HOW YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
The Marlborough community has a big heart and is committed to supporting a bright future for every Marlborough child. Together, we can make a difference and ensure that every Marlborough 5-year-old has a positive start to school.
SSFI Marlborough relies entirely on charitable funding. This includes making applications for appropriate grants, community fundraising, corporate sponsorship, and generous donations. If you are interested in having a deeply positive impact on the Marlborough community, we would love to hear from you.
We are keen to support local businesses. If you are a local business and your preferred option of support is to offer us product or discounted product of any items contained in our Kitbox, then please contact us on info@ssfimarlborough.nz
He taonga te mokopuna, kia whāngaia, kia tipu, kia rea.
A child is a treasure, to be nurtured, to grow, to flourish.
- Te Whāriki
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Donations
A 5 Kitbox for one child costs anything from $300-$450 to assemble, depending on the school uniform and school donation costs required. We are open to any donation amount, big or small, a one off or a regular payment, every little bit helps. To give a monetary donation please click the ‘donate now’ button below or head to the donations page. All donors who wish to be acknowledged are mentioned on our sponsors page.
100 Heroes Club
For some fortunate people the price of a cup of coffee a week may not make a significant difference to their budget – but for our charity organisation that small amount, repeated 100 times will make a huge difference to us and the children we support.
With the support of a 100 heroes we will have the financial backing to cover more than half of our operational funding needs.
Each hero can be proud that they are enabling a child to commence school with everything they need, equal with their peers, fully kitted out in a new uniform looking smart, feeling keen and
excited to begin their learning journey. Child poverty impacts somewhere between 200-300,000 children in New Zealand. Given the impact of the cost of living crisis, there will be little hope of significant change in the near future.
Become one of our 100 heroes by making a regular small donation of $25 a month, this will give us ongoing support to help Marlborough’s children start school with everything they need. Simply fill out the form on the donations page and select that you would like to become one of our 100 heroes. You will then receive a digital badge you can use to promote yourself as a sponsor if you wish and know that you are our hero.
Product Donations
We are always looking for sponsors to supply product, if you have a business that would like to get involved in supporting us by supplying products that suit our cause then please email us, we would love to hear from you.
Currently we have the following local businesses supporting us with product:
Paper Plus Blenheim
– stationery items and small novelty items
Unichem Springlands Pharmacy
– toothpaste and toothbrushes
The Skin Clinic
- Sunscreen
Pak’nSave
- sponges for birthday cakes
Whitcoulls
– small novelty items
Volunteers
As we grow each year we require volunteers who can spare a little bit of time now and then helping us to keep things running smoothly. This can be anything from knitting to packing boxes or helping with fundraising. Please email us if you are interested in helping out. It is completely volunteer as we are a not-for-profit organisation.
The volunteer team consists of the three trustees, Michelle, Brenda and Margaret as well as Jackie, Gail (Jackie’s Mum), Tracey, Sheryl (Tracey’s Mum), Christine, Bob (Margaret’s hubby), Andrew (Brenda’s hubby), Diane (Brenda and Margaret’s sister and Michelle’s Aunty) , Wendy (Brenda and Margaret’s sister and Michelle’s Aunty), Viv and Sara. As you can see, if they’re not family, they are friends!
Fundraisers
If you are in the position to run a fundraiser on our behalf we are more than open to that idea, we have had some wonderful people work very hard for us and have successful fundraisers for us including a Fund Run. Please get in touch via our email if you would like to fundraise for us.
Christmas Giving Tree
Annually we undertake a Christmas Giving Tree, hosted by a local business. This is an opportunity for the community to participate by giving items that form part of our kitbox. Grab a tag detailing an item we include in our boxes, purchase the item/s and place under the tree and hang your tag/s on the tree. Please note, the items must be new.
Look on our Facebook page or under the Community page here around mid-November for details.
