NGĀTI TAMA GRANTS

The Ngāti Tama ki Te Waipounamu Trust Board (the Board) has recently undertaken a review of our current grants schedule. The framework behind our grants schedule is to create opportunities that:

· Assist our whānau with their education journeys.

· Uplift the wairua of our whānau by assisting with hauora costs.

Tautoko the iwi by contributing to costs associated with raising our whānau, household costs and removing barriers to connect with subsidising travel for Ngāti Tama events.

As part of this review the Board has created two new scholarships dedicated to John Ward-Holmes and John Mitchell for our tertiary learners. Further detail about these scholarships will be released in November 2022 when we open applications for these scholarships. As this will be the inaugural awarding of these scholarships, it is our intention to invite the recipients to receive the scholarships at the 2023 Hui-ā-tau.

We will also be doing the back to school packs this coming year as well as looking at options for a pēpi pack for our newest whānau members!

Korowai O Para Para Scholarship

17/08/1946 – 17/04/2022

It symbolises the mighty maunga, Parapara, providing protection for John as he worked tirelessly to restore mātauranga to ensure tohora practices continue, the paepae at Onetahua Marae is maintained along with the mana of Te Waikoropupū Springs is upheld.

Written by: Nikita Takai

Our Education Grants Will Be Coming Back In January 2023

Education grants are provided for any whānau member enrolled from pre-school age up to those studying at tertiary level or undertaking a cadetship or apprenticeship.

The Board continues to support whānau in hākinakina with the sports grant which can be to cover costs for sports membership, club fees, uniforms, travel to tournaments etc. The Board also supports those undertaking cultural activities which can include kapahaka, manu kōrero, art exhibitions, performances, toi māori and the like.

As part of providing education, sports and cultural grants to our whānau we will also be asking recipients to provide pictures and videos that we can share with the rest of the iwi. We love to celebrate your achievements e te whānau!

We also continue to tautoko the iwi in myriad other ways including the Matariki (winter energy) grant, firewood in Te Tauihu, travel subsidy to attend Ngāti Tama events, pāhake koha at Christmas, tangi grants and manaaki grants.

John Mitchell Scholarship

John Mitchell

26/05/1941 – 23/09/2021

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.

Eligibility

1. Maximum of one scholarship will be granted per financial year. 2. Applicant must be a registered member of NTWT or if under 18 the applicant’s parent(s) must be a registered member of NTWT. 3. If under 18 and the link into NTWT is through a non-registered deceased parent, the NTWT Trustees can pass a resolution to approve the application. 4. If applicants (or parent) are non-registered at the time of applying for a grant and are eligible to be a registered member, they can apply for registration at the same time. The grant will be held until registration is ratified by NTWT. 5. Applications must be received on or by the due date. 6. The applicant must provide proof of enrolment in full time study with an accredited tertiary institution within Aotearoa or abroad studying towards an undergraduate or post-graduate qualification majoring in an environmental field. 7. A culturally significant area in Te Tauihu should be included in the applicant(s) studies and written evidence provided to Ngāti Tama. 8. Application forms must be completed in full and all requested information supplied. Incomplete forms will not progress until all information has been provided or may be rejected. 9. The successful applicant(s) may have the opportunity to undertake work or an internship (paid) for the iwi (though this is not guaranteed). 10. The successful applicant(s) will be required to attend and present at the Ngāti Tama’s Hui-ā-tau in year one of receiving the scholarship (travel subsidy will be available). 11. The successful applicant(s) must make a commitment to engage with the iwi by participating in at least one iwi wānanga during their studies. 12. The successful recipient is not eligible for a tertiary grant during the term of this scholarship. 13. A successful applicant can reapply for the scholarship each of the subsequent years and may receive the scholarship up to a maximum of 3 years’ worth of study.

He Ringatoi O Ng T Puna

Isaac Coates was an Englishman who lived in Wellington and Nelson between 1841 and 1845. During that time he painted watercolour portraits of 58 Māori from Nelson, Marlborough, Wellington, Waikanae and Kāpiti. Some of these portraits have been well-known for nearly 180 years, although their creator was not definitively identified until 2000. The discovery in 2007 of a Coates book of portraits in the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford University added many previously unknown images to his body of work.

The portraits depict Māori men and women from chiefly whakapapa, as well as commoners and at least one slave. Coates’s meticulous records of each subject’s name, iwi and place of residence are invaluable, and his paintings are strong images of individuals, unlike the more stereotyped work of some of Coates’s contemporaries. Whānau, hapū and iwi treasure Coates’s works because they are the only images of some tūpuna, and they are reminders of those who risked their lives to bring their people to a better life in the Cook Strait regions of Kāpiti coast, Wellington, Nelson and Marlborough.

In ‘He Ringatoi O Ngā Tūpuna eminent Te Tauihu’ historians John and Hilary Mitchell unravel the previously unknown story of Isaac Coates, as well as providing biographical details and whakapapa of his subjects, where they can be reliably identified. As well, they discuss Coates’s work, and the many copies of his portraits held in collections in New Zealand, Australia, the US and UK.