Overview
Scholarship type
Number of scholarships to award
Grant
Scholarship coverage
- tuition fee reduction
Description
The objects of the Trust include the training and education of young people in farming. All types of farming are envisaged, together with on and off the job training and the provision of scholarships and prizes for the benefit of youth attending educational institutions in New Zealand which undertake agricultural courses. The aim of the Trustees is to make several grants available.
Benefits
Each grant will have a value of between $1,000 and $3,000 (the exact amount to be determined in each case by the Trustees in their absolute discretion).
Eligibility
To be eligible for a scholarship/bursary or grant from the Trust applications must be for one or more of the following:
- training and education of people in farming or research and education, development and extension in the sciences of agriculture, horticulture, forestry, deer farming, cropping and all other forms of farming activity and of projects relating to the use of land and to productivity;
- training and education in the farming of East Coast hill country within New Zealand;
- undertaking agricultural courses at any Institution established for that purpose within New Zealand;
- prizes, awards, trophies, or memorials;
- facilities in the Weber district to improve the quality of life of people living in and around that farming district;
- the education and advancement of people indigent or needy and who are, in some way, connected with the East Coast of the North Island, whether in farming or in courses of instruction or careers not related to farming.
All applications are to be made directly to the Trustees in Dannevirke. The Trustees are the sole arbiters of eligibility.
Scholarship requirements
Disciplines
Locations
Nationality
Study experience required
Age
Application
Application deadline
Application dates: 27 August 2026 - 28 November 2026