News & events

On Tuesday we held our second Sponsor Advisory Group meeting for the year and what a huge turnout! We kicked the night off with our guest speaker; behavioural psychologist Dr Kyle McWilliams, who led us on an insightful journey into today's engineered world. Kyle led...

We are absolutely thrilled to announce DLA Piper as the principal sponsor of the 2019 Keystone Rugby Lunch - Trans Tasman Tussle! DLA Piper were drawn to the vision and values of Keystone Trust and our purpose to help school students from challenging circumstances...

Our 2020 Scholarships are now open! With 10 Study Awards available for school leavers, and 11 Key Partner Scholarships for students already in tertiary study, there is something for everyone. With mentoring, wellness workshops, pastoral care, networking, events, and...

Samantha McGavock has the qualifications to prove her worth as an architect. After five years at Victoria University in Wellington, she graduated in 2011 with a Master of Architecture. But this isn’t a story about an architect. This is the story of how Sam McGavock...

At the end of 2018 we took a look at some of our milestones over the last five years. Reflecting on some of the events we have introduced and the toolkit we have created for our students to utilise on their Keystone programme. Our community has grown significantly and...

Our students have been busy! Many students tell us that value of a Keystone scholarship is the networks that are readily available for them to tap into. Over the summer, many of our students have taken advantage of these connections and have been gaining valuable work...

You could never say that Mariam was someone that shied away from hard work. Her tertiary journey took her seven years to complete but the process helped her understand where her passions lay. Her story would resonate with many other students, as she initially wasn’t...

This is the first story in a series titled ‘The Inside View’. In this series I will be interviewing, profiling, and generally sharing a yarn with interesting people and companies who cross paths with Keystone Trust. In September, I caught up with Richard Archbold...

The Keystone Trust team are excitedly planning and preparing for our upcoming Awards Night. The evening will be a wonderful celebration of all our students’ achievements, and we can’t wait to welcome our 2019 Scholarship recipients into the Keystone Family. We will...

The Keystone Sponsor Advisory Group meets three times each year and up to two representatives from each of our sponsor organisations can attend. Meetings are always lively, with lots of time for networking, we actively encourage all sponsors to participate. Our next...

John Tagi is currently in his 4th year studying a Bachelor of Architectural Studies at Unitec. He received a Study Award in 2015, and recently was lucky enough to get the opportunity to become an Architectural Intern at Ignite after realising he wasn’t taking...