Community halls and recreation facilities can now receive multiple grants of up to $30,000 from Northern Development Initiative Trust (NDIT), and they can cover up to 70 per cent of project costs.
In the past, proponents at each of these facilities could only access the grant from NDIT’s Community Halls and Recreation Facilities program once.
The NDIT has now made it available on a continual basis to halls and facilities that have previously accessed grants from trust.
NDIT states this is being done to commemorate its 10th anniversary in 2015, after its board of directors voted unanimously to alter the program.
The board also increased the maximum funding percentage for each project to 70 per cent (from 50), in recognition of increasing difficulties for communities to secure matching funding to support community hall and recreation facility projects.
