Community Grants
The Seagull Centre Community Grants are currently closed - will reopen in August 2026
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.
Congratulations to our successful community grant recipients
Eligibility
For more information about our grants please contact us via info@seagullcentre.co.nz
In 2025 the Seagull Centre 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.
Past Grant Recipients
Thames Environmental Alliance (TEA)
“Thanks again for your support. Just recently we held "Privet Week" and used your grant to fund that. There are still referrals coming in as people chat with their neighbours and friends, so the impact of your money is reaching far and wide!”
– Thames Environmental Alliance (TEA)
Pestfree Tairua
“We have used the grant money to buy an Autotrap from a NZ company based in Whakatane. These are called AT220 and have a battery, self setting after catching a pest (which drops to the ground when dead) and an automatic lure. These traps have been game changers for us and add to our trap lines.”
– Pestfree Tairua
