Application form questions 

• Your name, position title, email and phone number

• A secondary contact’s name, email and phone number
  Tip: we ask for a secondary contact should you be unavailable if we are needing more information quickly.

• Your organisation name

• Where does the organisation offer services in Aotearoa New Zealand?

• What is its legal status? (e.g. registered charity; incorporated society; charitable company; company; Māori organisation (marae, rūnanga or other Māori authority)

• Please give us a link to your organisation’s information on the Charities, Incorporated Societies or Companies register

• Your organisation website; and invitation to share any social media accounts

• What does your organisation do?
  Tip: what’s its purpose, goals and or main services? Please provide a short summary, we recommend five to eight sentences, or two to four paragraphs.

• Is this a joint application - where two or more organisations will be delivering the services. If so, what are their names?

• Project title
  Tip: This will be what we call the project in our communication with you, and our website if you are successful.

• Brief summary (we recommend two to four sentences, or one or two paragraphs)*

• Amount being requested
  Tip: If a multi-year project, please detail how much you budget to spend in each year clearly in your project plan and budget.

• Total cost of the project

• Have you applied for other funding, or if you are seeking less than the total cost, how are you funding the difference?
  Tip: Is the organisation part-funding it? Have you secured other funding and if so who from? Are you going to need to find additional funding and what are your options?

• Of the eight eligible sectors, what industry workforces would this funding benefit?

• Please describe your existing relationship with that industry/those industries, and their involvement in your application?

• Tell us what you are wanting funding for

  • Describe the project
    Tip: What will you do and how? Note that in this section we suggest you give summary information. You are asked to upload a project plan/timeline and also a budget later on.

  • Comment on how this project meets the purpose, objectives and criteria of the fund.

  • What is the need this project meets or the opportunity it will take advantage of?
    Tip: Why is this activity needed? Do you have any research or statistics or user testing to support the need or opportunity?

  • Are you aware of similar projects - either current or historic - and if so please name them?

  • Who will your project benefit?
    Tip: Mention specific workforces or parts of the workforce (e.g. age, gender, culture; any geographical locations). Please indicate if it targets groups needing additional support and why. Note that the fund prioritises projects that positively benefit Māori, Pasifika and Disabled, so please comment on this if appropriate, giving detail on how the initiative will focus on outcomes for these groups.

  • What will be the impact and how and when will you measure success?
    Tip: You could talk about the number of people that will benefit, applicability to wider sector/other workforces, improvement to customers, workforces or employers. How will you evaluate the programme?

  • Why will you be successful?
    Tip: Include any collaborations that will support the success; skills and experience of people involved; relevant research; past experience.

  • We welcome any additional information that is relevant to this funding request that you feel is important for us to know.
    Tip: If you want to tell us something we haven’t asked, now is the place! Also, we are committed to Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and we welcome hearing in this section if your organisation also has ways it acknowledges the treaty.

• Please upload a document/s that outline your project plan. In addition, you are welcome to upload video content if it is directly relevant to your application.
  Tip: We expect greater detail for larger applications. Closer to the grant round opening we will provide guidance on the level of detail that should be in your project plan. Plans should include objectives, key actions and deliverables, a timeline, budget, evaluation, risks and mitigations, stakeholder engagement and communications. If you are seeking multi-year or phased funding, please outline when you would require funding payments and what project updates you would provide/milestones you would reach prior to seeking the next distribution of funding.

• Please upload a copy of your most recent annual financial statements, audited if available.

• Please comment if there have been any material changes to your financial position since these statements.

• Please register any interests you have with those involved in making recommendations or decisions on fund distribution. For example, if you have a professional relationship with one of the panel or Board members. If you do not have any, write ‘none’.

• Check that you have given us your: financial statements; project budget and project plan or timeline.

In submitting this application form I certify that:

• I am authorised by my organisation/the organisations involved to complete and submit this application.

• To the best of my knowledge, all details supplied in this application and attached documents are true and correct.

• I understand that if the fund approves a grant, my organisation will be required to comply with any terms and conditions applying to the grant, and be bound by the content of my application to apply the funding for the purpose for which it was requested.

• I acknowledge that the information contained in this application is stored in the fund’s grant management software and will be held by the Workforce Futures Fund | Tahua Rāngaimahi Anamata for the purpose of assessing the application submitted by me on behalf of my organisation.

• I acknowledge that the information will also be anonymously collated to support the fund to compile data on fund applicants to help it assess whether it is fulfilling its purpose. Anonymised data may be made publicly available as part of the fund’s transparent approach and reporting.

• I understand the information will be made available to those involved in the decision making process including the Grants Assessment Panel and the Board. These members have signed confidentiality forms.

• I acknowledge that the Board’s decision on grants is full and final; and that as an applicant I have no appeal rights.