Sport NZ Rural Travel Fund 2023-2024 Round 1 Awards

19 October 2023

Press Release

Sport NZ Rural Travel Fund 2023-2024 Round 1 Awards

At a Committee Meeting held on Wednesday 18 October 2023, all four community Sports Clubs who applied were awarded funding from the Sport NZ Rural Travel Fund 2023/2024 Round One.

The Sport NZ Rural Travel Fund is designed to help subsidise travel for rural junior teams aged between 5-18 years, removing the barrier of travel cost so they can compete in regular sporting competitions. The fund is administered on behalf of Sport NZ by 35 eligible Territorial Authorities across Aotearoa, including Grey District Council.

Council received a great response from the community with four applications from local Sports Clubs, for part of the $14,204.00 funding available for Round One 2023 and Round Two 2024.

Each applicant needed to meet the guidelines of Sport NZ Rural Travel Fund.

Eligible teams – applications for funding from Rural Travel Fund can be made by rural sport club teams and rural school club teams within the Territorial Authority region Grey District, with members aged 5 and 18 years, who require financial assistance for transport costs so that they can participate in local sporting competitions and events.

Eligible travel – a rural school club team will be eligible for funding if it is participating in a regular local sports competition out of school time, which excludes inter-school and intra-school competitions run during school time.

A rural sports club team will be eligible for funding if it is participating in an organised, regular sports competition through club membership outside of school time.

We believe that the sports groups awarded funding this round will all help with meeting Council’s vision and expected outcomes. We look forward to following their progress and seeing how this funding benefits our community.

The following received funding:

ENDS

Contact:

Grey District Council

Phone 03 769 8600