Priority Services Grants
Next open for applications in October 2027.
Priority Services Grants provide three-year funding to organisations that deliver services, programmes or activities considered essential to strengthening community resilience, connection, local identity, and participation across the Manawatū rating district.
This fund supports organisations that provide important services or programmes that benefit communities across the Manawatū rating district or have a significant impact on the community. It helps Council work in partnership with these organisations by providing more stable, longer-term funding for services that are important to our communities.
Previous Successful Applicants To The Fund
- Age Concern - Palmerston North and Districts (Support for kaumātua and older people throughout Manawatū District) $10,000
- Feilding and District Art Society (Centre for Art in the Manawatū, operational costs) $5,000
- Hīmatangi Beach Community Patrol (Community patrol services) $3,500
- Manawatū Historic Vehicle Collection Trust (Museum operational funding) $30,000
- Manchester House Social Services Society (Social care services) $70,000
- Neighbourhood Support Manawatū (Community engagement support) $25,000
- Palmerston North Surf Life Saving Club Inc (Regional lifeguard service at Hīmatangi Beach) $16,500
- Parentline Manawatū (Triple P Discussion Group Sessions) $10,000
- Plant to Plate Aotearoa (Plant to Plate programme in Manawatū kura) $5,000
- Rural Bus Manawatū (one year) (Manawatū Rural Support Service V2) $10,000
- SnapBACK Gym (SnapBACK Community Facilitator) $10,000
- St John Feilding Area Committee (Waka Ora Health Shuttle) $10,000
- Te Manawa Services Charitable Trust (Whānau Connect Service) $30,000
- Whatunga Tuao - Volunteer Central (Building a connected and resilient community) $5,000
- Youthline Central North Island Inc (Youth counselling, mentoring and mental wellbeing programmes) $10,000
- Age Concern – Palmerston North/Manawatū (Accredited Visiting Service for seniors) $10,000
- Awahuri Forest Kitchener Park Trust (Education programme for schools) $5,833
- Feilding and District Art Society (Operational staffing costs) $10,000
- Feilding Community Patrol (Community patrol services) $3,500
- Hīmatangi Beach Community Patrol (Community patrol services) $3,500
- Manawatū Historic Vehicle Collection Trust (Archive maintenance and museum activities) $20,000
- Manawatū Riding for the Disabled (Volunteer recruitment, administration, training and horse care) $5,000
- Manawatū Rural Support Services Inc (Rural community support, referrals and advice) $15,000
- Manawatū Tenants Union (Tenant organising and support) $5,000
- Manchester House Social Services Society (Meth support group, emergency foodbank, budgeting, counselling, senior leisure centre) $60,000
- Neighbourhood Support Manawatū (Community engagement, membership and emergency preparedness) $25,000
- Palmerston North Surf Life Saving Club Inc (Weekday lifeguard service at Hīmatangi Beach) $15,000
- Plant to Plate Aotearoa (School gardening, cooking and nutrition programme) $10,000
- SnapBACK Gym (Youth Mentor Programme) $10,000
- St John Feilding Area Committee (Health Shuttle service) $10,000
- Te Manawa Services Charitable Trust (Youth and Parenting Programme) $30,000
- Whatunga Tuao – Volunteer Central (Volunteer recruitment and support) $5,000
- Youthline Central North Island Inc (Youth mental wellbeing, mentoring and counselling) $10,000
