Rescue Helicopters

 J. A. Russell Ltd and Radcliffe Electrical have been supporting the Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust since 1994. Since then, the support has expanded across many regions in NZ including:

• Northland Emergency Services – Whangarei
• Auckland Rescue Helicopter – Auckland
• Philips Search and Rescue Trust
  • Waikato Westpac Rescue Helicopter – Hamilton
  • Aerocool Rescue Helicopter – Tauranga
  • Greenlea Rescue Helicopter – Taupo
  • Grassroots Trust Rescue Helicopter – Palmerston North
• Eastland Rescue Helicopter Trust – Gisborne
• Taranaki Rescue Helicopter Trust – New Plymouth
• Hawkes Bay Rescue Helicopter Trust – Hastings
• Life Flight Trust – Wellington
• Nelson Marlborough Rescue Trust – Nelson
• Canterbury West Coast Air Rescue Trust – Christchurch
• Otago Rescue Helicopter Trust – Dunedin
• Lakes District Helicopter Trust – Queenstown

These Rescue Helicopter Trusts provide timely assistance to those in difficult circumstances upholding an “Anytime, Anywhere, Anyone” philosophy. The great work that they provide to New Zealanders reinforces J. A. Russell Ltd and Radcliffe Electrical’s decision to support them for well over 20 years.

The Starship Foundation

Thanks to the enduring compassion and generosity of everyday New Zealanders, incredible stories unfold at Starship and in communities across the country every single day.

Starship is New Zealand’s national children’s hospital, firmly focused on accelerating world-class healthcare for all New Zealand children. There are more than 125,000 patient visits to Starship each year including over 600 outreach clinics where Starship clinicians offer specialist consultation and support to their peers all around New Zealand.

The Starship Foundation is the charity that supports our national children’s hospital, investing more than $160 million into child health since 1992, bringing better health and brighter futures to children across the country. Key areas of investment include saving & improving lives, child well-being & whānau support as well as prevention & equity.

KidsCan

KidsCan’s mission is to ensure poverty is never a barrier to learning for children in need. They partner with low-decile schools and early childhood centres across New Zealand to give Kiwi kids in hardship the essentials: food, jackets, shoes, socks, and health products. With these basic needs met, children are more settled and able to focus in class. They can then fully participate in learning and have the opportunity for an improved future.

The charity is currently feeding some 55,000 children in 876 schools and 206 early childhood centres. Last year alone they shipped over 73,000 jackets and some 36,000 pairs of shoes from their Auckland warehouse.

Auckland City Mission

The Auckland City Mission - Te Tāpui Atawhai supports people in greatest need across Auckland. Every day the Mission offers help to people needing support with access to housing, food, and healthcare. The services they offer include outreach to people experiencing homelessness, support for permanent and transitional housing, daily meals, food parcels, access to medical care, and alcohol and drug rehabilitation.

Graeme Dingle Foundation – Project K

The Graeme Dingle Foundation works with more than 26,000 young people aged 5 - 24 across New Zealand every year, running programmes to help young people chart their own futures and not live a life dictated by circumstance.

Project K is a 14-month programme for year 10 students designed to build confidence, teach life skills, promote good health, and encourage a positive attitude. The overall goal in this is to inspire young New Zealanders to believe in their own ability to complete tasks and achieve goals, and to help them find purpose and direction, transforming their lives.

The Braintree Wellness Centre

The BrainTree wellness centre for brain health is an innovative, first-of-its-kind facility in Ōtautahi-Christchurch that supports people living with neurological conditions such as Dementia, Parkinson’s, Multiple Sclerosis, and Stroke to live well in the community. The BrainTree centre opened in July 2022 and has been gathering momentum ever since. The centre is a multi-tenant environment with organisations connected to brain health complete with various meeting/conference rooms, a multi-purpose studio, a gymnasium, a full commercial café with connected outdoor deck space, and a large foyer/atrium for the general public to use weekdays.

There is no facility in New Zealand, or indeed Australasia, with such specialised facilities, equipment, and services to meet the needs of a large (and fast-growing) cohort of our community. The centre is a safe, friendly, and welcoming environment that creates access to, and encourages, a traditionally disadvantaged and often isolated group to participate in: social connection, physical activities, cognitive stimulation, educational activities, and other specialist well-being services. The vision of the centre is to help people with neurological conditions, and their carers and whanau, to live well and remain independent in their own homes.

Southland Charity Hospital

Founded by the community, for the community, once complete the Southland Charity Hospital will provide healthcare for those living in the Southern DHB who would otherwise be unable to access treatment through the private or public systems.

Initially the hospital will provide colonoscopies and a dentist chair to patients from the Southern DHB Zone and will expand the services it provides over time. The Southland Charity Hospital is modelled on the successful Canterbury Charity Hospital, which has helped thousands of patients since its inception in 2007.

BBM Motivation & BBM Food Share

Started by Dave Letele (the Brown Buttabean), BBM runs free community fitness bootcamps across Auckland.

The BBM approach is unlike anything you see in the health and well-being sector. Everything they provide to make a difference in the community is free.

BBM is not after anything other than to better the lives of those that society has left behind, to give them a push-start to get back on track. The origin point for future success begins with health.

Their free community boot camps welcome those at all fitness levels, with no judgement, which breeds a culture of belonging where our BBM members take ownership and support one another.