Raising funds
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Friends of Mercy is an independent charitable trust supporting Mercy Hospice. It was founded by a group of like-minded volunteers who have each been personally touched by the hospice. Our ‘pay back’ is to apply our significant experience in raising funds to directly assist the unique, dignified and compassionate patient care which makes Mercy Hospice so very special.
Many of us have worked together in the past as a fund-raising team so we know the value of making fundraising ‘fun-raising’ for everyone involved. If it is fun for you to attend and fun for us to stage, then the outcome will be bigger, brighter and better for all. We plan to complement the efforts of the Hospice’s in-house fundraising team, by providing a new and different avenue through which to achieve donations. |
All net proceeds of the funds raised by the Trust are to be used specifically for patient care.
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Mercy Hospice is our chosen charity because most of our team have had personal experience with the wonderful care it provides. It is Auckland’s largest hospice, servicing the central region of the city, an area which encompasses in excess of 500,000 people.
All the In and Out-patient care Mercy Hospice delivers, is provided free of charge to people of all ages, ethnicities and cultures. That requires a very large amount of fundraising; more than $4 million dollars annually over and above the funding government provides. |
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