporting requirements and provide evidence of these.
You will need to upload evidence of your organisation's financial reporting to your Organisation profile in the grants and client management system and you will need to upload your budget with your funding request before you submit it.
Your funding request will be considered incomplete if you don’t provide this information by the closing date for the funding round, and your request will not be considered.
If your funding request is approved you may use the grant for any costs in your budget, except for:
- any item that is not eligible
- any cost that is excluded when the funding is approved.
Information about budgets and financial reporting requirments can be found at the links below:
You should check that the financial reporting evidence you have uploaded to your Organisation profile is up-to-date before you submit your funding request.
Important dates for COGS
The next opening and closing dates for COGS requests and the Committee decision meeting date are listed at the link below:
The closing date for COGS grant requests is the same for all 37 local COGS committees each year. Due to the demand for COGS grants, please submit your COGS requests well before the closing date.