This fund provides grants for plans, reports and one-off projects that will protect, conserve and promote New Zealand’s natural, cultural and physical heritage.

• Natural heritage projects promote, protect and/or keep our native plants (flora) and animal life (fauna) safe from harm (including the on-going costs of pest and predator control)
• Physical heritage projects restore, protect and/or conserve places, structures and large built objects that are important to our history 
• Cultural heritage projects conserve, protect and/or promote collections and stories that are important to our cultural heritage and identity.