Our partners

Providing a specialised response service, Pillars supports whānau impacted by a family member’s involvement with Ara Poutama, The Department of Corrections. Working from a whānau-centred, strengths-based approach, Pillars addresses a family’s immediate needs and emphasises strengths to give whānau the best possible chance of a successful new start.

Serving families experiencing financial instability, Turtle and Bernie offer practical support with resources that are helpful to the people they serve within their community spaces while seeking to address and reduce child poverty.

Providing front-line services for 122 years, Compassion Soup Kitchen supports with meals, accommodation assistance, budgeting and health services to our most marginalised to fight homelessness and advocate for more inclusive communities.

A harm minimisation service, the Wellington City Mission’s work centres around community and creating safe spaces via their Managed Alcohol Programme and a whāre to call home where alcohol cannot dictate the direction of people’s lives.

We replenish Rainbow Youth’s community wardrobes in Tāmaki Makaurau and Bay of Plenty as and when needed. They are a small team with a big impact, empowering our young people and creating a more diverse and inclusive space for our mvpfaff+ and Māori rangatahi.

Supporting children in the care of someone other than their biological parents, Kids in Need Waikato supplies clothing, shoes, toiletries, stationery, books and toys/games on an ongoing basis in addition to emergency care packs for children recently placed into whanau or foster care.

Offering Level 1 and Level 2 NCEA foundation courses to students who have disengaged from school, the YMCA is able to provide bespoke tuition services, including intensive Literacy and Numeracy courses preparing students for NCEA.

Victim Support's incredible work provides frontline support services to families who are experiencing trauma through family violence. Currently, the organisation's focus is working to assess and identify immediate needs and safety concerns for at-risk whānau.

Working with people both in our communities and in prison, Ara Poutama Aotearoa, Corrections supports some 36,000 individuals via rehabilitation programmes, education and job training, providing opportunities for reintegration, enabling people to start over, and breaking the cycle of offending.

Providing core counselling and social work services alongside group programmes for children, young people, parents/caregivers and families, Family Works also deliveries parenting courses.

Te Whare Korowai (previously The Hamilton Christian Nightshelter Trust) provides accommodation and support for individuals in urgent need of housing. They are a small team with a big impact founded on the belief that everyone deserves a safe, secure home.

Based at Auckland (Starship) Hospital and operated by Te Whatu Ora  Tamaki Makaurau (Auckland), Haumaru Ōrite mō Rangatahi Unit (Haumaru Ōrite) comprises of an open ward, a High Dependency Unit (HDU) and a Mother and Baby Unit with an 18 bed capacity for 11-18 year olds. Within this is the inpatient, child adolescent Mental Health Unit. Admissions vary day to day and as such, having access to clothing for when young people are admitted is a resource the unit did not have before and a tool to assist in improving mental health outcomes.

Kidz First is the local children’s hospital in South Auckland. The Play Specialist service supports patients and their families in the ED and inpatient wards working closely with the multidisciplinary team to ensure families are well supported during their hospital visit.

This small team is doing incredible work that supports vulnerable asylum seekers with emergency housing and other critical humanitarian needs that transforms lives.

Working in partnership between young people, government and the philanthropic and non-government sectors, Voyce advocates for tamariki and rangatahi aged 0-25 to positively influence individual care, campaigning for collective change in the wider care system.

Working alongside various teams of social workers, the hospital is able to provide clothing to patients and their families on a needs basis. Clothing is accessed via their team in addition to the Medical Social Work and Cancer Teams, Māori Health Social Workers and anyone else who asks. Patients often arrive at the hospital with little to no clothes, and in extreme cases, their clothes get cut off by the medical professionals working on them. Previously, it was the staff who organised clothing and cleared their wardrobes out on repeat. We are so happy to be able to support Middlemore and its various teams that provide high-quality medical and emergency care.

Symbolising the interconnectedness and interdependence (like that of harakeke or flax), Kootuitui ki Papakura is unique in its approach, offering wraparound services that integrate education, health, and whanau support, delivering transformative impacts on tamariki, their futures, and the community more broadly. Their mission is to address inequity in our communities and enhance the immediate, mid-, and lifelong outcomes of young people in South Auckland. A grassroots initiative, Kootuitui ki Papakura: Whanaungatanga, provides direct support to a cluster of six low-decile schools in Papakura: Papakura High School, Te Kura Akonga o Manurewa, Edmund Hillary School, Kereru Park Campus, Papakura Central School, and Mangapikopiko School—all with whanau experiencing persistent poverty. We are privileged to be able to provide the material goods vital to their holistic approach, which is essential for empowering young people to reach their full potential.

Te Kōti o Timatanga Hou is a Ministry of Justice role administered by the Salvation Army, working alongside recidivist offenders in the Auckland CBD area who are homeless. Street whanau often present to Te Kōti o Timatanga Hou offices with no possessions other than the clothes they have been wearing for weeks. Being able to access clean, new clothing for court enables their whanau to convey respect for themselves and the court.