Sport New Zealand Rural Travel Fund

The Sport NZ Rural Travel Fund is developed in response to concern from councils about the lack of participation in sport by young people living in rural communities. Geographical isolation, urban drift, lack of employment opportunities and access to mainstream funding were identified as barriers to sport participation.

Funding Details

• The national allocation of the fund is based on a population density formula for territorial authorities whom have less than 10 people per square kilometre. 45c per capita is provided with a baseline/minimum entitlement of $9,500.

Funding Criteria

• The following criteria will be applied when considering applications for funding:
  • Organisations and schools with participants aged between 5 and 19 years playing sport for a club or school team who meet the eligibility criteria.
  • Funding is not provided for the purpose of travel to regional or national events or sports competitions.
  • Individual players, coaches and or officials are ineligible to apply for the fund.
  • Funding is not provided to assist coaches, managers or officials travel costs.

Grant Eligibility

• 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.

Applicant Eligibility

• School club teams and sport club teams are defined as:
  • A school club team participating in regular local sport competition out of school time, 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.

For more information, visit Ashburton District Council.