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What will the Lottery Significant Projects Fund provide grants for?

The planned project must:

  • be for a community purpose for public use in New Zealand
  • have a total cost of $3 million or more, and
  • show how the finished project will provide regional or national benefits or outcomes in:
    • the arts, culture or heritage;
    • sport or recreation;
    • conservation or the environment;
    • community wellbeing and resilience;
    • economic development; and/or
    • visitor services and tourism.

This Fund provides grants to purchase, create or improve community assets that have regional or national significance. It provides grants for such capital expenditure projects with a total cost of $3 million or more.

This fund is currently closed.

Te Puna Tahua Lottery Grants Board (the Board) has decided that the Lottery Significant Projects Fund (LSPF) will remain closed for the 2024/25 financial year.

The Board will decide in late June 2025 if the LSPF will open again for the 2025/26 financial year. This decision will be posted here in July 2025.

For more information about the funding allocations to lottery distribution committees for the 2023/24 financial year, visit Te Puna Tahua Lottery Grants Board allocations for 2023/24.

If you have any questions, please contact your local advisor or email us at community.matters@dia.govt.nz.

For the Lottery Significant Projects Fund, capital expenditure means purchasing, creating or improving capital assets of regional or national significance provided for community purposes.