Events

12/11/2008 Charity Singles Mingles Party Charity Singles Mingles Party - a great time for anyone over 25yrs was held as a Time to Remember Event. This raised over $900. You can see from the photo what a great time this was. Thank you to Sue Verbeet for working so hard to put this event together. There were a number of organisations who contributed very generously to this event - Thank you to you all including Mad Toms

12/11/2008 Tree of Remembrance Tree of Remembrance Christmas trees will be placed around the province; Waitara, Opunake public Library 15th - 19th, New Plymouth Centre City 6th - 21st December. These Trees are an opportunity for people to take a moment to remember a loved one who has passed away. A gold coin donation is made and a "present" placed on the tree for them. The trees will later be taken down and the "presents" blessed with ashes scattered around Te Rangimarie.

7/10/2008 Time to Remember Events It is great to see that Time to Remember hosts and guests are having such fun. There has been a big variety of styles of events. Thank you to all of you great hosts for organising Time to Remember events; high teas, dinner parties, office/work morning teas, pot luck luncheon, afternoon teas ... the list goes on. the money is slowly coming in and when the final figures are in I will let you know how much we have raised.

20/08/2008 Celebrity Hosts of Time to Remember thank you to our celebrity hosts: Peter Tennent - Mayor of New Plymouth, John Edwards, Mayor of Stratford, Ross Dunlop, Mayor of South Taranaki all for hosting Time to Remember events to raise funds ensuring we can continue our great service for Pallative Care.

20/08/2008 Great success - Add a $ New Plymouth City New World during October gave shoppers the opportunity to donate to us by adding a $ at the checkout. This was a great success raising over $2000.

23/06/2008 Time to Remember - Thank you Thank you to everyone who hosted or attended a Time to Remember event in October or even November. Time to Remember really is the easiest way to raise money to keep hospice care free of charge and to celebrate life with the people you care about. There are no rules! Your "time" can be whatever you desire - a bbq, picnic, formal dinner party, afternoon tea, brunch at a restaurant. Register by phone Mary or Rose on (06) 753 7830 or e-mail rose.whitaker@hospicetaranaki.org.nz All you have to do is choose what suits you best, invite people you care about, collect their donations and have a super fun time doing it!