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A special collaboration with Downlights

Downlights is a social enterprise that employs young adults with Down syndrome and learning disabilities to manufacture luxury scented soy candles right here in Aotearoa. When you purchase candles from the Common Good Foundation, you're helping to contribute to ongoing employment opportunities for the Downlights crew. Watch this video to learn more about our collaboration.  ...

2024 Grant Recipients

Big Buddy Mentoring TrustCathedral of the Blessed Virgin MaryGraeme Dingle Foundation Waikato*Hamilton Combined Christian Foodbank*Hamilton Pastoral Services TeamHoly Name of Jesus Parish (Raglan)Hope Rising Charitable Farm TrustHuringa Pai Charitable Trust*Kids in Need WaikatoMacKillop Catholic YouthOrange Sky Charitable Trust*Papatuuaanuku Charitable Trust*Refugee Orientation Centre TrustSchool Start 1st ImpressionsTauranga Community Foodbank*Te Hahi Aotearoa Trust*Te Rongopai Community TrustT...

Sunshine Services Inc

Sunshine Service has celebrated a milestone birthday after 40 years on the road. Many of Gisborne’s elderly and disabled rely on their services for transport to medical, recreational, and social appointments.“It’s mind boggling to think how many clients we’ve supported since our first vehicle hit the road 40 years ago, and how many hours people have volunteered over the years to keep our operation running,” says David Dewar, Sunshine Service Manager. A smaller purpose-built vehicle des...

Waikato Family Centre

Waikato Family Centre Caring for mothers and their babies in times of crisis. Waikato Family Centre works centrally in Hamilton from a welcoming villa on Radnor street. The facilities include sleeping rooms for babies and their mothers, a communal kitchen area, and a comfy lounge.The Centre provides daytime assistance and support for families in the community and the greater Waikato region, who are struggling with concerns with their babies and toddlers.The service covers a wide range of Ch...

Kids in Need Waikato

"No child is to be given a rubbish bag to hold their belongings" is Linda Roil's mantra for children placed in foster care. These are now replaced with beautifully constructed colourful sacks filled with a set of pyjamas, clean clothes, shoes, toiletries, books, and toys, with a crafted card attached detailing that the bag belongs to a named child.OperationThe operation is run from a property outside Cambridge, in a purpose-built shed with shelving and mezzanine floors. The donated goods are del...

Huringa Pai

Huringa Pai is an organisation working to support community in the Tairawhiti region. Its overarching aim is to empower women in improving their Fono Fale (well-being).The vision of this charitable trust is to enable whanau to live longer, healthier lives, as it became apparent to Willem Jordaan (the founder of this trust) that many whanau were dying too young. Its focus is to empower them with knowledge as to how to overcome these diseases by walking beside them and to support them in making a ...

Parish of Tongariro Catholic

Parish of Tongariro Catholic have recieved grants for a number of community outreach activities. Grants that they have recieved have be utilised to;support the Tuesday Community Lunch which has now been running successfully for 5 years, catering to those in need of a hot 3 course mealprovide firewood to parishioners in needsupport the Helping Hands outreach (a project through which Parish members prepare meals which have been given to the Turangi Foodbank)support the neighbouring Catholic p...

Orange Sky Volunteers

The wonderful Team at Orange Sky have a simple formula – providing a platform for everyday people to connect through a regular laundry and shower service. Each week all over Aotearoa, hundreds of volunteers come together to ensure that people experiencing homelessness or hardship have a place to access essential services and build genuine connections.Meet the amazing volunteers who work for Orange Sky in supporting those in need....