Newsletter
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- First Ever NZ Film Festival Held in UK
- 17th November 2011
The first ever NZ film festival has been held at The Barbican in London, as part of the City of London Festival, and was supported by the NZ-UK Link Foundation as a major sponsor of the initiative. You can read all about it and more in the latest edition of The Link newsletter (20).Download: Link_20_-_WEB.pdf (662.4 KB)
- Pickens Picked
- 30th June 2011
Marcus Pickens, a NZ wine industry professional from Marlborough, has been selected as the first Wine Marlborough-John Avery-NZ-UK Link Foundation Scholar. He has already spent a period in the UK meeting key viticulture players. Read about it in the latest Link newsletter (19), where you'll also be able to find out who has been selected as the Foundation's second Visiting Professor, meet the latest Elman Poole Music Scholar, the latest NZ Discretionary Award winner, find out who our new chairman is and much more.Download: NZ-UK_Link_(19)_WEB_1.pdf (822.91 KB)
- The MPs came back
- 3rd December 2010
Over 100 guests, ranging from members of both British Houses of Parliament to students of politics, came to Margaret Wilson's inaugural lecture as the NZ-UK Link Foundation's first Visiting Professor at the House of Commons on 29 October. You can read all about it in the latest edition of The Link (18), along with the latest news about the Foundation's Culinary Exchange, the significant impact Linking Minds has had on four young teaching leaders, the new Cranfield Scholar and activities of Friends in the UK and NZ.Download: Final_Link_18_Newsletter.pdf (406.59 KB)
- Autumn-Spring Newsletter
- 20th May 2010
The Autumn-Spring edition of The Link (17) has just come out featuring all the latest news and activities of the Foundation and our Scholars, Fellows and award-recipients. Download: 17.pdf (897.34 KB)
- 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).- 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)