Age Concern Auckland News December 2020
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Age Concern Auckland News
December 2020
Our Latest Annual Report
We recently held the first AGM for the amalgamated Age Concern
Auckland. It has been a landmark year in the history of Age
Concern across Auckland. Age Concern Auckland was established
in 1949 as a single organisation supporting the needs of older
people across the city. While in subsequent years, this was split
into smaller units, we came full circle in 2019 and reformed into
a single Age Concern for all older Aucklanders. You can read our
latest Annual Report here.
Christmas Appeal
Our offices are finishing off what has been a very busy year
organising and delivering gift bags and boxes for our Caring at
Christmas initiative.
“To all the staff of Age Concern, thank you so much for the caring
way you have always looked after my Mum who is now 94 years Merry Christmas and
old. You have been outstanding in every way and thank you for Happy New Year
the beautiful Xmas gift you sent Mum”, Tony.
from the team at
We are incredibly grateful to all of those that have contributed. Age Concern
This has included: Moving Made Easy; AA Insurance Call Centre
Auckland
team; Herb and Spice Mill; Community Fruit Harvesting; Dilmah
Tea NZ; Boomerang Bags (Kaipatiki CFT) and Make Live Give. Christmas Hours
Our special thanks to Milford Primary School, Torbay Primary
School and Lynfield College. Milford and Torbay Primary Schools Our offices will be closed
donate the bulk of the goods we distribute on the North Shore from 12noon Wednesday
and make beautiful cards. Lynfield College uses ingredients 23rd December and
donated by New World Mt Roskill and their staff to make delicious
reopen 9.00am Tuesday
individual Christmas Cakes that we give out through our Visiting
Service.
5 January.
Find us at:
Donate now to support our work ageconcernauckland.org.nz or
https://www.facebook.com/
www.ageconcernauckland.org.nz ageconcernauck/
Milford Primary School Torbay Primary School Lynfield College
If you would like to make a donation to support our work this Christmas and in the New Year,
you can do so here.
Creating Crucial Social Connections
Each week 554 Age Concern volunteers across Auckland visit an older person, spending time
with them to help alleviate their loneliness and isolation. We have been delivering this service
for almost 30 years and during that time around 15,000 volunteers have made this special
connection. Our thanks to you all.
This is one of our clients Jenny at Westhaven Marina.
Jenny used to walk along there often when she was
younger but hadn’t seen the new broad walk. Her volunteer
Brigid took Jenny for a walk there. The boat in the photo,
which is for sale, caught Jenny’s eye, unfortunately the
$1.5m price tag is a little too steep!
TVNZ recently ran a story on one of our AVS
clients, 90 year old Phyllis Reid. Phyllis talked
about how difficult this year had been, especially
during lockdown, and how the help and support
she is receiving from our Visiting Service is
helping to fill the missing pieces of her life.
Asian Services
Our specialised Asian Services team working
in partnership with A Better Chance Charitable
Trust have introduced some new activities. One
of these involves, inviting older Chinese people
living alone to come to a dumpling making class.
While they are making dumplings, we deliver
talks on Positive Ageing – during the session in
the photo we were discussing the importance of
staying active as you age.
To contact your local office:
Central and West - 09 820 0184; ageconcern@ageconak.org.nz
Counties Manukau 09 279 4331; reception@accm.org.nz
North Shore - 09 489 4975; ageconns@acns.co.nz
We are also delivering weekly activities through Rest Homes. The games and activities are designed to encourage the residents to interact with each other and to stimulate their cognitive thinking. Mandy facilitates the activities and the residents look forward to her visits. Community Strength and Balance Earlier this year our Health Promotion team delivered a four week ‘Falls Prevention’ workshop to a senior’s group in Kawakawa Bay. When the course finished, they were still keen to continue to exercise and improve their strength and balance. So Beth, the coordinator of our Community Strength & Balance Programme, worked with the group to establish a weekly ‘Steady As You Go (SayGo) Group’. The group has been a huge success and participants make a gold coin donation each week to cover the cost of hall hire, morning tea etc. With any surplus funds being donated to Age Concern Auckland to thank us for our support. The first donation of $250 has been greatly appreciated. Click here to find out more about the courses offered through our Community Strength and Balance Programme Thanks for your Wonderful Support Our heartfelt thanks to the following funders who have provided us with grants in the past three months, allowing us to continue to be there for those older people in the community needing our support: Albert-Eden Local Board; Anstiss-Garland Charitable Trust; Devonport-Takapuna Local Board; Estate of Ernest Hyam Davis; Foundation North; Four Winds Foundation; Henderson- Massey Local Board; JM Thompson Charitable Trust; Lottery Community Auckland; Kaipataki Local Board; Margaret Olive Russell Charitable Trust; Masfen Foundation; Ted & Mollie Carr Endowment Fund and The Trusts Community Foundation. Thank you also to our wonderful volunteers, members and donors whose support is crucial to the delivery of our services. We can’t thank you enough for your contribution to our work. Our very best wishes to you for a wonderful Christmas and New Year. Kevin Lamb, CEO Age Concern Auckland
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