BNI has been supporting hospice since 2005, officially becoming a national partner in 2007. Over those six years BNI has donated more than $440,000 to support our work.
Once again during 2010 BNI Chapters throughout the country worked exceptionally hard raising funds for their partnered hospice and nationally BNI supported the Palliative Care Scholarship Programme - in total over $129,000 was donated.
Here is a selection of the many chapter activities that supported hospice during 2010.
The Wellington and Kapiti Chapters raised over $12,500 for Mary Potter Hospice through an auction, black tie fancy dress, breakfast and a lawn bowls event.
Hawkes Bay Chapter collected donations at their meeting and gave $1000 in support of Cranford Hospice
The Waterfront Chapter in Auckland held an auction raising $1000 for Eastern Bays Hospice.
Hospice South Auckland received $16,831 from several chapters in their area – activities included high tea, auctions, a golf day, poker night, trivia night and auction.
The Deep South and Invercargill Chapters worked very closely with Hospice Southland running an auction, supporting appeal week and a long breakfast. A total of $5400 was donated.
Joker poker, a fantasy fancy dress pot luck dinner and auction and member donations contributed to $3500 being donated to Hospice West Auckland from the New Lynn, Titirangi, Waitakere City and West is Best Chapters.
Tree Town and Waikato Metro chapters donated $7755 to Hospice Waikato from a dinner auction and other functions throughout the year.
Success Like No Other raised $2195 for Hospice Taranaki through a quiz night and World Hospice Day Concert.
Whakatane Chapter built and raffled a playhouse which raised $9743 for Hospice Eastern Bay of Plenty.
The Riverside and Whangarei Chapters donated just over $2,000 to support North Haven Hospice
Business Boomers, Epsom, Metro, Ponsonby and Probiz in Auckland donated a total of $6920 to Mercy Hospice Auckland from several raffles and a charity auction.
$11,885 was donated to North Shore Hospice by the five chapters who spent time raising funds during 2010. Albany Commercial, Mairangi Bay, Millennium Chapter, Next Level and Shore City.
Te Omanga Hospice received a substantial donation from the Lower Hutt based chapters who worked very hard to raise over $21,000. A joint effort between chapters saw an auction and a series of collections contribute to this impressive total.
Several of the Nelson and Blenheim based Chapters ran a variety of events and raised a total of nearly $2,500 for Nelson Region Hospice and Hospice Marlborough.
