Bare Necessities Charity

Our first grant for Tauranga! Thank you Tauranga City Council for supporting our local initiative.

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Thank you for your generous donation! Swipe to see some of their gorgeous pieces 👉🏼

Off to Parent Aid and Dayspring Trust 🥰

Tested, sterilised and ready to go 💪🏼

And thank you for dedicating your time and expertise to securing this funding for our cause 🙏🏼

We love a good line up! This is a tiny snippet of the donations we have received from Holly over the years. Esther and Albie has been a true pillar of our charity since the start, both community-wise and financially 🥰 Thank you Holly for everything you do!

💪🏼 Reinforcements are on their way 🤱🏽🍼

✔️Electric breast pump
✔️ Nursing cream
✔️ Hydrogel pads
✔️ Milk catcher
✔️ Storage bags
✔️ Shields

As always, we couldn’t have done this without giving us the best prices ever AND sourcing all items at once for us 🥰

At times like these we absolutely love what we do 🥰

How do you celebrate Matariki at your home / school / workplace? ✨

🪥 600 toothbrushes & 600 toothpastes 🪥 Thank you D V Bryant Trust for supporting the oral health of our māmā 🙏🏼

And thank you for giving us crazy low prices and letting us pick up on weekends 🥰

Thank you .impact for donating another 96 jars of virgin coconut oil! The owners of Ethos Impact have supported our cause for several years now. They also support a variety of non profit organisations in New Zealand and abroad 🙏🏼

Thank you Four Winds Foundation for generously granting $6,000 and for heavily discounting our order so that we can buy a whole van full of maternity pads!

40 brand new manual breast pumps 🤯 Thank you for your continuous donations and support 🙏🏼 Words can’t express how grateful we are.

Always busy 🥰

Thank you Foundation North for funding our nursing cream for another year; and for making it extremely affordable for us 🙏🏼

Imagine our surprise when we checked our bank account and we found out that $5000 had been donated by Kami!

Kami was developed by four university friends who wanted to make a difference. Ten years later, they’ve grown into a team of over 100 Kami-leons with a shared goal of supporting classroom heroes.

Kami simplifies workflows, increases student engagement, reduces printing costs, and saves trees too! The app aims to level the playing field so that “all students – no matter their age, grade, or ability – can love learning”.

https://www.kamiapp.com/about-us/

Check them out 👆🏼

Cancelled due to illness - sorry everyone!

Thank you for sharing 250 period un**es with us! In addition to our usual and most helpful Impact Partner allocation 🙏🏼

Showcasing another generous mama-owned business that’s been supporting is since last year :

Meet Natalie 👋 She’s a mama of two & the founder of maternity brand Go Mama.
She started Go Mama to help support women after experiencing her own postnatal challenges and using exercise as a management tool to help her overcome these. Natalie wanted to create a brand that would offer a range of quality and affordable clothing, fitness equipment & accessories. Go Mama’s aim is to help build the connection between physical activity and mental wellbeing by breaking down some of the barriers to exercise and offering products that motivate and inspire Mamas to feel their best.

Her favourite parts of the business are meeting other Mamas & getting to help all women on their motherhood journey 💕

Massive thanks to Lister Presbyterian Health Trust for funding our carton box purchases for another year!

Today we welcome .co.nz to the BNC whānau. Teaming up with this gorgeous māmā and midwife-owned local business makes complete sense as we have the same goals and visions: looking after māmā during their pregnancy and postpartum journey.

The lovely Dione will donate $1 for every sale made; AND customers will have the opportunity to donate at checkout too.

Make sure you give this community oriented business a follow ✨ .co.nz

Happy Mother’s Day!

Thank you for continuously volunteering in so many ways mama 🥰

We are here for you 👩🏼‍🤝‍👩🏽

Meet Nat, Founder of .co. Nat has designed a fully funded 6-month Girl in Motion scholarship for women experiencing hardship. You can apply to be considered via this link:

🔗 https://girlinmotion.co/scholarship/

The scholarship includes:

💻 An online course with a step-by-step roadmap to start a service based business
📔 reWorkbooks, checklists and resources
📞 Monthly group coaching calls
☕️ Monthly masterclasses
🧍🏻‍♀️Private Facebook group for daily support
📱Hundreds of social media templates, ebook templates, copy templates and swipe files to make things super easy.

Nat believes that every woman should have access to the skills, tools and knowledge to start their own business; and we couldn’t agree more.

Whether you’re expressing or breastfeeding, we are dedicated to providing the aids you need if you’re not able to afford them during these tough times.

https://barenecessities.co.nz/needed-items

Free pump hire remains available during public holidays 💪🏼

📢 Sizes 14/16/18+ needed urgently 📢

✔️Any women’s clothing that could be uses during pregnancy & nursing

✔️ Drop off / postal address:

🚚 35E Constellation Drive
Rosedale
Auckland 0632

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“The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Today we finalised 10 pre-packaged donation boxes and 135 maternity clothing items for refugee families supported by Kāhui Tū Kaha, a not-for-profit provider of housing and mental health services.

🚗 Off to the Bay of Plenty 🚗

If you’ve been wanting to volunteer but haven’t had the time or you’re not near our location - here’s your chance! You can be anywhere in New Zealand and still make a real difference.

Message us or send us an email 👇🏼

📧 [email protected]

📢 Between 15 & 31 March, for every sale made, will donate $1 to our cause! 📢

We’ve run out of super pads and we need your help. The fastest and cheapest way to help is to:

👉🏼 go to www.thewarehouse.co.nz
👉🏼 search “super pads”
👉🏼 add to cart
👉🏼 choose Click & Collect - Auckland, Albany Store
👉🏼 DM us the order number when ready, OR ship straight to:

📪 Bare Necessities Charity
35E Constellation Drive
Rosedale
Auckland 0632

❗️If you already have any other pads, we accept all at our address above (physical & postal)

🙏🏼 Thanking you all in advance 🤍

Thanks to generous small businesses like who donate during good and bad times, we are able to respond quickly when emergency strikes.

Thank you Holly for this gorgeous donation! 🙏🏼

🚙 Delivery Day is one of our favourite days 🚙

✨Women’s clothing for whanau affected by recent flooding✨Please email [email protected] with your preferred size and location.

Thank you for fundraising $290! 🥳 With these funds we were able to buy much needed personal care items; and pay for shipping to maternity wards and community support groups in Whangarei, Rotorua and Hamilton.

First bulk donation for the year - off we go! 🚐 Middlemore Hospital

We are off to a great start this year! We hope you’re feeling excited and confident about 2023 🥰

Thank you for your gorgeous donation 🙏🏼 (Swipe to see a close up of these sustainable handmade hair claws)