Grants - Sport New Zealand Rural Travel Fund

The Sport New Zealand Rural Travel Fund was developed in response to concerns raised by Territorial Authorities about the lack of participation in sport by young people living in rural communities. Georgraphical isolation, urban drift, lack of employment opportunities and access to mainstream funding were identified as barriers to sport participation.

The Sport New Zealand Rural Travel Fund is designed to help subsidise travel for junior teams participating in local sport competition.

Application for the rural travel fund is open to rural sports clubs and rural school teams with young people aged between 5 and 19 years who require subsidies to assist with transport expenses to local sporting competitions.

Funding is not provided for the purpose of travel to regional or national events.

Assessment Criteria

The following criteria shall be applied when considering applications for funding.

School club teams and sport club teams are defined as follows:

“a school club team participating in regular sport competition in weekends, that excludes inter-school and intra-school competitions played during school time” and/or “a sports club team participating in organised, regular sport competition through club membership outside of school time”.

Ruapehu District Council distributes Sport New Zealand Rural Travel Fund monies annually, on behalf of Sport New Zealand. Applications open in March each year and application forms will be available from Council offices or on Council’s website during this period.

Successful applicants will be required to account for the funds they have been allocated and to provide a report on the benefits they have received from these funds.

For further information visit the Sport New Zealand website or contact the Grants Administrator, Ruapehu District Council on 07 895 8188.