Applications

Grant application guidelines

1. Please complete all sections of the Grant Application Form and then email it with all attachments (references, proof of Jewishness, passport page, etc.) in one message to ermantrust@gmail.com. Please use Word, PDF  and JPEG rather than other formats. No hardcopies are required.
2. You must provide sufficient detail as to why you want to go on a programme to Israel, what you expect to get out of it, what contribution you have made to a Jewish community organisation (or other organisations) to date, and what contribution you promise to make in the future.
3. You also need to provide either the URL of the programme organisation, and even better, a link to the specific programme you wish to attend.
4. Under the requirements of the Privacy Act 1993 the Erman Trust Grants Committee confirms that the information requested will be used solely for the purposes of the Erman Trust to support individual applications and will remain confidential to the Erman Trust Board and the Erman Trust Grants Committee.
5. If you are successful in obtaining a grant you will need to sign a contract that includes a commitment to give at least two months' service to the Jewish community for every month you spend on the programme in Israel. This contract will lay out all the conditions of the grant.
6. Note that as part of your commitments you will need to submit a report by 31 January for those who went on annual programmes and within a month of returning to New Zealand for all others.
7. If you are applying through a youth movement an accurate costing of course fees and other expenses must be provided to you by that movement. Limited funds are available and what you will receive depends mostly on the number and costs of all applicants in one year and on investment rates. In the past most applicants have received 15-30% of the total costs. This means that for the longer hachshara programmes of Habonim and Bnei Akiva successful applicants have recently received $14 000. Applicants for shorter programmes naturally get lower amounts’

Grant application form

Click here to download the Grant Application Form in Word format

Closing dates:

Please note that the closing dates are 20 March, 20 June and 20 September.

The Trust also reserves the right to modify its allocations of grants if for any reason an applicant does not attend the full duration of a published programme or if it is cancelled.

We do hope programmes can go ahead but need to act prudently with regard to the Trust's funds.