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Meet our volunteers: Jeff, our handyman

By Megan Smith on March 14, 2022
Meet Jeff Miller, long-time volunteer here at Arohanui Hospice. I had the pleasure of sitting down with Jeff to find out a bit about him. Generally the first question I ask is, ‘why did you become a volunteer?’ Jeff smirked and told me it’s a long story. It’s not. After a couple of major health […]

Paying it forward one cake at a time

By Megan Smith on March 14, 2022
When a patient asked us to help make his dream of marrying his long-time love come true, we had no idea the cake baker who would help us would have her own story of hospice. This beautiful story came from Aimee Waite of the Wildflower Cakery. “The opportunity to make a wedding cake came about […]

Arohanui Hospice Board welcomes new trustee

By Megan Smith on February 2, 2022
The Arohanui Hospice Board welcomed its newest trustee, Dr Curtis Walker, at its first meeting for 2022 last night, via Zoom. Board Chair Lorraine Vincent says Dr Walker’s arrival completes two years of significant succession planning and governance changes for the Board. Dr Walker (Te Whakatōhea rāua ko Ngāti Porou) is a general physician and […]

Arohanui Hospice encourage community to visit Tree of Remembrance

By Megan Smith on December 2, 2021
Arohanui Hospice’s Trees of Remembrance will be blessed tomorrow Wednesday, 1 December, outside Farmers stores in Palmerston North and Levin. Arohanui Hospice Chief Executive, Clare Randall, says Farmers department store has teamed up with hospice services across Aotearoa for the 8th year, to help raise funds in support of keeping hospice services free of charge. […]

Veteran fundraiser retires as trustee of Arohanui Hospice

By Megan Smith on December 2, 2021
Long-time Arohanui Hospice trustee Roger Clausen has retired as a board member of Arohanui Hospice. Roger has been a long-time supporter of Hospice, having been on the board for 28 years and held the position of chairman for eight years. Current board chair, Lorraine Vincent, says she has been incredibly privileged to work alongside Roger […]

Meet our volunteers: Sew On

By Megan Smith on November 26, 2021
Meet ‘Sew On’ a group of volunteers who have been meeting for 3 years in a bustling workshop above our Lombard/Walding St shop in Palmerston North. Think Santa’s workshop - if everything were fabric. They’ve created a labour of love, upcycling donated clothing and fabrics that would otherwise not sell. Everything is donated, apart from […]
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