Outcomes / Ngā hua

Lottery Community is for projects or services with outcomes that will benefit people within specific New Zealand geographic communities. The Lottery Community committees determine and set their own priority outcomes based on their regions’ needs each year.

Individual Lottery Community Committeepriorities

Priorities / Ngā kaupapa matua

Lottery Community committees

There is a national committee and 11 regional committees.

Apply to the national committee if:

• your groups is a national organisation, or
• your project or service has a nationwide benefit, or
• your project or service will benefit 2 or more regions.

Apply to a regional committee if:

• your project or service is entirely within one of the 10 regional boundaries or mostly benefits that region, or
• your group is an independent branch of a national organisation, and the project or service provides benefits within a specific regional boundary.

Which regional Lottery Community committee should we apply to?

What we fund / Ngā kaupapa ka tautokona ā-pūtea

Lottery Community grants may be one-off contributions or multi-year funding for up to 3 years, for:

• ongoing operating costs for existing or expanded services and activities
• projects beyond an organisation's day-to-day operations
• minor capital works projects where the total project cost is $50,000 or less.

Second funding requests

If your organisation applied to the previous Lottery Community funding round (within a year), any other requests that year will be considered lower priority unless there are exceptional circumstances.

If you believe your organisation has exceptional circumstances, email: community.matters@dia.govt.nz

Multi-year funding

Multi-year funding is available for up to three years. To be eligible for multi-year funding, an organisation must:

• be a legal entity
• have been established for at least 2 years
• demonstrate a good grant management history
• have evidence of good governance and management systems
• have experience in running a similar service or activity, or project to what you requested funding for.

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

Lottery Community committees do not fund:

• items that are listed by the Lottery Grants Board as ineligible for funding:
  Lottery Grants Board does not fund
• individuals
• research, including large scale research plans, feasibility studies for capital projects and health research
• capital works where the total project cost is over $50,000 (a capital works project is for the construction, renovation, or maintenance of a building or permanently constructed place)
• requests that fit under the priorities for the Minister’s Discretionary Fund (MDF) and Emergency Disaster Relief (EDRF).
• activities/projects that have been deemed to be lower priority based on the selection of committee priority medium and near horizon outcomes
• requests from fundraisers (a person external to an organisation that seeks financial support for an organisation in return for payment).

Requests can be supported by a fundraiser. They 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

How to apply

1. Understand your group's eligibility based on legal entity status, see What funding options are available for non-registeredor informal groups
2. Set up a personal profile and an organization profile in our grants management system, seeLogging into the grants management system
3. Complete a grant application in our grants system.
4. Provide the correct supporting documents, see: What documents do I need to send with our Lottery Community request

For more information, see Lottery Community funding request questions (.pdf 154 KB).

Unregistered or informal groups

Unregistered or informal groups (non-legal entities) may be eligible to apply for grants under $10,000. Grants over $10,000 can be made only to organisations with legal entity status.

To learn more about these criteria and some of the exceptions, see What funding options are available for non-registered or informal groups?

Important funding dates

Find out about the next opening and closing dates for Lottery Community requests and committee decision meetings:

Important Hāpai Hapori funding dates