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2023 NZSL Community Grant Recipients

Local community groups and organisations are supported to maintain and promote NZSL through a grant process held every year in March/April. Here are the recipients for 2023.

Round 8 recipents

These projects received funding in Round 8 of the NZSL Fund, awarded in July 2021.

Round 7 recipients

Thirteen NZSL community projects have been approved for grants from the NZSL Fund, totalling $395,800.20 for the 2020/21 financial year.

Round 6 recipients

Round 6 of the contestable process for community-driven initiatives was open in August 2019.

Round 5 recipients

Round 5 of the contestable process for community-driven initiatives was open from December 2018 to February 2019. The theme for Round 5 was ‘Creative Connections’.

Round 4 recipients

The theme for Round Four was “NZSL in our hands: Our language, our taonga, our identity, our past, our future”. Here is the complete list of successful recipients, a description of the project and the total funding received.

Round 3 Recipients

Seventeen projects received a total of $542,471. Successful projects include a conference on NZSL interpreting and teaching, developing vital healthcare information in NZSL and recording NZSL stories from Deaf people with experience of mental illness or addiction.

Round 2 Recipients

24 projects received a total of $751,114. Successful projects include the development of a youth mentorship programme, a series of NZSL Immersion Courses in Otago where there is very limited access to NZSL for families with Deaf children and a national conference for families with Deaf children.

Round 1 Recipients

14 projects received a total of $900,000 funding including the development of the NZSL Online Dictionary, to a theatre performance that has been developed in both NZSL and spoken English, designed to be accessible for both Deaf and hearing audiences, to extending a NZSL for Families course.