Operation Attend is a Police Operation carried out yearly throughout New Zealand, in an effort to curb truancy. In Glen Innes we do things differently than the rest of New Zealand, and as such are the only district with the results that children are returning to...
First a Merry Christmas from all of us at Breakfast Club! Christmas Store Less than a month out from our Christmas Store (22 December) and we have reached our $20,000 budget thanks to a few very generous corporate donors (5 donors together gave $10,000). There...
A bit of history... In 2013 Breakfast Club put on a Christmas Banquet at Glen Innes School and invited 250 family members from some of the highest needs families living in Glen Innes, Glen Taylor and St Pius Schools. It was a wonderful event delivered in the spirit...
People often say - what do you do in a normal week Steve? So here’s a list of what Breakfast Club did in our communities last week: Monday 7.30am Glen Innes School Breakfast Club Uplift grocery credits from New World Eastridge St Kentigern School ring Breakfast Club...
Almost half way through 2018 and we are already starting to plan for the Christmas Store again. Christmas Store 2017 This was our most successful Christmas event, with 160 families invited and 700 children. Most families left with over $500 worth of groceries but...
Christmas Store On the 23rd of December 2017 we ran our third Christmas Store at Glen Innes School, and invited 160 families and 700 children along. The families were selected by the School Social Worker and the Principal. We had families from Glen Innes, Glen Taylor,...
When Breakfast Club started at Glen Innes School in 2013, we heard that a large number of families at that school do not celebrate Christmas as they can not afford to. Immediately that Christmas, on the 23rd of December we put on a Banquet for 150 people. The...
Te Kohanga is a small rural primary school which sits near the Waikato River. The school is 15 minutes away from its closest town, Port Waikato, a popular West Coast surf beach. The school is situated at the foot of a mountain and surrounded by farm land with the...
As usual, I must apologise for my tardiness in getting out a newsletter before now. My main problem is finding the time from being out on the road to sitting down putting my ideas into words. Hopefully now, with a new team member on board, that time will be found....
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