Our partners
Over the last two years, we began supporting other community organisations in their initiatives by sending clothing where required. No one provides full support; usually, there is a focus, whether it be mental health, meals, emergency accommodation or social support services. Because when more of us come together, we can provide more care.
Our vision is to find like-minded partners throughout Aotearoa, New Zealand and to expand our current services to more neighbourhoods and regions. By working with families, we are reaching children, working to reduce the disadvantage at disproportionate levels that is the silent undercurrent of child poverty. Working with more families, we are working with communities as they change the future for the next generation.
Pillars Ka Pou Whakahou
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.
Give A Kid A Blanket
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.
Compassion Soup Kitchen
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.
Te Pā Maru, Wellington City Mission
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.
Rainbow Youth
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.
Kids in Need Waikato
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.
YMCA Education
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 - The Co-Response Car Team
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.
Ara Poutama Aotearoa, Department of Corrections
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.
Family Works, Presbyterian Support Northern
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 Taangata o Kirikiriroa
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.
The Front Door
Kick Back is a youth development project that recently opened its space, The Front Door, on Karangahape Road, providing at-risk young people with vital, wrap-around support, paving the way for a better tomorrow. We stock their central community wardrobe that will serve young people who cannot afford the basics.
Play Specialist Service, Kidz First Children’s Hospital, Middlemore
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.
Asylum Seekers Support Trust
This small team is doing incredible work that supports vulnerable asylum seekers with emergency housing and other critical humanitarian needs that transforms lives.
VOYCE Whakarongo Mai
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.