Winter Energy Grant

Winter Energy Grants are OPEN NOW whānau! If you want a $200 contribution towards your power bill you can apply for a Winter Energy Grant. Payments will be made straight to your power provider and only one application per household per year.

Please apply through the whānau app.

Manaaki Grant

If you want support with health-related costs you can apply for a Manaaki Grant once every year. The type of costs you can apply for can vary but include glasses, medical bills, dental bills, hearing aids etc. Applications are approved on a case-by-case basis by our Grants Komiti.

Tama Tū Grant

This grant is to tautoko whānau in exceptional circumstances where government or other support is not available or suitable to meet whānau needs. The Tama Tū grant is available once every year. The type of costs you can apply for can vary and approval of application is at the discretion of our Grants Komiti.

Sports Grant

Are you involved in a sports team, have membership/uniform fees or an upcoming sports tournament? You might be able to apply for support via our sports grant – check out the application to see if you’re eligible and submit your application form!

Cultural Grant

Are you planning on or currently involved in a cultural activity? This could be something in the areas of kapahaka, te reo, mātauranga or toi māori. Or perhaps you’ve got an upcoming art exhibition or performing in show. Check out our cultural grant application to see if you’re eligible and apply now!

Tertiary Grant

For tertiary learners we have the following education grants available:

• Tertiary grants are available and this year we have different levels of support of up to the below amounts depending on how far you are through studies:
  • $1,000 grant for first year
  • $1,200 for second year and;
  • $1,500 for third (or more) year.
• Apprenticeship/cadetship grants are available of up to $1,000 per grant.

*Education grants can only be provided once per financial year. Please see each application form for full details.

Open for 2024.

Matariki Grant

Matariki grant is to assist our whānau during the colder winter months.

Closed for 2023.

Te Korowai aroha o Parapara Scholarship

If you are doing tertiary studies in an environmental field you may wish to apply for this education scholarship of $2,500 awarded once per annum. This scholarship is to honour the memory of John Ward-Holmes. The cloak symbolises John’s sphere of influence amongst the iwi and the wider community as he worked tirelessly to restore mātauranga to ensure tohora practices continue, the paepae at Onetahua Marae is maintained and the mana of Te Waikoropupū Springs is upheld. Please see application form for full terms and conditions.

Open for 2023/2024

John Mitchell Scholarship

If you are doing tertiary studies in science or history you may wish to apply for this education scholarship of $2,500 awarded once per annum. This scholarship is to honour the memory of Māui John Mitchell. John’s passion and talent for research resulted in the collated information of Ngāti Tama ki Te Tauihu tūpuna. John was the inaugural Chair of the Ngāti Tama Trust, and with his wife, Hilary, coordinated the Ngāti Tama Waitangi Tribunal hearing at Wakapuaka and Pōhara. John’s research has been preserved in the beautiful series of pukapuka – Te Tau Ihu o Te Waka: A History of Māori of Nelson and Marlborough and He ringatoi o ngā tūpuna. Please see application form for full terms and conditions.

Open for 2023/2024.