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10 June 2022
Nic Lane
By ema
il: [FYI request #19166 email]
Tēnā koe Nic,
Official Information request and response
Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act (“OIA”) dated Tuesday 19 April 2022.
Thank you for your patience as we work through a backlog of OIA requests.
You have requested:
Are you able to give a breakdown by year/fund of the number of funding applications that have
been submitted in New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) over the last three financial years.
Does your funding platform currently allow for video-based submissions to be assessed, and if not
what is the timeline for this?
To date we have not had any funding applications- submitted to us in New Zealand Sign Language. In the
past we have received one application that sought funding to make a programme in New Zealand Sign
Language. This application was deemed ineligible to apply for funding, at the initial application stage, as it
did not have a qualifying platform attached to the project.
Within the application process, applicants may attach links to videos hosted on third party websites,
including those that are password protected i.e. vimeo. However, all applications must stil complete the
fields within our
funding application portal. We are aware that our current funding processes have
limitations for access and look to review this in the near future. However, as this work has not been ful y
scoped to date, we cannot provide an estimated timeline at this point in time.
For your information, funding provided by NZ On Air for al successful projects is
searchable on our
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months.
Connecting and reflecting our nation
Thank you for your interest in our work.
Yours sincerely
Sharon Kerry
HEAD OF CORPORATE SERVICES
Connecting and reflecting our nation