GRANTING TIMETABLE & APPLICATION FORM
Grant Applications are open July - August each year for funding of initiatives, interventions and projects to be undertaken the following year.
Applications that align with one or more of the strategic priorities, as below, are welcomed from across Aotearoa New Zealand.
Application Dates in 2025 for 2026 Funding
Monday 14 July 2025 - Applications Open
Monday 18 August 2025 - Applications Close
Late October 2025 - Applicants Notified of Granting Decisions
Late 2025 - Funds Distributed
To apply please complete the Application Form in Word and email to: exec@teraupuawaieducationtrust.co.nz
by 5pm on Monday 18 August 2025
STRATEGIC PRIORITIES
Te Rau Puāwai Education Trust’s three strategic priorities are:
1. Building learning capabilities from birth. There is compelling evidence of the importance of early years, the influence of parents, caregivers, family and whānau as first teachers, and that early emotional connectedness and language confidence are critical to engagement in learning.
2. School or community initiatives that disrupt the ongoing impacts of poverty on children and young people’s learning.
3. Addressing inequity, in particular to enhance learning outcomes for Māori, Pasifika, neurodiverse and children and young people who are underserved or require learning support.
Learning outcomes are defined as both the social and cognitive skills and capabilities that enhance life outcomes.
The definition of 'teacher' embraces a broad range of people who impact on a student’s learning outcomes, and includes members of the teaching profession, related professions, support staff, parents, family and whānau, hapū/iwi and the wider community.
Areas of Interest
Te Rau Puāwai Education Trust is interested in innovative initiatives, interventions and projects that:
Increase teacher effectiveness to respond to inequality, inequity and diverse learning needs
Integrate research, practice and evaluation
Support creative solutions that are specific to schools and communities
Support purposeful collaboration, for example:
Among teachers
Among parents/families/whanau
Among schools
Among organisations
Among hapū/iwi
Between schools and academic researchers
Between schools and stakeholders
Between schools and funders.
Please note:
We are not looking to replicate initiatives that are funded elsewhere (e.g. Breakfast in Schools) unless there is a specific and local reason for trying to do it differently.
We may consider providing seed-funding for new initiatives and/or partial funding of larger projects.
All monies granted need to be spent within one calendar year.
Stewart Germann Grant
The Stewart Germann Grant of $15,000 each year, was established in recognition of the long service of former Cognition Education Trust Chair, Stewart Germann.
The Stewart Germann Grant will be awarded to a suitable project from amongst the general applications.
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Private Bag 92617
Symonds Street
Auckland 1150
New Zealand
