What we don't fund

CLT is not able to support certain activities, including:

• Individuals, except by way of the annual Central Lakes Trust Tertiary scholarship programme

• Projects or services that do not meet charitable criteria

• Seeding investments for businesses

• Political organisations or lobby groups

• Advocacy

• Funding of business case or feasibility studies for any projects

• Individual project feasibility studies and pre-project professional workshops

• Community consultation forums e.g. planning workshops

• Equipment and IT infrastructure where there is no community benefit

• Maintenance of facilities and equipment

• Seismic strengthening of council-owned buildings

• Seismic strengthening of churches that have not demonstrated wide community use and access, and/or heritage buildings other than those with a category one or two rating

• Any repair cost considered to be deferred maintenance or that should otherwise be included in a maintenance plan

• Facilities for delivery of core education and health services that CLT deems should be covered by government funding allocation

• Projects where local or central government would be the natural source of funding

• Commercial organisations or commercial events

• Repayment of debt

• Retrospective projects i.e. completed projects or projects that have already commenced

• Operational costs of Territorial Authorities and Central Government

• Endowments

• Elite sports or activities

• The GST component of costs for GST-registered organisations

• Fundraising events

• An organisation's project that generates funds which are distributed to a third party

• Direct fundraising costs, e.g. purchase of materials or items for resale.

• Sponsorships.

If you are uncertain about whether your project will be eligible or not, please give our grants team a call.