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2018 applications
Applications for the consumer leadership development grant will open on 1 March 2018 and will close on 30 March 2018.
Applications for the March funding round will be moderated in mid-April.
View the 2017 summary of funded disability grants.
About the grant
Te Pou consumer leadership development grants are available to support disabled people and family/whānau to take part in leadership development activities. This includes:
- training or learning activities that develop consumers’ and family/whānau's leadership skills
- training or learning activities that are for the benefit of other disabled people or the disability sector in general.
How the grant can be used
The consumer leadership development grant covers the costs of consumers or family/whānau taking part in leadership development activities. For the purpose of this grant ‘consumer’ includes disabled people and family and whānau.
The grant can be used for:
- course or workshop fees
- related resources (for example, workbooks, tutors/facilitators)
- accessibility costs for disabled people, including travel and accommodation and the cost of support people (accessibility costs do not count towards individual or organisational caps).
The grant does not fund course development and administration, standard service delivery, service development and business-as-usual costs.
Who can apply
Applications must be made by Disabled Support Services (DSS) providers that hold a current Ministry of Health contract or by Disabled People’s Organisations (DPOs) that are part of the DPO coalition.
Applications can be made in support of development activities for consumers associated with the applicant organisation; or an organisation can sponsor an application by consumers beyond their service.
To be sponsored for this grant you need to be eligible for DSS services. If you are eligible for services but not receiving them, you can also be sponsored. Check if you are eligible for DSS services.
Applications must be submitted by the DSS provider or DPO providers. Individual consumers cannot apply directly.
Please contact disability@tepou.co.nz if you need further information.
How much can be funded
- Participants can be funded up to $5,000 (GST inclusive) per calendar year.*
- Organisations can be funded up to $80,000 (GST inclusive) per calendar year.
Organisations
Organisations can receive a maximum of $80,000 for this grant. However, in exceptional circumstances the panel may be able to exercise discretion. Please contact disability@tepou.co.nz to discuss.
Participants
* Participants can receive up to $5,000 for training in any calendar year, either from one, or multiple applications. (As stated above applications are not accepted from individuals but must come from an organisation that meets the eligibility criteria and that the term used to describe this arrangement is sponsoring.)
It is the applicant's responsibility to ensure no participant exceeds the $5,000 cap. Participants must inform their sponsoring organisation if they are receiving funding from this grant through any other DSS provider.
Grant priorities
Training topics might include these priority areas:
- UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- self-determination, confidence and authority
- consumer roles and influencing quality services
- citizenship, wellbeing and inclusion.
(Applications that fall outside of these priority areas will be considered but will receive a lower rating.)
Eligibility criteria
As well as complying with our terms and conditions, applications for the consumer leadership development grant must also meet our eligibility criteria.
The organisation must be a:
- MOH funded Disability Service Provider; or
- Disabled People’s Organisations (DPOs) that are part of the DPO coalition.
Participants must be:
- be a disabled person eligible to receive Ministry of Health funded disability services or be a family/whānau member of an eligible disabled person
- Ministry of Health funded Disability Support Services Individualised Funding (IF) Clients/Agents (Note: District Health Board IF clients/agents are not eligible)
- be sponsored by an organisation and be supported to participate in the learning activity
- be New Zealand citizens or hold permanent resident status.
The leadership activity must:
- develop leadership skills
- be for the benefit of other disabled people or disability sector in general
- be delivered in New Zealand
- be accessible for disabled people
- not already be fully funded by other agencies/funds
- start (and usually end) in the calendar year of the grant.
