Auckland’s Starship children’s hospital has received a double benefit from a raffle at New Zealand Single Width Users’ Group conference in July.
In addition to the $2500 from raffling a huge wooden Maori taonga carved by APN Print Ellerslie’s Phil Ost, retailer Noel Leemings has given four PlayStations to be used by children receiving treatment.
SWUG chairman Dan Blackbourn says the $1250 raffle proceeds had been matched by SWUG so that a total of $2500 was donated to Starship. “We are delighted to recognise the organisations and the people in the wider community who are making a difference, and Starship and its staff are doing exactly that,” he says.
“The work they do with children in need of specialist care is amazing.”
Part of the proceeds have already been put to buying a freezer to be used by the families that stay in the hospital while their children are receiving treatment. The partnership with Noel Leemings marketing general manager Maryanne Smith led to the donation of the PlayStations, for which SWUG purchased universal remotes.
Pictured: (from left): Dan Blackbourn, Starship blood and cancer centre paediatric haematology/oncology charge nurse manager Amber Conley, and SWUG committee members Danny Trainor, Ian Gibson, Sue Archibald and John Green