Rose Hellaby Scholarship 2013

Rose Hellaby pictured as a young woman

 Kia ora,

I hope all is well. A prestigious scholarship offering valuable financial support to Māori postgraduate, undergraduate and secondary students is calling for applications for its 2013 round of funding.

The Rose Hellaby Māori Education Fund, for which Guardian Trust is sole trustee, administrator and investment manager, distributed $130,000 earlier this year to 120 Māori student recipients, through the Māori Education Trust.

Benefactor Rose Hellaby, a descendant of the Auckland-based meat dynasty, was most interested in furthering Māori education in the fields of science, mathematics, medicine and technology. Together, Guardian Trust and the Māori Education Trust created the Rose Hellaby Postgraduate Māori Scholarships in 2010 to specifically support outstanding Māori students undertaking Masters, PhD or other postgraduate study in these fields.  

The major recipients of the 2012 distribution were Miriama Ketu-McKenzie, Lewis Neihana-Tait Jones and Jessica Templeton. Miriama, the only Māori student in her intake was awarded the largest scholarship of $30,000 and is using it to support a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Massey University in Albany. Lewis and Jessica each received $15,000 towards their studies – Jessica is completing a Master of Engineering Management at the University of Canterbury and Lewis is working towards a Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Psychology and completing a Masters in Psychology at the University of Waikato.

Applications for the 2013 scholarships are now open. Secondary applications close on 28 February 2013 and tertiary applications on 29 March 2013. Students can complete the application form online at http://www.maorieducation.org.nz

Rose Hellaby pictured as an older woman

Please find attached a media release and for more information on the fund, we can arrange an interview with Phillip Morgan Rees, Guardian Trust’s general manager of personal client services.

Guardian Trust Media Release