Naming NZ Grant

Here is everything you need to know about applying for this grant in order to assist with the costs of making these important changes.

Naming New Zealand wants to be able to fundraise to provide grants to youth for updating their identity documents. We seek to support youth who are unable to afford their new identity documents and who wish to have their identity documents updated.

Currently this grant is currently intended for youth; whose gender identity is different from their sex they were assigned at birth; and who live in the Greater Wellington region. This includes youth who identify as transgender, transsexual, takaatapui, whakawahine, fa’afafine, genderqueer, and many others.

If the future we hope to be able to extend this grant to more people, but at the moment we are a small organisation.

FAQs

  • Currently this grant is intended for young people whose gender identity is different from their sex they were assigned at birth. This includes young people who identify as transgender, transsexual, takaatapui, whakawahine, fa’afafine, genderqueer, and many others. Our age range for young people is from 12-30.

    Since its inception, Naming NZ has been providing this service for people in the Greater Wellington Region. By collaborating with RainbowYOUTH, we’re hoping to be able to help provide this service nationally.

  • We aim to process applications quarterly at this stage, but are working on our capacity to be able to do this more regularly.

  • We aim to provide a grant to everyone who applies, but we are limited by what our donors and fundraisers can provide. We will prioritize based on need for an ID, means to get an ID, desire for an ID, and the ability of our limited funds to help the largest number of people.

  • An RY or Naming NZ member will contact you. They can often provide you with links to the paperwork you need to fill in and will also arrange to have the funds sent to you.

  • If you've been unsuccessful, partly successful or you've let your funds expire you are completely welcome to re-apply for funding. You must again meet our criteria in order to be successful.

    • These grants are currently available for youth, whose gender identity is different from their sex they were assigned at birth, and who live in the Greater Wellington region.

    • All of this information is kept confidential among Naming NZ management members.

    • There are four grant rounds every year – deadlines for submitting to the grants are February 28th, 31st May, 31st August and November 30th. It usually takes us 2 weeks after the close date to assign cases and get back to you.

    • We try to offer grants to as many young people as possible, but it does depend on how much funding we have. If we have lots of applicants, we will prioritise those in most need based on these answers.