Are you planning a community event? Do you need a great space with lots of facilities? With funding from the Community Access Grant, you could hold your event at the Dunedin Centre including the Dunedin Town Hall or Forsyth Barr Stadium.
The Community Access Grant supports DVML to provide financial support to people, community groups and organisations that are not-for-profit or have a charitable status, enabling community users to utilise the facilities at the Dunedin Centre. This benefits community users and Dunedin City in general by encouraging:
- Vibrant communities
- Arts and cultural activities
- Affordable access to facilities
- Amateur events
- Community interaction
- Social activities
- Active lifestyles
- Civic pride
- Amateur sports
Each year $750,000 of venue hire is given to community groups to host their events at either the Dunedin Centre or Forsyth Barr Stadium. You too can host a community event at one of these venues with funding from the Community Access Grant to help towards event costs such as venue hire and security.
The goals of the funding are to maximise the quality of the community events delivered at the Dunedin Centre and Forsyth Barr Stadium and ensure that a wide range of community users are able to access community events funding at these venues.
Funding Criteria:
- Organisations must demonstrate there is community need and support for their event.
- Organisations must demonstrate the ability to plan and deliver projects in an efficient manner.
- Eligible organisations should: have charitable status, be not-for-profit, be an incorporated society, be in the educational, health, social, cultural or sporting sector. Informal organisations may apply. Examples of groups which could apply include selfhelp/support, neighbourhood, environmental, social service, youth or senior citizen groups.
- The event should deliver cultural, social, educational and/or health benefits.
- Events may be: a) Free to attend and/or participate (no registration fee). b) Receive donations and sponsorship (to cover the non-venue costs of hosting an event). c) Ticketed with a registration fee charged to participate or attend (to cover the non-venue costs of hosting an event).
- If the event is free to attend, or attendance is by donation, full venue rental and event oncharges will be covered by the funding. If there is a fee charged to participate and/or attend the event, 50% of the commercial costs of the venue rental and event on-charges will be funded (as specified in Section 6 Rate Card).
- If requested, the applicant must submit a full financial reconciliation showing the event or organiser has not benefited financially, or quantifying the charitable benefit received.
- The applicant must comply with DVML’s Health and Safety Policy.
- The applicants must complete their application within the allocated funding periods.
The funding has been used for a wide range of events across both venues, including a range of sports days, Movie Magic, and the Secondary Schools Hip Hop competition. Upcoming events that have qualified for free venue hire include Norma.101 (30 August), My Step Up Challenge (11 October), Rejoice! Music for Christmas (28 November), and Girls Cricket Festival (7 December).
Applications open on Tuesday 1 September until Wednesday 30 September.
Go to dunedinvenues.co.nz for more information and application forms.
