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One Can – Two Can is an annual appeal held by the Mission, which encourages schools, churches and businesses to collect non-perishable food items and funds for the Mission’s emergency food parcels. This year over 120 organisations participated and collected around 22,000 cans for the Mission. The official appeal ran from Monday 17th to Friday 28th June. We…

Yesterday on TVNZ’s ‘Breakfast’, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern discussed the reasons why more families are needing help, and referenced the Mission’s own Family 100 research project.

In this edition we meet Tangi, our onsite Work and Income Case Manager, Debbie, our new Kitchen Manager, and Kelsey, our new Outreach Mental Health Nurse. We also take a look at some of the ways our supporters are helping fellow Aucklanders and we get an update on Project HomeGround. Download the full newsletter

  MEDIA RELEASE: AUCKLAND CITY MISSION FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 13th December 2018   CITY MISSION WELCOMES GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCEMENT  ON MEASURES TO TACKLE SYNTHETIC DRUGS   The Auckland City Mission welcomes the government’s announcement today that it will crack down on suppliers of synthetic drugs while investing in drug related health interventions. Auckland City Missioner, Chris Farrelly,…

Auckland City Mission CEO Chris Farrelly starts the countdown to Christmas, after our move to Union St.  He also updates us on early progress on the Mission HomeGround development at Hobson St.

Thursday 11th October Auckland City Mission HomeGround contractor announced. For immediate release. The Auckland City Mission’s transformational new development, HomeGround, has just taken an important step forward with the naming of the construction company to deliver the project. Built Environs, part of the McConnell Dowell group, has been selected to develop HomeGround on the Mission’s…

“800 people sleeping rough in Auckland is 800 too many…” says mayor Phil Goff about the initial figures released from Ira Mata, Iri Tangata: Auckland’s Homeless Count. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12139566&ref=NZH_fb

Auckland City Mission CEO Chris Farrelly, Mission clients and architects share their thoughts on the Mission’s temporary home and HomeGround redevelopment.

Our Missioner Chris Farrelly discusses the reasons why more families are needing help, including insufficient wages, high fuel prices and interest rates. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/national-video/news/video.cfm?c_id=1503075&gal_cid=1503075&gallery_id=196716

Today is the first day of our Winter Appeal. Through the appeal we are celebrating the incredible work of our ‘Winter Warriors’, who like Simon from our Crisis Care & Community Services team provides social work support and emergency assistance to people in crisis. Simon can only do this because of the support from the…