Learn

We want people to have equitable opportunities to learn throughout their lives as a pathway to reach their potential. Equitable opportunities include access to quality early education, culturally responsive learning, and learning support to move through different stages of life.

Our priorities are projects, programmes or services:

• Connecting families/whānau and communities to children’s learning and schools based on need
• Enabling the lifting of educational outcomes of Māori and Pasifika children, those with learning needs and those coming from low socio-economic backgrounds
• Reducing barriers to accessing culturally responsive or whānau-centred early childhood education based on need
• Enabling people who face barriers to develop skills, knowledge and confidence throughout their lives

What we will look at

• What difference will your project, programme or service make?
• Does your organisation have the capability and capacity to deliver the project, programme or service?
• How do you know there is a need for your project or organisation?
• How are the community or people who use your service involved with or supporting your organisation or project?
• How is your organisation or project culturally responsive, or working towards being culturally responsive?
• To what extent do you work with other organisations to achieve your aims?
• How do you learn about whether your programme is meeting its intended outcomes?
• How does your project, programme or service meet good practice or is it evidence based? This is particularly important if your organisation is working with vulnerable people including children, young people, elderly people, disabled people, and people with mental health issues.
• Read about our additional criteria for programmes in schools.
  Do you have a need for our funding?

What we don't fund

For the list of things Rātā does not fund, read our Frequently Asked Questions.