Rural Women New Zealand’s innovative aftersocks™ fundraiser for Canterbury earthquake victims has achieved the highest accolade at the Fundraising Institute of New Zealand’s (FINZ) annual awards. Read More

Our councillors and other delegates have just returned from a 10 day trip to Tonga for the Associated Country Women of the World South Pacific Area Conference.  They have come back full of stories about a very different way of life.  They met the NZ High Commissioner to Tonga (and presented him with a pair of aftersocks, of course), as well as Her Royal Highness, Princess Mele Siu'ilikutapu Kalaniuvalu Fotofili,  patron of the ACWW South Pacific Area conference hostess society, as pictured.   Read More

Martin Johnson and English rugby team presented with aftersocks™ during goodwill visit to Christchurch Read More

Wow!  In the first week since our launch, 100,000 people visited our aftersocks™ website and thousands of comments were posted on our aftersocks™ Facebook page, congratulating us on this wonderful fundraiser to support the Christchurch Mayoral Fund.  We increased our sock order with the NZ Sock Company in Ashburton several times over, and still we’ll be struggling to meet demand as aftersocks™ goes global. Read More

Wow! Over 6,000 pairs sold in less than three weeks! This has meant the NZ Sock Company is working very hard to keep up, and we do thank everyone for their patience if you are having to wait a little longer for orders. It’s also meant a huge logistical exercise in our national office processing the accounts and sending out all the orders. We’ve been helped in this by Bridget Evans, our president’s daughter, without whom we would never have coped! Read More

Tamati from the Breakfast Show TV1 will (hopefully) be wearing our socks on Friday live from ANZ Ashburton. Ashburton Hospital is also doing a promotion of aftersocks, as are two local Christchurch schools who are selling them and children can wear them for a special aftersocks mufti day. Read More