Fundraising

Why we seek your support

Our hospitals are a vital community asset. You can help ensure that all Northlanders are provided with the highest standard of health care and expertise now and in the future.

As Northlanders we suffer from some of the country’s highest rates of common life-threatening diseases. These include, but are not limited to, coronary artery disease, diabetes, lung cancer, kidney diseases, chronic respiratory disease, stroke and asthma.

Northland District Health Board cares for Northlanders’ health within our community as well as in its hospitals in Whangarei, Dargaville, Kawakawa and Kaitaia.

With an ageing population and constant changes to technology, the health sector is always developing and seeking to purchase more state-of-the-art equipment to treat patients. Although the government funds our District Health Board, like many other New Zealand hospitals we are seeking support from our community to help raise funds for additional equipment that will benefit patient care and ultimately save more lives.

You Choose

There are many reasons to give a gift to benefit the health of Northlanders.

Your gift can benefit anyone: newborns, children, young mums, the chronically ill, elderly, or those who are in the final stages of their lives.

You can make a contribution to a particular service such as mental health, the diabetes or renal services or the children’s ward.

You may choose to have your gift assist with the purchase of a piece of medical equipment.

You can also choose to support your local hospital or a service provided in your local area.

Alternatively you can choose to give an unrestricted gift. Unrestricted gifts are added to our Northland Health Endowment Fund and invested with other gifts. The interest earned from this capital sum is used to give grants to organisations that are working to directly benefit the health of Northlanders.

If you need help deciding we can suggest options for any of the hospitals.

With your support we hope to fund state-of-the-art medical and related equipment and generate funds to support medical excellence for Northland.

To achieve this Northland Community Foundation and Northland District Health Board have
established a relationship to:

• Encourage community giving to benefit all Northlanders’ health needs now and in the future.
• Provide for additional medical equipment, support and help to staff, patients and families – as an extra to government funding never as a replacement for government funding.

For further information go to our website: www.northlandcommunityfoundation.co.nz 

Or contact the Northland Community Foundation on 09-459 6327 or by email  This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it .

Volunteers

Volunteering is an opportunity to serve, grow, learn, make new friends, exchange ideas and feel needed. It offers people the chance to use existing skills and gain experience in health care work situations.

Volunteers add an extra dimension to the care and service provided to patients and visitors, by hospital staff. With the ongoing dedication and willingness that our Volunteers have towards their designated duties they have become an integral part of the running of our hospitals - all happily giving their “Gift of Time”.

There are 123 Volunteers at Whangarei Hospital who undertake a variety of roles around the hospital. Kaitaia Hospital has 14 volunteers meeting and greeting patients and visitors as well as assisting people on the inter-hospital bus. Bay of Islands Hospital has 4 Volunteers who weekly distribute library books and update magazines in the wards

We are also honoured to have the support of countless individuals, clubs and organisations from within the community who donate knitted items, toys and blankets for our patients. And then there are the Meals on Wheels volunteers who do a wonderful job in the community.

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Museum

The Northland Medical Museum rotates historical medical objects between 15 display cabinets in Northland hospitals and private clinics.

The Northland Medical Museum office is located on Hospital Road, directly opposite Gate 4 at Whangarei Hospital.

Although the museum has thousands of objects, including John Swinney's original collection, it is always looking for additional instruments (old and current) and health care memorabilia to expand display opportunities and themes.

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