News & Events

Hospices throughout the country have once again been overwhelmed and humbled by the support from Farmers Department Stores and their customers in the lead up to Christmas.  More than $759,000 was donated towards the end of 2019.  This is the sixth year that Farmers has raised funds for hospice and to date has generated more than $4.2M to help keep services free of charge.  One ...

Family and friends of the late Julie Gray had launched a Give a Little page to support Julie and her husband Ted.  Sadly Julie passed away, and it was decided by the family to donate the money raised to Hospice Taranaki in recognition of the care Julie had received.   Thank you so much Bonnie Kahui and the rest of your family and friends, for the generous donation of $2,873.   ...

Before Christmas Rose Whitaker, Hospice Marketing & Promotions Co-ordinator, was contacted by Patricia Fogelman, Director of the Palliative Medicine Programme at The Guthrie Clinics in Pennsylvania.  She was wanting five of our lovely 2019 Christmas baubles to be sent to her to be used as holiday gifts for her team.  Patricia has been following us on Facebook and saw a stor ...

Hospice Taranaki is looking for an outgoing and friendly person to manage their community patient equipment and vehicle fleet.   This role is for 16 hours per week, days/times to be worked out with the appointee, based at Te Rangimarie in David Street. Key tasks will be: managing all aspects of outward/inward movement of loan equipment to patients and their families maint ...

Fantastic day on Sunday 5th January at New Plymouth Bowling Club. Great support from the community with teams from all over the province participating. Summary of the day would include the exceptional skills shown on the greens, the camaraderie, respect and how well organised the event was. A highlight was not just the occasional really good bowl but the wonderful scones for mo ...

farewell Clare and Christine

We have a fondness for community organised events; they help to raise our profile, widen our networks and provide positive media coverage.   "If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito" - Betty Reese.   ...

Our retail group has completed a very successful year of sales, expansion and repositioning in the highly competitive charity shop sector.  A review was completed around shop signage, product range, pricing and how we present our shop environments.  These are changes are now almost completely integrated across our network.  We opened a new retail shop in Waitara in Princess St ...

Service Review and Development Triaging of Referral Pilot Project - February-May 2019 A review of the processes involved in triaging of incoming referrals was piloted from mid-February 2019 and ran for 3 months.  It provided effective evaluation of current processes and trial of new processes, aimed at managing patients with more complex needs.  Referrals for patients with no ...