Ngā Kōrero Tuku Iho, New Zealand Oral History Grants recipients

Unless otherwise stated, all completed oral histories are held at the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington.

Ngā Kōrero Tuku Iho, New Zealand Oral History Grants 2022

A total of $108,540 has been granted to the following groups and individuals:

Dr Margaret Pack on behalf of APGANZ (Abortion Providers Group Aotearoa New Zealand), A History of Abortion Care in Aotearoa New Zealand, $8,800
Joonseob Yi, Korean Diaspora in New Zealand, $8,659
Dr Te Manaaroha Rollo, Tōku reo o Hokianga e kore e mimiti (My language of Hokianga will never perish), $10,000
Liwei Fang, When Erhu meets Puoro, $7,581.79
Caren Wilton, Hopelessly devoted: the queer dance parties of the 1990s, $10,000
Sue Gee and Kim Conway, Wai Karekare – Bay of the Boisterous Seas, $8,000
Lynette Townsend, The New Zealand Busker, $3,450
Prue Langbein, Seven by Eighteen – Voices of New Zealand children, $8,959
Dan Kerins on behalf of Kaikoura Board Riders Club, Surfing History Series, $6,000
Dennis Maang, Oral History of Zomi settlement in New Zealand, $6,230
Elisapeci Samanunu Waqanivala, Nanumi Viti Memories of Fiji: Indigenous Fijian Diaspora in Aotearoa New Zealand, $8,401
Rowena Smith, Ngā Ararau a Apa, $10,000
Amie Taua, Boats to Buses: Pasifika Navigators of the Ōtepoti Bus Routes, $7,859
Arapine K Walker on behalf of Te Tini o Tuiti Trust, Te Tini o Tuiti – He Pātaka Kōrero, $4,600.

Ngā Kōrero Tuku Iho, New Zealand Oral History Grants 2021

A total of $130,558 has been granted to the following groups and individuals:

Jackson, Jade, Lesa v Attorney-General of New Zealand, $6,000. This material has been deposited with Porirua City Centre Library.
Vaeluaga, Seila (Natu), Our journey from Fale Sanilaiti, $9,700
Liua’ana, Rev Dr Featuna’i,A History of the CCS/EFKS Churches, $6,000
Te Vaka Cook Islands of Dunedin Inc, Akapapa’anga nō te iti tangata, $8,000. This material has been deposited with the Hocken Collections, University of Otago.
Mackintosh, Rochelle, Life experiences of ngā uri o Te Rimu Trust, $5,000. This material has been deposited with the Alexander Turnbull Library.
Vadasz, Viola and Peter Farago, Wave by wave, story by story: Hungarians in New Zealand, $9,982.95
Hamilton Cook Islands Association, Taro Patch Series, $8,500
Raharuhi, Nina, Hiringa A Rangi 2018, A Tohorā washed up on our shores, $10,000
Whitiaua Ropitini, Nā Mahuetanga Mai – Whāriki, Rangatira marae, $10,000
Woods, Reuben and Bobby Hung, 100 Aotearoa Graffiti Artists – A Survey of New Zealand Graffiti 1980-2021, $10,000
Pene, Rangitihi,Covid-19 Te Arawa’s Response 2020-2022, $9,300. This material has been deposited with Te Aka Mauri – Rotorua Library .
Manu, Ilai, Fagatua, the indigenous wrestling of Tokelau, $6,500
Herbert-Pickering, Maraea and Harata Herbert, Three Marae, One People, $12,810
Walsh-Tapiata, Wheturangi, Wai-o-Turi Marae, Parara-ki-te-uru (Turi-Captain of Aotea waka-spring), $7,875
Tibble, Paora Te Kakapaiwaho, Hato Paora College Oral History Project Whāia Te Tika, $10,890.

Ngā Kōrero Tuku Iho, New Zealand Oral History Grants (formerly Awards) 2020

A total of $105,690 has been granted to the following groups and individuals:

Joanne Maarama Kāmira, He waka tahōu i te whenua moemoeā: A strange waka in the land of dreaming, Voices of the Australian Māori diaspora, $5,000
Paul Roy, Deer Cullers, $7,350
Ngāti Kahu Hapū, Ngāti Kahu Hapū Cultural Heritage Project (led by Tina Latimer), $6,746. This material has been deposited at Te Ahu Museum, Kataia.
Ngā Toenga o Ngā Tamariki a Iharaira me Ngā Uri o Maungapōhatu Charitable Trust (Tūhoe), Rua Kēnana Pardon Act 2019 Video Documentary, $20,000. This material has been deposited with the Whakatāne Museum and Research Centre.
Jacqui Keelan, Ngā Manukura o Waikato Tainui, $4,000. This material has been deposited with the Waikato University Te Whare Pukapuka (Library).
Kate Souness, Kaupapa Waka / Kaupapa Whānau (South Island based), $4,000. This material has been deposited with Ngāi Tahu Archives.
Rowan Light, Ano te mahara e reka: The Repatriation Hīkoi of Bishop Pompallier 2001-2002, $6,100. This material has been deposited with Raiātea Centre, Motuti, Hokianga. Learn more about Raiātea on a NZ Museum's blog.
Julie Benjamin, 1949 Buller vs Otago Ranfurly Shield Challenge Trip, $6,000. This material has been deposited with the Coaltown Trust.
Chantal Bakersmith, A tale of the rugby ball and me: the whakapapa of female rugby in Aotearoa, $5,600. This material has been deposited with Auckland City Libraries.
Nicola Panapa, Tainui Express: The Journey to Settlement, $12,000
Ruth Low, On Fertile Ground: A People’s History of NZ Farming (South Island based), $15,000
Darren Hunter, NZFORSEA [New Zealand Force South East Asia] 1971-1989, $2,494
Sue Berman and Emily Anderson, Living with Death and Dying – A Covid 19 Oral History Project, $11,400. View the Alexander Turnbull Library's catalogue record.

New Zealand Oral History Awards 2019

A total of $100,198 has been granted to the following groups and individuals:

Whakarua Trust Board, Uepohatu: The History of Whakarua Park, $5000
Caren Wilton, Trans lives in Aotearoa New Zealand, $10,500
Sue Bradford and Karen Davis, Kotare Research & Education for Social Change in Aotearoa Trust, Kotare speaks: 25 years of education for social change in Aotearoa, $10,000
ZEALANDIA (Karori Wildlife Trust), The First Fence: Voices of Karori Wildlife Sanctuary, $11,540
Susan Maree Lennox, Lower Hutt Women’s Centre: Flourishing for thirty years, $500
Grace Bateman and Paul Garbett, Ice Skating in New Zealand, Part 1: 1930s - 1970s, $7,500
Voice + Ink - Helen Frizzell, Megan Hutching and Pip Oldham, In My Room, $15,000
Hannah Benbow and Chantalle Smith, Wellington Dungeons and Dragons, $6,400
Noelle McCarthy, Sex Lives: New Zealand women talk about sex across the generations, $20,690
Keystrokes per minute project team with Dr Judith Aitken, Keystrokes Per Minute: a history of women in the public service typing pool from 1945 to the present day, $3,000
Jacqueline Roberta Keelan-Peebles, Whakapourangi Road, $5,000
Pia Maria Kahn, New Zealand’s ‘happiest migrants’: An introductory oral history of Filipino migrants in New Zealand, $5,068.

New Zealand Oral History Awards 2018

A total of $56,186 has been granted to the following groups and individuals:

Natalie Looyer - Bringing Classical Antiquities to Aotearoa, $4,000.00
Farida Sultana and Shila Nair - The human cost of war: Voices of displaced women, $3,400.00
Mike Smith - Voices from Inside Labour, $2,856.00
Tafaoimalo Loudeen Parsons - Fanua – Samoan indigenous conceptual meaning of land, $6,330.00
Robert Willoughby - Who are Ngati Kuta, $3,000
Georgie Craw - SOS: Stories from the Sisters Overseas Service, $6,400.00
Christchurch Operatic Society - So the 30,000 sang! The voices and memories behind 80 years of Showbiz in Christchurch, $6,400.00
Anna Fomison - Tony Fomison Oral History Project, $5,000.00
Nic Lane - Development of professional inclusive performing arts within Aotearoa, $8,700.00
Tilly HeiHei and Dawn Shaw - Te Aratika Whanau Trust, $3,500.00
Jenny Senior and Naomi Strickland - Oral History of Queen Victoria School, $8,000.00

New Zealand Oral History Awards 2017

A total of $96,375 has been granted to the following groups and individuals:

Judith Aitken - Women in a disabling world, $3,500.00
Golden Bay Museum Society - Golden Bay Women in Farming, $3,000.00
Linda Hepburn - South Island Rowing – A History, $10,000.00
Ruth Greenaway, Mahajabeen Padamsee & Peter Buchanan -The research legacy of women Mycologists in Aotearoa / New Zealand, $7,000.00
Economic and Social Research Aotearoa (ESRA) - Hidden histories: Voices from a network of Autonomous : peoples’ organisations originating from the Auckland Unemployed Workers’ Rights Centre 1983 – 1999, $9,000.00
Lena Fransham - Talking About Otito Reserve : What the Community Knew, $2,300.00
Dr Grace Maia Millar - The Wellington Clerical Workers Union Oral History Project, $4,800.00
Te Au Mārie 1769 Sestercentennial Charitable Trust - Mapping our Stories Oral History Project, $6,300.00
Aaron Fox - Children of the Revolution: Communist Childhoods in New Zealand, $6,300.00
Renee Liang - A Place to Stand: Intergenerational Oral Histories of Croatians based in West Auckland, $4,800.00
Prue Langbein - Seven by Twelve – Voices of New Zealand Children, $6,750.00
Ross Webb - Drawing the line on Union Influence’: The Meat Workers Union and the Talleys / AFFco, $6,000.00
Dr Nadia Gush - Out and About: Lesbian Social Life in the 1980s, $5,250.00
Joanna Petrie - Korero mai e te Whare. Ask that Whare, $6,375.00
Robyn Tauroa - Sailors Seeking Cultural Refuge, $5,000.00
Melissa Matutina Williams & Whina Te Whiu - He Puna Maumahara no Te Unga Waka Marae: an enduring source of stories, 1966 – 2016, $10,000.

New Zealand Oral History Awards 2016

A total of $102,212 has been granted to the following groups and individuals:

Belinda De Mayo - The Northern Maori Schools’ Project 1954-1959 Stage II, $11,000.00
Jon and Sue Monk - An Oral History of ADIS International Ltd, $9,000.00
Federated Mountain Clubs Mountain and Forest Trust - Federated Mountain Clubs & Mountain and Forest Trust OHP, $5,000.00
Angela Middleton - Booth Brothers of Kerikeri OHP, $6,300.00
Frances Edmond - An Oral History of the Living Theatre Troupe 1970-76, $7,132.00
Elisapeci Samanunu Waqanivala - Indigenous Fijian women and men in Wellington, $2,060.00
Stephanie Tibble - St Joseph’s Maori Girl’s College 150^th Anniversary OHP $9,375.00
Nadia Gush - Out and about: lesbian social life in the 1980s, $4,332.00
Pip Oldham - Butchers’ Stories OHP, Stage II, $8,240.00
Ruth Low - Stories from the Woolshed, $20,000.00
Grace Bateman and Paul Garbett - M.E. Voices: Young people living with an invisible disability, $9,975.00
Mike Smith - Rex Jones and Trade Union leadership in NZ 1983-2000, $5,298.00
Pacifica Mamas Arts Cultural Trust - Vaimutu Records 1985-2006, Cook Islanders and their journey in NZ through the music industry, $4,500.00.

Awards in Oral History for 2015

A total of $54,717 has been granted to the following groups and individuals:

An Oral History of the Samoana Rugby League Team (Otago, 1964-1967), $3,000
Coasters: Interviews with Westport Area Residents, $7,200
The Hatching of a New Approach to Conservation, $10,000
The Lebanese Community in Wellington. $2,258
New Zealand Society of Authors Oral History Project – Stage 111, $11,922
Rex Jones and Trade Union Leadership in New Zealand 1983-2000, $8,000
Takitaki Momotua, Vagahau Niue Trust, $3,000
Te Wharepora o Ngati Rangiwewehi: Weaving an Identity as Ngati Rangiwewehi, $7,500
VSA – Volunteers who Brought Back a Partner or Spouse, $1,837.

Awards in Oral History for 2014

A total of $103,000 has been granted to the following groups and individuals:

Pacifica Arts Centre, $3,000.00 - The Stories of Pacifica Mamas and Papas
Ryan Bodman, $5,700.00 - Rugby League and working class culture in NZ
Daniel Beban and Nicole Gaston, $3,500.00 - The Braille Collective and Wellington’s Creative Music Community 1980-1990
Kayla Ratima, $2,600.00 - Oral histories of diasporic Ngati Porou descendants : 'Titiro ke uta ra, ke Hikurangi Maunga / Cast your gaze inward – inland – toward Hikurangi,’
Claire Hall, $20,000.00 - One, two, three, four! Protest Voices of NZ’s Vietnam War
Linda Hepburn and Ruth Low, $20,000.00 - History of Timaru’s commercial fishing industry
Caren Wilton, $8,300.00 - Selling Sex: the NZ sex industry
Rosemary Baird, $2,870.00 - Migrant’s Stories from the Manapouri Hydro 1966-1973
Pip Oldham, $8,700.00 - Butcher's Stories
Jeanette Roose Caritable Trust for Mercer Art & History Museum, $12,000.00 - Mercer the four R’s – Stories of the river, railway, Roose’s and rowing
Creative Arts Trust / Artsenta, $5000.00 - Creative Arts Trust / Artsenta: the first 25 years
Erloia Ifopo, $11,786.00 - Afio Mai Christchurch

Awards in Oral History for 2013

A total of nearly $100,000 has been granted to the following groups and individuals:

Loreen Brehaut, $5,245.00- Picton Freezing Works and its closure
Ian Dougherty, $2,518.00 - Hillside Railway Workshops
Jacqui Foley, $10,000.00 - Building Stories - Farm buildings in North Otago
Marina Fontein ,$7,000.00 - Lebanese in Wellington
Suzanne Gee, $6,000.00 - From Guangdong to Aotearoa, six New Zealand Chinese Women
Lynley Hargreaves, $3,734.00 - Vanishing Ice - New Zealand glaciology from 1960s to 1980s
Chris Mccann, $4,000.00 - Nassella Tussock Battle, Canterbury 1946-1990 - plant pest control
Jonathan Monk, $4,500.00 - Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre
Lala Rolls, $5,720.00 - Tupaia's Endeavour
Belinda De Mayo, $10,000.00 - The Northern Māori project - Art in schools 1954-59
John Dix, $2,000.00 - Bob Gillett - musician
Te Hiku Media, $8,000.00 - Te Aupōuri Treaty Settlement Journey
Tūhoe Mātauranga Trust, $8,000.00- Te Haumanu O Te Whenua - Tūhoe Claims
Helen Frizzell/Lesley Paris, $10,350.00 - The Dunedin Sound 1970s-1985
National Dance Archive, $11,110.00 - Creating a dance industry in New Zealand

Awards in Oral History for 2012

A total of nearly $110,000 has been granted to the following groups and individuals:

Rosemary Baird, Manapouri Hydro 1966-73, $10,885
Mary-Ellen O'Conner, Margaret Bazley, $3,500
Barbara Inch, Christchurch Nurses 1971-74, $2,000
Ruth Greenaway,Monte Cecilia Housing Trust, $5,060
Jiff Stewart, VSA spouses of volunteers, $6,050
Fiona Craig, Kaeo Post Office 1912-2012, $9,112
Gareth Watkins, AIDS Support Network, $7,000
Te Runanganui o Ngati Porou, Te Runanganui o Ngati Porou, $13,750
Linda Hepburn and Ruth Low, South Canterbury stories, $11,046
Marina Fontein, Lebanese community in Wellington, $1,000
Pip Desmond, Exploring the roots of homelessness, $9,434
Prue Langbein, Seven by Seven, Children's voices, $7,045
Julie Benjamin, West Coasters Club, Auckland, $9,400
Anna Cottrell, Women of the Chathams, $13,937

Awards in Oral History for 2011

A total of $120,000 has been granted to the following groups and individuals:

Deborah Dunsford, Auckland beach suburb of Milford, $10000
NZ Association of Women Judges, Women judges in New Zealand, $8500
Susan Fowke, Gisborne and Tairawhiti citizens, $10000
Carol Dawber, Golden Bay fishing history, $10900
National Dance Archive of New Zealand, Māori and Pasifika men influential in NZ contemporary dance, $8820
Barbara Inch, Christchurch School of Nursing graduates class 1971-1974, $8000
Emma Kelly, Older gay men in Auckland, $820
Hineani Melbourne, Nga Tama Toa, $12056
Helen Frizzell, Formation and early period of the so-called Dunedin Sound, $9850
Ann Packer, Richard Nunns, $2856
Caren Wilton, The NZ sex industry workers, $13400
Erolia Ifopo and Sarah Hunter, Samoan community in the Christchurch earthquakes, $10000
Julia Brooke-White, New Zealand Wildlife Service, $11,000
Beth Shalom, Beth Shalom Progressive Jewish Congregation, $3900

Awards in Oral History for 2010

A total of $94,738 has been granted to the following groups and individuals:

Shona McCahon, Australian conservation covenants, $15000
Athina Tsoulis, Evangelia Papoutsaki, Greek female immigrants to NZ – 1960s, $30000
Bronwyn Hanna, Australia ICOMOS Burra Charter, $5000
Alison Laurie, Australian influences on lesbian and gay communities in NZ, $11300
Honiana Love, Taranaki iwi in Australia, $12500
Penny Brander, Funeral directors in Australia and NZ, $5000
Linda Hepburn, Ruth Low, Cross Tasman migration from a small community – 1950s, $5953
Gareth Watkins, AIDS Memorial Quilt – NZ/Australia, $9985

Awards in Oral History for 2009

A total of $101,500 has been granted to the following groups and individuals:

Loreen Brehaut, Interviews with six Picton train drivers, past and present, $5000
Nigel Hampton, Chairperson, Saving Knowledge – Okains Bay Maori and Colonial Museum, $5000
Caren Wilton, Selling sex: the NZ sex industry, $6000
Paulette Wallace, Somes Islanders: A social history of life on Matiu/Somes 1965 - 2005, $1500
Whangarei Libraries (Friends of the Library), ‘Honouring Seniors’ Whangarei District OHP, $10000
Northland Parents of Deaf Children Inc, Northland Mothers of Deaf Adults, $12000
Rev Rangi Nicholson, Māori language interviews in the Anglican Diocese of Te Hui Amorangi o Te Manawa o te Wheke, $5000
Lyne Pringle, Riding the Crest of a Wave: Early Members of Impulse Dance Theatre and Limbs Dance Company, $8000
Gareth Watkins, So Now We Are Legal (Post Homosexual Law Reform – interviews with younger LGBTI community members), $8000
Shelley Seay, The effect of the Wahine disaster, April 10 1968: Personal stories from survivors, crew and rescuers, $6000
Helen Frizzell, Judith Fyfe, Megan Hutching, Pip Oldham, Mrs Schumacher’s Gems: Domestic life in New Zealand in the 1940s and 1950s, $35,000

Awards in Oral History for 2008

A total of $60,500 has been granted to the following groups and individuals:

Arts Foundation of New Zealand, Arts Foundation of New Zealand Heritage Project Interviews with eight recipients of the Icon Awards – including Diggerress Te Kanawa, Maurice Gee, Margaret Mahy and Ans Westra, $6500
Otaki Bank Heritage Preservation Trust, The Changing Face of Te Horo, $2000
Roger Smith, Composing New Zealand – life histories of six senior composers in Aotearoa/New Zealand – including Jenny McLeod, Jack Body and Gillian Whitehead, $11000
AC Productions (Anna Cottrell), Facing the Future – stories of new New Zealanders Histories of refugees from Africa, Afghanistan, Iraq and Burma, $12000
Damian Skinner, Tairarwhiti Museum of Art and History, Watersheds: Nga Wai Pupu – an oral history of the Tairawhiti Region, $3700
Hutching, Megan, Bridge 4232: and oral history of Auckland Harbour Bridge 1959-2009, $12000
Margaret McClure, ‘When a happy marriage turns to custard’ Women’s divorce stories form the 1950s and 1960s, $5800
Shona McCahon, The founding of landscape architecture in New Zealand, $7500

Awards in Oral History for 2007

Jane Moodie, Hungarian oral history project: a record of Hungarian refugees who fled Hungary after the 1956 revolution, $7450
Susan Foster, Recorded interviews with New Zealand cartoonists, $8250
New Zealand Theatre Archive, The emergence of professional theatre in post-World War II New Zealand, $4000
Hanna Scott, Studio La Gonda: a large-format legacy (photography), $4000
Kirsty McCully, Cleaners – standing up and speaking out, $5000
Lyne Pringle, Dancing competitions in Dunedin, 1940-1990, $5000
Catherine Tracey, An oral history of tradeswomen in Aotearoa/New Zealand, $5000
Kotare Trust, The people behind the poster: reflecting activism in Aotearoa, $5000
Charlotte Museum Trust, Charlotte Museum oral herstories training project, $2000

Awards in Oral History for 2006

Beverly Kearse, NZ Association of Psychotherapists 60th celebration project, $2000
Kelburn Municipal Croquet Club, An oral history of Kelburn Municipal Croquet Club, $2000
St Andrews on The Terrace convenors, An oral history of St Andrews on The Terrace Presbyterian Church, Wellington, $2500
Auckland War Memorial Museum, 21 Infantry Battalion Association oral history project, $5000
Vincent Ward, The worlds of Puhi Tatu, $5000
Loreen Brehaut, Tory Channel whalers' families and Whekenui School project, $5600
Mary-Lou Harris, 'We will fight them on the beeches' – an oral history of Native Forest Action, $6000
Ruth Low, Droving in the South Island, $6000
Friends of the Police Museum, Māori Police project, $6000
Te Hui Amorangi ki Te Manawa o te Wheke, Māori language interviews in the Anglican archdeaconries of Waiariki and Waiwhakaari, $6500
Nicola Robertson, NZ Ski Heritage oral history project, $7000
Wellington Girls' College Jubilee committee, 125th Jubilee oral history project, $7000
Paul Diamond, An oral history of Māori who served in the Vietnam War – a pilot study, $9000
GridHeritage, An oral history of Māori linemen working on the national grid, 1945-2005, $10,000

Awards in Oral History for 2005

Lyne Pringle, Dancing competitions in Dunedin, $2000
Thames, School of Mines Museum,Thames School of Mines oral history project, $3000
Cynthia Matthews, A place in the sun: 50 years of the arts in Kerikeri, $3000
Christine Tuapola, Alofa Atu I Kalaisetete – Bring on the 60s (Samoan migration to Christchurch in the 1960s), $3520
Te Rawhiti oral history group, I Tupu Ake Au Ki Te Rawhiti – an oral history of Te Rawhiti, $4500
Sally Schoon, Herbert Gardens oral history project, $4520
Tairua Oral History Group, Tairua local history project, $4600
Susan Foster, Interviews with New Zealand cartoonists, $4900
Kitty Chang, Oral history of Chinese women in New Zealand, $5000
Matthew Leonard, The Burmese community in Aotearoa/New Zealand, $5000
Max Quinn, An oral/visual history of New Zealand's early role in Antarctica, $5000
Tasman Bays Heritage Trust, Nelson Provincial Museum oral history project, $5000
Waitakere Library & Information Services, The Crown Lynn story, $5000
McKenzie Centre Community Trust, Power & Passion – Waitaki hydro scheme, $5500
Fiona Clayton, Footloose & Fancy Free (people with physical disabilities), $6000
Seahorse World Science Heritage and Education Trust, Oral history of Cook Strait whalers based in Tory Channel, $6000
Waipuna o Hokianga, Oral history of Lake Omapere, Tai Tokerau, $6200

Awards in Oral History for 2004

Carly Pokaia, Grassroots (whāngai adoption), $1000
Anand Naran, How the tables have turned (oral history of DJs), $1420
NZ Theatre Archive, The emergence of professional theatre in post-World War II New Zealand, $1500
Rowan Taylor, People of the lake: interviews with Pakeha fishers of Lake Ellesmere, $2500
Erolia Ifopo, Alofa atu I Kalaisetete: From Samoa to Christchurch with love, $3000
Phillip & Andrew Moore, A golden era in NZ skateboarding, $3000
Martin Rumsby, Film artist interviews, $3000
Ruth Greenaway, Otautahi/Christchurch peace stories project, $3500
Helen Beaglehole, Lighthouse keepers, $3900
Adele Broadbent, Volunteer Service Abroad volunteers of the 60s and 70s, $5000
Patrick Coleman, Loyal Orange Institution in the South Island, $5000
Jacqui Foley, Project Aqua oral history collection, $5000
Pip Oldham, Mike Walker: Levin-based film maker and photographer, $5080
Henry Chan, Chinese war refugees who arrived in NZ 1939 and 1940, $5800

Awards in Oral History for 2003

Lois Webster, Siu ki moana, $1000
New Zealand Theatre Archive, Development of professional theatre in the early ‘60s, $2000
Paekakariki Informed Community Inc, Paekakariki—Telling Our Story, $2140
Patricia Wallace, An oral history of Ngati Porou weaver, Nanny Whai Pooti Hitchiner, $2500
Friends of Porirua Hospital Museum, Oral history project, $3386
Denis Grennell, Ngati Kinohaku: Recording the oral histories of the last generation to grow up on Ngati Kinohaku marae, $3500
NZ Cartoon Archive Trust, New Zealand cartoonists, $3916
Helen Bollinger, West Coast oral history project: Hidden Treasure, $4050
Jacqui Foley, Harbour/Tyne St oral history project, Stage II , $4426
Sydney J Shep, Documenting Wellington’s rural heritage: An oral history of the Horokiwi rural community, $4735
Museum of Transport & Technology, Aviation Memories, $4750
Ruth Low, An oral history of the lives and works of drovers in Feilding and district, $5295
Tung Jung Assn of NZ, An oral history of Chinese migration to New Zealand, $5330
Wellington Niue Island Assn Inc, ‘We came to work and educate our children in this strange land’ , $5550
Auckland Sexual Abuse Help Foundation, Auckland Sexual Abuse Help oral history project, $5850
Amnesty International NZ, ‘Pacific Solution’ refugee interview project, $8000
Mary Donald, Art Taranaki, $8000

Awards in Oral History for 2002

Godley Head Heritage Trust, Oral history project, $1000
Jane Reeves, Tying the knot with tangata whenua, $1200
Te Ora Hou-Te-Tairawhiti, Nga korero maumahara, $1500
Wellington Rugby Football Union, An oral history of the WRFU, $3230
Picton Historical Society, Marlborough Sounds oral history project, $3650
Ngaroimata White-Winiata, Nga korero o nehera o Ngatiwai, $3700
Carmen Dalli, Maltese emigrants to NZ, $4000
Linda Cassells, Oral history of NZ publishing, $4134
Sandra Kay Robertson, To Rest in Peace, Stage 2, $4250
Anthony Haas, Being Palagi, $5000
Samoa Project, Samoan stories of migration, $5154
Jonathan Kennett, Cycling in New Zealand, $5632.50
Hunter Productions and Galue Malosi, Alofa atu I Kalaisetete—from Samoa to Christchurch with love, $5800
Nicola Robertson, Lyndhurst Country Women's Institute, $5900
Liz Catherall, PHG's war: NZ sappers in World War II, $6000
Women's Electoral Lobby (NZ), WEL Women who made a difference, $6180
Sarah Gaitanos, The life and theatre of Nola Millar, $6600
Shear History Trust, Life in the Sheds, $7000

Awards in Oral History for 2002

Rex Bloomfield and Glen Rowling, Sandy Bay Marahau oral history project , $800
Godley Head Heritage Trust, Oral history project, $1000
Jane Reeves, Tying the knot with tangata whenua, $1200
Te Ora Hou-Te-Tairawhiti, Nga korero maumahara, $1500
Wellington Rugby Football Union, An oral history of the WRFU, $3230
Picton Historical Society, Marlborough Sounds oral history project, $3650
Ngaroimata White-Winiata, Nga korero o nehera o Ngatiwai, $3700
Carmen Dalli, Maltese emigrants to New Zealand, $4000
Linda Cassells, Oral history of New Zealand publishing, $4134
Sandra Kay Robertson, To Rest in Peace, Stage 2, $4250
Anthony Haas, Being Palagi, $5000
Samoa Project, Samoan stories of migration, $5154
Jonathan Kennett, Cycling in New Zealand, $5632.50
Hunter Productions and Galue Malosi, Alofa atu I Kalaisetete—from Samoa to Christchurch with love, $5800
Nicola Robertson, Lyndhurst Country Women's Institute, $5900
Liz Catherall, PHG's war: New Zealand sappers in World War II, $6000
Women's Electoral Lobby (NZ), WEL Women who made a difference, $6180
Sarah Gaitanos, The life and theatre of Nola Millar, $6600
Shear History Trust, Life in the Sheds, $7000

Awards in Oral History for 2001

Zana Bell, Alice Horley: Auckland's first woman doctor — $1500
Hauraki Māori Wardens Assn, Aroha ki te tangata — $2615
Agricultural Heritage Museum, Agricultural/colonial oral history project — $3000
Anthony van Raat. New Zealand architects talking about their work — $3000
Joseph Romanos & Don Neely, The Basin: A history of the Basin Reserve — $3000
Noel Waite, History of printing in Otago — $3491.50
Barbara Adams, An oral history of Tawa women — $3555
Alana Burney, Tahae Trainor and the 28 Māori Battalion — $3571
David Harrowfield, Historic sites in Ross Dependency, Antarctica — $3800 + GST
Grace Hutton, Sewn pictures: Tivaevae stories — $4000
Janice Wilson, The stitch of history — $4000
Ngati Kahungunu Iwi, Customary fishing research — $5000 + GST
Sue McCauley, Oral history of New Zealand TB sanatorium patients — $5400 + GST
Rachael Selby & Anne Thorpe, Otaki oral history project — $6000
Moana Maniapoto, Nga morehu — $9750 + GST
Te Tai o Marokura, Ngati Kuri: traditional use of indigenous plants, $1000

Awards in Oral History for 2000

Tararua Tramping Club, Oral history project with older members—$1000
Peter Whitelock, Newtown, Old Town: aspects of the social history of the suburb—$1000
Anna Soutar, Auckland Civic Theatre—$1400
Ann Trotter, Little Company of Mary in New Zealand—$1500
Hilary Stace, Thorndon School : 150 years of innovative inner-city education—$1650
Christopher Bourke, The Tangiwai disaster—$2000
Te Kahui Kaumatua Kaunihera o Nga Iwi o Taranaki, Taahuhu Korero o Taranaki—$3000
NZ Jewish Council, Jewish women in education—$3170
Dorothy McMenamin, Identity and status of Anglo-Indians in colonial India and New Zealand—$3500
Deborah Dunsford, Childhood in the Kumeu-Huapai district—$3600
Kim Morton, Raoul Island history project—$4500
Janice Aplin, Vintage Years: the wine industry in New Zealand—$5000
Sandra Robertson, To Rest in Peace: parents of people with intellectual disabilities—$5000
Jill Abigail, Otaki Citizens' Advice Bureau oral history project—$5000
Pukapuka Community of NZ, Pukapuka oral history project—$6000
Gisborne Museum & Arts Centre, Kapa Haka O Te Tairawhiti oral history project—$6088
Upper Hutt City Library, Oral history project—$6700
Jacqui Foley, An oral history of Harbour/Tyne St, Oamaru—$7985
Barry Rigby/David Young, Oral history of Waitangi Tribunal—$12,000

Awards in Oral History for 1999

Heritage Hokitika Society, Heritage Hokitika oral history project—$500
Governors Bay Heritage Trust, Oral histories of Governors Bay identities—$1000
Kerry Sinclair, Glenorchy 'deer wars' project—$1000
Mental Health Division Oral History Group. Sunnyside Hospital oral history project—$1500
Joel Zwartz. Early years of cave exploration in New Zealand—$1500
Mei Meri Solomon, Te Tatau Matua-our fathers' A Company, the 28 Māori Battalion—$1850
Te Runanga o Te Rarawa, Te Runanga o Te Rarawa oral history project—$2000
Hutt Valley Community Arts Centre, Oral histories from work sites in Petone and Lower Hutt—$2000
Elizabeth Hakaraia, Interviews with William Kerekere and Henare Te Ua—$3000
Whanganui Riverboat Restoration Trust, Riverboat stories from the Whanganui River—$3500
National Dance Archive of New Zealand, Prominent New Zealanders in dance history—$4000
Sunita Singh, Ocean Beach bach community project—$4500
Anna Rogers, New Zealand women nurses serving overseas, Boer War to Vietnam—$4600
Vera Egermayer, Oral histories of Czech immigrants to New Zealand, 1930s to present—$5000
Margaret McClure, Women on Divorce, 1950–1970—$5000
Wellington Women's Studies Association, Feminist oral history project—$5890
Trade Union History Project, Toa Wahine: the changing role of women in New Zealand trade unions—$7000
Anna Cottrell, Tales from the Pacific: New Zealanders in the Pacific in WW II—$8000
New Zealand Society of Authors, NZSA/PEN oral history project—$11,000
Phillipa Desmond, Te Aroha Trust women-then and now: the life stories of gang women in the 1970s—$11,000

Awards in Oral History for 1998

Wairarapa Cultural Trust, Oral history of 5 Wairarapa artists—$1000
New Zealand Family Daycare Association, 10 year anniversary history—$1500
Sharon Whittle, George Havell: 20th century reminiscences—$1786
Tessa Mitchell and Ben Holmes, Biography of Bob Lowry—$1858
Southland Oral History Project, Recording the past for the future—$2000
The Women's Gallery, 'Getting Free': oral history study of violence, resilience and recovery—$4000
IHC New Zealand, Oral history project—$4100
Damian Skinner, Theo Schoon—oral history project—$4100
Patsy Deverall, Biography of Yvonne Rust—$4600
Hamilton Public Library, Hamilton architects, 1930–1990—$5000
Jonathan Kennett, Oral history of the Tongariro Forest—$5000
NAC 50th Anniversary Society, NAC oral history project—$5000
Piha Community Library, Piha oral history project—$5000
Nga Taonga a Nga Tama Toa Trust, World War I Māori servicemen—$7000
New Zealand CCS Dunedin, Oral history of CCS in Dunedin since 1935—$7500
Jane Waddell, The player kings—$8000
Te Wananga o Raukawa, Oral history of Rangiatea—$8000
Haining St Oral History Group, Haining St oral history project—$8100

Awards in Oral History for 1997

Lower Hutt Women's Centre, Oral history project—$2000
Suzanne MacAulay, Oral history of 'professional' exiles in Wanganui—$2000
Sisters of Mercy, Oral history project—$2420
Adrienne Simpson, A social history of women's cricket—$2421
Hirini Reedy, Biculturalism in the New Zealand Army—$2500
New Zealand Association of Citizen's Advice Bureaux, Oral history project—$3000
Hawkes Bay Cultural Trust, Reflecting on disaster: Reminiscences from the survivors of New Zealand's worst natural disaster—$3900
Parekawhia McLean, Oral traditions and life stories of Ngati Mahanga Waikato—$4660
First Church of Otago, First church oral history project—$4749
Jane Collins, Identity issues for people of mixed Māori/Pakeha descent—$4912
New Zealand Medical Women's Association, Stories of diversity and success—women in medicine—$6318
Gore Historical Museum, Gore community oral history project—$6859
Kahungunu Māori Executive, Rakaipaka oral history project—$7119
Elizabeth Catherall, Tui contribution to World War II—$10,000
Tanenuiorangi Manawatu, Pu korero o Rangitane—$10,000
Golden Shears Society, Past champions oral history project—$10,000

Awards in Oral History for 1996

Te Aute College Archives Committee, Te Aute College Archives—$1000
S.N. Berghan, Paroa Rugby and Sports Club 75th anniversary memories—$1200
Project Port Lyttelton, Port Lyttelton oral history—$1670
Mangawhai Historical Society, Memories of early families from Mangawhai and Hakaru—$2000
Bainham Reunion Committee, History heritage of Bainham—$2050
Alexandra District Historical Society, A Taste of Gold: an oral history of stone fruit growing Conroy's Gully, Alexandra—$2400
Judith Holloway, Pincher Martin Seamen's Union President—$3140
Tarewa Rota, Kaka Niao—He mau korero no te ao tauwhito—$3270
Haining St Oral History Group, Haining St oral history project—$3780
Jennie Gallagher, Women and mountaineering 1920-1950—$5000
Julian McCarthy, What did you do in the war Daddy?—$5000
Felicity Stacey-Clark, Onekaka Ironworks—an oral history—$5258
Te Iwi o Te Roroa, Te Roroa Māori life histories project—$5300
Barry Thomas, The Cuba Project—$9107
Jerome Cvitanovich, Migrants of former Yugoslavia—$9213
Jill Pierce, Life stories of single parent families—$10,000
Punga Productions, Oral history of contemporary Māori theatre since 1960—$10,000

Awards in Oral History for 1995

Te Awamutu District Museum, Recording memories of VE and VJ Days in Te Awamutu—$500
Helensville and District Historical Society, Māori memories of the Kaipara—$1000
Leslie Clare, Oral history of the New Zealand wool trade—$1500
Hawkes Bay Oral History Project—$2000
Vicki Jones ,Ngahinepouri oral history project—$2000
Rachel Lord, Artists and artisans of Banks Peninsula—$2000
Maija Vasils, Latvians in New Zealand from 1950—$2000
Lois Webster, Some oral histories of the Tongan community—$2000
Dunedin YWCA, Y Auxiliary oral history project—$2000
Museum of Transport and Technology, Oral archive of people who flew in or worked on the Lancaster Bomber and the Teal Solent Flying Boat—$2500,
New Zealand Education InstituteTe Riu Roa, Neville Lambert Memorial Oral Archive — $2500,
Michael Walsh, Whanaungatanga: Nga Rauru me Ngati Wehiwehi—$2500
Senorita Laukau, The settling of the Tongan people in the Hutt Valley—$3000
Adam Gifford and Shane Jones, Nga Rangatira: Māori leadership in the 1990s—$4000
Sarah Gaitanos, Te Kura Toi Whakaari o Aotearoa: New Zealand Drama School—$4800
Julia Bradshaw, Haast oral history project—$5000
Lois Cox, Life stories of older lesbian women—$5000
Jacqueline Foley, Life stories of Northern Irish immigrants—$5000
Helen Harte, Māori childbirth in the 1930s—$5000
Tui and Evelyn Macdonald, Race relations then and now: Māori/Pakeha relationships—$5000
Ian Robertson, Wellington City Transport European migrants project—$5000
C Company 28 Māori Battalion Research Committee, C Company, 28 Māori Battalion history—$5000

Awards in Oral History for 1994

R. and J. Paton, Labour movement oral history project—$1173
Claire Loftus Nelson, Birth stories—$2000
Jennifer Briars, Oral history of the German settlement of Sarau—$2300
YWCA of Wellington and Hutt Valley, YWCA oral history project—$2156.50
Wellington Maritime Museum, Fishing for history—$2500
Gabrielle Huria, Life stories of Noeline and George Fife—$3000
James Allan, Gay men in Aotearoa—$3000
Greater Green Island Oral History Memory Bank, Oral history project—$3000
Anne Noble, Takahanga Marae project—$2744
Jeanne Lomax, Memories of Tokelau-born New Zealand women—$3200
Wellington Huntington's Disease Association, Stories of those affected by Huntington's Disease—$3500
Nari Shakti, Indian women in Aotearoa—$3650
Prisoners' Aid and Rehabilitation Society, Oral history project—$4000
R.T.V. Linnell, History of the army in New Zealand during World War II—$4000
Hana Te Hemara, Nga Tamatoa: nga korero whakapuaki—$5000
Te Reo Irirangi o Ngati Kahungunu, Ngati Kahungunu oral history project—$5000
Te Runanga o Ngati Kuia, Oral history of Ngati Kuia—$5000
Kerry Taylor, Participants in the 1951 waterfront lockout—$7000
Pefi Kingi, Profiles of our Pacific mothers—$7000

Awards in Oral History for 1993

Te Awamutu Historical Society, History of Pirongia—$1000
Cleone Blomfield, Three women who came to Middlemarch—$500
Peggy Crawford, A century of orphans and orphanages in New Zealand—$1500
Susan Fowke, The Dames—$5000
Jacqueline Gallagher, Reading, Writing, and Rosaries—$2000
Bradford Haami, The life of Dr Golan Maaka—$7000
Helensville and District Historical Society, Oral History research, Kaipara area—$1000
Murray Hemi, Mangakino-Ngati Moe Heartland—$8000
Hutt Valley Branch National Council of Women, NCW narratives from a century—$12,000
Frances Katene, Oral Herstories of Ngatitoa women—$1900
Colin McColl, Creation and development of Downstage Theatre—$4550
Manawatu Museum, Manawatu and its people—$7000
Merivale Community Group, Merivale-Tauranga Oral History Project—$7000
Moana Moeka'a, Beginnings of the PIC Church in New Zealand—$1500
New Zealand Association of the Blind and Partially Blind, 50th anniversary history—$5000
Otago Maritime Society, Merchant Navy Oral History Project—$1500
Jane Poetsch and Natasha Hammond, Tukorehe and its people—$1500
Rangahau-a-Iwi Trust, Traditional hoe waka in Te Arawa—$2500
Straightline Youth Development Trust, Tahupotiki Wiremu Ratana—the man, the prophet, the politician—$3000
Jane Waddell. The Player Queens—$7000
Whanganui Regional Museum, The men in our lives—$9000
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Wellington Branch, Oral history of older WILPF members—$2500

Awards in Oral History for 1992

Marie Burgess, Oral history of nurses and midwives—$7200
Karen Davis, Oral history of Te Roopu Rawakore o Aotearoa—$10,000
Joy Green, The changing role of stock and station firms in North Otago—$3650
Rawene Library, Rawene Oral Archives—$495
Merania Kapete and Helen Frizzell, Women and work, paid and unpaid—$2852
B. and I. Maguire, Catholic education in Gisborne, 1894-1994—$500
Robyn Mason, Study of a bach community in the southern Wairarapa—$1500
Halina Ogonowska-Coates, Oral history of J-Force members—$5530
Alison Parr, Post-war psychological experience of World War II veterans and their families—$10,000
Bruce Petry, Oral history of architecture post-World War II—$5589
New Zealand-Netherlands Foundation, Oral history of Dutch immigrants—$10,000
Pepe and Christine Robertson, Tama'ita'i Samoa: Ladies of Samoa—$10,000
Turoa Royal, Oral history of Ngati Kikopiri—$1019
Monty Soutar, Centennial history of the Hiruharama District, 1895-1995—$12,000
Hilary Stace, Wadestown Playcentre, 1942-92—$300

Awards in Oral History for 1991

Jan Bolwell, Some key personalities in New Zealand dance—$1466
Hobson Wharf Maritime Museum, Oral history archive—$5000
Taranaki Museum, Petrochemical industry—$5000
Hamilton Public Library, Dinsdale Community Oral History Project—$4000
Alison Gray, Mothers and daughters—$5000
Waipatu Marae Committee, Nga tikanga o Heretaunga—$7500
Rawene Public Library, Rawene oral archives—$1231
Haare Williams, Recording the living repositories of whaikorero—$5000
Helen Jordan, Great Barrier Island: a study of its people—$1576
Women with Benefits Network, Women parenting alone, 1945-1990—$7500
Maniapoto Māori Trust Board, Maniapoto Māori oral history research—$7500
Paul Madgwick, Kati Mahaki kaumatua—$800
Patrick Parsons, Nga morehu—$5000
Barry Rigby, Remembering the Mau: E Le Galo Le Mau—$7500
Jeremy Rose, Pakeha and Māori of the East Cape: their lives and relationship to the land—$4000
Waikato District Committee New Zealand Historic Places Trust, Huntly coalfields oral history project—$7500
Jane Tolerton, Convent girls—$5000
Masterton Public Library, Tinui Flood—$1000
Ngati Koata Trust, The gathering of treasures for the iwi of Ngati Koata—$5000
Sr Bernadette Mary Wrack, The early history of the Sisters of Compassion—$1500.

Updated on 18th August 2023