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Grants available for OSCAR providers

Applications for OSCAR grant funding are closed.

Important information

At Alert Level One all OSCAR centres can re-open.

  • Who can get it

    You may be able to get a grant to help cover some of your operating costs if:

    Your programme also needs to meet the operating hours and attendance requirements.

    Minimum weekly number of hours Minimum daily average attendees
    Before-school 5 5
    After-school 10 10
    Holiday programmes* 30 10

    *Holiday programmes must be run for at least 4 weeks a year, with at least 1 of those weeks in each school holiday period.

    Attendance

    The average attendance is worked out by taking the total number of children who actually attended each day and dividing this by the number of days the programme operated for the period.

    What counts as attendance

    Attendance includes:

    • children actually at the programme
    • public holidays where the child would have otherwise attended on that day
    • children temporarily away for any reason, but due back within 3 weeks
    • children temporarily away because of ill health for up to 6 weeks, who have either provided a medical certificate, or receive Child Disability Allowance or Group Special Education funding

  • What you can get

    How much you get depends on the number of children you have attending your programme.

    OSCAR base grant annual rates

    You may be eligible for a top up grant if your programmes operate in a low socio-economic or isolated area, have fluctuating attendance due to seasonal work or needing to relocate as a result of a civil defence emergency.

    OSCAR top up grants and base grant funding have increased from 1 January 2020. We’ve made these changes to help smaller programmes and providers in communities with higher levels of need.

    We’ve increased:

    • low socio-economic, seasonal or isolated top-up rates. This will increase from $3,000.00 to $3,500.00 per year from 1/1/2020, and to $4,000.00 per year from 1/7/2020.
    • base grant funding for Before School programmes with 5-9 children. This will increase from $1,825.00 to $2,737.50 per year from 1/1/2020, and to $3,650.00 per year from 1/7/2020.
    • base grant funding for After School programmes with 10-14 children. This will increase from $3,650.00 to $4,562.50 per year from 1/1/2020, and to $5,475.00 per year from 1/7/2020.
    • funding for Holiday programmes operating 8 weeks or more per year with 10-14 children. This will increase from $3,650.00 to $4,562.50 per year from 1/1/2020, and to $5,475.00 per year from 1/7/2020.
    • funding for Holiday programmes operating less than 8 weeks per year with 10-14 children. This will increase from $1,825.00 to $2,281.25 per year from 1/1/2020, and to $2,737.50 per year from 1/7/2020.

  • How to apply

    Applications for this grant closed on 26 November 2019.

    We'll update this page with details of when and how to apply when applications are open.

linksRelated links

Family services directory
OSCAR base grant annual rates

linksContact us

OSCAR_contracts@msd.govt.nz