29 October 2025
File Ref: IRC-9165
Chris McCashin
[FYI request #31933 email]
Tēnā koe Chris,
Thank you for your email dated 25 September 2025 to Te Kaunihera o Pōneke | Wellington City
Council (the Council). This email was in reply to our response to your previous request logged under
IRC-8884. You have requested the fol owing information:
Can you please provide the budgeted funding amounts for those years
Your request has been considered under the Local Government Of icial Information and Meetings Act
1987 (LGOIMA).
For clarity, our previous response provided you with a spreadsheet which detailed grant funding
payments allocated by the Council, approved by the Council’s Grants Subcommittee, where the
closing date for applications were January 2021 onwards.
Below is a list of the funding allocations which were provided within the response to IRC-8884,
alongside the response to the budgeted funding amounts for the years 2021 to present.
Arts and Culture and Social and Recreation Funds
Multi-year funding is al ocated from within the budget of each of these funding programmes.
Generally, an inflationary percentage has been added to subsequent years for that portion of funding
allocated to multi-year funding. The Arts and Culture Fund total below includes ‘multi-year funding –
Cultural', as provided in the table in the previous response.
2022/23
2023/24
2024/25
2025/26
Arts and Culture
$1,259,803
$1,280,671
$2,924,202
$2,924,202
Fund
Royal NZ Ballet
$160,777
$160,889
Nil
Nil
Orchestra Wel ington $297,821
$304,373
Nil
Nil
Natural Environment
$82,216
$82,233
$83,417
$83,417
Fund
Social and Recreation $4,124,930
$4,187,331
$5,331,607
$4,968,607
Fund
Please note:
• The Royal NZ Bal et and Orchestra Wellington budgets were listed as separate lines within
The Long-Term Plan budget up to 2023/24 and are now included within the Arts and Culture
Fund budget line.
• In 2025/26 the Social and Recreation Fund has been replaced with Tahua Waihua Hapori -
the Community Outcomes Fund.
• The 2024/25 Social and Recreation Fund total included an additional $383,000 budgeted to
support development costs of Whakamaru (City Mission) and the addition of $500,000
annually for Safety initiatives.
Building Resilience Fund
This fund was $500,000 per year.
C H Izard Bequest
This is an external bequest Council administers applications for. Recommendations are approved
through the Council’s Grants Subcommittee. Between 2021 and 2025, the value of this bequest has
ranged from $16,000 to $20,000, as the level of funding made available varies based on the income
the trustees make available annually.
Climate and Sustainability Fund
This fund was $250,000 per year.
Heritage Resilience and Regeneration Fund/Built Heritage Incentive Fund
Up until 2024/25, this fund was $500,000 per year and prior to May 2023, it was called the
Built
Heritage Incentive Fund. For 2025/26 and 2026/27, this fund is $350,000 per year, following a
Committee decision in May 2025 to assign $150,000 annual y from this fund to support the Living
Wage for Arts fund for two years (2025/26 and 2026/27).
Living Wage for Events Fund
This fund was $300,000 per year for four years and for the next two years, (2025/26 and 2026/27), is
$150,000, as funding was reassigned from the Heritage Resilience and Regeneration Fund. The fund
operates as part of the Arts and Culture Project Fund and as the Living Wage for Arts Fund.
Waste Minimisation Organics Diversion
This fund operated for three years (between 2021/22 to 2023/24) at $100,000 per year.
Waste Minimisation Seed Fund
From 2025/26 the total amount available through this fund is $250,000, with a maximum of $50,000
allocated to small grants (under $2,000).
I trust this information is helpful. If you have any concerns about the response, please contact
[Wellington City Council request email].
Nāku noa, nā
Ol ie Marchant
Senior Advisor
Of icial Information & Privacy
Wellington City Council
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