23-24 NOVEMBER 2024
Chosen Charities
The following charities were chosen to be the recipients of this years' Auckland Garden DesignFest's fundraising activities.
Youthline is a "with youth, for youth" group dedicated to supporting young people throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. With over 50 years of experience, they have been helping Kiwis between the ages of 12 and 24.
Their mission is to support all young people, whether they're dealing with mental health challenges or other issues; or simply looking for opportunities to learn, grow, and give back to their community.
They offer a range of free services, including a Helpline for text, phone, webchat, and email support. Additionally, they provide face-to-face counselling, youth mentoring, and school and community programs designed to foster growth and development.
As a registered charity, they rely on the generosity of partners, funders, and supporters to continue their work with young New Zealanders.
Oke provide Kiwi kids the opportunity to learn life and social skills by introducing sustainable “outdoor classrooms” into schools. By giving the kids the tools to learn, Oke are empowering schools and communities to grow essential life and social skills, ultimately providing a better place for everyone.
Oke plans to give every kiwi kid an outdoor classroom.
Oke aims to inspire and educate our tamariki on the importance of sustainable agriculture, environmental stewardship, and community engagement. They strive to create safe and nurturing outdoor spaces where children can connect with nature, develop life skills, and build meaningful relationships with their peers.
Through Growing A Future, Oke deliver an outdoor classroom to each school, enabling the kids, teachers and local community to get growing. The garden is built through a community working bee (in just ONE day) and includes all that is required to make it sustainable; raised beds, greenhouse, composting solutions, kids tools, teacher tools, irrigation, fruit trees etc.
Each Growing a Future project for a school is worth over $25,000. Oke works hard all year to raise enough funds so their “Growing a Future” gardens are a minimal cost to the schools. We are very grateful to work with some amazing sponsors, funders, volunteers and contributors who support us to make this possible.
Garden to Table is a charitable trust that empowers tamariki across Aotearoa to grow, harvest, prepare and share fresh food.
Their programme enables schools and kura throughout the motu to deliver, embed and sustain impactful food education. By taking learning out of the classroom, they help Kiwi kids develop essential life skills and build resilience.
These positive impacts radiate far beyond the school gates - to whānau, the wider community, and the planet - ultimately enabling a more sustainable, equitable and climate-friendly social and economic future.
Garden to Table's dream is for every child in Aotearoa to have the opportunity and resources to grow and share their own fresh kai as part of daily life.
At Dove Hospice & Wellness, we consider ourselves to be a holistic hospice.
Traditionally, Hospice cares for people at the end of life. We are different because we support people who have a terminal diagnosis and also those who expect a full recovery. We also ‘bridge the gap’ that exists between diagnosis and end of life, or between diagnosis, treatment and wellness. This ‘gap’ can be months, even years, during which time the effects of illness and treatment are life changing. We call this service “The Dove Model of Care”.
Dove House is our day facility where we deliver the Dove Model of Care through a range of integrative holistic therapies, emotional and spiritual support, medical and nursing advice, group work and educational programmes.
Dove Wing is our 24-hour care unit for respite and end of life care. Collaboration is a key feature of the care at Dove House and Dove Wing. We focus on holistic wellbeing, we support and complement services provided by the specialist hospices and in turn we are supported and complemented by them. The Clinical Team also works closely with a variety of support agencies to ensure the effective use of resources and skills and wraparound support for patients and families.
Dove Hospice & Wellness is a standalone, registered charitable trust. As our model of care falls outside traditional government funding, we rely totally on the gift of time from volunteers, the gift of product to our Dove Hospice Shops, fundraising, grants, bequests and donations.
The Rotary Club of Newmarket was formed in 1945 and since then its members have been involved in many community projects similar to the Auckland Garden DesignFest.
Rotary's main function as an organisation is to provide its members with the opportunity to be of service to the community either locally or internationally. There are over 30,000 Rotary clubs worldwide providing substantial benefits to mankind.
The Auckland Garden DesignFest is a project that will provide much needed funds to the selected charities so they can have the greatest positive influence for their communities. The Rotary Club of Newmarket is privileged to be associated with the Auckland Garden DesignFest.
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