With sufficient financial support, the Canterbury Historical Foundation could

• Create a capital fund to maintain the Canterbury Community Historian grant
• Enlarge a capital reserve to generate enough income each year to provide Post-graduate Travel Awards for University of Canterbury PhD thesis students needing to travel outside New Zealand for research: any such grants are on the recommendation of the School of History
• Fund research and editing assistance for amateur historians
• Raise a capital fund to assist publication
• Help libraries and museums to improve their collections of historical material 

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