Last month we had to relocate our veggie garden with it’s big planter boxes and enormous 8-metre polytunnel. It was both scary and cool to watch the guys from Crane Trucks Ltd lift everything and then put it in it’s new home.
The new venue is a lot closer to Amos Place and is a really nice place to be.
3 of our guys and Sarah, our Coordinator, had an amazing time on the Spirit of New Zealand recently!
Big thanks go out to RATA Foundation for funding this experience.
Nine Duke of Ed and Believe and Achieve Participants have just completed their camp training in the run-up to our November Bronze and Silver combined camp. They learnt some serious outdoor and navigation skills and had time for laughs along the way.
Well done to you all!!!
Thanks to the Lion Foundation we have just been able to replace our ageing wheelchair van with a 2018 Toyota HiAce. The new van is an automatic and so can be driven by the entire staff team. It is smooth, quiet and comfortable and we are looking forward to a long association with the new member of the Helen Anderson Trust van fleet.
Thanks also to James at Hopman Motor Group QE2 for helping us through the process of selecting the new van, both organisations are very nice people to do business with.
| When | Fri Aug 23, 2024 12pm – 2pm (NZST) |
| Where | Scenic Hotel Cotswold (88-96 Papanui Road, Merivale, Christchurch Canterbury 8014) |
This monthly show is created and presented by the service users at the Helen Anderson Trust, for people within the disability community and the wider community.
The show is based around music, covering soundtracks, world music and songs relating to sports and the team’s favourite artists.
Broadcast on the second Thursday of the month at 12noon.
Hear the last five episodes online here Programme Details (plainsfm.org.nz)
Cassie Awarded Volunteer of the Year by The Duke of Edinburgh’s Hillary Award
Our very own Cassie Lipine made such a good impression at the Community Garden where she volunteers for the Service Section of her Gold Duke Duke of Edinburgh’s Award that her efforts have been rewarded by being nominated for and successfully gaining “Volunteer of the Year” as part of the DofE’s Youth Week activities.
Cassie won a Macpac voucher and nationwide recognition for her amazing work which has involved setting up for events, guiding visitors around the gardens, pricking out seedlings and harvesting plants to make cosmetics and teas.
Well done Cassie! The Helen Anderson Trust is so proud of you!
April Phillips Gardner had a stellar Special Olympics in the 2022 Special Olympics Summer Games held in December, winning Silver in the 200m and Gold in the 100m and the Long Jump.
Huge congratulations to April on an amazing achievement!
At last! Covid has subsided to the point that we felt we could hold another Award Event to catch up on all of our clients that have completed Duke of Edinburgh’s Hillary Awards and Award Sections plus our very own Helen Anderson Trust Believe and Achieve Awards.
These two Award programmes are essentially the same but the Helen Anderson Trust Believe and Achieve Awards are for those over 25 as that is the maximum age for the Duke of Edinburgh’s Hillary Award.
11 of our amazing clients turned up and we presented a total of 20 certificates with 3 of our guys taking home their Bronze, Silver and Gold Awards all in one hit!
We are all caught up now and primed for their advancement to the next Award level and signing up some new participants both from within the Trust and externally because we are now an Open Award Centre for both the Duke of Edinburgh and Believe and Achieve Award programmes and not restricting our intake to disability participants.
It was a great way to start the year, full of joy and happiness. Thanks to our staff crew for putting it all together including the catering and special thanks to all our sponsors and supporters for making these life-changing activities possible.
