Community Funding Waitakere City Council supports a wide range of groups in the community who provide local services and activities on a voluntary or 'not for profit' basis by providing a range of funding opportunities and services to the community. The aim is to help local community groups to operate effectively and provide services to meet local needs.

2009 Funding Calendars

External Funds always open for applicants (applications considered monthly)

Whilst every care has been taken to get these dates correct it is important that you check with the funding agency to make sure that the dates have not been changed.

Community Assistance Newsletter

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2009

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February 2009 (Size 159K)
(Please note - Mandy Spencer's email address should be mandys@communitywaitakere.org.nz.

2008 

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April 2008 (Size 1405K)
January 2008(Size 604K)

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Community Training Group Update

Invite to funding and fundraising

If you want information on how to fund your projects and fundraise successfully for your group and organisation/club/group read the flyer below and come along to one of our workshops.

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Fundraising flyer (Size 51K)

Research report for fundseekers

In 2008 a number of grantmakers worked together to produce a research and scoping paper on making things simpler  for fundseekers.

The research, prepared by Adrian Feasey, explores ways in which funders can make the process of applying for grants, and accounting for them, simpler.

It was produced for a group of organisations with an interest in the funding of community agencies in Waitakere: Community Waitakere, J R McKenzie Trust, Tindall Foundation, Waitakere City Council, Waitakere Licensing Trusts and ASB Community Trust.

We hope it will encourage funders ­– individually and together with other funders – to look for opportunities to make their processes more user-friendly.

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Summary Discussion Paper (Size 194KB)
The four-page summary is based on Adrian Feasey's full 68 page report on the topic.

Research Report Full Version (Size3MB)

Funding Agencies

Apart from the Council's community grants there are other sources available. View the links below to obtain further information about these sources.

A further source of Information is available from Funding Information Service.  This is available by visiting Waitakere City Council Libraries as this is a subscription website.

Fundview

There are several databases you can access on the internet or from your local library that provide extensive information on Funding.

Fundview provides information on over 500 sources of funding that is available to community groups looking for funding for projects and activities.

Breakout is a funding database that provides information about funds for individuals seeking money for educational purposes.

Fundview can be accessed over the internet if you have your library card barcode. Please click here and under Funding.

You can also go directly to the Fundview database and have a free trial on the database.

All you need to know to complete your search are the answers to the following questions:

• Where are you based?
• What do you do?
• What group of people do you work with?
• What do you need a grant for?

Contact your local library for further information about these databases.