Te Ringa Mohimohi Taiao (the caring hand toward nature), brings together our four community environmental funds under one umbrella. These funds are:
This fund empowers you to take action, driving the shift to cut emissions, boost resilience and build a sustainable future.
Applications can be made for natural areas. This grant covers fencing to protect the natural area from stock damage. Find out more here.
If you are a not-for-profit community group keen to plant native species on your property, then find out more here.
If you have an idea or project that boosts the district’s performance in waste minimisation, reduces the amount of valuable material that ends up in landfills and helps us toward our Zero Waste 2040 goal and needs funding to get started. Find out more here.
Details on our Community Funding Investment Policy can be found here.
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