Scholarship overview
Status:
Closed
Key facts
Type of study:
Full-time
Application dates
Applications open: 14 October 2025
Closing date: 27 November 2025
Applicants will be New Zealand citizens or New Zealand permanent residents and intend to take up a career or be engaged in some occupation or profession relevant to the dairy industry, and will be attending a full time course in a tertiary institution.
The level of individual grants paid is dependent on the numbers of successful applicants and range from $2000-$5000.
The application process will be in two stages:
Stage 1: Application via email with the following documents
- Completed application form
- Personal supporting statement including future (no more than one page)
- CV with two references
Stage one applicants will be shortlisted and those successful will continue to the interview stage.
Stage 2: Interview and presentation
- Presentation to the selection panel including applicant’s future in the dairy industry.
- Followed by a general Q & A with the selection panel.
Eligibility criteria
- Applicants will be immediate family members of Fonterra suppliers (Shareholders or Sharemilkers) or Fonterra staff in the Taranaki region.
- Applicants need to be either a New Zealand Citizen or New Zealand Permanent Resident.
- The scholarship is to be used for tuition and books.
- Students need to be registered for a full-time course at either a university, or Institute of Technology by 31 March in the year of the award and satisfactorily complete course work in each year preceding re-application.
- The scholarship will be awarded on the recommendation of the John Young Memorial Scholarship selection panel.
Selection considerations
The Scholarships are awarded based on
- Evidence of and/or planned activity to support the New Zealand dairy industry.
- Academic merit.
- Evidence of potential leadership skills and/or service to the community or sporting activities etc.
- Academic performance in the previous year of the course for re-application by existing scholars.