Lindisfarne College

SCHOLARSHIPS

The College offers a number of scholarships for students, ranging from academic, music and sports scholarships to those that recognise general excellence. These scholarships are part scholarships that can vary in amounts depending on the type of the scholarship that has been awarded.

All students who have been formally enrolled and accepted into the College at Year 9 for the following year, are eligble to apply for scholarships.

Scholarships that require an application.

Sporting Scholarships (Yr 9)
Cultural Scholarships (Yr 9)
Evergreen Foundation ( Yr 9)
Te Whāiti-nui-ā-toi Scholarship (Yr 9)

Discretionary Scholarships (No Application Required).

Old Boys' Association Scholarship (must be a son of an Old Boy) (Yr 9)
Morris Family Distance Boarding Scholarship (Yr 9)

Scholarship Gained via Entrance Exam.

Intermediate School Academic Scholarship (Yr 7)
Lindisfarne College Council Academic Scholarship - 1st place (Yr 9)
Guy and Ruby Baillie Academic Scholarship - 2nd place (Yr 9)

Boarding Allowance

“Students are eligible to apply for a Boarding Allowance if they demonstrate they are facing barriers to achieving educational success, and that boarding away from home will remove those barriers.”

Students can apply for a boarding allowance if they meet one of the two eligibility criteria:

Access barrier
The student’s home is geographically isolated, for example in a remote rural or island location, far from the nearest secondary school.

Multiple barriers

The student’s educational success is negatively affected by:
- Poor participation at school
- Poor or negative relationships
- Behavioural issues
- Low educational achievement
- Home environment.

For more information please visit this link on the Ministry of Education website.If you have any questions or need help with the application, contact the Boarding Allowance Team at the Ministry of Education.

E boarding.allowances@education.govt.nz
T 04 439 5425 or 04 463 8085

Boarding Allowance Team
Ministry of Education
PO Box 1666
Wellington 6140

Applications close 31 October.

This Scholarship is available for students of Māori descent. Preference is given to those from Te Aka Puaho or of Tuhoe descent.

All Year 9 2027 students who have been formally enrolled and accepted into the College for 2027, are eligible to apply for the Te Whaiti nui-a-toi Scholarship.

Applications for 2027, close on 31 July 2026. For further information contact Wendy Barker: Tel 06 872 9904.

The Te Whāiti-nui-Ā-toi Scholarship scheme has played an important part in the development of Lindisfarne College and in providing educational opportunities for Māori young men. Lindisfarne's history with Te Whāiti-nui-Ā-toi has been going since 1975, under the partnership of our council chairman of the time John Wakeman. Named after the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa NZ, made towards the education of Maori boys in the 1970’s and 80’s. In a more restricted sense it provided an educational service to that particular group of Māori people with whom the Church has been most closely associated -The Tuhoe people of the Eastern Bay of Plenty and Urewera Country. In the last 20 years the scheme has broadened and has seen boys from other Iwi supported by the scheme.