Chinese Poll Tax Heritage Trust
Previous recipients
May 2011
| Grant Recipient | Amount | Project Description |
| Manawatu Chinese Community Trust | $500 | To hold the annual Chinese Speech Competition which aims to maintain, encourage and promote the use of Chinese language in the Manawatu region. |
| Auckland Art Gallery | $8000 | To diversify the collection of Auckland Art Gallery through the acquisition of a work of sculpture by a senior NZ-Chinese artist, Guy Ngan. |
| Qiao Yi Lion Dance Team Christchurch | $2000 | To purchase Chinese lion dance costumes and to promote Chinese Lion Dancing as an art as well as a sport. |
| Wellington Chinese Sports and Cultural Centre Inc | $8000 | The project involves running dragon dance training workshops with the master trainers from Jalan Besar. |
| Zachary Young | $2000 | To participate in the NZ Under 18 Boys Basketball team and travel to Tasmania. |
| Rebecca Lau | $1000 | To attend the Australian figure skating championship. |
| New Zealand Chinese Association Inc. Auckland | $5000 | To run the 2011 Youth Leadedship Camp for 40 participants aged 14 to 17 years. |
| University of Otago | $5000 | To part fund the employment of a research assistant to assist with the Lawrence Chinese Camp Publication project. |
| New Zealand Chinese Association - Manawatu Branch | $8000 | Provide elderly Cantonese speaking Chinese with instruction in Cantonese in computer skills. |
November 2010
| Grant Recipient | Amount | Project Description |
| Asian Events Trust | $6000 | To promote the Cantonese language and provide an opportunity for native and non-native speakers to use the Cantonese language through song, dance and speech at an event celebrating the Chinese New Year in Wellington. |
| Auckland Chinese Community Centre Inc | $6000 | To organise a festival for the Chinese New Year featuring traditional celebrations, market, food stalls and a cultural concert. |
| Auckland Chinese Community Centre, Chinese School | $6000 | To teach reading and writing of Chinese characters in Cantonese. |
| Auckland City Libraries | $7500 | To increase awareness of the Chinese Digital Community Website within the Chinese community and to source and load new content into the site that is of importance to Chinese New Zealanders. |
| Bev Hong | $4000 | To research the inter-generational Chinese Poll Tax descendants' experiences and examine the role of the Wellington Chinese Sports and Cultural Centre across different demographic sub-groups. |
| Chinese Language and Culture Trust | $4000 | To promote Cantonese language and culture. |
| Chinese NZ Oral History Foundation Inc | $4000 | To record of the story of New Zealand’s Chinese community. |
| Chinese NZ Oral History Foundation Inc | $2858 | To complete an oral history project about on how the New Zealand Chinese community lived from late 1880s to 1970s. |
| Christine Chan Hyams | $1000 | To write and publish a biography of Ken Chan and his experiences with the Chinese revolution and the NZ Chinese Migrants). |
| Historic Cemeteries Conservation Trust of New Zealand | $15,000 | To conserve and restore Chinese grave sites in Dunedin’s Southern Cemetery. |
| Lawrence Chinese Camp Charitable Trust | $13,000 | To conserve and develop Chinese Gold Mining Camp at the gateway to the Otago gold fields. |
| New Zealand Chinese Association Auckland Inc (Cantonese Music School) | $6000 | To teach Cantonese heritage / language programme in Oranga, Auckland. |
| New Zealand Chinese Association (Otago-Southland Branch) | $18,000 | To organise the ‘2011 Easter Tournament’ in Dunedin promoting friendship, goodwill, mutual understanding and to enjoy healthy competition among Chinese people in New Zealand. |
| Yau Yih Yun Chinese Language Preschool | $5000 | To continue teaching Cantonese language, Chinese culture and heritage in Wellington. |
April 2010
| Grant Recipient | Amount | Project Description |
| Jessica Loh | $500 | To travel to Las Vegas representing New Zealand in a dancing competition. |
| Lakes District Museum Inc | $6000 | To upgrade the museum display cabinets containing artefacts of the Arrowtown Chinese settlement. |
| Manawatu Chinese Community Trust | $2000 | To develop a website about the Chinese New Zealand history. |
| New Zealand Guangzhou Chinese Association Inc | $2000 | To continue existing Cantonese teaching classes and to establish new classes in the Auckland area. |
| New Zealand Taishan Chinese Association Inc. | $2000 | To publish 1000 copies of the ‘Commemorative Magazine’ about Taishan District in China. |
| Nicola Lim | $500 | To travel to Las Vegas representing New Zealand in a dancing competition. |
| NZ Chinese Assn Auckland Inc | $15,000 | To organise the ‘2011 Leadership and Development Conference’ in Auckland |
| NZ Chinese Association | $30,000 | To research and document the history of the New Zealand Chinese Association and the history of the poll tax descendants. |
| Playhouse Group | $3000 | To produce a Chinese cookbook with over 100 recipes from grandmothers. |
| Rewi Alley Chinese School Trust | $500 | To teach traditional Chinese painting and language to more than 400 children. |
| Wellington Chinese Sports and Cultural Centre Inc | $3650 | To purchase two junior dragon instruments and teach dragon dance to children aged 9-13. |
November 2009
| Grant Recipient | Amount | Project Description |
| Asian Events Trust | $6000 | To support the Chinese New Year Festival in Wellington. |
| Auckland Chinese Community Centre | $6000 | To support classes to teach reading and writing of Chinese characters in Cantonese. |
| Auckland Chinese Community Centre | $6000 | To support the Chinese New Year Festival in Auckland. |
| Canterbury Business Association | $500 | To support a multicultural show featuring Chinese and other Asian communities in Christchurch. |
| Dominion Federation of New Zealand Chinese Commercial Growers Inc | $10,000 | To write and publish two volumes about the history of New Zealand Chinese growers. |
| Dunedin Chinese Language and Culture Trust | $3000 | To continue teaching Cantonese dance, language and culture. |
| Manawatu Chinese Community Trust | $2000 | To support the Chinese New Year concert in Manawatu. |
| Mu Yu Ming and Keith Lyons | $5000 | To paint the portraits of families descended from the poll tax payers in New Zealand. |
| New Zealand Chinese Association - Cantonese Music School | $6000 | To support an effective Cantonese heritage / language programme based on oral language with word recognition, writing skills and Chinese culture. |
| New Zealand Guangzhou Chinese Association | $2000 | To continue Chinese Cantonese classes and establish new classes. |
| Peter Kohing & others | $4000 | To research, record and document the history of the sites of Chinese businesses, shops and buildings in Wellington city, Petone and Lower Hutt. |
| Renee Liang | $6000 | To support ‘The Bone Feeder’, a 60 minute play based on a contemporary reworking of the historical sinking of the SS Ventnor. |
| Song Lam | $2000 | To translate ‘Being Maori-Chinese: Mixed Identities’ by Manying Ip, and publish the Chinese translation of the book. |
| The Asthma Auckland Society Inc | $1500 | To produce a DVD on asthma in Cantonese. |
| United Chinese Associations of New Zealand | $2000 | To support the 2010 New Year celebration concert in Auckland with overseas and local ethnic. Performers. |
| Wellington Chinese Association | $16,000 | To hold the 62nd New Zealand Chinese Association Annual Chinese Sports Tournament in Wellington over the Easter period in April 2010. |
| Wellington Chinese Association | $16,000 | To support the 4th annual New Zealand Chinese Association Leadership Development Conference in Wellington in January 2010. |
| Yuanyong Yang | $1000 | To launch "The Beauty of Chinese" easy listening radio programme, which includes Chinese literature, values and perspectives in Cantonese and Mandarin. |
April 2009
| Grant Recipient | Amount | Project Description |
| Beaumont Rural Women of New Zealand | $1000 | To provide a headstone for Ah Tie, a Chinese pioneer in Beaumont. |
| Cantonese Opera Society of New Zealand | $1000 | To assist with the costs to hold the Moon Festival. |
| Chinese Lifeline | $2000 | To redesign and upgrade the existing Chinese Lifeline website to provide an improved community resource for Cantonese speakers. |
| Chinese New Settlers Services Trust | $2000 | To run a new weekend adult Cantonese learning course in their six branches and to organise a New Zealand Chinese Cultural and Book Festival with the New Zealand Chinese Book Shop in November 2009. |
| Kerry Ann Lee | $5300 | To assist with fees and costs of her participation in the Summer Residency Programme at the School of Visual Arts in New York City in July 2009. |
| Leo Ying Hung Ho | $1000 | To provide lessons to teach Chinese idioms with Chinese traditional calligraphy, mainly for children in Auckland. |
| Nelson Provincial Museum - Tasman Bays Heritage Trust | $5000 | To research and publish a book on one of Nelson's earliest settlers – Appo Hocton, the first migrant of Chinese origin in Nelson, who arrived in 1842. |
| New Zealand Chinese Association - Gisborne Branch | $2000 | To document Gisborne Chinese history. |
| New Zealand Chinese Association - Manawatu Branch | $2500 | To stage a cultural fashion show during the mid-autumn festival season at a local school hall with costumes for 56 national minorities. |
| New Zealand Chinese Association Auckland Inc | $5000 | To assist with the costs to hold the Rising Dragon, Soaring Bananas International Conference in July 2009. |
| New Zealand Chinese Association Inc | $10,000 | To research and document the history of the Association, which will include the history of the Poll Tax descendants |
| Wellington Chinese Sports and Cultural Centre | $3000 | To pay for experienced lion dance trainers to coach members and local coaches, and to buy costumes and instruments. |
| Wellington Chinese Sports and Cultural Centre Dance Troupe | $2000 | To purchase new dance costumes. |
| West Coast Historical and Mechanical Society Inc | $5000 | To cover additional publication costs of a book about the history of the Chinese on the West Coast. |
| White Cloud Choir of Auckland Inc | $1000 | To continue existing classes and establish new classes to teach Cantonese in Auckland. |
