2025 Tī Maru Māori Trust Secondary Boarding Scholarship

Available to Year 9 Māori students with demonstrated financial need, academic ability and aptitude, who are enrolled at a secondary boarding school.

The Tī Maru Trust was set up in 1967 through a deed made between Olive Burns of Timaru and the Perpetual Trustees Estate and Agency Company of New Zealand. Burns showed a deep desire to establish a charitable trust with the purposes to advance the education of Māori in New Zealand. The Tī Maru Māori Trust Scholarships are divided between three scholarships categories: Secondary, Undergraduate and Postgraduate.

The aim of the Tī Maru Māori Trust Secondary Boarding Scholarship is to support Māori tauira who are enrolled in their first year of a secondary boarding school.

 

If you would like to learn more about The Perpetual Guardian, click here.

EligibilityApplicants must:

  1. be of New Zealand Māori descent;
  2. be enrolled at a NZQA recognised secondary boarding school;
  3. be a year 9 student;
  4. submit the application and supporting documentation on time

Supporting Information You need to provide:

  1. Whakapapa verification. This can be a letter from your iwi confirming your registration.
  2. 2025 Enrolment confirmation. This can be a letter from your school, or a 2025 class timetable.
  3. Bank verification of your bank account number. This can be a bank statement or a screenshot of your banking app.
  4. End of year report. This must be your Year 8 end of year report for term 4.

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