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The Acorn Project Hawke’s Bay

  • Its been a while...so much to share

      23 May 2024
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    Hi everyone,

    The Acorn Project is growing not only in the numbers of members we are supporting (45 individuals between Jan -mid may 24) but in the support we are offering and also the staff we have working hard, face to face, here locally in Hawke's Bay. With our increase in members this year alone we have just employed our third staff member to ensure we can provide our high level of support and individual service we pride ourselves on.

    We have opened our support to children under the age of 12 with a parent/main carer diagnosed with cancer or who has passed away from cancer. They are called our Saplings and are supported separately from our older age group 12-25 yrs. We checked with other charities and organisations and nobody else was working with these children or intended to so we decided we would offer them tailored support that they needed and deserved too.

    We are also running 16+ catch ups, we still have 2 camps each year for our 12-25yrs and a annual Sapling Sleepover too.

    For our parents/ carers we are providing them with 1-1 support and guidance, we have a variety of parent/carer groups, which support their different needs too.

    We have more ideas and plans but we need to secure more funding to do this.

    All your donations are making this happen, and are helping us to grow our service and being able to continue to support our members under the age of 25 and their family living with cancer in Hawke's Bay and for that we are very grateful.

    Kerrie - Founder and YW

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  • The Acorn Project big Move

      4 July 2021

    We are moving to bigger premises on the 12th of July due to the growth of our membership and needing to have a larger space to continue the support we give.

    We are looking for donations to help improve our new space and make it our members ew safe place to be

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  • New Fund Raiser for the Acorn Project Hawkes Bay COVID hair growth prompts shave for charity challenge

      12 February 2021
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    COVID hair growth prompts shave for charity challenge

    While most Kiwis were ecstatic to get a haircut following our national COVID lockdown in 2020, Hawke’s Bay DHB Head of Finance Chris Comber was so busy getting through the daily workload he gave up on booking an appointment and decided to go a year without a haircut.

    “We came out of lockdown at the end of April then all of a sudden it was August, which is when colleagues and family members started looking at me sideways and asking questions about my shaggy hair – some positive, others not so,” he quips.

    “I just decided at that point it might be interesting to grow it for the remainder of the year with the intention of getting it cut in January, but then colleagues at our Christmas party suggested shaving my head for charity which I embraced straight away.”

    Chris, who is a proud father to 8 year-old Harrison and 14- year-old Isobella, Husband to Debbie and a leader with Greendale/Tamatea Scout Group, says it wasn’t hard finding a charity to support.

    “I wanted to do something to support children because I work with youth so much in my spare time, so I did some research and found a local charity which supports young people and their families living with cancer called The Acorn Project Hawke’s Bay.

    “Acorn is essentially the local charity on the ground in Hawke’s Bay now which replaces Canteen who have moved to a digital support service.

    “The aim is obviously to raise as much for The Acorn Project as possible – they are offering amazing support services to local families and I’d love to see as many people as possible get behind their great work.”

    Chris’ shave the shaggy hair day will be held on Friday 26 February. (More details to come).

    Fundraising Target: $5000 minimum but if $20,000 is reached, Executive Director Finance Carriann Hall has committed to getting a #1 shave on the day also!

    Making a donation to the cause is easy - simply click on the Givealittle link here https://givealittle.co.nz/org/the-acorn-project

    The DHB will be in regular contact with The Acorn Project Hawke’s Bay founders to update on how we’re tracking with our donation targets. Let’s get to $20,000!!

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