Constellation Communities Trust grants

Dates

No fixed rounds: apply any time.

What it funds

• Amateur sport
• Non-professional community health and wellbeing and educational activities
• Educational, cultural, health, environmental, recreational or philanthropic activities

What it will not fund

• Retrospective grants
• Applicants that are not non-profit bodies

Good to know

Priority goes to amateur sport and AUT Millennium community programmes. Applications must reach the Trust at least 5 days before the third Wednesday of the month.

The Trust Directors meet on the 3rd Wednesday of each month; applications must be received at least 5 days before the meeting.

Checklist

What Constellation Communities Trust says you need:

• Application fits the Trust's authorised purpose
• Applicant is a non-profit body
• Grant is for specific and future purposes
• Complete application on the correct form

Common things funders ask for, worth having ready:

• What exactly is the money for, and when will you spend it?
• How much do you need, and do you have quotes under three months old?
• Who benefits, and how many people?
• Your legal name, registration number and bank account in the group's name.
• A committee or board decision approving the application (some funders want a signed resolution).
• Your latest financial statements or annual return.
• Other funders you have applied to for the same thing.

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Sources

What we relied on, in the funder's own words.

• The applicant is a non-profit body.constellationtrust.org.nz/grants · read 17 October 2026
• The grant is to be applied to specific and future purposes; no retrospective grants can be madeconstellationtrust.org.nz/grants · read 17 October 2026
• The Trust Directors meet on the 3rd Wednesday of each month to consider Grant Applications. Your application would need to be received at least 5 days prior to the meeting for consideration in that month.constellationtrust.org.nz/grants · read 17 October 2026
• educational, cultural, health, environmental, recreational or philanthropic activities providedconstellationtrust.org.nz/funding-criteria · read 17 October 2026
• amateur sport where the applicant is based in the same region where Constellation Communities Trust has venues and where there is a high level of public participation.constellationtrust.org.nz/funding-criteria · read 17 October 2026
• The Courtyard Bar 292 Apirana Avenue Glen Innes, Auckland 1072constellationtrust.org.nz/venues · read 17 October 2026
• Hawaiian Sizzler 420 Great North Road Henderson, Auckland 0612constellationtrust.org.nz/venues · read 17 October 2026

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