Right from its inception there has been a charitable component to the Ockham ethos. Aside from strategic sponsorships, Ockham’s founders also wanted to be able to provide direct support to talented people operating in fields which were close to their hearts, namely education and the creative arts.
Ockham Collective
Thus was born the Ockham Collective, an annual residency programme, which ran from 2019 to 2025, where a group of artists-who-are-also-educators were given free use of beautiful spaces in which to teach, run workshops, perform, think, write and create.
Ockham Collective sponsors the Auckland Writers' Festival and the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.