Telling Mary Potter Hospice’s Story
Faced with a limited time to live, people experience a host of very significant and challenging changes. We stand alongside them, supporting and assisting their quality of life, their dying and their bereavement. Mary Potter Hospice looks after one in three people who die in Porirua.
Mucking in at Martinborough marae
A marae’s role as a focal point for the community took on added meaning at Martinborough’s Hau Ariki Marae in May with hundreds of volunteers lending a hand to support a major makeover.
Thank You Trust House
Birthright Wellington Incorporated is a not for profit community social services organisation dedicated to the well-being of children and young people that are living in families that are led by one person.
Wairarapa Track and Field
Wairarapa Track and Field aims to provide an experience that is fun, supportive and progressive which develops your child to the best that they can be. We do this by providing opportunities for kids to participate in Athletics through events, developmental opportunities in schools and opportunities to be competitive.
Disability Resource Centre HB Trust
Disability Resource Centre HB Trust (DRC – Living Life Connected), promotes independence by offering a quality service to enhance inclusion in the Hawke’s Bay community. Its vision is a society that is good for and to all. It provides a quality employment service, enables people with disabilities to achieve their aspirations, provides free, objective information to people with disabilities, and provides a positive, caring and supportive environment.
Trust House helps serve up new courts
Long gone are the days when tennis racquets were packed away at the end of season and left to gather dust over winter.
Wairarapa Boxing Academy
Wairarapa Boxing Academy
Wai Games create big stage for Years 7 & 8
A Wairarapa winter sports tournament for Year 7 and 8 students has the potential to attract schools from all over the lower North Island.
Organisers of the inaugural Wai Games, scheduled for the Term Two school holidays in July, believe the region has the facilities and infrastructure to successfully host such a tournament annually.
Voice for children at Women’s Refuge
A newly appointed child advocate will be a “big boost” to the help and support Wairarapa Women’s Refuge can provide children and young people.
Big Brothers Big Sisters
Big Brothers Big Sisters Hawke’s Bay make meaningful, supervised matches between adult volunteers and tamariki (young people) ages 6 through to 12. We develop positive relationships that have a direct and lasting effect on the lives of tamariki.
The CareVets Charitable Foundation
The CareVets Charitable Foundation is a non-profit charity and was set up by the directors of CareVets veterinary clinics to provide for the welfare of animals in New Zealand.
The Aquadome story
In 1959 a swimming and diving pool was constructed on the side of the hill alongside Wellington East Girls College (WEGC). It was an outdoor, unheated concrete pool built by hand.