Sport New Zealand Rural Travel Fund

APPLICATIONS FOR ROUND TWO 2024/2025 ARE CURRENTLY CLOSED!

Fund details

The next funding round - Round Two opens on Saturday 1 February 2025

Closes: Friday 28 February 2025

Value for Round Two: $8,122 ex GST

Round One funding decisions were confirmed at the Committee Meeting held on Tuesday 22 Oct 2024.

Decisions are available here: Sport New Zealand Rural Travel Fund 2024-2025 Round One Awards

Download the application form and the guidelines here:

• The Sport New Zealand Application Form
• Guidelines

Previous successful applicants will need to have completed and returned an accountability report before they can make another application.

Download the form here:

• Accountability Report

Application Forms and the Guide are available from:

• Grey District Council Reception, 105 Tainui St, Greymouth. Monday to Friday 8.30am - 4.30pm
• Westland Recreation Centre, 83 High St, Greymouth. Monday to Friday 5am to 9pm
• Greymouth Library, 18 Albert St, Greymouth. Monday to Friday 10.30am to 5pm

For more information about the fund please contact:

Grey District Council

Funding rounds for the Sport New Zealand Rural Travel Fund are approximately in February and September each year.

Criteria

GDC administers this fund on behalf of Sport NZ to help reduce travel barriers for rural sports clubs and school teams. The fund provides subsidies for players aged 5 to 18 years to assist with transport expenses for local sporting competitions within our district.

Sport NZ’s Rural Travel Fund (RTF) supports young people to take part in regular sporting competition.

School club teams and sports club teams are defined as:

• A school club team participating in regular local sports competitions outside school time that excludes interschool and intraschool competitions played during school time.
• A sports club team participating in, regular sports competitions through club membership outside of school time.

The fund is not available to:

• School or club teams located outside the Grey District
• Individual players, coaches, or officials

Successful applicants must have completed and submitted an accountability report before being eligible to submit a new application.

To learn more about Sport New Zealand visit their website via the link below.