Deadline: 31-Mar-23
The Community Trust South has launched sports scholarships to celebrate achievement, recognise talent and encourage future participation through positive role models.
Supporting emerging and elite athletes, administrators and officials to reach their potential inspires others to participate and to be physically active.
Sport Scholarship fund encourages:
- Individuals to have increased knowledge and skills leading to improved performance
- Community to have improved engagement and participation in physical activity leading to broader wellbeing benefits and social interaction
- The value of these scholarships varies depending on the location and level of competition/event and range from $500 within New Zealand to $3,000 for Olympic Games and Paralympics.
What they Fund
- Their funding is intended to be a contribution in recognition of the costs involved in competing at New Zealand level.
- Indicative Scholarship Values
- NZ & Trans-Tasman: $500 to $750
- Oceania & Southeast Asia: $750 to $1,000
- Elite International: $1,000 to $1,250
- World Cup & World Championships: $1,000 to $1,500
- Youth Commonwealth Games: $1,500
- Youth Olympics: $2,000
- Commonwealth Games: $2,500
- Olympic Games/Paralympics: $3,000.
Funding Information
- Total fund: $65,000 per annum.
Eligibility Criteria
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Applications are accepted from people who are:
- Selected or recognised nationally in a squad or team at NZ Representative level
- At least 15 years of age
- An amateur athlete or official (e.g. coach, manager, referee, timekeeper, judge or umpire)
- Affiliated to and endorsed by a Regional Sporting Organisation (RSO) in their area
- New Zealand citizens or a permanent residents
- Currently living in their area – Southland, Queenstown, Glenorchy, Arrowtown, Tapanui and Heriot areas and have done so for three years or more. Consideration may be given to athletes who have left their area for study/ sporting endeavours – but whose immediate family still lives in their area
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Restrictions:
- You can only receive one sports scholarship per sporting code in a 12 month period (with the exception of the Commonwealth Games and Olympic/Paralympics).
- You can receive a lifetime maximum of five sport scholarships (excluding Commonwealth Games and Olympic/Paralympics).
- Athletes and officials will only be eligible for Commonwealth Games/Olympics/Paralympics funding if they have lived in their area for three years or more.
- The event/activity must be started within six months of funding being awarded.
Ineligible
- Teams
- Professional athletes
- People under 15 years
- Officials (e.g. coach, manager, referee, timekeeper, judge or umpire) from outside their area
- Athletes from outside their area – consideration may be given to athletes who have:
- Previously lived in their area for at least three years and whose immediate family still reside in their area; and
- Have left to access specialist training and coaching; and
- Can show evidence of ongoing connection/involvement/giving back to their sport in the Trust region.
- Retrospective activities i.e. an activity that had already started or completed.
For more information, visit Sport Scholarships.