Grants Open & Upcoming

Register for an account with the Perpetual Guardian Funding Hub in order to apply now.
Please allow for up to 3 business days for your registration request to be processed. 

Listed below are the Trusts currently open for applications (listed alphabetically). More detailed funding guidelines are available on the application form.
Please note that upon funding rounds closing, non-submitted applications will be automatically declined.
Technical support is available until 5pm on the day that applications close.

Belfast Community Trust
For charitable purposes benefiting the residents of Belfast in Christchurch.
Applications are open from 28 October – 6 December 2024.
Please note that the timeframes for outcomes for the Belfast Community Trust are longer than usual, due to the consultative nature of the Trust, and the time of the year the Trust opens.

Brian Johns Fellowship Trust
Awards for New Zealanders to develop further knowledge and interest in the fields of ear nose and throat medicine and to develop and continue research in these fields within New Zealand or overseas.
Applications are open year round. Please monitor carefully for changes as time-frames for applications may be amended.
Applications are reviewed and supplied to decision makers as and when they are received, and usually not later than within three months of the submission date depending on the availability of advisory parties.

Estate of Ernest Hyam Davis & The Ted & Mollie Carr Endowment Trust (‘Carr and Davis Trusts’)
For charities operating within the Greater Auckland region, who support sick, elderly, poor or homeless people in the community.
Single year grants will be the focus of this funding round. Whilst multi year grants are not a focus, funding dependent, a moderately sized multi year grant/s may be considered.
Applications are open from 4 – 22 November 2024.

New Zealand Charitable Foundation
Perpetual Guardian welcomes applications from charities for humanitarian and arts projects operating within Canterbury.
Applications are open from 4 – 22 November 2024.

New Zealand Companion Animals Trust 
Perpetual Guardian is pleased to be custodian of the New Zealand Companion Animals Trust. The Trust supports projects beneficial to the community, those that provide care and protection to companion animals and projects that directly improve companion animal welfare and urban animal management.  For more information including the types of awards available, and to apply, please visit the New Zealand Companion Animals Trust website.
Closing dates for applications are 1 February and 1 July annually.

Phyllis Raithby Wilson and Bruton Sweet Trust
Auckland public hospitals (and hospital foundations or fundraising arms) are invited to apply for funding for the relief, assistance, treatment, benefit, and improvement, in health and welfare of children under their care (outpatients and inpatients). Examples of suitable causes include:

• The purchase of medical equipment for the treatment of children.
• The purchase of equipment for the welfare or education of children within the hospital.
• Promotion of study, research and travel of New Zealand medical professionals into the causes and prevention of ill health of the children of Auckland.

Applications are open from 4 – 22 November 2024.

Rose Hellaby Medical Scholarship and Grants
In the fields of rheumatic disease, physical medicine and manipulative treatment:

• Scholarships for New Zealand registered medical practitioners for research and/or post-graduate training and experience overseas.
• Grants for New Zealand organisations to engage international or New Zealand medical practitioners/specialists to deliver lectures, conduct study courses and/or supervise training and/or research within New Zealand.

Applications are open year round but for the most part are considered by the Board of granting in May. Please monitor carefully for changes as time-frames for applications may be amended.

Spencer Mason Post-Graduate Scholarship in New Zealand Law
Scholarship to support a candidate for a Masters degree or a PhD at the University of Auckland Law School. The degree being pursued must include a thesis on some aspect of New Zealand Law. Applicants must reside in the Auckland Branch Area of the New Zealand Law Society and be graduates in Law of the University of Auckland.
Applications are open year round, with an annual closing date of 31 March. Applications are reviewed in May.

Spencer Mason Travelling Scholarship in Law
Scholarship to support a candidate who wishes to pursue a Masters degree or a PhD at a university outside of New Zealand. Law Graduates living and working within the Auckland Branch Area of the New Zealand Law Society are invited to apply. (Graduates from all New Zealand Universities may apply).
Applications are open year round, with an annual closing date of 31 March. Applications are reviewed in May.

Ted and Mollie Carr Medical Travel Fund
Facilitating international travel by medical practitioners for the purposes of research and education:

• The Fund’s priority objective is to enable overseas based surgeons and medical practitioners with specialised skills to visit New Zealand for short periods to impart their skills and techniques to New Zealand medical practitioners.
• The Fund’s secondary objective is to enable specialist New Zealand medical practitioners to travel internationally for short periods to work with other medical practitioners to improve their skills and techniques.

Organisations and individuals meeting one of the above purposes may apply.
Applications are open now and are available to apply for throughout the year.
Applications are reviewed and supplied to decision makers as and when they are received, and usually not later than within three months of the submission date depending on the availability of advisory parties.