Cholmondeley launches campaign to fill beds
Cholmondeley Children’s Centre has turned to the Canterbury community to ask for help to fill the beds at its respite care facility.
It has launched ‘Give a Good Nights Sleep’, a fundraising campaign with three of the centre’s beds installed throughout Christchurch city to help drive both awareness and donations.
“We wanted to install something in the city that reminded the public about Cholmondeley’s role in the community and that every night for 50 weeks of the year there are tamariki in need being cared for by us,” said Cholmondeley Children’s Centre General Manager, Toni Tinirau.
Cholmondeley has 23 beds for tamariki to stay during times of whānau stress or crisis, but on average just 17 of these beds are filled due to financial limitations.
“We work hard to provide a free safe haven for as many Canterbury tamariki as we can but we can’t do it alone, we need the community to come together and help us fill our beds,” said Tinirau.
The ‘Give a Good Nights Sleep’ campaign has the three beds installed at Riverside Market, The Palms Shopping Centre and Ballantynes Department Store.
“Every empty bed is a missed opportunity to support a child in need, if you can help us out at all please donate to give Canterbury tamariki a safe place to sleep,” said Tinirau.
Cholmondeley is an independent charity and costs just under $3,000,000 to run per year with 20% of the figure met by Government funding, and the remaining 80% coming from the generous support of the community.
