Providing opportunities for women through awards for education and research.
Apply for awards
Ria McBride Public Service Management Award
The Ria McBride Public Service Management Award for women, sponsored by the State Services Commission is now in its the thirteenth year.
The goal of this prestigious award is to help women who have already demonstrated potential, to advance to higher levels of responsibility in the Public Service.
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Applications close on 2 July 2012
Second Chance Awards – applications now closed for 2012
The Trust’s second-chance awards are to assist women returning to education or training who did not obtain a tertiary qualification when younger.
NEW in 2012 are awards for women studying at Foundation Studies level (NZQA Level 2 and 3).
Second Chance Awards Application Form 2012
Research Awards - applications now closed for 2012
Research Awards available in 2012 include the Society for Research on Women/New Horizons for Women Trust Research Award; the Graduate Women Wellington Research Award; and the Janus 1995-NGO Research Award.
Research Awards Application Form 2012
Opportunity Awards - applications now closed for 2012
The Peg Hutchison Opportunity Award was offered for the first time in 2010 by the New Horizons for Women Trust as a consequence of a generous bequest by Peg Hutchison founding member, and long time Treasurer of the New Horizons for Women Trust.
For the period 2011-2015 an additional award, the Sue Macdonald Opportunity Award, is also available, due to the generosity of Trustee Sally Hasell.
Opportunity Awards Application Form 2012
Sonja Davies Peace Award - applications now closed for 2012
The 2012 Sonja Davies Peace Award promotes women’s initiatives to advance the cause of peace. It is an annual award made to a woman or group of women who are New Zealand citizens, resident in New Zealand, who are seeking more knowledge and skills, or developing an activity which will help them build a more peaceful world – at home, school, the workplace, or in the community.
Peace is broadly defined as – elimination of violence within families, lessening of conflict between groups within society, freedom from civil disorder, and cessation of war. It extends to activities which foster mediation or resolution of conflict by means other than violence.
Sonja Davies Peace Award Application form 2012
SROW Elsie Locke Award - applications now closed for 2012
The biennial SROW Elsie Locke Award has been established as a tribute to the life and work of Elsie Locke.
This award commemorates Elsie as a New Zealand author and historian; a tireless worker for a fairer society for all, a worker for peace, for equality for women, for reproductive choice and for the environment.
