The Community Road Safety Fund (CRSF) is now closed to applications for the 2025 funding round.
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The CRSF supports community-led and community-delivered road safety initiatives. Funding for the CRSF comes from the sale of personalised plates.
The CRSF’s vision is to improve road safety outcomes for communities in Aotearoa New Zealand. Everyone has a role to play in road safety – and the fund is focused on ensuring that communities are supported in improving road safety outcomes.
The CRSF’s purpose is to enable communities to deliver road safety initiatives that are important to them, and that create safer communities. We recognise that community organisations are uniquely placed to identify issues relevant to them – and to use their connections to make a positive impact. We know that community initiatives can be tailored to local needs in a way that nationally delivered programmes can’t.
Applications for 2025 are now closed.
The Community Road Safety Fund opened to applications at 9am on 14 October 2025 and closed at 5pm on 2 December 2025.
We’re now assessing applications and will notify applicants of our decision in March 2026. Funding starts on 1 July 2026.
The CRSF will re-open to applications next year. To be eligible to apply for CRSF funding your organisation must be:
The CRSF is focused on community designed and delivered initiatives that contribute to New Zealand’s road safety strategic goals.
The CRSF supports initiatives that:
The CRSF awards one-off grants for up to a maximum of 3 years in duration. Funding is awarded through an assessment process based on the strength of a proposed initiative against set criteria.
The minimum grant is $10,000 excluding GST and the maximum grant is $2,000,000 excluding GST (although grants of $2,000,000 will be highly uncommon). The maximum grant available is $700,000 in a 12-month period. It is expected the Fund will be open for applications once a year. We expect the final pool of successful grants to be a mix of initiatives and grant amounts, from different community types.
Applications are assessed based on:
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