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The Hui Taumata Taskforce (the Taskforce) arose from the Hui Taumata of 2005, when a large gathering of Māori leaders met in Wellington to set directions for the next phase of Māori economic growth. The Taskforce was established by the Hui Taumata Steering Committee, following the Hui Taumata 2005, at the invitation of the Minister of Māori Affairs. The purpose of the Taskforce is to find ways of advancing the priorities identified by the Hui Taumata, principally by networking at a high level across all sectors, and developing projects that build on these strategies.
In 2006 the Taskforce was constituted as The Hui Taumata Trust (the Trust), a Charitable Trust, to provide a corporate entity able to receive funding from government and other sources and carry out activities by which the goals identified by participants to the Hui Taumata might be further advanced. The Trust operates under a corporate model in which a company, Hui Taumata Trustee Limited, has been created as the sole trustee for the Trust.
The Trust has all the normal powers of Trusts and inherits the vision mandated by the Hui Taumata, that Māori social outcomes should be achieved through Māori economic develop-ment. The Trust Deed sets out a broad range of charitable purposes in keeping with that vision.
The Trust is funded $1.0 million by way of appropriation for 2008/09 through Vote Māori Affairs as a Non-Departmental Other Expense: Beyond Hui Taumata. This is the final year of approved appropriations for Hui Taumata.
The work of the Hui Taumata Trust is organ-ised under the headings Entrepreneurship and Enterprise, Māori Workforce Develop-ment, Leadership and Governance, Education and Communication and Collaboration. Work undertaken by the Taskforce since inception includes projects in:
