Who and What We Fund
PURPOSE OF FUNDING
Funding may be granted by TTPB to encourage or enable:
- Community self-reliance, capacity building, and stability; or
- opportunities for social, recreational, civic, or cultural participation or for reducing or overcoming barriers to such participation; or
- community or environmental health; or
- development or preservation of arts, culture, heritage, or community identity; or
- sports or recreation; or
- a greater understanding of the relationship that the Waitara hapū have with Waitara.
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To be eligible for funding, the project or applicant must illustrate that the grant will enhance the rohe of Waitara.
POLICY DEFINITIONS
Community: a social group sharing common characteristics, locality, heritage or interests and perceived as distinct within the larger society within which it operates.
Waitara area/rohe: Waitara consists of the area units and meshblocks as determined by Statistics New Zealand and described in the 2013 Census meshblock dataset, and shown in Schedule 1 of the New Plymouth District Council (Waitara Lands) Act 2018.
Grant: a financial contribution to a group, organisation or sector of the community. The financial contribution may be used to support an activity, the provision of services, projects or programmes or to support the objectives of the policy.
Not-for-profit community organisation: a group whose primary purposes are the delivery of non-statutory services and activities, and does not seek to generate profit, revenue or financial surpluses for commercial interests.
Social Enterprise: a revenue generating business / organisation, whose primary purpose is the achievement of social, cultural or environmental goals and who reinvests its surpluses in pursuit of the social, environmental and cultural outcomes of the organisation.
Business with community benefits: a revenue generating business that is either: locally rooted, trading for/ accountable to the community, or has a positive community impact.