Children expecting a visit from Rainbow Place’s nurses and therapists can now look forward to shorter waiting times, thanks to the gift of a bright red Nissan car to be named ‘Chica’, donated by Rural Women New Zealand (RWNZ) at the weekend. Read More

Two cars into three therapists just won’t go!  This was the dilemma facing Rainbow Place, an arm of Hospice Waikato that supports children and young people coping with serious illness.  Read More

Enjoy an evening full of fabulous fashion, girly gossip and super stylishness! Direct from her stints on TVNZ’s Breakfast show and the pages of several magazines, join New Zealand’s own Style Doctor, Jackie O’Fee, as she steps out of her closet and shares her secrets of effortless style at the North Island Farmlands Ladies’ Nights. Read More

Rural Women NZ Kenepuru Branch recently held a ‘President's Pink Posh Pot-luck Lunch’, chaired by Kenepuru branch president Glen Eatwell to raise funds for the NZ Breast Cancer Foundation. Twenty ladies, three men and a baby from Kenepuru Branch, plus four ladies from the Mahakipawa Branch all joined in for the ‘PPPP’ lunch. Read More

We have received a warm 'thank you' letter from Christchurch Women's Refuge for all the practical support from Rural Women NZ members around the country.   Read More

Today we received some fantastic drawings from the children in Room 15 at Freeville School. These were to say thank you for the woolen slippers they received as part of our Communities Knitting Together Project. Read More

Calls for help from the Christchurch Women's Refuge and the Dallington Community Hub in the eastern suburbs have resulted in a great example of teamwork, with The Warehouse donating a supply of warm pyjamas, children’s underwear, bed socks and hot water bottles. 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