Get Active Community Grant 2025

Welcome to the application form for the Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) Get Active Community Grant 2025-2026.

The purpose of local government is to play a broad role in promoting the social, economic, environmental and cultural wellbeing of communities. The Get Active Community Grant provides QLDC with the ability to support not-for-profit organisations and charities that benefit the health and wellbeing of the community by providing access to the Queenstown Event Centre, Wānaka Recreation Centre and Paetara Aspiring Centrals' facilities. This supports QLDC Sport & Recreation’s mission to encourage more people to be more active, more often. This also connects with our communities’ Vision Beyond 2050 outcome for Thriving people | Whakapuāwai Hapori – “Ours is a community with a strong heart and whānau roots that run deep." 

Please familiarise yourself with the eligibility criteria before beginning your application. Applications to the Get Active Community Grant are welcomed from new or previous grant recipients.

If you have any questions regarding the grant, please email marie.schmidt@qldc.govt.nz 

We thank you for your time and work and look forward to reviewing your application.

Thank you for taking the time to apply for the Get Active Community Grant. We are delighted to offer this grant and help improve our community's health and wellbeing.

This funding round will only award successful recipients single-use physical vouchers that grant access to our recreational facilities. The available vouchers at their valued rate include:

• A pool pass valued at $8.20
  This can be used for a one-off pool entry, or for an aqua programmes entry, at either the Queenstown Event Centre, Arrowtown Pool, or Wānaka Recreation Centre pool.
  
  
• A facility and programme pass valued at $24.50
  This pass provides access to all our facilities and selected programmes at Queenstown Events Centre, Wānaka Recreation Centre and Paetara Aspiring Central.
  
  At Queenstown Events Centre this includes: Pool access, gym and group fit access, climbing wall, limited spots in Youth programmes and Green prescription programmes
  
  At Wānaka Recreation Centre and Paetara Aspiring Central this includes: Pool access (WRC only), Programme access – social pickleball, badminton, table tennis, Kiddy Kickers and Senior Strength, Yoga (PAC only)
  
  

All carers can go free. If awarded, your organisation will need to come to the Queenstown Events Centre or Wānaka Recreation Centre to receive a tour of the facility and collect the passes. Your organisation is responsible for distributing the passes to your members. Your members must bring in their physical voucher(s) to receive access to our facilities.

To be eligible to apply for the Get Active Community Grant, your community organisation must:

• be a registered charity, incorporated society or not-for-profit group and must be able to provide evidence of this status.
• be based in the Queenstown Lakes District. You can view the boundaries here.

Sports groups and businesses are not eligible.

Passes must be given out to the organisations' members who currently don't have access to our facilities. Passes are not intended for the organisations' employees.