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THE PROPERTY HANDBOOK
SECTION 09
Lottery Grants Board applications
Conditions to be met before making an application for a Lottery Board grant
The Presbyterian Church has long-standing objections to gambling, particularly to large
scale gambling as promoted by the Lotteries Commission. The General Assembly has
endorsed the following criteria for parish applications for Lottery grants.
• Benefits of the grant must be wider than the congregation e.g. for community projects.
• Grants can’t be used for regular parish running.
• Applications for grants for property development, including building alterations, will
only be considered when most of the use of the property will be for groups or
organisations which are not part of the congregation.
• The congregation will be able to sustain the project financially during its life.
• The congregation has sufficient realisable assets, either financial or in property,
to cover the restitution of any grant which the Church Property Trustees may be
required to make in terms of the agreement with the Lottery Grants Board.
• The congregation has specifically agreed that should restitution be required, it will
be funded from these specific assets.
• Presbytery has undertaken to ensure that the conditions of the grant are met, and
has processes in place to fulfil this.
Congregations must apply to the Church Property Trustees for approval to apply to
the Lottery Grants Board. These approvals are required:
• Board of managers / deacons’ court or parish council finance committee.
• Congregation, including an undertaking to repay the grant if the conditions attached
to it are not met.
• Presbytery/UDC, which must undertake to monitor the project to ensure any
conditions attached to the grant are met.
• Church Property Trustees (Synod of Otago & Southland, for parishes south of the
Waitaki River).
The church approvals application form is available from the Church Property Trustees
Office. Email trustees@presbyterian.org.nz for an electronic copy.