Who can apply?

We are looking for initiatives for families that:
Support the wellbeing of tamariki/children through their early years by:
  • Enhancing the capability of parents.
  • Supporting early childhood development, including language and literacy development, and social behaviour skills.
Support the wellbeing of rangatahi/young people by:
  • Promoting a positive youth development sector and growing its capacity.
  • Focusing on early intervention/prevention strategies for young people.
  • Supporting initiatives which promote identity and participation and equality of young people, particularly youth-led initiatives.
  • Working systemically to address youth employment, especially for those most distanced from the labour market.
  • Supporting and advocating for tamariki/children and rangatahi/young people, especially children in care, or the prevention of children needing to be taken into care.
Support the wellbeing of whānau/families by:
  • Providing and assisting whānau/families into stable, healthy, and affordable housing – especially home ownership.
  • Supporting the wellbeing of whānau/families in a holistic way, ensuring that their goals and aspirations are at the centre.
  • Promoting violence free homes.
  • Strengthening the identity and culture of whānau/families.
We are more likely to support initiatives that:
  • Support whānau/families experiencing multiple and intergenerational disadvantage
  • Put whānau/families at the centre
  • Are whānau/family-led
  • Use kaupapa Māori models of practice
  • Work holistically and provide wrap around support
  • Are grassroots
  • Focus on long-term solutions
  • Are collaborative
  • Are community-led
 Exclusions
  • Core or public health services, or initiatives where the children or whānau/families have a health-related issue or disability.  This includes initiatives where the ‘entry criteria’ for service users means that they have a physical, mental health or addiction issue or are living with a disability.
  • Core education, including kindergartens and government and/or privately funded early childhood centres
  • Research from outside a community without its direct involvement.
  • Sport, leisure and recreation, including initiatives where the outcome is purely sports related
  • The arts, including initiatives where the outcome is purely arts related
  • House repairs, or housing projects whose main beneficiaries are not low income whānau/families
  • Buildings or land
  • Animal charities
  • Capital assets or equipment over $3,000
  • Individuals, personal loans, endowments or sponsorships
  • Religious or political advocacy including religious advancement, political lobby groups, lobbying or marketing campaigns.
  • Urgent or retrospective applications