Funding criteria
This fund provides grants for plans, reports and one-off projects that will protect, conserve and promote New Zealand’s natural, cultural and physical heritage.
- Natural heritage projects that promote, protect and/or keep our native plants (flora) and animal life (fauna) safe from harm.
- Physical heritage projects restore, protect and/or conserve places, structures and large built objects that are important to our history.
- Cultural heritage projects conserve, protect and/or promote collections and stories that are important to our cultural heritage and identity.
Applicants must demonstrate how their projects will benefit their community, and contribute to:
- Increasing our access to New Zealand’s cultural heritage;
- Preserving and protecting New Zealand’s natural environment; or
- Preserving New Zealand’s history for future generations.
Applicants need to show how their project will meet best practice professional standards for protecting, preserving, restoring, conserving and/or displaying their building or cultural property of proven heritage significance.
The following costs are not eligible for funding:
- Legal services
- Architectural design (other than preliminary designs to inform a feasibility study)
- Planning approval
- Fundraising campaign plans
- Business plans
- Feasibility studies that have been completed by the funding round closing date
To request funding for a Physical Heritage project you need:
- A project plan, timeline, and, if your project involves construction, you need to submit simple concept drawings or floor plans.
- Resource consent (if required for the project).
- Project budget and other extra documents (if asking for less than $250,000 you need three written quotes; if asking for more than $250,000 you need to provide a feasibility study and a quantity surveyor’s report or signed contact or three written quotes).
Applicants need to show they can provide at least 1/3 of the total project cost by the closing date of the application.
