Category: Glen Innes
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Merry Christmas from the Breakfast Club!
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 will be 200 families invited and around 1,000 children…
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Ever wondered what a week in the life of Breakfast Club looks like?
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 to offer a set of goal posts. I…
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Newsletter May 2018… what have we been up to & what are we going to do next?
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 there is no doubt that the most excitement was with the…
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How the Christmas Store went & the Bay to Bay Fun Run
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, St Pius, Tamaki, Te Kohanga (Port Waikato) Schools as…
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Sports Academy
Most of our activities are happening in the area of Sports… and we are blessed to have BLK Sport, Shoe Clinic and the two Rotarys (Auckland East and Epsom) on board. Both of the boys at St Kentigern’s College are fully kitted out with running shoes, rugby boots and training gear from our sponsors… and…
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Ten Days of Shock n Awe
Just prior to Christmas we received a $15,000 donation from someone that wished to remain anonymous… and that kind of started the ball rolling in Christmas and then this happened.
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2014 Christmas Banquet at Glen Innes School
When we came up with the idea of putting on a Christmas Banquet for 600 … we had no idea how we could find about $9,000 to fund it when this happened …