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What are the outcomes for the Lottery Significant Projects Fund?

Organisations requesting grants must show how their project will:

  • provide opportunities for people to take part in social, recreational, civil or cultural activities at a regional or national level;
  • reduce or overcome barriers that prevent people taking part in those activities, and/or
  • increase a region’s ability to look after its own needs and grow stronger.

What is the purpose of the Lottery Significant Projects Fund?

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 2023/24 financial year.

The Board will decide in late June 2024 if the LSPF will open again for the 2024/25 financial year. This decision will be posted here in July 2024.

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.