Applications for the next round of funding for the Ngāi Tahu Fund will close on Friday 29 September 2017. For fairness to others, we will not be accepting any late or incomplete applications.

The Ngāi Tahu Fund was established to vitalise, strengthen and grow Ngāi Tahutanga.

Areas we support:

The Fund focuses on supporting cultural projects around:

• Whakapapa – kinship
• Tikanga – protocols and customs
• Te reo – language
• Mahi toi – creative expression
• Whenua – landscape, place and locality
• Mahinga kai – customary food gathering, species protection and restoration
• Ngā uara – values and beliefs
• Ā kāinga, ā hapū, ā iwi – community engagement and participation; and
• Mana tangata – self-determination and self-confidence.

How much we fund:

• He kaupapa iti – small projects for individuals (up to $5,000)
• He kaupapa nui – medium projects for legal entities only (up to $30,000)
• He kaupapa nui rawa – (over $30,000) – a written expression of interest should accompany all large/transformational applications, please contact the Fund’s team in advance if you intend to submit a large project. *Only available for legal entities.

The full criteria for accessing the Fund is contained in the application form, which can be downloaded from our website: www.ngaitahufund.com

The Fund’s team are available to meet with you to work through the application process, or feel free to contact our Fund’s Advisor, Morgan Lee on 0800 KAI TAHU (0800 524 8248) or email: [email protected]

The Ngāi Tahu Funds team would like to wish you all a Happy New Year – we are now back at the tari of Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu and looking forward to helping whānau who apply to the Ngāi Tahu Fund.

The next round of funding for the Ngāi Tahu Fund is now open. Also, if you, your whānau or hapū would like to contribute (i.e hold cultural workshops etc.) at Hui-ā-Iwi later this year, then please apply during this round as the next scheduled funding round in September will be too late. Applications for this current round will close on Friday 31 March. For fairness to others, we will not be accepting any late or incomplete applications. [Read more…]

The Ngāi Tahu Fund was established to vitalise, strengthen and grow Ngāi Tahutanga.

The next round of the Ngāi Tahu Fund closes on Friday 23 September at 5pm. In fairness to others, funds staff will not accept any late or incomplete applications.

What we fund
The Ngāi Tahu Fund focuses on supporting cultural projects in the following key areas:

• Whakapapa – kinship
• Tikanga – protocols and customs
• Te reo – language
• Mahi toi – creative expression
• Whenua – landscape, place and locality
• Mahinga kai – customary food gathering, species protection and restoration
• Ngā uara – values and beliefs
• Ā kāinga, ā hapū, ā iwi – community engagement and participation
• Mana tangata – self-determination and self-confidence.

How much we fund

• He kaupapa iti – small projects for individuals (up to $5,000)
• He kaupapa nui – medium projects (up to $30,000)
• He kaupapa nui rawa – large projects by expression of interest only (over $30,000).

The full criteria for accessing the Ngāi Tahu Fund is contained in the application form, which can be downloaded from our website: www.ngaitahufund.com Project start dates must be timed for after the Ngāi Tahu Funds Committee meet in November.

Feel free to call Morgan Lee on 0800 KAI TAHU (0800 524 8248) if you’d like to kōrero about your project or email any questions to: [email protected]

The Ngāi Tahu Fund was established to vitalise, strengthen and grow Ngāi Tahutanga.

The Ngāi Tahu Fund is now open and applications close Friday 23 September at 5pm, so get your applications in to us today.

We have received some great ideas for cultural projects but the application forms have not been filled in correctly or important project information is missing; or applications are received after the closing date.

Would you like to avoid these problems with your project, or do you need advice or support to complete your application?

The Funds Advisors are available to talk to you or your rōpū about your project and what information is needed to complete your application.

The criteria for accessing the Ngāi Tahu Fund is contained in the application form, which can be downloaded from our website: www.ngaitahufund.com

Feel free to call our Funds Advisors, Morgan Lee or Helen Thoms on 0800 KAI TAHU (0800 524 8248) to kōrero further or email any questions to: [email protected]

Do you have a cultural project that you, your whānau or marae would like to run? Perhaps a tikanga hui, a karanga wānanga or a rangatahi workshop? Applications are now open for the next funding round of the Ngāi Tahu Fund.

Applications for this funding round close Friday 23 September 2016. Any applications received after this date will not be accepted.

The Ngāi Tahu Fund is available to Ngāi Tahu whānui, hapū, Papatipu Rūnanga and organisations and aims to help vitalise, strengthen and grow Ngāi Tahutanga.

All applications must demonstrate how projects meet the following objectives:

• To have strong sustainable Ngāi Tahu cultural leadership across all pillars
• Ensure intergenerational ownership, sustainability, and growth of cultural practices across all pillars
• To have the resources available to engage the strategy to be successful (human, fiscal, natural archival etc.)
• All generations of Ngāi Tahu engage, value, celebrate and protect the integrity and uniqueness of Ngāi Tahu culture; and
• Promote new forms of Ngāi Tahu cultural expression.

The following are key priority areas of the Ngāi Tahu Fund, as identified in the Ngāi Tahu Cultural Strategy and all projects must be aligned with at least one of these:

• Whakapapa – kinship
• Tikanga – protocols and customs
• Te reo – language
• Mahi toi – creative expression
• Whenua – landscape, place and locality
• Mahinga kai – food gathering practices
• Ngā uara – values and beliefs
• Ā kāinga, ā hapū, ā iwi – community engagement and participation
• Mana tangata – self-determination, self-confidence, self-purpose and self-transcendence.

Projects must show how they aim to increase cultural knowledge and participation of Ngāi Tahu whānui. They must also clearly identify what cultural knowledge is involved in the project and demonstrate how the proposed project contributes to building cultural knowledge and participation.

If you are a registered Ngāi Tahu member and are interested in applying, get in touch with us today.
Visit www.ngaitahufund.com, email your inquiries to [email protected] or call 0800 KAI TAHU (0800 524 8248).
Note: the Ngāi Tahu Funding Committee will meet in mid-November to make decisions on all applications. Projects should begin after application decisions are delivered.

The Ngāi Tahu Fund is available to Ngāi Tahu whānau, rūnanga and hapū to help vitalise, strengthen and grow Ngāi Tahutanga.

Do you have a cultural project that you, your whānau or marae wish to run? Get in touch with us to see how the Ngāi Tahu Fund may be able to help. Applications close Friday 25 September 2015. Any applications received after 25 September 2015 will not be accepted. [Read more…]