For BWB readers and all who love what we do…

BWB Friends has been established to support BWB’s vision for good publishing, in print and digital; for good scholarship and accessible writing; for books about New Zealand that enrich our lives and inform the future.

Working in print and digital, BWB is at the sharp edge of New Zealand scholarship, writing and publishing. For us at BWB and the BWB Publishing Trust, New Zealand matters – and knowledge counts. Join BWB Friends, and support all that we do.

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We warmly thank you for your support. Please use one of the three methods below to donate to the Bridget Williams Books Publishing Trust. In making a donation, please do contact us so that we may acknowledge your support appropriately.

1. Donations can be made directly into the Trust’s bank account:

Account name: The Bridget Williams Books Publishing Trust
Account number: 03-0584-0168703-000

Behind the work of the BWB Publishing Trust stands the support of many individuals, trusts and organisations. The list below makes manifest the purposes of the Trust: to sustain and develop the publishing of excellent New Zealand non-fiction by Bridget Williams Books. The Trustees and the publisher offer their warmest thanks to all who support this work.

Bridget Williams Books Limited is the culmination of many years of publishing by Bridget Williams. This began in the UK with Oxford University Press, continuing in New Zealand from 1976 (also with OUP). Bridget Williams’ first independent company was Port Nicholson Press (in the early 1980s), and she was the managing director of Allen & Unwin New Zealand Limited for six years, before purchasing that company’s New Zealand list to form Bridget Williams Books Limited in 1990. Bridget Williams has also worked with Auckland University Press and (as a consultant) Te Papa Press.

The BWB Publishing Trust was established in late 2006, to support the development, writing, commissioning and publication of New Zealand non-fiction books by Bridget Williams Books Limited. The following principles have been developed by the Trustees:

For over three decades, books published by Bridget Williams have contributed to critical scholarship in New Zealand; they have told our stories, and deepened our understanding of what it is to inhabit these islands. The BWB Publishing Trust was established in 2006 to ensure that this work continues.