Opportunities for funding assistance

Many landowners are working to protect and restore their land. Greater Wellington can help landowners with this important work.

Our Environmental Restoration Advisor’s (ERA’s) can provide advice around restoration, implementing good management practices, and actions outlined in your certified Farm Environment Plan (cFEP). In some cases, we can help subsidise the project costs.

Greater Wellington administers several funding programmes that aim to improve water quality and biodiversity. Our programmes support wetland and riparian restoration, erosion control as well as native and/or exotic forest establishment.  

We are open to exploring how we can help landowners with different types of projects that benefit their farm environment and wider catchment. This can be projects such as fencing off waterways and planting buffer zones, through to water reticulation and dung beetles.  

Funding opportunities

Funding assistance Greater Wellington offers can vary between project, environmental issue targeted or year, but it can be up to 50% of costs in some cases.

Riparian & Wetlands

Greater Wellington works with landowners to help protect, manage and rejuvenate waterways and wetlands in our region. You could be eligible for funding to support fencing, pest plant control, pest animal control and eco-sourced native plants. These sorts of actions can contribute to improved water quality in our whole region.

Sustainable Land Use Practices

A great way to protect and enhance biodiversity on your land is by employing sustainable land management practices. Greater Wellington can work with you on best-practice sustainability and allows access to a contestable fund. Advice from our team of advisers could mean big improvements on your land for future generations.

Protecting Erosion Prone Land

The Wellington Regional Erosion Control Initiative, or WRECI for short, is to protect erosion prone land in our region. It receives financial support from the Ministry for Primary Industries. Farm actions include erosion control activities to protect your land, and financial assistance is provided for poplar and willow planting, afforestation, reversion retirement and sediment control devices. Much deforestation in modern history has meant parts of our region are erosion prone, and this support is to help prevent that. This is about ensuring land doesn’t disappear under our feet.

How to apply for funding

All funding projects are contestable. An advisor will work with you to create a project plan; which is then reviewed within a set period by our project leads.  

If you have a project in mind, or want to the help from an advisor, please submit your details below.

Greater Wellington does not retrospectively pay for projects that have already begun or recently completed.