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- Connections Gain Fruit
- 2nd December 2009
An exciting new fellowship will be introduced by the NZ-UK Link Foundation next year, in conjunction with Wine Marlborough and British Master of Wine John Avery. Read all about it, and other news, in the latest edition of The Link, the Foundation's newsletter.Download: Link16-web.pdf (889.4 KB)
- London Hits the Right Note
- 19th July 2009
London has hit the right note for violinist Charmian Keay, the 2009 Elman Poole Music Scholar who is currently gaining valuable experience playing with the Southbank Sinfonia in London. Read more about her and other NZ-UK Link Foundation assisted people in the latest Link newsletter (15).Download: Newsletter_No_15.pdf (697.61 KB)
- Burning desire to study in UK?
- 21st April 2009
Applications opened on St George's Day (23 April) for the NZ-UK Link Foundation 2009-2010 NZ Discretionary Awards. Applications close on 31 July 2009.
- New Zealand Film Festival
- 7th April 2009
'Second Hand Wedding', the Kiwi comedy from first time director Paul Murphy and writer Linda McCol, is one of a line-up of films for an early 2010 New Zealand Film Festival in London. The NZ-UK Link Foundation will be supporting the event. Find out more in the latest edition of 'The Link' (14), along with the presentation by the Foundation's Patron HRH The Princess Royal of the 2008 NZ-UK Culinary Challenge Award to young chef Chris White and how Marcus Smith tamed the London tube. Download: The_Link_(14).pdf (5.73 MB)
- Insurance Varied and Interesting
- 17th November 2008
New Benfield Link Foundation Reinsurance Scholar, Marcus Smith, has just taken up his new scholarship in London's reinsurance market. Find out what he and the new Cranfield NZ Alumni scholar Scott Riddle are looking forward to in the latest edition of the Link newsletter. Download: Link13-_web.pdf (2.22 MB)
- Agricultural Emissions Focus for Fellow
- 25th June 2008
Winner of the 2008 NZ-UK Link Foundation Rural Journalist Fellowship, Tim Fulton, has left for his whirlwind tour of the UK where he will examine perceptions of food miles and what effect this will have on New Zealand and British agriculture and retailing and to look at the management of agricultural emissions. For news about other Fellows see The Wellington Cathedral Choir Tour of the UK in July, Top UK Business School Offers $100,000 Scholarship, Helen Lear's Curtain Call in Edinburgh and Raising Film's Profile in the Digital Age.
Read all about it in issue 12 of The Link.
Download: Link12-web.pdf (453.5 KB)
- NZ Art Auction for Endangered NZ Bird
- 17th June 2008
The New Zealand Society is pleased to announce in association with the New Zealand Department of Conservation (DOC) an auction, in London on 10th October 2008, of New Zealand art to raise funds for The New Zealand Shore Plover Appeal. - Fulton to look at food miles and carbon foot-printing
- 21st April 2008
Young Canterbury-based agricultural journalist, Tim Fulton, is heading off to the UK in June to investigate the perception and reality of food miles for British farmers, retailers and consumers.
Fulton is the recipient of the 2007-08 NZ-UK Link Foundation Rural Journalist Travel Fellowship (the Link Rural Travel Fellowship), worth $5,000. This award marks the opening of 50th anniversary celebrations for the New Zealand Guild of Agricultural Journalists & Communicators this year that will culminate in a special national conference for the Guild in Wellington in October.
- Exciting NZ-UK Outcome for Kotuku
- 16th March 2008
A combined Kotuku Tiffin Choir tour of New Zealand in 2009 is the exciting outcome of the Wellington-based Kotuku Choir's recent tour to the UK, which was supported by the NZ-UK Link Foundation. Read all about it and more in the latest issue of The Link newsletter (issue 12). Download: Link11-web.pdf (2.21 MB)
- Standards Rising Year After Year
- 7th November 2007
Standards are rising year after year in the NZ-UK Link Foundation's Culinary Exchange, says Peter Gordon celebrity chef and food guru and the inspiration behind the award. With a new Kiwi winner and - at the time of writing - the announcement of the 2007 British winner pending, the Exchange is five years old and growing fast. The latest news about that award and much more is available in the latest edition of The Link, the Foundation's newsletter. Download: Link_10_-_web.pdf (632.13 KB)