Tangata Hawaiki

The VUWSA Trust Grants provide financial capability for events promoting cultural connection, advocacy work and activism. This is an opportunity for VUWSA – Te Aka Tauira x Ngāi Tauira to develop and invest in relationships with other rōpū. This will offer accessible and transformative funding.

Tangata Hawaiki Grant

This grant showcases the mahi, innovation and leadership our Tangata Whenua and Tangata Pasifika tauira demonstrate at Te Herenga Waka. This funding model is based on intertwining tangata, ahurea and mātauranga.

When filling an application in for this grant, make sure you outline how your event/movement/wānanga relates to one or more of the following outcomes:

Ahurea – Culture and Identity
Wānanga - Learning, connectivity, and participation
Te Pūtake - Strengthening capability and responsiveness.

Exciting opportunities...

Te Aka Tauira – VUWSA and Ngai Tauira are committed to not only delivering financial capability for students at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, but also providing meaningful financial advice and mentorship for students to achieve their goals, projecting their message, and fighting for the issues that matter most to them. We would like to extend the opportunity to applicants to receive mentorship opportunities through the Networks that Te Aka Tauira – VUWSA and Ngai Tauira can provide.

- Once applications are approved, and the offer accepted by the applicant, we will begin searching for a mentor or mentor group that best fits the applicant's purpose and vision.

Mentorship opportunities can provide support, advice, a relationship to build and flourish ideas, and the chance to widen the scope and network for your group, movement, event and issue. Taking these opportunities, we hope that applicants will feel supported and

If you have any questions, please get in touch with us via any of the emails below:

Treasurer@vuwsa.org.nz
Putea@nt.org.nz

These are some of the terms and conditions to note:

This grant is unavailable for:

Activities being funded by or should be funded by the University Clubs grants. (groups should apply for Uni Club funding in the first instance)
Overseas travel
Academic conferences that are associated with a student's study. (The University should provide academic study grants)

A detailed budget with associated evidence must be supplied during the grant application; your grant application will not proceed without this. We want to know what the funding will explicitly be spent on and what other costs are associated with your event.

Grant recipients must only spend the funds on what is outlined in their application. They must also provide the VUWSA with copies of receipts for VUWSA records. If the recipient doesn't use all the money or the event doesn't happen, they must return the unused funds to VUWSA.

The grants can only be used for activities in the year they are applied for; you can not apply for funding for events next year.

The Grants Panel makes recommendations, but the Executive must ratify and pay them before approval. The Executive can request more information from the Grants Panel or decline a recommendation if they have a valid reason. Once the Executive ratifies the recommendations, the Grants Committee's decisions are final.