The Tabernacle Trust Board has advised that there will be two categories of grants made in 2010:

1. Larger grants for projects of potentially high ministry impact. The Trust will select two or three beneficiaries for 2010. Please do not send applications for this category as they will only be returned to you by post.

2. Small projects grants. For 2010 the criteria has been tightened up to include capital items only and the following will not be funded: data projectors etc, Resource Consents, architect’s fees/drawings. The small grant fund will total approximately $180,000. Specific criteria will be available on the Trust website in late January 2010.

Applications for the small grants fund will open on 1 February and close on Friday 26 February 2010.

Note that applications will not be accepted from any church or organisation which has not completed and returned the ‘Form of Completion’ for any grant which they have received in previous years, or which have not complied with the conditions of any grants which were awarded in previous years.

The Trust expects a new website to be operational late January 2010 from which application forms will be able to be downloaded. The address is www.tabernacletrust.org.nz.