Strengthening Communities Fund Applications Open 1 May 2025

Not-for-profit groups working on projects and initiatives that help to connect and strengthen communities in the Coastal-Burwood-Linwood area may be able to get help with their costs.

Each year Christchurch City Council puts money aside in its Strengthening Communities Fund so that it can provide financial support to the many groups and organisations who are working to build community wellbeing. Each Community Board is allocated a portion of the funding to distribute locally.

Applications for Council’s Strengthening open on 1 May 2025 and close at noon on Friday 30 May 2025. Decisions are expected to be made to allocate this year’s funding at the Board’s August meeting.

Organisations will be able to apply to for Strengthening Communities Fund for locally based projects and will now apply to the one Community Board area that most of their participants come from.

The grants allocated can be seen in the minutes of the Board’s 25 July 2024 meeting here.

The advisers have put together some Frequently Asked Questions based on questions already asked in this year as well as in previous years.