Te Pūtea Whakatupu Trust was established to promote Māori education, training and research. It achieves this by holding and managing the Trust Fund made available for these purposes.
Te Pūtea Whakatupu Trust exists to support and accelerate Māori social and economic development by providing strategic leadership in education, skills, and workforce development.
The Trust thanks those who have made application to our scholarships fro 2017, these are now closed.
TPWT have 3 scholarship categories. The first is the Tāwera scholarship that is aimed at Māori undergraduate students enrolled fulltime a commerce, business, or management degree. Preference will be given to those students who: are in their last year or second to last year of study towards their bachelor degree; have proven academic merit; demonstrate a commitment to tikanga Māori and te reo Māori; demonstrate a commitment to Māori, iwi, and hapū economic development; are interested in building personal skills and expertise to support Māori economic and social development.
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