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Donations are beginning to come in for the Buy Local Give Local campaign, which runs from November 4–December 9.
Local politicians are among the first to offer their support, with donations pledged in the past week by Hibiscus & Bays Local board chair Julia Parfitt and members Janet Fitzgerald and Lovisa Rasmussen.
Deputy chair Greg Sayers made a generous donation of supermarket vouchers and Cr John Watson brought in a fistful of Farmers gift cards.
It’s a wonderful start, but we need more donations from local shoppers!
Buy Local Give Local is a Christmas charitable project that was started by your local community newspapers, Hibiscus Matters and Mahurangi Matters, in 2013.
It supports local businesses, and Coast families that need extra support at Christmas.
All you need to do is purchase a gift voucher (valued at $10 or more) from any local store and we make sure it goes to a family in need. Vouchers can be for Christmas treats, but also anything that would help a struggling family such as fuel, groceries, toys, and so on.
On the Coast the vouchers are distributed with food parcels at Christmas by the Hibiscus Coast Community House and Orewa Baptist Church.
Donations can be dropped in the boxes located at all three local Countdown stores, Eddie Law 100 percent in the Top of the Plaza and Manly Care Chemist in Manly Village as well as at Hibiscus Matters’ office in Tamariki Plaza, Orewa.
We are aiming to better last Christmas’s tally of around $2000-worth of vouchers.
Listen for plenty of shout outs and information about Buy Local Give Local on More FM, which is one of our sponsors this year along with printing.com who printed the posters you’ll see in local stores, free of charge.
This project will only succeed if the community gets behind it. Vouchers can be dropped into the boxes at any time before December 9.
