Connecting communities
Help us deliver for good, by voting for one of our selected organisations to receive 2 years’ worth of free courier services.
Connecting communities within New Zealand is at the heart of what we do, and has been for over 180 years. Now we want to help other organisations connect their communities too.
Help us deliver for good, by voting for one of our selected organisations to receive 2 years’ worth of free courier services.
Connecting communities within New Zealand is at the heart of what we do, and has been for over 180 years. Now we want to help other organisations connect their communities too.
Out of the many deserving applicants, we have selected 11 organisations to each receive a years’ worth of free domestic courier services to support their initiatives. With your help one of these organisations will be receiving an additional year of free courier services, allowing them to reinvest money they would have normally spent on postage, back into their business.
VOTING HAS NOW CLOSED.
Check back from 28 June to find out which of the deserving organisations have won 2 years’ worth of free domestic courier services.
Connecting communities
Help us deliver for good, by voting for one of our selected organisations to receive 2 years’ worth of free courier services.
Connecting communities within New Zealand is at the heart of what we do, and has been for over 180 years. Now we want to help other organisations connect their communities too.
Help us deliver for good, by voting for one of our selected organisations to receive 2 years’ worth of free courier services.
Connecting communities within New Zealand is at the heart of what we do, and has been for over 180 years. Now we want to help other organisations connect their communities too.
Out of the many deserving applicants, we have selected 11 organisations to each receive a years’ worth of free domestic courier services to support their initiatives. With your help one of these organisations will be receiving an additional year of free courier services, allowing them to reinvest money they would have normally spent on postage, back into their business.
VOTING HAS NOW CLOSED.
Check back from 28 June to find out which of the deserving organisations have won 2 years’ worth of free domestic courier services.
Meet our finalists
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Digital Inclusion Alliance Aotearoa
Enabling everyone in NZ to have equal opportunities to participate in the digital world is the Digital Inclusion Alliance Aotearoa's (DIIA) mission. As a not-for-profit organisation, the DIIA works with local community partners to help people who are digitally excluded connect to the internet and gain confidence in using digital technologies. Our courier services are an essential component of enabling connection through the distribution of modems, and these services being free would help the DIIA expand their reach.
Downlights
Downlights is a NZ owned, certified social enterprise who employs young adults with Down syndrome & cognitive disabilites. Fostering the development of workplace skills of their people in a supportive and safe environment, Downlights manufacture hand made luxury candles, diffusers and other fragranced products. Courier services are a critical part of their business, getting their much loved products to customers across NZ. Free courier services would allow Downlights to invest that extra money back in to their people.
Girl Guides Association
Building girls' confidence and teaching them life skills through fun adventure, friendship and connection is at the heart of GirlGuiding New Zealand. Free courier services would support their distribution of welcome packs, including a sash, which the girls sew their badges on and proudly wear alongside over 10,000,000 girls and women throughout the world.
Grief Support and Education Charitable Trust
The Grief Centre offers much-needed grief and loss support to children, youth, adults, families, or whanau experiencing any form of significant loss. Free courier services would support their efforts to provide continuing support and communication to those that need it most.
Heart Kids NZ
Providing suppport at every step of the heart journey – from when a heart condition is diagnosed, through childhood, the teenage years, and into adulthood. Heart Kids offers practical and emotional support to those affected by heart conditions. Having free courier services would help Heart Kids distribute time-sensitive parcels to those in need.
Land Search and Rescue
Registered charity, Land Search and Rescue has over 3,500 voluntary members across NZ from Stewart Island to the far North. These volunteers offer their time to assist in the paramount job of locating the lost, the missing and injured. Our free courier services would support them in getting vital information and parcels reliably across New Zealand.
Nisa
Providing not just a first job in NZ, but a first step in a long career. Nisa is an underwear label and social enterprise, employing women from refugee and migrant backgrounds in their Wellington studio. As a social enterprise, Nisa's online orders fund their organisation and free Courier services would allow them to scale up internationally.
NZ Young Farmers
Not-for-profit organisation NZ Young Farmers actively grows networks of support and knowledge to improve the wellbeing of people in rural communities. NZ Young Farmers enable their members to socialise and learn new skills, while also giving back to the rural fabric of NZ. Our free courier services will support the distribution of their resources, wider than their staff can reach.
Orange Sky New Zealand
Orange Sky New Zealand is a world-first service that provides free laundry, warm showers and genuine conversation to people experiencing homelessness. Our free courier services would support Orange Sky's annual 'Sudsy Challenge' which encourages the community to 'keep their kit on' for three days and talk about the issue of homelessness.
Recreate NZ
Recreate NZ offers over 5000 places on over 550 unique ½ day to 6-day adventure, recreation, social, education and work-skills programmes per annum – for 600+ children and youth with disabilities, and their families in the Auckland, Waikato, Wellington, Bay of Plenty and Christchurch regions. Recreate NZ would use our free courier services to send their illuminate products to customers all over NZ, such as their ‘Our Harvest’ preserves, allowing them to further support social enterprises run by disadvantaged young people.
VOYCE - Whakarongo Mai
VOYCE - Whakarongo Mai stands for Voice of the Young and Care Experienced - Listen to me. VOYCE is an independent advocacy charity that supports, connects, and amplifies the voices of young people in foster or whanau care across Aotearoa. Our free courier services would support VOYCE in sending care packages including products like shampoo, stickers and notepads to the new tamariki entering care each month.