Meet the Team
While Breakfast Club started with just Steve and eight kids, it’s now grown to a huge network of volunteers who help feed kids, ferry donations all around Auckland and assist in the myriad of tasks involved in assisting Principals across seven schools in Auckland
Steve Farrelly
A former Detective Sergeant in the NZ Police, Steve came back from a trip to the USA in 2007 with the enthusiasm to duplicate what he witnessed at the Dream Center in Los Angeles – and also later on at St Louis Dream Center – in a kiwi way. Their quote “Find a Need and Fill it … Find a Hurt and Heal it” was going to be his quote too.
Steve, along with his wife Brenda, created Breakfast Club in July 2010 starting at Randwick Park School, and quickly spreading to the Glen Innes area with the support of both Kym Samuels of New World Eastridge, Rotary Clubs (Epsom and East Auckland), Hubbards and St Kentigern College.
In 2019 Breakfast Club is now in six schools in South and East Auckland and also plays a supportive role alongside St Kentigern College in four others.
Nana K
Nana K is everyone’s nana – even the bread man calls her Nana! She has many grandchildren of all nationalities – Indians, Chinese, Samoan. From Monday to Friday she runs the Breakfast Club at Randwick Park School where she feeds children before they start school. On Saturdays, she is at the park with lollies and chips and other goodies for the children.
Nana loves Breakfast Club “When I enter that school gate, all my troubles and worries disappear. I can be putting cereal and milk in bowls and the kids will stand behind me and give me a hug. Other times I can be sitting talking to someone and one will be on this arm and another one on that leg. Sometimes I think that is often just what they need – a hug. We all do sometimes, don’t we?”
Postie (Pat) Daniels
Postie has lived in the Glen Innes Area for over 40 years and has a close relationship with both parents and grandparents of most of the school children at Glen Innes School (and others).
She has been part of Breakfast Club since 2013. Her official role at Glen Innes School is to oversea truancy and also runs the Food Bank that caters for 8 schools and two Charities distributing food on Thursdays.
Larelle Carr
Larelle oversees the Supermarkets that donate to Breakfast Club, visiting them weekly, namely Stonefields, Eastridge and Newmarket New Worlds.
She also keeps an eye on needs that come to her attention in the west of Auckland, as well as supporting Postie with the weekly Food Hampers.
