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Dunedin City Council – Kaunihera-a-rohe o Otepoti

City service and city project grants application

Last updated: 29 Sep 2025 3:48pm

City service grants support key organisations to help the city achieve its strategic goals, and whose work in the city significantly contributes to achieving the priorities of one or more of the Council’s key strategies.

City projects grants support key projects that directly contribute to the achievement to the priorities of one or more of the Council’s key strategies.

We recommend you contact us before you send us your application. We can give you advice and support for your service or project, and help you apply for a grant. We can also answer your questions about how to complete this application form and help with any problems with your application. Email community@dcc.govt.nz or call +64 3 477 4000 to speak to an advisor.

Please refer to the Funding Strategic Criteria for guidance on meeting the criteria for City service and city projects grants. For full strategy information and documents please refer to the Dunedin City Council Strategic Framework page.

Please note where word limits are outlined for text boxes, you must keep your answer within these limits. The DCC will not accept additional documents to answer these questions Please only attach documents that are requested throughout the application form.

If you application was successful you will be required to complete an accountability report for the DCC by 30 April 2026.

This round of grant applications close Friday 16 May 2025.  The Dunedin City Council will not accept late or incomplete applications.

  • Start application here

    1. Start

    • Type your email address in the box underneath these instructions.
    • Ensure you allow pop-ups for this browser while completing this form; error messages may appear as pop-ups.

    TIP:  Save your responses in a word document to then paste into the application form when ready.

    2. Save progress: you can start your application now, save it, and finish it later.

    • Check that you have entered your email address.
    • Click the Save progress and Exit button.
    • We will send you an email containing a link and a password.
    • If you do not receive a confirmation email please contact us.
    • Save this email and use the link and password to return to your saved application as required.
    • Check that any uploaded files are still attached.
    • NOTE: this does NOT submit your application to DCC.

    3. Submit application

    • Click the Submit button after you have completed your application form and attached your files - this submits your application to DCC.
    • A thank-you page will appear - we recommend printing this page as a copy of your completed application.
    • We will send you an email to confirm that we have received your application - the confirmation will also contain a copy of your application.
    • If you do not receive a confirmation email or have any problems sending us your application, please contact us.

    (please type in a valid email address - name@domain, name.name@domain (eg name@name.co.nz, name.name@name.org etc)

  • About your service/project

    Which grant are you applying for? *(required)

    (because of processing time required, this must be after 1 August. The DCC cannot provide retrospective funding.)
    (Venue and geographic location - must be within the Dunedin boundary)

    Is this a new service/project? *(required) (please note DCC does not fund retrospectively)

    Please describe what you want the DCC to fund and what organisational goals you are trying to achieve (max 400 words)
    Please give a clear outline and vision of the service/project and how it will develop so that it continues to benefit Dunedin’s communities? Please indicate the impact the DCC funding will have on your event, and how you will measure the benefits and quality of your work. (max 400 words)
    Tell us about the key people and/or the groups who will benefit from your project/service (who are you serving, who will benefit in the community, how many of the people benefitting live in Dunedin. Please also include the percentage of the community who will benefit that live in Dunedin. NB. activities outside of the Dunedin City Council boundary will not be considered). (max 400 words)

    Tell us about the main partners who will help you to deliver your organisation’s services or project.

    (please describe what they will be doing towards the project/service)(150 words)

    Partner organisation Their roles and responsibilities

    Please list any other organisations providing similar services/projects.

    Tell us how your organisation collaborates with other providers to improve outcomes and how your services/project is similar or different to the other providers services/ project. (150 word)

    Organisation/ Collaboration Service/project similarity and differences

    The criteria/Ngā paearu:

    Funding Strategic Criteria

    DCC’s Strategic framework

    We expect your organisation’s services or project will contribute to a number of DCC strategic goals. The degree of fit will help to determine eligibility for funding and the level of funding allocated.

    Please describe how you will meet at least three of the strategic priorities outlined in the DCC’s Strategic Frame work. It is not expected your event aligns with every priority – please select the strategy and comment on those applicable.

  • About your budget

    (please indicate this as a dollar figure and percentage of your overall budget)

    If you have previously received a grant, are you requesting an increase this year?

    Have you, or will you receive grants or sponsorship from any other organisation? Please also include this information in your budget.

    Funding received
    Organisation Amount received
    Funding requested but not received
    Organisation Unconfirmed amount

    Please attach your budget for your organisation’s services or project and your latest financial accounts. You can attach the files on the last section of this form. Please include in your budget an estimate of the number of general volunteer hours involved in the activity that this application is requesting funding for (hours per week/month/year)

    You may be required to supply quotes to support your application, but you do not have to submit these in the initial application.

    Please tell us your bank details:

    This is the account we will pay your grant into, if your application is successful.

    If you are a new applicant or have had a change to the bank details previously provided please supply a copy of your bank details as verification. This can be a bank deposit slip, print from a bank statement or image of online bank details. Please upload a copy of this in the Declaration, checklist and attachments section of this form.

    (Please note that your account name and organisation name must match)

    Bank number Branch number Account number Suffix number

  • About your organisation

    Or you can attach this information as a supporting document in the Declaration, checklists and supporting documents section of this form (200 words)
    Postcode Finder (new window)

    Contact person (for this application)

    Is your organisation

    (Are you registered with the Charities Commission? If so please enter your registration number. Please note it is not mandatory to be registered to receive a grant.)

  • Declaration, checklist and attachments

    Please attach these documents to your application.

    • Full Event Budget
    • Letters of support
    • Latest financial accounts

    Your attachments must NOT be larger than 8MB in size for each file.

    Where possible, please combine types of documents together into one file. If your files are too big, or you are not able to combine them, please email events@dcc.govt.nz for assistance with this.

    (maximum file size 8MB)
    (maximum file size 8MB)
    (maximum file size 8MB)
    Have you:

    Terms and conditions

    I have read and understood the terms and conditions *(required)

    Funding and Grants Terms and Conditions
    please download and read the Terms and Conditions, and acknowledge

    Declaration

    I hereby declare that all information included and provided as part of this application is correct and that I am the approved person to provide it. *(required)

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If the form does not submit successfully, there will be an error message listed at the top of the form

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