Christmas gifts galore
Raglan’s annual Spirit of Christmas exhibition kicked off at the Old School Arts Centre last weekend with gifts galore up for grabs, priced from $5 to $500. Keep Reading
Saturday night live: combo art auction heads for finale
Think combo and you may visualise a small band or perhaps something on a fast-food menu, but for the Old School Arts Centre it’s a novel way to attract the best prices for 60 donated artworks while also raising funds for Raglan’s annual arts weekend next Easter. Keep Reading
Dragon’s Blood: A fundraiser play for Xtreme Zero Waste
A special play by the Whaingaroa children enrolled in home school, Dragon’s Blood is an epic tale of adventure and hope for the next generation. Keep Reading
Te Uku Pony Club
Te Uku Pony Club was originally established in the early 1950s. It went into recess for a few years and was restarted in the early 1980s by Avril Hawken and Christine Hartstone.
Te Uku has amazing facilities at the ground on Okete Rd. David and Nicola Peacocke sponsored a fabulous three-bay shed for the club rooms which has made a huge difference to rally and competition days. There is a cross country course available for schooling on rally days and training as well. Keep Reading
Christmas cakes raise money for Old School Arts Centre new build
Spread some Christmas joy in more ways than one with the Old School Arts Centre’s Christmas cake fundraiser for the new Creative Space building.
Clay shed coordinator Susanne Giessen-Prinz says the Christmas cakes are the gifts that keep on giving as friends and family will enjoy the delicious home-baked cakes in a beautifully crafted clay pot long after the cake is eaten.
“This is a wonderful way for the community to get behind the new build and also they will have a beautiful gift to give this Christmas.” Keep Reading
Raglan Area School students Shave for a Cure
Students at Raglan Area School decided to make a stand against Leukemia and Blood Cancer by organising a sponsored Shave for a Cure event.
On September 5, Deputy Head Girl Ngaramai Elliott-Rooney stood alongside Mickey Brajkovic and several other students in front of the whole school and were shaved by Ray Bailey and Joel Rankine from Raglan Barbers. Keep Reading
School fundraiser takes new heights with wind farm trail run
There are three mad women behind Waitetuna School PTA’s end-of-year fundraiser – a trail run that goes through the Te Uku Wind Farm.
PTA chairperson and teacher Jess Otton says no, she’s not one of them – she’s more the type who prefers to man a “sausage team”, and she’s certainly no keen runner. Keep Reading
Raffle boosts coffers for new Old School creative space
The Raglan community has helped fundraise $8000 towards the new creative space at the Old School Arts Centre.
Fundraising committee member Susanne Giessen Prinz says $140,000 in grants has been secured for the project, with the community also showing its support by donating prizes and purchasing tickets in the Super Summer Bumper Raffle. Keep Reading
Fundraising Dinner for Raglan Community House
Wednesday night saw an amazing fundraiser for the Raglan Community House at Rock-It Kitchen on Wainui Rd.
The whole cafe was packed with wonderful Raglan folk who wanted to support the work of the Raglan Community House and to say that Rock-It was rocking wouldn’t be an exaggeration. Keep Reading
Kenyan school gets a helping hand from Raglan community
Raglan has blown us away by fundraising the majority of $2200 in an appeal to provide washable sanitary pads for a rural school in Kenya.
This will be a game changer for our girls and for the environment. We now have the funds to gift a kit to every girl and female teacher at Heittmann Girls High School – along with a quality sewing machine – to teach them how to make their own sanitary pads and start a small social enterprise to sell to other woman. Keep Reading