Christmas Donation Appeal 2024
Give the Gift of Counselling
Help increase the number of grief and loss counselling sessions offered within the Western Bay of Plenty community.
All donations over $40 can opt in to receive a set of 15 custom designed gift labels (while stocks last).*
If you are giving your donation as a Christmas gift, following your donation you can choose to download a certificate to print or email.
Supporting our community
For a percentage of the population their circumstances mean they can find ways through their grief without professional support. However, for many others this is not the case and they may feel caught in a complicated, confusing, overwhelming, exhausting space.
Finding a way through can be a difficult task. The counsellors at Grief Support Services offer sessions to help individuals and families/whānau talk about their loss and grief in a caring way to help make sense of, and manage, the changes that are taking place.
How your support will help
We have set an annual fundraising goal to be raised through funding strategies outside of our grants, trusts, and contracts.
Your help through our annual "Give the Gift of Counselling" Christmas appeal will contribute to our aim of increasing the number of individuals and families/whānau supported within our community.
Download a copy of our donation appeal poster for your noticeboard here.
You can make a difference
While we cannot share individual client stories, here's some feedback we received from some our clients:
“It was invaluable to have someone empathetic but outside of my own circle that I could talk to after my partner died so unexpectedly. [The counsellor's] advice and support are amazing.”
"It's given us the heads up for future feelings and how to process and deal with them. We know grief will come and go, but we have the grace now to understand that it's okay."
"The growth within myself that I have gained from here impacts my life in such a way I thought could never be. Life is surely alot more bearable now."
For more information on our services please visit our website at www.griefsupport.org.nz
Download a copy of our donation appeal poster for your noticeboard here.
Our gift to you
All donations over $40 receive a set of 15 custom designed gift labels (while stocks last and you can opt out). Artwork designed by local Tauranga artist Paulene Longley from Flossiphy - Watercolour Artist, Surface Pattern & Fabric Designer. @Flossiphy.Art
* Gift labels for donations received before 20 December will be posted before Christmas (although we cannot guarantee when they will arrive). All others will be posted in early January 2025.
Gift Certificate
If you are giving your donation as a Christmas gift, following your donation you can choose to download a certificate to print or email.
Give the gift of counselling
To donate via internet bank, our details are:
12-3651-0000163-00, Grief Support Services
Please reference: donation and email admin@griefsupport.org.nz to let the team know so they can send you a tax deductible receipt!