Trillian Trust Grants

A major gaming trust with a particular focus on youth-based community organisations and rescue services, alongside education, culture and welfare.

Closes

Monthly cut-off: applications due by midnight on the 10th of each month

Who can apply

Not-for-profit organisations that further educational services, amateur sport, the advancement of culture, or welfare and poverty relief. The Grants Committee gives particular focus to youth-based community organisations and rescue services. Incorporated not-for-profits (incorporated societies, charitable trusts, or bodies incorporated under an Act of Parliament) can apply. Marae generally supply the Gazette Notice or Vesting Order plus Charities Services registration. Gaming trust funds are ring-fenced to the area where the money was raised — check the trust operates a venue near you before applying.

Amount

Varies by project — funds are returned first to the area they were raised in, with some funding also going to organisations operating nationally

Funding route

Grant

Applicants

Marae & hapū, Community groups, Iwi & Māori organisations, Organisations & providers

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Checked 17 September 2026

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