📢 Join Our Board – Make a Difference in Hospice Care 💙

By Gemma Vallender on March 13, 2025
Arohanui Hospice is looking for passionate and skilled individuals to join our Board of Trustees. This is an opportunity to contribute your expertise and help shape the future of hospice care in our community. If you have governance experience and a commitment to meaningful end-of-life care, we’d love to hear from you. Find out more […]

We were given so much, so you give back

By Gemma Vallender on December 16, 2024
Three years sounds a long time, but when it’s all the time you have left with your mother, every day is precious. Jeanette Tootell was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2021, and her family gathered. Son Brendan said his sister came from Nelson, his brother from the United Kingdom, and they spent time with Jeanette […]

Rent donation helps Arohanui Hospice

By Gemma Vallender on December 11, 2024
Hosting friends while their new house was being built turned into an Arohanui Hospice fundraising opportunity for Val van der Donk of Otaki beach. Val’s friends needed a place to live for a couple of months, so Val offered her sleepout as a rental. But the building project underwent typical building project delays, and the […]

The Royal Sugar Cupcakes: Matilda and Harper’s Sweet Journey of Giving Back

By Gemma Vallender on November 28, 2024
Year 4 students Matilda Waite and Harper Bradnock from College Street Normal School have proven that with determination, creativity, and a sprinkle of sugar, even the smallest hands can make the biggest difference. Through their cupcake venture, The Royal Sugar Cupcakes, these young entrepreneurs raised an incredible $1188.40 for Arohanui Hospice, spreading joy one sweet […]

Arohanui Hospice encourages community to “Buy Nothing New” this October

By Gemma Vallender on September 24, 2024
In a drive to promote sustainability and support local charities, Arohanui Hospice is encouraging the community to participate in Buy Nothing New October. Throughout the month, locals are invited to visit one of Arohanui Hospice’s four shops and purchase quality second-hand items, with all proceeds supporting the hospice’s essential work. Buy Nothing New October is […]

A little bit of paradise

By Gemma Vallender on June 26, 2024
For most people being at home while they are on their end of life journey is important to them; this is no different for Andy and it’s easy to see why. Andy and Tracy live in the old Raumai School which has been uniquely transformed into their home. They have over the years, shared their […]

The Hair Market paying it forward

By Gemma Vallender on August 9, 2023
Not many who frequent a hair salon stop to think about the number of empty bottles and used hair foils that salons go through.   Michelle Boudreau, from The Hair Market, has and has done something about it, all while finding a way to pay it forward. In December 2021, Arohanui Hospice gratefully received a monetary […]

Meet Faith and Keith Martin

By Gemma Vallender on August 9, 2023
Volunteering is in the blood for husband-and-wife duo Keith and Faith Martin, who both have always looked to help their community. Faith joined hospice as a volunteer in 2013 and Keith followed only a couple of months later. When asked what the biggest highlight has been for each of them, they beam. You can feel […]

A little means a lot

A little means a lot

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