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Just reward
Whangaparaoa School staff (pictured) get ready to enjoy cake for morning tea, courtesy of House of Travel. House of Travel Orewa saw a photo of staff wearing their newly-purchased hospice t-shirts in the Hibiscus Coast Hospice newsletter and decided to reward them for supporting the charity.
Celebration time!
House of Travel won the inaugural Prime Minister’s Social Hero Award at the Robin Hood Social Hero Awards in Auckland recently.
Four Hospice New Zealand representatives attended the awards dinner with five House of Travel staff. Pictured, from back left, are Hospice New Zealand president Wilf Marley, Hospice New Zealand national funding manager Rachel Thompson, Hospice South Auckland chairman John Savory, Katrina Cole House of Travel owner-operator Katrina Cole and marketing director Chris Sutton. In front, from left, are House of Travel direct marketing assistant Bianca George, House of Travel Ellerslie owner-operator Glen Armstrong, Hospice New Zealand chief executive Mary Schumacher and House of Travel PR manager Niki Schuck.
Road trip
House of Travel marketing went on a road trip to visit the team at Kaipara Palliative Care, its affiliated hospice, for an informal dinner and chance to meet together as a group. The meeting was an opportunity to discuss how HOT can better help with its marketing of services to the community and how the marketing team can help them to achieve future projects. Sharing dinner and ideas the evening was a great success.
Wine function
The HOT Remuera team were recently engaged in some fundraising for hospice at the Wines of the World function in Remuera.
Cycle race
Twenty House of Travel staff, some family members and three Buller West Coast Home Hospice Trust trustees took to their bikes recently to raise more than $6500 for hospice.
Twenty House of Travel staff, some family members and three Buller West Coast Home Hospice Trust trustees took to their bikes recently to raise more than $6500 for hospice.
House of Travel’s Westport manager Mark Davidson, Greymouth manager Ann Campbell and Hokitika manager Kevin Stevenson rallied their troops together, dusted off their bikes and set out gathering sponsorship, pledges, the odd bribe and promises of money of each kilometre cycled. The 100km ride, set to become an annual event, wound through spectacular coast road scenery from Westport to Greymouth. Riders teamed up in pairs and rode sections of 10km each.
HOT dogs for hospice!
Mel Allan, Tracee Clayton and Bethany Yee from HOT Christchurch City had fun at the New Zealand Triathlon race at Corsair Bay in Christchurch. A fundraising hot dog stand for hospice proved a great success.
Thanks!
Al Yesberg from HOT Broadway (pictured right) presents a cheque for $550 to Arohanui Hospice chief executive Adrian Broad. The money was proceeds from their recent art raffle.
Kite day
The second annual Big Kids’ Kite Day, organised by House of Travel and Orbit Corporate Travel Auckland, was a special family day to raise much-needed funds for Mercy Hospice Auckland. The day was very successful and about $5000 was raised.
Classic drive
Six staff from HOT and Orbit in Nelson, plus two from HOT Motueka and four from HOT Richmond worked as runners collecting money on the Stoke route of the Lord Nelson classic car club drive. About 325 cars were involved. Wearing their hospice t-shirts, the HOT staff helped collect more than $3400 for Nelson Region Hospice.
Charity event successful
HOT Papakura, Katrina Cole HOT, HOT Manukau and HOT Howick attended a Hospice South Auckland charity auction. A total of $110,000 was raised with the main auction item, organised by the HOT outlets, being two economy tickets to London and seven nights on board ‘The World’ in a one-bedroom suite. This fetched $27,000!
Sailing away
Thanks to the generousity of several HOT outlets and Holland America a total of $60,000 was raised for hospice. An exclusive opportunity to tour the MS Statendam during an Auckland to Sydney voyage, followed by a three course lunch was readily accepted as she stopped at ports throughout NZ.