• Dave & Vanessa – 4 Square at The Lakes, what champions!
• CCPT fence made with aroha and the help of one of our tamariki
• All Black 7’s came to play in our backyard – what a blast!
• TCC match funding success!
• Sisters & Co, Rodelle and team are super supportive friends!
• Children’s Christmas holidays
• 2022 the year of new beginnings
• Voyce’s Care Day with love….
• Duncan and Colliers – always treating
• Update on Child Centred Play Therapy, from Hilary
• Beca fundraising for Christmas
• Covid has moved into our whare’s….most uninvitedly!
• Kiwianis – thanks to Mike and the team
• Shout-out to superhero’s
• Thanks for your support

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• TECT our eternal angel
• A message from Hilary, CEO and Co-founder
• Tamariki stepping up and into the world
• Leaving a gift in your will
• Dave the 4 Square man at The Lakes, what a champion!
• Level 3 lock-down, it was a breeze!
• Wright Family Foundation supporting the build of Kauri
• CCPT rooms – we can begin to heal within the greater community
• Young Kauri Seedlings are growing as are our young tamariki
• Endowment funding – the story of Edna
• Aotearoa Gaming Trust sends their love to tamariki in care
• Grassroots, with thanks
• Taking the tribe on a kiwi camping holiday
• Watch this space Debbie and Paul from Growers Direct are on a mission
• Santa comes early with – Shoe Box
• Sharp Tudhope Lawyers, caring for the community
• NZ Community Trust -refreshing our world
• Lion Foundation breezes in with air conditioning for Rata, the grand old lady
• Check out Madeline’s work and support Homes of Hope
• Psst….something wonderful has happened……..

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• Hilary Price, Co-founder and CEO
• The Home of Hope it’s now home and it is BEAUTIFUL!
• A Night of Stars – celebrating our community
• A few words from our new Practice Manager Carena Grant
• Welcome our new Social Worker – a few words from Jen Tito
• Before and after – Matai home, it looks so shiny and ship-shape!
• CCPT room renovations are just about completed
• Welcome our new Rata house parents Nick and Sian
• Students from Tauranga Girls College doing the Mahi!
• Big thanks to the volunteer crew
• Super heroes shout-out
• Our incredible supporters

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Homes of Hope volunteers want to make a meaningful contribution and a difference in the lives of children who come to them from very hard places.

Homes of Hope is a charity that is passionate about delivering the best therapeutic foster care services within a strong community.

They work to prevent siblings from being separated and ensure the stability of children’s foster care for as long as it is needed.

Homes of Hope provide safe, loving homes where siblings in care can stay together.

“Seeing the value in what we do – our volunteers want to play a part in that,” says Homes of Hope CEO Hillary Price.

“There is so much involved in running a charity service like ours and the volunteers contribute in many ways – cooking, baking, working bees, fundraising, sausage sizzles.

“They bring much needed practical help, but also lots of love and encouragement. One very special person who brings this is Poppa George McMillan.

“We really want to take the time to honour this amazing volunteer who, for the past four years, has been making and selling his wonderful wooden garden windmill birds to raise money for us.

Travelling throughout the Bay of Plenty to do so, he has raised more than $15,500.

“An octogenarian, his bright, bubbly, positive self shines bright wherever he goes,” adds Hilary.

“Thank you Poppa George; you are a most wonderful support – a strength and reliable friend. We are so grateful to have you as part of our whanau. Thank you for all the many hours and hours of loving labour you have given to us. Not to mention the joy the birds give – helping our children to fly.”

Source: https://theweekendsun.co.nz/

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Thank you Kirsty and Blair Cashmore from Cashmore Real
Estate – WOWZA – They know how to PARTAY and ‘make hay
while the sun shines’! Actually they ‘made a great deal of
funds’ for the new home for more children from hard places
who desperately need our help, a total of $97,426.00!!!!

What an awesome night it was. Thanks to Mike and Carol
Farmer who held the event at the Farmer Autovillage and all
the team at Cashmore Real Estate who helped out, especially
Taylor and Beck’s who along with Kirsty and Blair put many
long hours into making this an incredible, sold-out, night.

Such a great team! The auction went off with a bang, the
Champaign flowed, Nigel Latta was a treat to hear speak
and Blair not only excelled as an auctioneer but also showed
his talents as the best MC for the night. He really has missed
his calling! We cannot thank the community enough for
coming out in force to support our children and the work we
beaver away to make the Bay of Plenty THE BEST!

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Classic Builders are underway with our new home which will give up to 6 more tamariki at any one time the safety they so badly need and deserve. The house blessing was a time when Kaumatua, Caregivers, House Parents and Children came together to celebrate this incredible time. Since then, it has been all ‘hands-on-deck’ with subbies and tradies who work with Classic Builders coming to the party to donate time and product! The floor is down and the house is starting to rise from it’s foundations. We are so grateful to you all!

Cashmore Real Estate have also come to the party by throwing a party, YES, a black tie event on the 10th April 2021 that will see all the ‘who’s-who’ of Tauranga get their glad rags on, spit ‘n shine their shoes, and come to hear Nigel Latta speak. Bid for some exceptional auction items up for grabs! It really is all happening for our ‘babies’. If you would like tickets please email info@homesofhope.org.nz or view the invite, later in this email.

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We are so, so proud of Maraea, known to our children at Homes of Hope as Auntie Mars (see image below). She is one of 10 foster carers nationally who was honored within NZ for this award held at Government House last month.

Maraea has served with us for 8 years and has a HUGE heart, she is such a hard worker for our young tamariki. This award is in recognition of her tremendous love, attention and ongoing, neverending support. You are a true hero for our children.

Me hikoi kotahi tatou. Walking together, working together. A little birdie told me that last year, another of our House Parents Auntie Perry won the same award! The Aunties are ROCKING it!

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Sadly, lots of Kiwi kids missed out on fun like this, because they were experiencing neglect or abuse.

At Homes of Hope our wrap-around foster care keeps siblings protected and together. Our therapeutic approach supports their healing, restorative journeys.

Partly funded by the government, in these pressing times, we need help now more than ever. Especially since we are building another new home for more children who are in need of care (see The Home of Hope further down this newsletter).

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