Doreen Bunker was one of the first volunteers to work in the Orewa Hospice Shop after it opened in 1997 – and 25 years on she still loves it as much as the day she started.
125 volunteers honoured as Harbour Hospice celebrates 40 years of caring
This month 125 volunteers will be honoured for their commitment to Harbour Hospice.
The woman you couldn’t say no to
Carolyn McCondach was the driving force behind Harbour Hospice’s early fundraising efforts.
Our first volunteer coordinator: ‘I felt I had a purpose’
Julian Court was Harbour Hospice’s first Volunteer Coordinator, and also the first person to have a paid role at Hospice.
Our first hospice shop: “From the very beginning it was very popular”
Our 17 hospice shops are well-known and loved. They provide a connection back to the care Hospice provides and are integral to our fundraising efforts, bringing in just over a third of our funding needs each year.
From Daycare to Open Doors - how hospice day group all began
Harbour Hospice’s Open Doors programme enables patients to benefit from Hospice care much earlier in their journey. What makes it special is that it was also one of the first services Hospice offered when it was set up 40 years ago.
Opening doors for people like Ted
Harbour Hospice is asking its community to support its Open Doors programme, created so that people can benefit from hospice’s care much earlier in their journey.
Collaborative study sees vital drug funded
A collaboration between Harbour Hospice and other members of the New Zealand Hospice Pharmacist Group has resulted in Pharmac fully funding a drug vital to the care of hospice patients.
Leading the way in narrative therapy
Harbour Hospice counsellor Sasha Pilkington is chartering new territory in the teaching of contemporary narrative therapy in palliative care through writing “teaching tales”.
‘Mum, make it happen’: Quilts donated to hospice to honour local GP
The late Heidi MacRae had always been a very organised person. So, it was only fitting that when the well-respected North Shore GP was facing the end of life in 2022, following a breast cancer diagnosis in 2021, she assigned jobs to the people she loved.
