2025 Grants awarded

It is with pleasure that the Earle Creativity & Development Trust announces the following Grant recipients for 2025.

History & Literature

• Derrick Sims – The World Below

• Benji Pritchard – Innovation Heroes

• Tony Waugh – Otamakapua

• Carolyn George – A Childhood Unhindered

• Helen Cooper, Bulls and Districts Historical Society – Digitisation of Bulls archives

• Russell Poole – The Seafund Boys and Girls

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Music

• James Lissette – The Sound of the Land

• Kathy Clark – Gumboots Band Project

• Jeff McNeill – Orchestral Accompaniment to Silent Film: Hunchback of Notre Dame

• Chris Whaiapu, Te Whirikōkō o Rangitane – Creation and performance of new compositions for Te Whirikōkō o Rangitane that celebrate innovation and

  tradition

• Liz Whaiapu Te Kohunga reo o Ngati Hineaute – Creation of Moko-oro ~ Waiata for mokopuna, Te Kohunga reo o Ngati Hineaute