Auckland Council’s Regional Historic Heritage Grant Program – New Zealand

Deadline: 07-Oct-2024

The Auckland Council has launched the Regional Historic Heritage Grant Program to encourage best practice in caring for the regional heritage sites and places through community involvement.

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Priorities

• The funding priorities for 2024/2025 are:
  • Conservation of regionally significant historic heritage places, including places within a historic heritage area
  • Conservation of at-risk historic heritage places, including initiatives which address the impacts of climate change
  • Supporting kaitiakitanga of Māori cultural heritage places

Funding Information

• Grant value: $0 – $50,000

Outcomes

• The Regional Historic Heritage Grants Programme will be targeted towards projects which meet at least one of the following outcome areas:
  • Regulations and policies in the Auckland Unitary Plan and Auckland District Plan (HGI) are supported by incentives to protect and conserve significant historic heritage places
  • Auckland Council, Mana Whenua, community organisations, and property owners work together to support kaitiakitanga and stewardship of historic heritage
  • Aucklanders see council’s investment in historic heritage
  • Historic heritage grants unlock private and community investment in heritage conservation

Eligibility Criteria

• Applications will be open to private landowners, iwi or Māori groups, community groups, trusts and other organisations that contribute to the protection and improvement of regionally significant historic heritage places, sites or areas. Projects can be undertaken on public, private or Māori land.
• Places which are owned by council are not eligible for funding, even if a community group is responsible for the place’s maintenance.
• To be eligible for funding, a project must meet at least one criterion for regional significance, as below:
  • Historic heritage places that are included in one of the schedules of the Auckland Unitary Plan including the Historic Heritage Schedule, Sites of Significance to Mana Whenua, contributing sites within a Historic Heritage Area and trees included in the Notable Trees Schedule, or
  • Historic heritage places that are in the Auckland Council District Plan – Hauraki Gulf Islands (HGI) Section – Heritage appendices, archaeological sites, buildings, objects, properties and places of special value, Māori heritage sites or trees.

Ineligibility Criteria

• The Regional Historic Heritage Grants Programme will not fund:
  • Debt servicing or repayment
  • Legal and medical expenses
  • Activities that promote religious ministry or political purposes
  • Public services that are the responsibility of central government (e.g., core education, primary health care)
  • Physical works that require statutory consents, authorities or permits, prior to the necessary consents, authorities or permits being obtained.
  • Grants may be awarded in principle, but funds will not be released until all consenting conditions are satisfied

For more information, visit Auckland Council.