Te Tumu Paeroa

22/05/2026

We're updating My Whenua, our online portal for all your whenua information: My Whenua 🌿

Launched in 2014, My Whenua holds information about every block the Māori Trustee administers.

Our vision is to create a platform that places whenua at the heart of everything we do, deepening your connection to the whenua through increased access to information and empowering you through shared decision making. We're keen to know what a future My Whenua app could look like and what would be useful for you to see 📱

We'd like to know your thoughts about My Whenua, whether you've used it or not. You can find our more and complete a short survey here:

We're updating My Whenua, our online portal for all your whenua information and would like to know your thoughts, whether you've used it or not.

15/05/2026

Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand are hosting Ngā Poutama Matawhenua, a series of online kaupapa Māori GIS webinars 💻

The next session is taking place online on Friday 22 May, from 12.30pm to 2.00pm and focuses on how to use Artificial Intelligence in ways that safeguards data, strengthens mapping capabilities, and upholds the integrity work on whenua 🌱

Find out more 👇

AI is showing up everywhere. 🤖🙂

Some of it is useful. Some of it carries risk. Most of it is not explained in a way that makes sense for iwi and hapū Māori GIS mapping contexts. 🤔

Join GIS Specialist, Duane Wilkins for an online wānanga as he shares practical tools and techniques that can be applied across a range of Māori GIS mapping kaupapa. Learn how to use Artificial Intelligence in ways that safeguard your data, strengthen your mapping capabilities, and uphold the integrity of your work on the whenua. 🛡️🗺️

Wānanga details
- Date: Friday 22 May 2026
- Time: 12.30 pm – 2 pm (note extended time)
- Format: Online wānanga (Microsoft Teams)
- Duration: 1.5 hrs
- Cost: Free

Who should join
- Iwi and hapū teams working with whenua or data
- Māori trusts and organisations managing land and assets
- GIS practitioners wanting practical, easy to use AI approaches
- Anyone responsible for data who wants to understand the risks before using AI

Register now
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Watch previous wānanga sessions here
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyE56PxGCqSXGUtFIvpNn0b_SauF4XfIk

11/05/2026

We were excited to visit Mystery Creek recently to see Fieldays 2026 coming together 👀

It was a real pleasure to meet with some of the Fieldays team to talk about what we can expect to see when it all kicks off on 10 June. Fieldays is the Southern Hemisphere’s largest agricultural event, and this celebrates its 58th year 🎉

This will be our first time with a stand, and we can't wait to meet the other 100,000 people who will be at Mystery Creek over the four days 🌱

04/05/2026

It's that time of year again! 🥳

Tax certificates for the year ending 31 March 2026 are being sent out to owners and whānau trusts by email or post ✨

Each year, around May, if you're an owner or whānau trust in whenua we administer, you’ll receive a tax certificate from us. This certificate tells you how much distributable income you received or were owed, and the management fee on this income.

It also shows you how much tax has been withheld and paid to Inland Revenue on your behalf. If you have distributable income we're required to send you a tax certificate.

If you don't receive a tax certificate from us within the next two weeks, it could be that we don't have your current address or contact details. You can update your contact details here, or by calling us on 0800 WHENUA (0800 943 682) and speaking to one of our Client Services team.

Visit the link to watch a explanation video and learn more:

There are a number of financial obligations trusts need to meet. It’s important that trustees gather all the information they need to ensure the tax obligations of the trust are met.

23/04/2026

09/04/2026

Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand are hosting Ngā Poutama Matawhenua, a series of online kaupapa Māori GIS webinars 💻

The third session is taking place online on Friday 17 April, from 12.30 to 1.30 pm and focuses on how national datasets can be transformed into useful tools for iwi, hapū, and Māori organisations. Attendees will learn how this data can be overlaid with iwi and local datasets to support whenua management, risk awareness and planning 📊

Find out more 👇

Kia ora 👋

We’re excited to bring you the third webinar in our 2026 Ngā Poutama Matawhenua series, hosted by GIS specialist Duane Wilkins.

In this session, our guest speaker Jonathan Hanson (GeoNet Data manager, Earth Sciences New Zealand) will share how national datasets can be transformed into useful tools for iwi, hapū, and Māori organisations. You will then learn how to overlay this data with your own and other datasets to support whenua management, risk awareness, and planning.

Who should attend
Iwi and hapū organisations, Māori land trusts, kaitiaki, planners, GIS practitioners, Māori data teams and whānau who want to learn about the types of open data that Earth Sciences NZ collects and makes available online. Bring your pātai.

Webinar (Wānanga) details:
Date: Friday 17 April 2026 🗓️
Time: 12.30 pm – 1.30 pm⏰
Format: Online (Microsoft Teams) 💻

To register, click here: 154240ae-2e06-4f4d-a4fa-8de4d0453f2b@2134e961-7e38-4c34-a22b-10da5466b725" rel="ugc" target="_blank">https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/154240ae-2e06-4f4d-a4fa-8de4d0453f2b@2134e961-7e38-4c34-a22b-10da5466b725

06/04/2026

“For me, it’s not just a career. It’s a calling to uplift the whole whānau, to restore trust and confidence."

Eloise Matete is a Sir Āpirana Ngata scholarship recipient who is now in her final year of a Bachelor of Health Science (Midwifery) at AUT University in Auckland. She's hoping to use her skills to “help Māori whānau navigate a mainstream health system that wasn’t designed for them and providing care through a Te ao Māori lens".

Eloise adds that the support of a scholarship has eased financial pressures, allowing her to focus on her studies and placements.

If you’re Māori and studying at a tertiary level (this includes any university, polytechnic and wānanga) in 2026, you’re eligible to apply. Applications are open now until 1 May 2026.

Find out more about Eloise's story here: https://tetumupaeroa.co.nz/who-we-are/news/manaaki-for-whanau-and-futures

29/03/2026

“Māori knowledge is something not to set aside in your education or workplace, because it's a real intellectual strength. It's literally a Māori superpower."

Sir Āpirana Ngata scholarship recipient Gladys Henderson is in the final year of her PhD, which examines how mātauranga Māori can form the basis of financial and economic models, rather than being tacked onto existing Western systems.

Gladys says that receiving the Sir Āpirana Ngata Memorial Scholarship has provided her with “the time, stability and space to carry the kaupapa with care. It has ensured that my research is undertaken in a really consistent kaupapa Māori way.”

If you’re Māori and studying at a tertiary level (this includes any university, polytechnic and wānanga) in 2026, you’re eligible to apply. Applications are open now until 1 May 2026.

Find out more about Glady's story here: https://tetumupaeroa.co.nz/who-we-are/news/gladys-mission-to-reimagine-economic-futures

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26/03/2026

⚠️Hui Postponement⚠️ Owing to weather conditions, the Waikare Lands Trust Meeting of Owners (AGM) that was due to take place tomorrow (28 Mar, 10:00 am) at Waikare Marae has been postponed.

23/03/2026

Applications for the 2026 Sir Āpirana Ngata Memorial Scholarship are open until 1 May 2026!

If you’re Māori and studying at a tertiary level (this includes any university, polytechnic and wānanga) in 2026, you’re eligible to apply.

The scholarship is made possible by the Māori Soldiers Trust, which is committed to supporting Māori in higher education, and administered by Te Tumu Paeroa.

Head to our website to find out more and download an application form: https://www.tetumupaeroa.co.nz/MSTscholarship