Charity Press Releases

Pizza lovers welcomed the newest Domino’s store in Newtown with over 700 free pizzas being given out to the crowds to celebrate the opening.

Help is at hand for charities and community groups looking for fundraising ideas this year – staff at two Domino’s Pizza stores in Hamilton are ready and waiting to help out with weekly Doughraisers.

Three inspiring teenagers will have their first year of tertiary study partially funded after being awarded scholarships through the GABA Charitable Trust and the Cartier BereavementTrust.

Tens of thousands of dollars has been donated to charities and community groups throughout New Zealand in the past 12 months thanks to the generosity of Domino’s Pizza.

Levin residents won’t be going hungry this summer if the town’s Domino’s Pizza store has anything to do with it.

Community, school and sporting groups in Whangarei are set to receive an estimated $10,000 over the next year thanks to its local Domino’s Pizza.

Foreign Minister Murray McCully has today announced New Zealand will provide a total of NZ$2 million in response to the worsening humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa due to severe drought.

New Zealand Red Cross is accepting donations for the East Africa Crisis Appeal to raise money for and assist people affected by the humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa.

More than 1.2 million people from 207 countries have logged onto a new website developed to help rescue the thousands of dogs abandoned in New Zealand every year.

Halobiz.co.nz – a world first in online business directories – launched in the Waikato this week. It’s the only business directory that details which businesses support which community organisations. At the same time Halo Biz Limited gives a minimum of 70% of its advertising income to these nominated charities and community organisations.

Seventeen charitable organisations from around New Zealand have benefited from the ninth round of the Harcourts Foundation funding, a charity set up by Harcourts Real Estate Group to provide support that helps, grows and enriches our communities. This round’s $30,133 was spread over the country with five successful recipients from Auckland, three based in the central North Island, five from Wellington and four in Christchurch. The biggest doantion going to Christchurch’s City Mission.

Two of New Zealand’s most revered sporting icons, Irene van Dyk and Dame Susan Devoy, have teamed up in a campaign to help battle the biggest killer of children under five in the third world – pneumonia.

Prime Minister John Key today welcomed the announcement of a telethon to support the Government’s Christchurch Earthquake Appeal, the official, global fundraiser for the recovery effort for Christchurch and the Canterbury region.

A trust that normally works in the remote subantartic islands have heeded the call for help in earthquake-ravaged christchurch. With 100s of cans of long-life food that they bought back from a research expedition to Campbell Island the week before the earthquake, they are able to bring relief to the most hard hit eastern suburbs.

Giftbob.co.nz, a Christchurch based online store is donating 20% of all March 2011 sales to the Christchurch Earthquake Appeal.

Ngati Ranginui coordinates Drop-Off Centre to help out whanau/families affected by the Christchurch earthquakes.

Telecom New Zealand has announced its Chorus business will be sending a team of Chorus and service company technicians to Brisbane to assist in the restoration of telecommunications services to the devastated Queensland and NSW regions. A universal text-to-donate service has also been facilitated by Telecom to support the New Zealand Red Cross in its national appeal, Australian Floods Fund, for those affected by the disaster, $3 can be donated by texting “flood” to 336 from Telecom, Vodafone or 2degrees networks.

Air New Zealand’s “Kids at Christmas charity auction” kicks off this week, aiming to raise more than $400,000 for children’s charities. The auction is offering some special “money can’t buy” items, in addition to hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of airfares, accommodation and travel packages.

Auckland Airport is again preparing to donate $120,000 in the 12 days leading up to Christmas! In the spirit of the season, Auckland Airport invites registered charities within New Zealand to apply for the ‘12 days of Christmas’ promotion and be considered for one of 12, $10,000 donations which will be made in the 12 days before Christmas.

The Psychic Events is organising and hosting a charity event. New Zealand Red Cross will benefit by the profits of the event for their continued support to help those who lost their homes and businesses during the Canterbury Earthquake Disaster.