Approximately 350 applications, requesting a total of $10 million, were received this Round. This makes Round Seven the biggest ever in terms of applications received and second biggest in terms of total amount requested.

We estimate that 150 of the applications received are from first-time applicants to Mā Te Reo, with the balance being from repeat applicants. This is pleasing and shows that there are still plenty of new groups out there either hearing about or attempting to access Mā Te Reo funding for the first-time.

Applications are currently being assessed by the Fund Management Committee, Te Rōpū Tautoko. We expect that final funding decisions will be made from 2-4 July and you will be notified of the outcome of your application/s no later than 20 July 2007.

If your application is successful and you are offered funding, we ask you to assist us to contract with you quickly. You can do this by submitting the required supporting documentation to us promptly after you receive notification.

For those of you whose applications are declined, we are happy to provide further feedback and advice as to why your application was declined and how you might be able to improve it for the next funding round. Please submit your request for further feedback in writing (email is acceptable). We will acknowledge your request promptly and respond in writing within ten working days.

As most of you will be aware, a technical problem with the Mā Te Reo database host server resulted in a decision to extend the seventh annual funding round from Friday 11 May to the end of May 2007 (Thursday 31^st May).

The incident was one that was totally out of the control of Mā Te Reo/Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori and not something that anyone would have reasonably predicted. Coming at the beginning of the final week of, what up until that point, was an extremely smooth round, was a total shock to the team. When it became known that some data had been lost and that therefore some people would be required to re-register or re-enter their applications, a quick decision was made to extend the funding round to the end of the month.

We really wanted to ensure that no-one was unduly disadvantaged by the incident and to give those affected adequate time to re-enter data. We would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank the vast majority of our applicants/providers who responded very positively to our situation. Ka nui te mihi ki a koutou katoa. We are confident that most of the lost data has now been restored. However once again we urge anyone who has not already done so to go on-line www.ma-tereo.co.nz and check your data. If you have any queries please contact Clayton in the first instance on 0800 628-373.

The incident was a real hoha and caused a lot of extra time and effort all round. However Mā Te Reo wants to assure you that you can continue to have every confidence in the on-line system. We have assurances from our host server that your data will be safe. Please continue to apply and report on-line.

Due to some internal changes within Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori, the Mā Te Reo team has had the services of an additional team member over the last three months. Juanita Teepa, nō Tūhoe, has been assisting with many of our processes. Many of you would have talked to her on the phone as she has assisted with 0800 number calls during the funding round. It has been great for us to have a native speaker of te reo in the team. Ngā mihi nui ki a koe Juanita mō nga mahi e mahia e koe mo mātou ngā kaimahi o Mā Te Reo, ā, mō ngā kaitono me ngā kaiwhakarato a Mā Te Reo hoki. We have certainly welcomed the extra capacity over this funding round.

Jasmine visited Tauranga on 24 April. She gave a presentation at Te Mātāhauariki o Tauranga Moana, at the invitation of Reweti Te Mete. Reweti is the Tauranga Moana Community Based Language Initiatives co-ordinator and was keen to ensure that groups know about and access Mā Te Reo funding to support their language development initiatives. A small enthusiastic group of 6-8 attended to listen and ask questions about Mā Te Reo. Some of those that attended followed up with a Round Seven application. Ngā mihi nui ki a koe Reweti mō te tono.

There are currently 2 projects in this Round left to complete. Nerissa will be working with these two providers to reach completion of their projects.

There are currently 22 live projects for this Round. Nerissa has recently taken over responsibility for monitoring Round 5 contracts to completion, so if you have a current project under this funding round, please expect to hear from Nerissa in the near future. Round 5 projects really should be completed by now, so if you have an outstanding project from this Round please help us to bring the project to conclusion. Whatever the reason why the project may not have progressed as originally expected, we can work things out so don’t be whakamā….

There are currently 64 live projects for this Round. Clayton is actively monitoring Round Six contracts and he will have been in-touch with you recently if you have any overdue milestones.

The 2005/06 Mā Te Reo Language Planning evaluation report is now available for download from the Mā Te Reo website ( www.ma-tereo.co.nz ).

We hope that those of you about to embark on Language Planning projects or even those of you with Language Planning projects underway will find the report useful. If anyone has any queries in relation to the Language Planning evaluation report, please do not hesitate to contact Nerissa Aramakutu on nerissa@tetaurawhiri.govt.nz or 0800 628 373 (0800 MA TE REO)

In the last ī-pānui, we told you about the current evaluation project. The overall aim of this evaluation is the development of an outcomes evaluation framework for the Fund. It is anticipated that this project will enable Mā Te Reo to find out what outcomes are currently being achieved in relation to language regeneration.

One component of the evaluation was a 1-day focus group workshop which was held in May 2007. Membership for this workshop comprised of external evaluation expertise, Te Rōpū Tautoko representation, language regeneration practitioners and Mā Te Reo providers. Questions for consideration included,

• How does language regeneration happen in communities?
• How can we measure/assess community-based language regeneration?
• What should our expectations be about the role of the Fund?
• What short-term outcomes should the Fund be contributing to?

The workshop was very successful, and we would like to take the opportunity to thank all those who participated including our Mā Te Reo providers.

Another component of the evaluation was a series of three survey questions that were sent out to providers randomly selected to take part in the project. The survey questions were,

Nerissa has spent time catching up with some of you to respond to these survey questions.

A further update will be provided in the next i-pānui looking at the overall responses made for each survey question.

If anyone has any queries in relation to the current evaluation, please do not hesitate to contact Nerissa Aramakutu on nerissa@tetaurawhiri.govt.nz or 0800 628 373 (0800 MA TE REO).

I tukuna mai tēnei tuhinga kōrero e Karl Burrows. Ko Karl rāua ko Kateia ētahi kaiwhiwhi pūtea nō te tahua Mā Te Reo mō ētahi tūmahi i raro i te wāhanga tahua Hōtaka Reo/Karāhe me te wāhanga Māherehere Reo.

Te Whai Pai i te Huarahi ki te Ako i te Reo Māori ki Rānana

Kua kitea e tētahi rangahau i whakahaerehia i ngā rā tata ake nei, he mahi tuatahi te ako i te reo mō ngā Māori i Rānana. He mea nui ki te Māori te ako i te reo kia mārama ake ki ngā tikanga Māori, kāore i tua atu. Ko te mea mīharo, i whakaaro te nuinga o rātou, he wāhi pai a Rānana mō te ako i te re Māori. He manawarū ngā hua o te rangahau hei whanake i te Mahere Rautaki Reo ki Rānana, te Mahere Reo Māori mō te hapori Māori o Rānana.

Ko Rānana te wāhi taketake tū ai ngā Kiwi e haere ana i ō rātou haerenga nui ki tāwāhi, ka noho ki reira mō te āhua rua tau, mahi ai, kātahi ka haere ki te tētahi haerenga poto ki Uropi i mua i te hokitanga ki te kāinga. Kāore te Māori i tōmuri ki te whai atu i te hunga Kiwi e haere ake ana ki Rānana. A, kāti rā, ko wai hoki ka whakaaro, ka haere rā anō ki tētahi wāhi tawhiti i te kāinga, ki reira ako Māori ai.

Ko te mea kē hoki, kua roa kē a Ngāi Māori e haere ana ki Rānana, ki Uropi hoki, mai rā anō i te wā o te haerenga mai o ngā waka ki konei mai i Aotearoa, ā, tae noa ki ngā tau tōmuri o ngā tau 1950, i eke te rahi o te hapori kia tū ai he rōpū Māori motuhake ki Rānana mā te whakatūnga o te Ngāti Ranana London Māori Club.

Ahakoa te tika o te kōrero mō te nuinga, ka haere noa iho mō te wā poto, harakoa ai, kua āhua piki haere te hunga e noho ana mō te wā roa, whai wheako mahi nui ai, me tā rātou hiahia ki te momo oranga o reira me ngā huarahi e wātea ana ki ngā tāone nui o te ao. Kei konei ētahi whānau Māori kua 3 ki te 4 whakapaparanga kē e noho ana ki konei. E ai ki te whakatau tata a Te Ara, te paetukutuku kāwanatanga, e 8,000 ngā tāngata Māori kei Ingarangi.

Nā te kaha o te tipu o te hapori kua ara ake ētahi atu rōpū i ngā tau 10 kua hipa. Kua tū he kōhanga reo, he rōpū mau taiaha, te maha o ngā rōpū kapa haka, me ngā akoranga mō te ako i te reo Māori me ōnā tikanga, e noho katoa ana ki Rānana.

Ahakoa, ki ētahi he pōrearea te noho tawhiti atu i te kāinga, ki te nuinga, ka kaha ake te whakaaro nui mō te reo me ngā tikanga nā te noho tawhiti. I te mea he tāone ahurea kanorau, me te tū whakahīhī o ngā tāngata rerekē i roto i ō rātou ake ahurea, ō rātou ake reo hoki, kua puta pai te reo Māori i te mea, he kōhure ki Aotearoa

Ko te hua i puta i te Mahere Reo Māori i whanakehia nā runga i te tautoko o Mā Te Reo, ko te huri a tētahi rōpū ki te whakanui ake i ngā huarahi ki te ako me te kōrero i te reo Māori ki Rānana. Nā te hāngai o te mahi wānanga hei whakatutuki i ngā momo āheitanga a tēnā, a tēnā, ka pai kē te rahi o ngā tāngata i uru ki ngā wānanga, Māori mai, Pākehā mai, me te paku tangata Ingarihi, Airihi hoki. I mua, ko te noho wehe i ngā tikanga me te reo, te āhua o te noho atu i Aotearoa. Heoi anō rā, he taonga te reo Māori nā te iwi Māori me te hunga e hiahia ana ki te whakamahi, ahakoa kei hea rātou i te ao. Kei te whai ngā Māori kei tēnei pito o te ao i ngā huarahi ki te ako me te kōrero i te reo Māori.

The following article was submitted by Karl Burrows. Karl along with Kateia have been recipients of Mā Te Reo funding over a number of rounds for projects under the Language Programmes/Classes and Language Planning funding categories.

Making The Best of Opportunities To Learn Māori in London

Learning te reo is a real priority for Māori in London a recent survey has found. Not surprisingly, Māori saw it important to learn the language to get a greater understanding of tikanga Māori. What was surprising was that many considered London as a positive place for learning te reo Māori. The results of the survey gave a real incentive to develop Te Mahere Rautaki te reo ki Ranana, the Māori Language Plan for the London Māori Community.

London, traditionally a place where Kiwis stop over on their big OE, stay for a couple of years, work for a stint and do a quick tiki tour of Europe before making their way back home. Māori have never been slow to join them in coming here. The last thing you may have expected, however, is to come to learn te reo Māori in a place so far away from home.

The reality is, Māori have been coming to London and Europe since boats have made their way over here from Aotearoa and in fact by the late 1950's, there was a big enough community to establish a permanent Māori presence in London through the establishment of the Ngāti Rānana London Māori Club.

And while it is still true that for most, we come here for a short time and a good time, increasingly people are staying longer, to gain valuable work experience and because they like the lifestyle and opportunities available in such a big international city. There are some Māori families who have been living here 3 or 4 generations. Te Ara, the government website estimates that there are over 8,000 Māori in the UK .

In the last 10 years other groups have established as the community grows. There are now kōhanga reo, a mau taiaha group, a number of performing groups and courses for learning te reo and Māori culture based in London .

And while the distance from home could be seen as a barrier to some, for many living away from home means a deeper appreciation of ones own culture and language. In such a culturally diverse city where different peoples are proud of their distinct cultures and languages, te reo Māori has an added appeal of being distinctively New Zealand , distinctively Aotearoa.

The Māori Language Plan, developed with the support of Mā Te Reo, has resulted in a group of people working on ways to increase opportunities to learn and speak te reo Māori in London . Focussing on wānanga to cater for a wide range of abilities, the wānanga have been well attended by Māori, Pākehā and the odd Englishman and Irishman. Living away from Aotearoa used to mean separation from culture and language. However, te reo Māori is a taonga that belongs to Māori and all who choose to use it, wherever they may be in the world. Māori over this side of the world are making the best of these opportunities to learn and speak te reo Māori.

London Māori language plan kicks off with first wānanga

Māori Language Week/Māori Language Week Awards

Māori Language Week will be celebrated from 23-29 July 2007. The Māori Language Week Awards will be held on Māori Language Day – 14 September 2007. The theme for Māori Language Week 2007 is, ‘Tourism or Tāpoi – On the road with te reo.' There are 14 categories that you can apply under. Mā Te Reo encourages all providers who are holding reo Māori events and/or activities during Māori Language Week to apply in the Community category. For more information about the Māori Language Week Awards, go to www.koreromaori.co.nz . If you would like an entry form, please ring Catherine Sinclair on (04) 4710244 or email info@nzreo.org.nz .

Repeated again for your information, your key Mā Te Reo staff and contact details.

Jasmine Cooper
Project Manger
04 471 - 6727
jasmine@tetaurawhiri.govt.nz

Nerissa Aramakutu
Project Advisor (Monitoring and Evaluation)
04 471 - 6728
nerissa@tetaurawhiri.govt.nz

Clayton Reiri
Project Advisor
04 471 - 6733
clayton@tetaurawhiri.govt.nz

Juanita Teepa
Administrator
04 4716737
juanita@tetaurawhiri.govt.nz