Author: Boss
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Dan Maireroa Sponsorship
Dan is one of the nine children of Anne-Marie, one of our valued volunteers at Randwick Park Breakfast Club. Dan started Taekwondo in 2012 and quickly rose up the ranks where he is now #1 in New Zealand. This year Dan has been selected to represent New Zealand at the Junior Olympics being help in China. Anne-Marie…
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Breakfast Club 2013 Financials
Due to the increasing level of donations we received during 2013 we decided to create a brochure to let people know what was received and where it went. We place a nominal value on all tangibles such as food, appliances, clothing and furniture etc. received every month, keeping record of where those donations come from and where…
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Christmas Banquet @ Glen Innes School
On the 23rd of December 2013 we held a Christmas Banquet at Glen Innes School (with 300 people attending) after hearing that a number of the families that attended this school either did not celebrate Christmas with a special meal or went into the City Mission Luncheon. What turned out as an idea between my…
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Soo many generous people
At the start of this week we announced our plan to host a Christmas Banquet for the children and families at Glen Innes School. Most of our families can not afford to celebrate Christmas and are unable to attend the City Mission Christmas meal so we decided that having one at the school was the perfect…
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More good will…
This week we had donations from St Columba in Botany Downs. They had four brand new rolls of carpet which we were able to give to a family who just had rough bare boards for the children to sit on. They were gratefully received. They also collected 6 big bags of food shopping for our…
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Food for thought…
We are having a big new push with our food for thought initiative. What’s that I hear you .. well we are working to partner decile 8-10 schools around Auckland with our decile 1 schools in South Auckland. At the moment we have two schools who collect food donations each term for their partner schools…
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The Holidays are here…
Yes the schools are on two weeks holidays, which means that things are a bit quieter at Club head quarters. No rushing off for breakfast club every morning, but we are still out there with food and support. We pick up 8 huge pallets of cereals from Hubbard’s which we will divide out between the schools…
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Sports Academy at Les Mills
It was a fun last week at Randwick school this week. The Sport Academy kids had a blast at Les Mills learning about the gym, trying a bit of boxing and then burning up the last of their energy in a fun dance/exercise class They followed that up with a great tour around eden park, finding…
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Time to get walking
Yes its getting closer we only have a month to go until the big Head to Head walk. Last years fundraising efforts helped us start up the Crackerjack Kids program at Randwick Park . This year the organizers will not only continue to support Randwick Park…