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Community House
Awareness Week
During September we will be holding our annual
Awareness Week and will be out and about in the community
spreading the word about the work we do and selling tickets for
our amazing raffles. As always our friends at Orewa Kiwibank
will be hosting us outside their premises and we will also be in
Coast Plaza, Whangaparaoa and outside the Warehouse in
Silverdale where we will also be putting on a sausage sizzle.
This is our major fundraising activity for the year and we hope
for lots of support. (We also hope for good weather!) |
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Venue Hire
Opportunity
Do you need a venue on a weekly basis for a
group or course? Our childcare building on the corner of
Centreway Road is currently available during the day on
Tuesdays, as well as every evening. While it is not suitable for
disabled people it is very versatile in other respects. See our
Childcare page for photographs and Services page for rates and
description.
Our main site meeting room is also available now on a
Thursday evening. Be in quickly if you are interested in booking
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New Initiative to
Help Parents
We have recently started a new initiative to
help parents with the cost of their children's education. As we
all know uniforms, stationery, trips, camps, school fees and
other extra expenses can mount up, especially if there is more
than one child in the family. This often means stress for
parents or caregivers and sometimes means that the child misses
out. We do not work directly with families so came up with a new
idea to try and help through the school. We have already built a
relationship with Stanmore Bay Primary School and Gulf Harbour
Primary School so selected them as our first recipients. Both
principals were keen to participate and agreed to deliver the
assistance on our behalf. Consequently we donated a day's
takings from our Community Shop to each school. Earlier in the
year we also received a very generous donation from a supporter
who wished us to assist vulnerable children so added some extra
funds from this. It gave us great pleasure to present over $750
to each school and we hope that several families will be able to
receive support in the months ahead. Next year we will look at
offering the same opportunity to other schools in our area. This
initiative complements our Community Donation Scheme and is only
possible through the support we receive ourselves, hence our
motto HELP US HELP OUR COMMUNITY.
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