Links
We've included some of the many links that may help you with your application. If you have others you would like to recommend, please email info "at" mediagrants.org.nz
On our website
Homepage for recent news
Resource & Information Service
Links to other mental health websites of interest
Other New Zealand websites
Like Minds, Like Mine
The Mental Health Commission
International websites
Other funding opportunities
You may find that the media grants are not the right match for your project. Please find below other funding opportunities - for both creative ideas and journalism - that may be more suitable. If there are others you know about, that we can add to this page, please contact us.
Other creative funding opportunities
The Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Administers a range of awards and funds, and provides information about the main awards available in the cultural sector.
Creative New Zealand
Offers a range of contestable funding programmes and grants to one-off arts projects and support professional arts organisations on an annual or three-year basis.
NZ Culture
Provides information about funding music and performing and visual arts (among other fields).
The Big Idea
Offers employment opportunities and news relating to creative artists and breaks the creative fields down into different sections and delves into each of those with more specific information like industry links.
New Zealand Society of Authors
Information on more than 50 awards, residencies and fellowships. It also has other valuable information for writers.
Grants and fellowships for journalists
Journalism Training Organisation
Has a page that is dedicated to the awards and grants that are available to journalists.
NZ Culture
Provides information about funding in the area of broadcasting (among other fields).
The Asia NZ Foundation
Each year the Foundation offers journalists from throughout New Zealand the chance to travel to Asia to research and prepare stories through its Media Travel awards. The awards are intended to encourage interesting, considered, in-depth coverage of Asian issues that will give New Zealanders a context within which to develop greater understanding of the region, its economies, business environment, politics, cultures and peoples, and/or New Zealand's relations with countries in the region.
The Chevening Fellowship New Zealand
This fellowship is awarded to a journalist working in any area of media in New Zealand and was originally named after the New Zealand-born political cartoonist Sir David Low (1891-1963) who achieved fame working for London's Evening Standard newspaper. The fellowship is for one term and is administered through the British Council office at: 44 Hill Street, Thorndon, PO Box 1812, Wellington, New Zealand. Email: nicola.johnson "at" britishcouncil.org.nz
Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice
The Commonwealth Fund's Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice provide a unique opportunity for mid-career health services researchers and practitioners from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Germany to spend up to 12 months in the United States, conducting original research and working with leading U.S. health policy experts.
Douglas Myers Media Scholarship
This scholarship was established by the New Zealand Business Roundtable in 2002 in recognition of the media's role in engaging the public in intelligent debate on issues which are crucial to the achievement of the economic, social and cultural aspirations of New Zealanders. The aim of the Scholarship is to give successful applicants the opportunity to broaden their knowledge about issues and ideas that need to be widely understood and debated if New Zealand is to be a successful country.
The Maurice & Phyllis Paykel Trust
A charitable trust dedicated to the advancement of the health sciences in NZ, chiefly through support of innovative research in medical and paramedical fields. The Trust funds a limited number of studentships, scholarships, fellowships and similar awards for the research training of students and graduates working in the health science faculties of some NZ universities. These awards are allocated and administered by the host institution and are currently available within the University of Auckland, the University of Otago and the Auckland University of Technology.
The Robert Bell Travelling Scholarship in Journalism
Administered by the University of Canterbury. The fund for the scholarship is provided by the income from a bequest of £5,000 made by Robert Bell to the University of Canterbury in 1937 for the purpose of providing travelling scholarships for students who have taken the Diploma in Journalism at the University of Canterbury. One scholarship of $10,000 is offered annually to enable travel overseas to pursue enquiries and conduct research into news media and other like means of public communication.
Fulbright Scholarships
Are awarded to New Zealand graduates to continue study or research at a Master's or PhD level at a US tertiary institution. They are offered in one of five different fields of study.
New Zealand Winston Churchill Memorial Fellowship
Intended for travel, typically short term of between 3 weeks and three months duration, for intensive investigative research. The Trust helps all kinds of New Zealanders - including community workers, engineers, business people, actors, teachers, nuns, artists - to travel overseas and bring back with them new insights and understanding that will enrich their community and, ultimately, NZ as a whole. Applications close on 31 July each year.
The Bruce Jesson Critical Writing Fund
The Bruce Jesson Foundation, set up after the death of journalist-politician Bruce Jesson in 1999, has provided up to $3000 a year since 2004 for "critical, informed, analytical and creative journalism or writing which will contribute to public debate in New Zealand on an important issue or issues". A review has resulted in a slight change in the criteria to cover publishing, as well as producing, critical journalism. The award covers living costs and direct costs such as phone calls and travel to enable New Zealanders to investigate and report on issues in depth.
