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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 lifetime dedicated to fundraising

By Megan Smith on March 14, 2022
Humble, generous, dedicated, passionate a true legend. This is Roger Clausen. A man that has been a dedicated advocate for Arohanui Hospice, for over 28 years. This dedication has not only included fundraising a large amount of money, $260,000.00 to be exact, he has also been engaging the community and educating individuals all over the […]

Feilding Friends' phenomenal fundraising efforts

By Megan Smith on March 14, 2022
Feilding Friends of Hospice is the kind of community-led fundraising group Arohanui Hospice is eternally grateful for. Formed in October 1989 under the chairmanship of Garry Klee, their original goal was to help raise enough money to complete the construction of the Arohanui Hospice building at 1 Heretaunga Street. Fast forward to present day and […]

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 […]
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