General grants are for supporting communities experiencing inequity, exclusion, and disadvantage in the Wellington region to thrive.

Applications must meet both these criteria:

• Serve and/or are led by WCF’s priority communities:
  • Māori
  • Pacific peoples
  • Middle Eastern/Latin American/African

• Provide a social service
  • Directly provide community members with basic needs, or
  • Provide help for people navigating services that enable access to those needs

Please check our list of social services to ensure your organisation/kaupapa fits

• Applications must primarily benefit the Wellington region
• You must be an organisation with charitable purpose. Usually this means you have charitable trust or incorporated society status. If you don’t have either of these statuses then you may be able to use an organisation that is registered, to act as your fund holder – read more about fund holding here (if you do not yet have charitable status, or are unsure of your status – please call us to discuss)
• Certain types of organisations are excluded – read more here

Up to $20,000 for a quicker decision (expect a decision within several weeks)

Up to $50,000* for more strategic grants (expect a decision within several months).