WWF seeking Applications for Community Conservation Fund in New Zealand

WWF seeking Applications for Community Conservation Fund in New Zealand

Deadline: 26-Oct-21

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is seeking applications for its Community Conservation Fund to support groups such as Mahinepua Radar Hill Landcare Group as they protect the landscape and animals around them.

Aims of the CCF

To support community groups delivering local habitat protection and restoration projects protecting and restoring New Zealand’s most vulnerable habitats
To protect and restore habitats that WWF-New Zealand identifies as a priority
To promote increased coordination of habitat protection and ecological restoration on a catchment or landscape scale
To raise awareness of biodiversity and conservation in the wider community
To encourage communities to become guardians of their environment, becoming active partners in protecting, sustaining and restoring their biodiversity for present and future generations
To increase the scale and effectiveness of community-led conservation action
Funding Information

A maximum of NZ$15,000, for a funding period of one year.

 

What kinds of projects are funded?

CCF gives preference to projects that are working to protect areas of high conservation value. The priorities areas:

Areas of lowland biodiversity including:
Freshwater environments and their catchments
Coastal and dune systems
Wetlands and estuarine systems
Lowland and coastal forest and scrub communities
Coastal and inshore marine habitats
Habitats of threatened indigenous species
Remaining remnants of high quality habitat
Eligibility Criteria

CCF is targeted at local community conservation groups based and working in Aotearoa New Zealand, engaged in hands-on ecological restoration or conservation. They do not fund individuals, national or regional umbrella groups, for-profit organisations, Government authorities, Government agencies, or overseas organisations.
Your organization must:
Be based and operating in New Zealand
Be a not-for-profit entity; either an incorporated society, charitable trust, company limited by guarantee (non-profit only) or a trust set up under legislation covering Maori organizations.
Have transparent ways of making decisions written down in a constitution or set of rules
Have a track record, technical competence and experience in conservation, restoration or land management that enables you to deliver the project, or have guaranteed ongoing support from a competent organization such as DOC, regional councils, NZ Land care Trust etc.
Have relevant policies and procedures in place if your group employs staff
Understand your health and safety responsibilities and have appropriate health and safety systems in place including a health and safety plan specific to this project
Be solvent and financially sustainable and demonstrate sound financial management having the necessary financial controls in place
Have your own bank account and demonstrate that you can manage funding from a number of sources, maintaining a clear separation of expenditure and tracking of projects
For more information, visit https://www.wwf.org.nz/what_we_do/community_funding/community_conservation_fund/

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