COMMUNITY
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others?”
Martin Luther King
1% for charity
We donate one percent of our net profits to charity.
It's a small way of paying forward the goodwill that is extended to us by our clients and the market, and of supporting some amazing causes doing amazing work for the collective good.
Below are the charities we have chosen to support in the latest financial year and our reasons why.
HARBOUR HOSPICE
Mike Anderson's charity of choice
I’ve chosen Harbour Hospice who enable palliative care with dignity for the terminally unwell and their families across the North Shore. It doesn’t get much more important than providing support to someone in their final days, so this was an easy choice for me.
MERCY HOSPICE AUCKLAND
Mike Whale's charity of choice
I have decided to support Mercy Hospice Auckland, who provide a range of specialist palliative care and hospice services for people facing terminal illnesses. Mercy Hospice offers its services free to patients and their families regardless of age, ethnicity, means or religion. They are committed to providing quality care with skill and compassion.
Both my mother and my father in law spent their final days in hospice care. I experienced first hand the extent of the care and comfort hospice staff and volunteers gave to them, and to visiting family members, during that time.
I am also proud to provide pro bono legal services to Grammar Tec Rugby Club Inc.
CONSERVATION VOLUNTEERS NEW ZEALAND
Jen Tunna's charity of choice
I'm a big fan of our beautiful outdoors. This year, I'm supporting Conservation Volunteers New Zealand, who have worked alongside communities to protect and restore nature across New Zealand for 20 years. Our donation helps support volunteers, conservation projects, and community programmes that create lasting impact for people and nature.
I’m also thrilled to be supporting Mercy Hospice, who did an amazing job caring for my dad in his final days.
FOSTER HOPE
Kerry Puddle's charity of choice
Foster Hope was started by two ladies in Auckland who are both huge supporters of helping others. They came up with an idea to help caregivers with practical support when they needed it most; when a child turns up on their door step late at night with very little and in some cases a rubbish bag of belongings.
STARSHIP FOUNDATION
Nicole Duncan's charity of choice
Starship Foundation is the leading provider of paediatric health care in New Zealand and the South Pacific, delivering family centred care to infants, children, young people and their whānau in hospital and in the community.
I have chosen to support the Starship Foundation, having seen and experienced the amazing services that Starship is committed to providing on a daily basis. Children across New Zealand (and beyond) are lucky to have access to the world-class services and health professionals affiliated with Starship, however not all of Starship’s costs are currently government-funded. Every donation can help save and improve lives, and I am proud to do so.
HOMES OF HOPE
Jade Young's charity of choice
Homes of Hope delivers quality therapeutic services for children and families who have been impacted by trauma. They seek to keep brothers and sisters together through a whānau style whare, so that tamariki can be reunited with whānau, or find their forever home.