Community Grants

The Seagull Centre Community Grants are currently closed - will reopen in August 2026

Congratulations to our successful community grant recipients

2025 saw nearly 60 applications for our Community Grants. After many conversations we were able to select 31 community projects to support. The successful grants covered the top of the Coromandel right down to Opoutere and across to Paeroa. With a variety of projects being supported - garden to table, native tree planting, pest control for animals and plants, stream restoration, recycling ideas.

The mahi that these groups are carrying out is absolutely spectacular and the results speak for themselves bats and bitterns are being discovered in new spaces around our region

The Seagull Centre would like to thank everyone that donates, purchases, follows, likes, and supports us- without you, none of this is possible.

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Eligibility

Community Grant applications will

  • Open in August 2026

For more information about our grants please contact us via info@seagullcentre.co.nz

This year the Seagull Centre is offered smaller grants, up to $1000 and larger grants, up to $5000 to help support you to turn your vision into reality.

Projects in 2025 had to include at least one of the following as a central feature:

  • Access and participation – creation of opportunities for locals to engage in local environmental issues.

  • A focus on community resilience through sustainable living practices, food security and Education.

  • Environmental guardianship.  (Kaitiakitanga)

  • Rethink, Refuse, Reduce, Repair, Reuse, Recycle. 

  • Link to one or more of the United Nations Global Goals.

Further information from community_grants@seagullcentre.co.nz