Funding and awards

Healthy waterways

Helping landowners improve waterways and wetlands for landowners. Excluding stock from waterways can improve water quality and habitat for aquatic plants and animals. If you are a landowner, two new support programmes can help you to protect our environment. These programmes can also help you to comply with the rules set out in the Proposed Natural Resources plan (pNRP). More ... 

Community Restoration Fund

We’re looking for passionate conservation groups to apply for Te Awarua-o-Porirua Harbour’s Catchment Restoration Fund. More...

Encore Awards

Greater Wellington Regional Council, the Department of Conservation's Wellington Hawke's Bay Conservancy and the Wellington Hawke's Bay Conservation Board developed the Encore Awards to honour individuals, groups, school communities and landowners whose sustained commitment to environmental restoration, biodiversity and conservation is making the Wellington region a better place to live. More...

Ballance Farm Environment Awards

Greater Wellington supports the Ballance Farm Environment Awards in the Wellington region. The annual awards give farmers and lifestylers in the Wellington region the opportunity to find out how well they are sustaining their land. More...

Warm Greater Wellington

Greater Wellington provides each ratepayer a maximum of $3,900 in financial assistance for home insulation. It can be repaid through a targeted rate on your regular rates bill over nine years. More...