Our team had an awesome couple of days attending the 2024 Volunteering New Zealand Changemakers Hui - Engage, Unite, Ignite! We learnt a lot from some fantastic speakers on the topics of resilience for community organisations, emergent tech, particularly the evolving AI landscape, valuing volunteers, engaging young volunteers, and new tools for navigating challenging behaviour. Thank you to Volunteering New Zealand and their team for their hard work and organisation in bringing the conference together!
We had a blast at the Selwyn CultureFest 2024! What a great turnout of attendees, and a wonderful celebration of the diversity of the region. Visitors to our stall micro-volunteered by decorating paper Bags of Hope for the Cancer Society, resulting in a large number of beautiful bags! Thank you to everyone who came along.
This year recipients of our Knit for Purpose blankets were organisations providing hospital support - Nurse Maude, Burwood Spinal Trust, Ronald McDonald House, and Ranui House. We also provided blankets to Qtopia and Nest Collective for the people they support.
In 2024, the team of amazing Knit for Purpose volunteers donated 1,913 knitted or crocheted squares, which were stitched into 34 cosy blankets!
A massive thank you to all those involved. Your kindness has made the world a warmer, better place.
What an incredible afternoon celebrating the volunteers of Ōtautahi Christchurch and surrounding Districts, at our 2024 Volunteer Recognition Awards! Congratulations to the 52 Award recipients for their incredible Mahi!
Special thanks goes to:
Mayor Phil Mauger and Christchurch City Council for supporting our event;
Mandy Kennedy, CEO of Bone Marrow Cancer Trust, Ranui House - our wonderful Guest Speaker;
Luka Willems - our delightful and very entertaining StarJam performer;
Tina Cooper - thte designer and creator of our beautiful Harakeke Clusters;
Mandy Caldwell - our amazing photographer!
There was a buzz in the air on 8th June, World Wide Knit in Public Day, as our wonderful micro-volunteers got together for Knit for Purpose! We were joined by Emily from Star Media who was as delighted as we were to see so many volunteers coming together Make Their Mahi Have Meaning, resulting in 1,913 knitted or crocheted squares, and 34 finished blankets! Thank you to everyone who participated, we have been blown away once again by your incredible work! ❤️