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The mission of the FIRST New Zealand Education Trust (FIRST NZ) is to engage young people throughout New Zealand to become the innovators of tomorrow through building science, technology and engineering competencies that will nurture their life skills including collaboration, self worth and communication.
We will achieve this through:
mentoring-based programmes
equality for all
working towards understanding and solving real-life problems
taking ownership of the future
FIRST New Zealand Education Trust (FIRST NZ) supports The New Zealand Curriculum / Te Matauranga o Aotearoa with the integration of the new Digital Technologies & Hangarau Matihiko curriculum.
We support programmes in FIRST Lego League and FIRST Tech Challenge in schools across the country. We need support to keep these costs down and get more kids engaged.
My vote to this fantastic trust please.
---Looking after neonatal babies and their families.
--- --- --- --- ---We’re here for a very simple reason.
To make a difficult start to life that little bit easier.
By supporting parents and whānau through a time that no one is prepared for. A newborn surrounded by monitors and tubes, not hugs and cuddles. A hospital stay lasting weeks or months, not hours or days. Eyes filled with tears of sadness and worry, not tears of happiness and joy. These are the times you need someone who knows what you’re going through to tell you it’s going be alright. Someone who can give you the kind of support and resources that will make all the difference. Someone who can say “We’re here for you”.
The Little Miracles Trust provides a range of free services and support to what whanau of premature and sick babies who require neonatal care, throughout their hospital stay, the journey home and beyond.
For more information please visit our website https://littlemiraclestrust.org.nz/ or Facebook page www.facebook.com/littlemiraclestrust
--- --- ---My vote to this fantastic trust please.
---Looking after neonatal babies and their families.
--- --- --- --- ---We’re here for a very simple reason.
To make a difficult start to life that little bit easier.
By supporting parents and whānau through a time that no one is prepared for. A newborn surrounded by monitors and tubes, not hugs and cuddles. A hospital stay lasting weeks or months, not hours or days. Eyes filled with tears of sadness and worry, not tears of happiness and joy. These are the times you need someone who knows what you’re going through to tell you it’s going be alright. Someone who can give you the kind of support and resources that will make all the difference. Someone who can say “We’re here for you”.
The Little Miracles Trust provides a range of free services and support to what whanau of premature and sick babies who require neonatal care, throughout their hospital stay, the journey home and beyond.
For more information please visit our website https://littlemiraclestrust.org.nz/ or Facebook page www.facebook.com/littlemiraclestrust
--- ---My vote to this fantastic trust please.
---Looking after neonatal babies and their families.
--- --- --- --- ---We’re here for a very simple reason.
To make a difficult start to life that little bit easier.
By supporting parents and whānau through a time that no one is prepared for. A newborn surrounded by monitors and tubes, not hugs and cuddles. A hospital stay lasting weeks or months, not hours or days. Eyes filled with tears of sadness and worry, not tears of happiness and joy. These are the times you need someone who knows what you’re going through to tell you it’s going be alright. Someone who can give you the kind of support and resources that will make all the difference. Someone who can say “We’re here for you”.
The Little Miracles Trust provides a range of free services and support to what whanau of premature and sick babies who require neonatal care, throughout their hospital stay, the journey home and beyond.
For more information please visit our website https://littlemiraclestrust.org.nz/ or Facebook page www.facebook.com/littlemiraclestrust
Helen and Gavin and the most amazing people, they give up all the time and home to help save so many Dumped, Abandoned and homeless fur babies.
Unlike some of the other animal rescues Helen and Gavin don’t have a list of foster homes they house all the puppies, mums and adult dogs themselves and with the assistance of some very special volunteers manage to get through each day
However those days are not always full of joy then are many days where they a full of tears and lots of questions of how someone can do this to an animal
3years ago I had to make the hard decision to have my furbaby of 15years put down and then a year later felt it was time to accept another furbaby to our family.
I knew I wanted a rescue so I reach out to Helen, seeing first hand what they were working with was heart breaking at this point Helen and Gavin had 20 puppies at once. I fell in love with all of them but 1 puppy picked us and we have never ever looked back.
If I was in a position to help out financial and more I absolutely would, so when I see things that potentially could get some very much needed funding I jump at it.
Helen posts video all hours of the night keeping everyone updated with progress on sick puppies when all she wants is prayers from us. But we also get the funny dancing videos from Gavin too.
please get behind these wonderful people and vote for Country Retreat
RYDA - such an important educational activity for young people. They deliver critical learning in a fun and interactive way and go above and beyond to ensure vulnearable communities have access.
---this is extremely valuable for the youth of today. any skill learnt to help them be safe drivers is worth learning . I have assisted with the RYDA events locally and am impressed at the high level of teaching and potential for a safer future with our youth drivers.
---Rotary Youth Driver Awareness programme - a great road safety training programme for young people starting out on their driving career. It helps keep our road users safe from serious harm.
---Getting behind the wheel of a car as a driver or a passenger is one of the most dangerous things a young person can do. Drivers on a restricted licence are seven times more likely to be involved in a fatal or serious injury crash than other drivers. In 2019 there were 73 fatal crashes involving drivers aged 15-24 years, and in that same year young drivers had primary responsibility for 63 fatal crashes. – It was the young driver that caused the crash for a whopping 86% of the fatal crashes that they were involved in. The risk of crashing diminishes with experience and the development of decision-making skills to recognise risky situations and make safe choices.
The RYDA programme is a national best practise road safety programme running in NZ high schools with over 90,000 graduates over the past 16 years. The RYDA approach supports youth development in a number of areas, including social resilience and anticipating and managing risk. At the workshop, students attend six interactive sessions at a dedicated venue over the course of a school day. The workshop utilises small class sizes and multiple educational strategies including small group work, role plays, investigative learning, think-pair-share activities, thought experiments and features highly engaging practical demonstrations, real-life narratives, videos and quizzes. All sessions are delivered by trained facilitators. Back in the classroom, RYDA gives teachers everything they need to support and continue the learning throughout the school year – whether it’s to pre-load student knowledge and experience before the workshop, weave road safety in as an authentic context to curriculum learning or provide follow-up lesson plans and/or road safety assignments.
We currently have over 15,000 16-17 year olds booked into our programme for 2023. It costs us $65 per student to put them them a course and we would greatly appreciate support so we can keep this cost affordable for everyone or even free. On average students paid $9 to attend last year. Measured against the social cost of a fatality - $4.56 million per person or a serious injury $477,600 per person this is an excellent value investment into our rangatahi.
---HELP Auckland has been a primary specialist provider of sexual abuse support services to children, young people and adults since 1982.
Over the last 40 years, we have supported at least 32,518 people of all ages (not including all callers to our 24/7 HELPline), and 17,000 children, parents and caregivers through the We Can Keep Safe preschool programme.
Beyond our HELPline, we provide free ongoing therapy support services, police and medical support call outs, court and justice support, and we also facilitate community education and prevention workshops. We work closely with other support services, government agencies, schools and community groups to deliver the most effective help we can.
If you have been impacted by sexual abuse, we are here to support and empower you. You, and everyone affected by such an experience. We want you to reclaim your rightful place in your family and society.
For more information on the work HELP does, please visit our website: https://www.helpauckland.org.nz/
Sadly 1,200 Kiwis die each year of bowel cancer, and 3,000+ are diagnosed. Bowel Cancer New Zealand is a nationwide, patient-focused charity dedicated to reducing the impact of bowel cancer in Aotearoa. We do this through free counselling and physio rehab programmes for patients, awareness and education campaigns, research and advocacy to influence the long-term survival of bowel cancer patients, and our nurse support service. Bowel Cancer NZ receives no government funding and relies solely on the generosity of our donors to spread the word about bowel cancer, increase awareness of prevention and symptoms, support patients, promote regular bowel screening and research ... and ultimately, save lives. For more information, visit www.bowelcancernz.org.nz (CC 44166)
New Zealand Youth Film Festival (NZYFF) is a free-to-enter film festival for all youth aged 15-24 years. It's a registered not-for-profit (CC60203) whose mission is to celebrate and empower Aotearoa New Zealand's youth creators and next-generation of movie stars. It features thousands of dollars worth of awards ranging from camera gear to opportunities for award-winning youth to meet with filmmakers behind blockbusters. At the end of each year, a red-carpet Gala Screening is held at a new university around New Zealand and nominated youth are invited to tour local industry.
The festival is proudly sponsored and supported by organisations including Wētā FX, Canon, Adobe, AUT, Education New Zealand Manapou ki te Ao, Tātaki Auckland Unlimited, U.S. Embassy New Zealand, Auckland Studio, Screen Canterbury and Film Otago Southland.
For more information, visit www.nzyff.com.
When I donated some of my home made honey to Give a Kid a Blanket I went to visit their space in West Auckland and was surprised by the amazing work done by these people. They've been volunteering all this time and have achieved some amazing results.
They welcome all contributions from our community to help Give a Kid a Blanket achieve their mission of relieving poverty. Every dollar and every item counts.
They are reliant on donations to run our day-to-day operations and donations are the lifeblood of their project, their charity and their fuel.
Give a Kid a Blanket is a completely non-profit organisation and is run by volunteers so all donated funds go directly into the work of the charity.
https://giveakidablanket.co.nz/
For over 40 years, CCI Support has worked with clients in the Bay of Plenty and more recently all throughout New Zealand, delivering an essential service where support and resources from the medical sector is limited.
We have 5 x Health & Wellness Facilitators working either nationally or for regional areas. The pandemic has negatively impacted most New Zealanders, especially our chronically unwell community. Our clients were already familiar with living in their own kind of lockdown, one that feels like it will never end with some days rolling into another with no end in sight. The physical, emotional and financial toll can result in anxiety and depression and despair. Many of our clients tell us that being validated and believed is one of the most important aspects of their journey towards wellness.
CCI Support exists to ‘Empower People Towards Wellness’ by providing support, connections, education, and advocacy to clients who experience complex chronic illness, their whānau, and their communities. Complex chronic illnesses include Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME / CFS), Fibromyalgia, Post-Viral Fatigue / Syndrome, Dysautonomia and Long Covid.
Those with complex chronic illness experience symptoms which severely impact their day-to-day life, such as extreme physical and mental fatigue, muscle and joint pain, impaired memory and concentration, sleep disturbance, headaches, gastrointestinal issues, and anxiety.
CCI Support clients progress from a life of pain and isolation towards an improved quality of life, re-engaging with their whānau and community, with an increased ability to participate in a life which is meaningful – and achieving our purpose to ‘Empower People Towards Wellness.’
Positive change in our clients is achieved by offering a range of services which are backed by a team of qualified field officers, a supportive staff and Board, and members who find connections, encouragement, and relief in a safe community.
CCI Support meets a community need where there is an absence or little support from the health sector for those experiencing chronic complex illness. CCI Support provides an essential service, supporting, connecting, educating, and providing advocacy to clients who experience complex chronic illness, their whānau, and their communities.
The nature of complex chronic illness means many who were once active members of their community have, due to their illness, resigned themselves to a life where isolation, confusion, pain, and depression are part of their world, with few resources or support to see a way forward.
Our services include:
Qualified Health & Wellness Facilitators who provide support, mentoring, advice, counselling, and advocacy
The award winning CCI Support Towards Wellness Programme offering the best research-based knowledge in an easy-to-understand package to help people living with complex chronic illness begin to find their next steps towards wellness
Workshops and support groups for clients and their whānau and their communities
Advocacy and awareness
Newsletters, library, bi-annual seminar
Kites is a peer led mental health organisation, which specialises in innovative and achievable ideas. For a solution with a peer perspective talk to us!
The Buddies Peer Support Service is run by volunteers with lived experience of mental health distress and or addiction who walk alongside Tangata whai ora (people seeking wellness) who are on the journey of recovery with ‘peers’ who are currently experiencing mental health distress and addiction and staying in the acute wards in Wellington (Te Whare O Matairangi) and the Hutt Valley (Te Whare Ahuru).
Kites Peer Youth is a community of young adults (aged 18 – 30) that are helping one another navigate their mental wellbeing.
We do this through a variety of peer support groups that are centered around community, creativity and conversation which provide a space for young adults to be open and honest about their mental wellbeing.
In addition, we also equip young adults to do peer support for mental wellbeing in their own communities through workshops we run throughout the year.
To find out more about what we do visit:
Through the loss of Nic Russell’s 3-year-old daughter Kenzie in 2005 came the hope for families that is Kenzie’s Gift. We exist to help families during some of life’s toughest times.
Kenzie’s Gift provides 1-on-1 therapy with registered mental health professionals, serious illness and grief kits, and extensive online resources.
By promoting mental health and making sure no young Kiwi faces serious illness or grief alone, Kenzie's Gift aims to make the future for young Kiwis who are suffering from serious illness or grief brighter.
To read more about our work and stories from families we have supported, visit our website here:
Helping families rebuild after leaving family violence. Furnishing homes wovenearth.org.nz
All over New Zealand, StarJam inspires young people with disabilities (our Jammers) to express themselves through music, dance, singing and performance. Our workshops, gigs and discos are fun and exciting spaces for Jammers to grow in confidence, discover musical and performance talents and make lifelong friends.
https://www.starjam.org/
Men’s Mental Health charitable trust. Creating a safe inclusive space through manaakitanga, where no man is left behind.
Our purpose is to make life easier for families during what can be a challenging time.
We connect with primary schools in the greater Wellington region in the lead up to Christmas. We talk to school principals and provide the opportunity for families in need to receive a large hamper of nourishing food.
Our goal is to make life easier and bring some sparkle for families during what can be a challenging time. We work hand in hand with local schools by delivering food hampers for them to pass on to school families they identify as most in need.
In 2017 we delivered 120 hampers and last year this grew to 1415 hampers delivered. This year we are expecting requests for 1600 hampers.
Nourish is entirely volunteer based – this means that 100% of your donation goes straight into buying food for those in need.
We continuously get amazing feedback from the schools involved:
“[One parent who lives in a garage] said that the delivery of the hampers was more than just the groceries within, it felt as if someone was cutting him a break, even if a small one, at least someone was helping in some way. I was humbled hearing his story and the power that your generosity and the simple act of giving can have.“
For more information, please visit our website https://nourishtrust.org/
House of Science is a charitable trust who produce bi-lingual science resource kits for use in primary and intermediate schools.
The kits are produced in te reo Māori and English and are delivered to schools using a subscription based library system. The cost of school membership is heavily subsidised so cost is no barrier.
By working with the children of today we are helping to build a scientifically literate community of tomorrow. Not only does this create more career opportunities for our kids but it also has huge economic and social benefits for Aotearoa New Zealand.
Huggable Hearts is a family-run organisation who provide comfort to New Zealand families who are experiencing or who have experienced the loss of a baby. We make special, customised Hearts to the weight of precious angels gone too soon.
This is our small way of offering comfort and support to our fellow angel baby families, in the hope that it will remind them that they are not alone. It can also help to create much needed special memories of their gorgeous baby and be a physical connection on them.
We use minky, fleece and flannel fabrics, in addition to donated blankets and wraps which we up-cycle. We can also make Huggable Hearts extra special by using material from a blanket or item you provide.
Our Hearts are filled with a lot of love, to the angel's weight (if the weight is not known we will use an approximate weight to the age).
Huggable Hearts also provide added support with creative workshops to help families process their grief and also organise connection events for families to meet other families going through similar journeys.
YouthLaw Aotearoa is one of the 23 Community Law Centres of Aotearoa – but we are the only organisation operating across the nation where children and young people can access free legal services just for them.
We provide free legal advice and information to all people under the age of 25 (or those acting on their behalf such as their parents and guardians). Our clients are mainly seeking help related to employment, education, family issues, and youth justice. We can be reached either via our free phone advice line or by contacting us online.
We have a team who runs law-related education sessions for young people and youth workers in schools and other settings. We are also highly active in the area of law reform.
Every year we help around 1000 clients with legal advice and have more than 2000 participants in education sessions. With more money, we could help even more rangatahi.
For more information, visit www.youthlaw.co.nz
Saving whales since 1974, Project Jonah is a charity focused on inspiring people to care for marine mammals and the oceans they call home. New Zealand has earned its reputation as the whale capital of the world but sadly mass strandings are regular occurrences too.
Our school education programme inspires tamariki to become curious about our maona and to protect Aotearoa’s unique whale and dolphin species. We inspire tamariki to take positive actions for our oceans and become problem solvers to help mitigate some of the effects of climate change. Last year we spoke to over 15,000 tamariki and we'd love One's support to help us reach even more tamariki.
A debt solutions charity who support people to manage their debts in a sustainable manner and helping them to avoid bankruptcy. The supporting and facilitating a journey to improve their financial and personal wellbeing whilst becoming debt free. Education and advocacy is a key part to the work we do
We put together personalised care packs for tamariki in care; being raised by someone other than their parent, in foster care, by a grandparent or by other whānau in the Waikato region.
Our care packs are lovingly put together by the Kids in Need team who hand-pick each item based on the interests and needs of each child. Care packs include clothes, shoes, toiletries, toys, books, stationery, seasonal items and a soft toy.
We have seen significant growth in demand for care packs and there are a growing number of referrals from agencies around the Waikato. Each month we put together on average 100 care packs. 
We have seen firsthand the difference these packs make in the lives of the whānau who receive them, providing not only practical support, but also a reminder that there are people in the wider community who care about them and are ready to help.
Fair Food feeds people not landfills. Every day, they collect surplus fresh food from grocery stores, growers, and manufacturers and get it to people in need for free through a network of around 40 amazing local charities in Auckland.
Last year, they saved 753 tonnes of good food like eggs, milk, cheese, meat, fruit and veggies. That's 2.2 million meals' worth of food going to women's refuges, asylum seekers, transitional housing, community meals and hubs, social supermarkets and pataka kais instead of going to landfill. It's a climate intervention that takes care of people, too.
This awesome fresh kai is hand sorted daily by a crew of volunteers. Up to 200 people give their time for free each month at the Hub in Avondale. The fresh kai is given to local charities for free, so they can make sure it is received with dignity in culturally appropriate ways to the community they serve.
Kindness Collective connects children and families with everything they need, from everyday essentials to moments of joy.
KC works with Police, Social Services, Women’s Refuge groups, schools and early childhood education centres to support tamariki with donations of time, tools, resources and money.
See more here: kindness.co.nz
One Mother to Another is an award-winning registered charity which provides support and reassurance to parents and caregivers (primarily mothers) in hospital with their sick child/newborn - the vast majority in Christchurch. We know from research, testimonies and personal experience, that taking care of a hospitalised child is one of the most stressful and difficult tasks a parent can face. In light of the substantial anxiety and social, mental and physical stresses involved, our care packages offer support and encouragement in a particularly vulnerable time.
Our initiative crosses all cultures and social status, sending a simple message of care but also provide ways to improve mental health. Maternal mental health is an ongoing challenge with around 15% of mothers suffering from postnatal depression. This is higher in those who’ve had premature or ill newborns. Parents need extra assurance in these periods, and we believe the empathy and kindness of another parent by way of a practical gift can have a significantly positive impact on the mental health of the concerned parent.
What began as two mothers reaching out to care for other parents experiencing the pain and trauma they had both felt when their children were hospitalised, is now an established service that delivers over 4,500 care packages every year to parents and carers in neonatal or paediatric wards, a one mothers and babies unit (the vast majority in Christchurch). Each care package is made up of practical items such as coffee/tea, toiletries, magazine, gratitude journal, and a handwritten note of encouragement, written by one of our amazing volunteers. This personal touch is key to conveying our message of support.
By supporting the wellbeing of mothers/whānau during this critical time, One Mother to Another hopes to play a small part in creating lifelong positive impacts in our community.
https://onemothertoanother.org.nz/
YSAR is a youth development program that train and mentor rangatahi in Search and Rescue and Emergency Management. Encouraging all ethnicities and genders in our adventure based outdoor education to improve the physical and mental wellbeing of the rangatahi of Aotearoa. View our student video. View our website. To donate to YSAR
Evolution Theatre Company | New Zealand
We are based in Gisborne, Tairawhiti. We were established in 2018 to Inspire, Evolve, and Enhance the Theatre Arts.
Our mission is to strengthen and promote the performing arts in Gisborne by providing arts education and high-quality theatrical productions.
Our objectives are to:
(a) Engage: provide our community with the opportunity to engage with the performing arts, as artists and audience.
(b) Educate: provide low-cost education in the performing arts to tamariki and rangatahi.
(c) Entertain: To bring quality classic and contemporary productions to Gisborne.
(d) Evolve: To develop young artists in our community to become the next generation of arts leaders and help secure the future of the performing arts in Gisborne.
The Graeme Dingle Foundation inspires young people aged 5 -24 to reach their full potential through programmes that help build self-esteem, promote good values, and teach valuable life, education and health skills.
To date, the Foundation has supported the development of over 300,000 resilient Kiwis, helping them to build confidence, tackle life's challenges and make meaningful connections – with people, their communities, and Papatūānuku.
These vital connections and skills taught through the Foundation’s programmes broaden horizons for young people, leading to brighter futures, exciting work and study prospects and ultimately a greater contribution to Aotearoa by each individual we connect with.
Our country’s statistics are still harrowing; collectively, we have a long way to go to improve outcomes for minority communities and youth.
The Foundation’s programmes have the potential to significantly benefit Aotearoa, New Zealand through a youth population who are better educated, have enhanced employment prospects, greater self-esteem and are healthy and motivated.
Big Buddy is all about building confidence and resilience in the lives of boys without a dad in their lives. Good guys from the community are screened and matched with a boy to spend a few hours together each week. The Big Buddy relationship offers friendship, support and a good male role model to look up to; someone who, quite simply, shows up, spends time and comes back.
Endo Warriors Aotearoa is a charity organisation aimed at promoting education & awareness about e and menstruation. We are working very hard to advocate for better support and medical care for those that have Endometriosis & fighting period poverty in our community. We support all genders who have Endometriosis and who menstruate.
Endo Warriors Aotearoa is a charity organisation aimed at promoting education & awareness about e and menstruation. We are working very hard to advocate for better support and medical care for those that have Endometriosis & fighting period poverty in our community. We support all genders who have Endometriosis and who menstruate.
Born from the Canterbury earthquakes, PT in the Park is a free outdoor exercise programme that has been providing Cantabrians with a gym alternative for over 11 years!
Run as a Charitable Trust, PT in the Park is run by enthusiastic volunteer Trainers and Trustees, focused on finding the fun and community in exercise.
Come see them down at Hagley Park, Carlton Mill corner every Saturday or keep an eye out for POP UP PT sessions.
https://www.ptinthepark.nz/success-stories
https://www.facebook.com/PTintheParkNZ
Nonprofit supporting poorer family’s through winter, helping children stay warm when things are out of their control.
Id like to recommend starship children's hospital as a charity for inclusion in One Good Kiwi. They provide amazing care for NZ children, literally saving the lives of our next generation on a daily basis.
https://www.feedtheneed.co.nz
We believe children in hospitals are the bravest, more courageous, and most inspirational people that you will ever meet.
Time in time again, we see them face some of life’s toughest challenges with empathy, understanding and kindness. Visiting our Radio Lollipop studio or having our volunteers visit them in their rooms is a highlight for so many of these warriors. It’s a break from routine, needles, machines, and sickness, and brings many laughs, joy, and wonderful memories for both the children and the volunteers.
We as volunteers go to the hospital each week, fill our baskets with welcome bags, games, and crafts and go to visit/play with kids in their rooms. We play games, make crafts, talk, laugh, and spend time with them and their families to help bring a smile to their day.
The time shared with Radio Lollipop can give them the boost that they need to face the world again.
To continue being able to get to a child’s hospital bedside at a time when they feel the worst and need a bit of sunshine in their day, we need your support, every vote/token counts!
"To increase vegetarianism (including veganism) to reduce cruelty to animals, improve human health, protect the environment and preserve world resources. We do this by encouraging plant-based choices through education, information, support, campaigns and research"
We’re all on the same Vegetarian Path!
The NZ Vegetarian Society is for everybody. We are inclusive of everyone on the vegetarian path, from those reducing their use of animal products through to vegans.
Though there is a difference between vegetarian and vegan diets, and veganism includes other lifestyle factors, we are all on the same path. Vegans are vegetarians too! Many vegetarians also avoid some other animal products such as leather, fur, eggs or dairy. There is a range of vegetarianism within the broad term “vegetarian”.
The NZ Vegetarian Society is for all vegetarians. We support all types of vegetarians and anyone considering it. We help people to make the change to vegetarianism and/or veganism. Our members, staff and committees include vegans and vegetarians. You can still be a member if you support what we stand for, even if you’re not yet vegetarian yourself.
The NZ Vegetarian Society believes every action that reduces animal deaths is a good one. The fact that we include all vegetarians is one of the things that makes the NZ Vegetarian Society unique and special. And effective.
What do we do?
An amazing environmental charity running a native plant nursery, growing and planting native trees in the reserves, running a community garden and community compost hub to divert food scraps from landfill. And they do all of this by working with hundreds of volunteers, so they can really use your help!
Feed the Need, work with children who are living in poverty. Many have little or no food so Feed the Need are trying to provide food parcels and snack packs so children have food at weekends and after school. All their people are volunteers, so with the exception of accounting fees, all their donations go direct to those in need in New Zealand.
---At Feed the Need, we work with children who are living in poverty. Many have little or no food and we are trying to provide food parcels and snack packs so children have food at weekends and after school. All our people are volunteers, so with the exception of accounting fees, all our donations go direct to those in need in New Zealand.
We are constructing New Zealand's first purpose-built Youth Hub which will house a dozen organisations working on the frontline of youth health and wellbeing. The Youth Hub will provide everything young people aged between 10 and 25 need to improve and maintain their mental health, from supported housing and health and support services to recreation and creativity.
Organisations looking to move into Youth Hub Christchurch include Youthline, 298 Youth Health, Qtopia, Community Law, Family Works, People First New Zealand, Catapult Employment Services, Te Kura, Shakti Youth, Voyce, Nurse Maude school nurses, and Comcol.
We estimate these providers will deliver up to 8,000 youth appointments a year.
A key feature of the Youth Hub is its supported housing facilities. These will provide emergency and transitional housing for up to 40 young people aged between 16 and 23, provided they are actively looking for education, training or work.
For the first time ever, New Zealand has a Junior Roller Derby Team entered in to the Junior Roller Derby World Cup. It's held in Valence, France in July 2023 and we need your help to get us there.
The team is made up of 20 rangatahi from Christchurch to Whangarei and they will be playing against teams from Sweden, Australia, USA, Canada, the United Kingdom and France. They really can't wait to show the world what they're made of, please help us get there. Thank you!
At The Period Place, we encourage stigma-crushing conversations, facilitate the delivery of period education and have distributed over 1.4 million period products in 2.5 years around Aotearoa to those who face barriers accessing them.
From Kaitaia to Dunedin, we donate disposable period products (pads, liners and tampons) and reusable period products (period underwear, menstrual cups, reusable pads and period swimwear) alongside period education through our Impact Partner Programme. Our 85+ partners include food banks, health services, iwi + marae, city missions, whānau services, teen parent units, social workers + more!
We were a part of the petition team to get period products + better period education in schools, have represented New Zealand at the UN related to period poverty in Aotearoa and created our systems-change pathway to achieve the goal of intergenerational period equity for Aotearoa.
Find us on socials @theperiodplace, and on our website www.theperiodplace.co.nz.
BirdCare Aotearoa is a registered charity and Department of Conservation permitted wildlife rehabilitation centre, dedicated to providing professional veterinary care, rehabilitation, and release services for sick, injured, and orphaned wild birds.
We provide an essential service to the community, primarily throughout the greater Tāmaki Makaurau region, as a place where members of the public can bring rescued wild birds seven days a week. We also care for birds transferred from veterinary clinics, SPCA, DoC, and other wildlife rehabilitators.
BirdCare Aotearoa is the largest avian hospital and rehabilitation centre in New Zealand by number of admissions. Last year we cared for 6,710 birds of 175 different species, including many special native and endemic species and their chicks.
Alongside our rehabilitation and release services, we engage in research and advocacy throughout Aotearoa, and provide education and training for other wildlife rehabilitators, veterinarians and allied professionals, wildlife rangers, students, and members of the public. Our kaupapa is to use our strengths and capabilities to protect the welfare of Aotearoa’s wild birds, along with engagement, research and education services for people and communities, ensuring consistency with Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
We have a small, dedicated, essential core team, including veterinary staff, who are supported by a large, diverse team of devoted volunteers. BirdCare Aotearoa encourages positive community spirit, providing community members and teams with a variety of rewarding volunteering opportunities and work experience, from helping to care for our precious patients, to completing maintenance tasks, gardening, cleaning, administration and running errands. We are immensely grateful for the mahi of all our wonderful volunteers!
Through our interface with the public, we play a major role in educating communities on both the human and predator impacts to our taonga bird species, thereby contributing to conservation outcomes. We also undertake plant and animal pest control work in the native bush on the BirdCare Aotearoa property in Green Bay, working closely with community volunteers to restore the mana of the ngahere to Papatūānuku and Tāne Mahuta.
Ngā mihi nui to everyone who supports BirdCare Aotearoa’s mahi saving the lives of wild birds in need!
Tasman Bay Guardians is a registered charitable organisation (CC56139) who offer conservation, education and collaboration services around the abundant and beautiful marine resources on our doorstep. The Experiencing Marine Reserves (EMR) programme connects students to their local environment in a very hands-on, physical way, offering a fun and educational introduction to conservation, recreational snorkelling and swimming as well giving experiential learning which builds confidence interacting within an aquatic environment and an enhanced understanding of our precious marine resources. By giving students the opportunity to see below the surface, students can learn about and physically connect to these essential ecosystems and thereafter educate the wider community. The programme is also designed to gather citizen science data and facilitate environmental action within the region. Tasman Bay Guardians sees that for the long-term success of restoration projects, community engagement needs to run alongside them, particularly among groups of youth with high deprivation who would otherwise not be exposed to this type of outdoor activity. This leads to a community that continues to be engaged and care for these projects into the future.
You can find our introduction video here: https://youtu.be/lpIsl4cYoc0
Statistics tell us that "99 people per day will sustain some form of a brain injury in New Zealand that's one every 15 minutes". And sadly, Northland is overrepresented in these statistics.
Brain injury is often referred to as the "silent epidemic" or "hidden injury" as often there maybe, no visible physical changes to a person. This means a person's behaviour is often in question rather than looking at the reason behind it. The effects of a brain injury on people can be life changing - a person may have memory loss, fatigue, personality changes which can lead to relationship breakdowns, loss of employment, financial problems, and homelessness. The issues can be very complex and often there is no easy fix.
The Brain Injury Association Northland Incorporated is not-for-profit organisation that provides support for individuals who are living with the effects of a brain injury. This support is extended to family, carers and anyone associated with that person's rehabilitation.
We offer practical support. education to understand about the brain injury and its effects. We provide people with the skills to cope and navigate during these often-confusing times. We can advocate on a client's behalf, and make sure they have access to appropriate services.
We run regular monthly support group meetings across all of Te Tai Tokerau. We produce an informative newsletter. We are continually raising public awareness- visit schools, talk to community organisation and are involved in RYDA-road safety educational programme.
www.Braininjurynorthland.org
The Nest Collective gives free baby essentials to families in need.
We have branches in Auckland, Waikato, Gisborne, Kāpiti, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin and we work alongside social workers and community partners to provide free baby essentials for families in need. Our packs include the essentials for the first year of life (and beyond) such as clothing, bedding, books, safety items and more.
1 in 9 children live in households with material hardship, meaning many families face impossible financial decisions, such as choosing between a power bill or warm clothing for their baby. Our packs are designed to reduce inequity, improve living standards for babies, reduce the financial burden for families and allow whānau to focus on other aspects once the essentials are provided.
The evidence is clear that what happens in the first years of life impacts children’s life-long trajectories and early investment in children pays off in the long term for families and society. We exist to intervene early so that every baby thrives.
MusicHelps – Using the power of music to change lives
MusicHelps is a unique charity, dedicated to the power of music.
We develop and support exciting projects that have one thing in common: they change lives through music. With help from our funding partnerships, we make a positive difference to people in need throughout Aotearoa in extraordinary ways.
Our deep connections to the music industry means we are uniquely placed to direct funds and support the worthiest people and music charities.
Our values are clear:
Benevolence, Compassion, Community and Charity – This is the heart of everything MusicHelps does.
Our Mission
“To provide funding support to charitable trusts that work towards improving the lives of New Zealanders with special needs by utilising music in some direct way and helping those New Zealanders to develop as members of the community; and to provide emergency financial assistance to members of the New Zealand music industry who are in need, or suffering hardship, illness or distress.”
Check out www.musichelps.org.nz
Upside Youth Mentoring is changing young lives with ‘What’s up’ and ‘See you next week’. The need for change for young people is massive, Upside Youth Mentoring Aotearoa exists to help change one young life at a time with a consistent and stable mentor/adult relationship to have the most incredible positive effect. That transformative power ripples out through a whānau, through a community and through generations.
Upside’s mission is to support change in Aotearoa’s young people who have adverse childhood experiences. Young people aged 9-13 are referred to Upside because they have been identified as needing a consistent adult in their life to support them through their recovery from the trauma faced in their early years.
These positive relationships are a vital step in countering the impacts of the the various traumas they have lived through. Upside’s mentoring programme sees outcomes including:
Improving educational attainment
Improving physical health
Improving mental health
Avoiding child placement
Avoiding family violence
For moreinformation about Upside, visit www.upside.org.nz
