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Norman Kirk Memorial Trust

Making an application

The NKMT does not consider direct applications from people or organisations.  It has partnership arrangements with the following organisations in New Zealand and the South Pacific.   If you are interested in NKMT scholarships or grants, please contact one of the following organisations:

New Zealand

Pacific Islands

Contact details for partner organisations:

New Zealand

Manukau Institute of Technology
Phone: (64) 9 968 8716 extn: 8385
Fax: (64) 9 968 8721
Email: kirk.sargent@manukau.ac.nz

  

Māori Education Trust (MET)
PO Box 11-255, Manners Street, Wellington 6142
Phone: (64) 4 499 8041, 027 449 1394 (mob)          
Fax: (64) 4 499 8006
Email: EvelynNewman@maorieducation.org.nz
Website: www.maorieducation.org.nz

  

Pacific Island Polynesian Education Foundation (PIPEF)
Ms Shashi Meanger (Chair, PIPEF)
Phone:(64) 4 384 9840, 021 846 859 (mob)
Email: smeanger@paradise.net.nz

 

Victoria University of Wellington
Diana Meads, Fundraising Manager
Victoria University of Wellington Foundation, PO Box 600, Wellington 6140
Phone: (64) 4 463 6030
Fax: (64) 4 463 5210
Email: diana.meads@vuw.ac.nz
Website: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/foundation/

 

Waimate High School 
Paul Street, Waimate 7924
Phone: (64) 3 689 8920
Fax : (64) 3 689 8925 
Email: jbailey@waimate-high.school.nz

 

Pacific Paramedical Training Centre
PO Box 7013, Wellington 6242
Phone: (64) 4 389 6294
Fax: (64) 4 389 6295
Email: pptc@pptc.org.nz
Website: www.pptc.org.nz

 

Volunteer Service Abroad
Dr Peter Swain Programme Manager, Pacific
Volunteer Service Abroad, PO Box 12-246, Wellington 6144
Phone: (64) 4 495 8536
Fax: (64) 4 472 5052
Email: pswain@vsa.org.nz
 

Pacific Islands

Missionary Sisters of the Society of Mary 
Sister Prisca Treacher
PO Box 97, Suva, Fiji
Phone: 00 679 3311 470
Fax: 00 679 3300 530
Email  : smsmfiji@gmail.com

 

St Mary’s Primary School, Savalalo, Samoa & St Mary’s College Vaimoso, Samoa
Sister Emanuela Betham
St Patrick’s Golden Girls, SMSM Samoa Sector PO Box 316, Apia, Samoa
Phone: 00 685 20218
Email: plt@lesamoa.net

 

University of the South Pacific – Vanuatu Campus
Naomi Bolenga, Acting Coordinator, SASS Office
USP Emalus Campus, PMB 9072, Port Vila, Vanuatu
Telephone: 00 678 23988
Fax: 00 678 22633
Email: bolenga_n@vanuatu.usp.ac.fj

 

University of the South Pacific – Solomon Island Campus
Director, USP, P.O.Box 460, Honiara, Solomon Islands
Phone : 00 677 21307
Fax  : 00 677 24024
Email  : christian_c@usp.ac.fj
  

Promoting NKMT support

Grant recipients must acknowledge the financial support given by NKMT 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 the Department of Internal Affairs 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 the Norman Kirk Memorial Trust you can contact 0800 824 824 (between 8am and 5pm Monday to Thursday, 9am and 5pm Friday) or email trusts@dia.govt.nz

Annual reports

*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.