Please ensure you have read all Predator Free 2050 Fund eligibility criteria [PDF, 259 KB] before submitting your application.

Please contact biodiversity@selwyn.govt.nz if you have any questions regarding your project or application details.

This form must be completed in one session.

Please read through the form and the declaration at the bottom of the page before completing your application form.

Please ensure you have all necessary information and documentation ready before you begin, including:

  • a detailed breakdown of your project budget.
  • a detailed site map and trap layout if applicable.
  • documents or quotes that may support your application.

If you encounter any issues with the application form, please contact funding@selwyn.govt.nz or biodiversity@selwyn.govt.nz

Contact Details:
If applying on behalf of an organisation or community group
If your funding proposal is successful, would you be willing to have your name and project details used for publicity purposes? *
Site Details:
Who owns and/or manages the project site land?
Do you have landowner permission to carry out work in the project site? *
An email from the organisation can be accepted
Is any of the project area within a Significant Natural Areas as determined by the Selwyn District Council? *
What is the project area like, for example: what types of vegetation wildlife and habitat are present? What is the existing land management and what are the threats to the biodiversity on the site?
(ha)
Legal Protection: *
Project Description:
Project Start Date: *
What do you want to do and how are you going to do it?
Trapping data needs to be recorded in Traps.nz or sent to biodiversity@selwyn.govt.nz on a regular basis
For example: Monthly
How will you record your trapping data? *
Has any work or expenditure been made towards this project prior to the fund application? If so when and what?
Will any monitoring of the project/site occur? For example, 5 minute bird counts or tracking tunnels
Project Finance:
Please provide an amount and comment on its usage
Please provide an amount and comment on its usage

Please attach detailed milestones and outcomes relating to any wages in a separate document

For Project related coordinator costs

 Please provide an amount and comment on its usage

Please provide an amount and comment on its usage
Please list funds and amounts.
Please list amount and breakdown
Bank Account Details - if the funding request is approved, we will deposit the funds into the bank account provided.
(any one of these: a deposit slip, a letter from the bank, or a bank statement showing the bank account number)
Please upload documentation to support your application:
Declaration:
Personal information collected through this application will be used to assess your grant application and will be handled in accordance with the Privacy Act 2020 and Selwyn District Council’s Privacy Policy.
As per the Community Funding Policy 5.3. Applicants and applications that may be connected to elected members of Council or the Malvern Community Board, or Council staff, need to declare any possible conflict of interest or any possible perception of conflict of interest.
I agree that if the application is successful: *

- The organisation name and/or applicant name, project name, and amount of funding applied for and received will be publicly disclosed by the Selwyn District Council in Assessment Panel Meeting Agendas, Minutes, and on the Council website to ensure transparency.

- The grant will be used for the purpose specified in this application.

- I/my organisation will provide a report on how the grant was used as soon as it is spent and in no circumstance later than one year of receiving the grant.

- I/my organisation acknowledges that funding is provided in accordance with the Selwyn District Council Community Grants Policy, and I agree to comply with it.