Sport NZ Rural Travel Fund — Queenstown Lakes

Travel subsidy for junior rural sport in the Queenstown Lakes District, for participants aged 5-19 travelling to local competition.

Closes

The page as read gives a closing date of Thursday 31 October 2025 (midnight), already well past by the time this was read (7 September 2026) — the page appears not to have been updated for the current cycle. Confirm the live date before relying on it.

Who can apply

Open to “school club teams” — “participating in regular local sport competition out of school time, which excludes inter-school and intra-school competitions played during school time” — and “sports club teams” — “participating in organised, regular sport competition through club membership outside of school time” — for participants aged 5 to 19. “Not available for travelling to regional or national events.”

Amount

Not published on the page — see the Rural Travel Fund Guidelines (PDF).

Funding route

Grant

Applicants

Community groups

Before you apply

Read from the page text the owner supplied directly, since this page was rate-limited by Radware bot-mitigation for automated fetches this session, not a real page-level gate. Application form (SmartyGrants) and guidelines both still reference the 2025 round. Contact Jan Maxwell, Arts and Events Facilitator, 03 441 0469 / jan.maxwell@qldc.govt.nz.

Official source →

Checked 17 September 2026

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