New Zealand Winston Churchill Memorial Trust

Making an application

You will need to complete an application form and arrange for two referees' report forms. One reference must be from your employer, sponsoring organisation or professional body where appropriate.

Download the application and referees' report forms below to your computer; fill in the forms electronically and save the edited versions to your PC.

New Zealand Winston Churchill Memorial Trust application form (.doc) 276k
New Zealand Winston Churchill Memorial Trust referees' report form (.doc) 163k

Forward the referee report form to your referees, who will be expected to reply directly to the Trust board (see addresses below).

To fill in your responses on the .doc templates

move from one field to the next using your Tab key, then type in your response
for the tick boxes where you are required to select a Yes or No answer, tab through to the box you wish to tick and click with your mouse
to move back to a field, type Shift + Tab

The first page of the application form asks applicants to choose a subject category for their project. These categories are

agriculture
arts
community / social welfare
education
environment / conservation
health
law and order
libraries / museums / history
media / publishing
public administration
sport and recreation
technology and science
trade / industry / commerce

These categories are for administrative purposes only and are not intended in any way to limit the range of applications considered by the Trust Board. Therefore, if none of the above categories apply to your project, list 'Other' on the application form.

Once completed, print out the forms and sign them. Post the completed forms and all required information to the address below.

Postal address:

Winston Churchill Memorial Trust
The Department of Internal Affairs
PO Box 805
WELLINGTON 6140

Courier address:

Winston Churchill Memorial Trust
The Department of Internal Affairs
Level 7
22 The Terrace
Wellington 6011

Or email to trusts@dia.govt.nz (only if you are able to insert an electronic signature)

When to apply

Completed applications must be received at the Trust board's office, no later than 31 July each year.

Late applications will not be accepted.

The closing date for referees' reports is also 31 July. Late referees' reports may result in exclusion of the application from consideration. It is the responsibility of the applicant to ensure that referees provide their reports by the due date.

Accountability requirements

Fellowship grants are subject to any conditions the WCMT may consider necessary including the following

travel must be carried out in the year immediately after the year of application
recipients must return to their position in New Zealand when they have completed their projects
recipients must submit a full report on their project within six months of their return to New Zealand. These reports are published on this website
if all obligations are not fulfilled, the Trust may consider approaching referees to help ensure compliance and / or may consider full recovery of any funding
the decisions of the Trust board are final

Promoting WCMT support

Grant recipients must acknowledge the financial support given by WCMT in all relevant publicity material, publications, annual reports and similar documents.

Information disclosure

Applicants should be aware that application information may be released, if required, under the Official Information Act 1982. After 10 years, all applications will be transferred to Archives New Zealand, where they will be available to members of the public.

All recipients of grants are published on this website.

In submitting a grant application, an individual or an organisation (the applicant) acknowledge and agree that the Department of Internal Affairs may disclose to, or obtain from, any other government department or agency, private person or organisation, any information about the applicant for the purposes of gaining or providing information related to the funding of the applicant.

Grant applicants and recipients may access their information details and amend at any time. To view any personal information held by the Department of Internal Affairs, or raise a concern about personal information that it holds, please write to:

The Privacy Officer
Department of Internal Affairs
PO Box 805
Wellington 6140

Further Information

For further information about Winston Churchill Memorial Trust funding you can contact us on 0800 824 824 (between 8am and 5pm Monday to Thursday, 9am and 5pm Friday), or email trusts@dia.govt.nz

Annual reports

The Trust’s annual reports are available for download here. Copies of earlier annual reports are available on request.

Annual Report for the year ended 31 March 2011 (.pdf) 4.8mb*
Annual Report for the year ended 31 March 2010 (.pdf) 732k*
Annual Report for the year ended 31 March 2009 (.pdf) 680.6k*
Annual Report for the year ended 31 March 2008 (.pdf) 185.3k*

*These documents are in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format. You need to have the Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. You can download a free version from the Adobe website.

Previous recipients

Recipients of the 2011 Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowships (.pdf) 75.3k*
Recipients of the 2010 Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowships (.pdf) 71.8k*
Recipients of the 2009 Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowships (.pdf) 106.7k*
Recipients of the 2008 Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowships (.pdf) 80.2k*
Recipients of the 2007 Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowships (.pdf) 112.9k*
Recipients of the 2006 Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowships (.pdf) 33.3k*