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What happens with your application

Assessing your application

Our grants advisors will assess your application and contact you where we require further information.

We will assess your application against:

  • local board and regional priorities
  • financial information supplied
  • benefits to the local board area or Auckland region
  • ability of the group or eligible applicant to deliver the activity
  • collaboration or engagement with the community
  • other factors outlined in the local board grants and regional programmes.

Local boards, councillors or assessment panels will make a formal decision at a meeting.

One to two weeks after the meeting has taken place, we will:

  • issue the formal minutes from the meeting
  • notify you, by email, of the decision made on your application.

Our tip

From the time the grant round closes, the time to make a decision on an application is:
  • four to six weeks for quick response grants
  • up to two months for local grants
  • up to three months for regional grants.

What happens if your application is successful

Quick response grant applications

We will send you a letter of agreement to sign and email back to us, and the instructions on accountability reporting. On our receipt of the signed letter, you will receive the grant within 10 working days.

Local grant and regional applications

We will send you a funding agreement to sign and email back to us, and the instructions on accountability reporting. On our receipt of the signed funding agreement, you will receive the grant within 10 working days.

Grant agreements may set out specific conditions for the grants.

Contact the Grants team

Contact a grants advisor.