Regular giving
By making a regular donation you ensure the future of care at Mary Potter Hospice for patients and their families and whānau living with a life-limiting illness.
- A monthly gift helps keep our costs down and has an even greater impact
- You are in control – change, stop or postpone your regular donation at any time
- It’s easy to claim back a third of your donation with the annual tax receipt sent to you in April
How your regular donations can help
Over 840 husbands and wives, sisters and brothers, sons and daughters, partners, friends, neighbours and colleagues in Wellington, Porirua and Kāpiti receiving our free-of-charge care every year. A regular gift is the most effective way to provide them with the very best care at the most vulnerable time of their lives, whether that’s at the hospice or in their home – whichever is best for them.
- $30 a month can provide a patient with 12 home-cooked meals at the Inpatient Unit
- $35 a month can cover the cost of four counselling sessions for patients and their families
- $45 a month can allow patients to receive the care they need in the comfort of their own home, by funding three home visits from a Hospice doctor
- $60 a month covers the cost of an arts therapy session for bereaved children
Choose ‘Give monthly’ and set up your regular gift today:
Join our Starlight Circle
Starlight Circle supporters give a set donation of their choice every month, ensuring Mary Potter Hospice can provide our quality care to all who need it. Joining the Starlight Circle is a great help to us so we can budget effectively. And hopefully, it makes it easier for you to donate as your donations to Mary Potter Hospice occur automatically.
The name Starlight Circle originates from a philosophy that is deeply embedded in the Hospice’s work: Whetū i te rangi – the ‘stars’ in the sky. Just as the stars guided the great Māori navigators to Aotearoa, Mary Potter Hospice guides our patients and their families or whānau on their journeys. Each patient is like a star guiding the Hospice’s work and our patients are with us, in our memories and hearts, like the stars in the sky, when their journey ends.
All Starlight Circle members also receive regular communications about how your donations are making a difference.
Meet Starlight Circle Members Steve and Kay
It was a privilege for Mary Potter Hospice to care for Steve’s dad and Kay’s husband, George. Last year the family were told that there were no further treatment options available for George and he soon entered the Hospice’s care, first at home and later at the Inpatient Unit in Newtown, Wellington.
“We decided that making a regular donation to ensure others get the same level of care is the best way we can repay this right now. Somehow that still feels inadequate. Lots of charities want money but we have seen where the money goes at Mary Potter,” says Kay. Read Steve and Kay’s story
Setting up your regular donations
Credit card
To make a regular donation through your credit card or direct debit, please select the ‘Give monthly’ option on our online donation page:
Automatic payment
To make a regular donation by an automatic payment from your bank account, please complete the automatic payment form and return it to us by email to starlightcircle@marypotter.org.nz or by post to Mary Potter Hospice, Freepost 3053, PO Box 7442, Newtown, Wellington 6242.
Once you’re set up, we’ll make sure you receive a tax receipt each April so that you can claim your tax rebate. You can choose the amount and frequency you donate to suit your needs, and you can make a change to your donation at any time.
For more information about regular donations please contact:
Penelope Esplin
Fundraiser – Regular Giving
Phone: 04 381 0189
Email: starlightcircle@marypotter.org.nz
Door Knocking Campaigns – FAQs (Who is knocking on the door and why.)
Our Starlight Circle regular givers are vital to the work we do
Mary Potter Hospice Foundation is a charity that relies on the support of people like you, so we can continue to provide free care to people with life-limiting illnesses and their families.
People who give to us regularly every month are part of our valued Starlight Circle programme. Knowing we are getting money each month gives us the confidence that we have a regular income coming in to support our work.
In order to sign up these vital donors we operate a door-to-door fundraising programme. This method of fundraising is known as face to face. At present, we are using the reputable fundraising company Surge Direct go door to door for us in the Wellington community.
Surge is a member of the Public Fundraising Regulatory Association (PFRA) of New Zealand. Members of PFRA must work within a strict regulatory framework. The PFRA works with charities and service providers to ensure quality, integrity and transparency in face-to-face fundraising by creating an atmosphere of public confidence and regulatory satisfaction. For more information, please visit the PFRA website (http://pfra.org.nz/).
When members of the public sign up to join the Starlight Circle with our face-to-face fundraisers they provide personal information and bank details to allow automatic monthly donations. All this information is kept strictly confidential.
How to identify our fundraisers
Legitimate Mary Potter Hospice face to face fundraisers will:
- be wearing branded bibs with the Mary Potter Hospice logo on them.
- be displaying a Surge identification badge with their name, photo and identification number
- never ask for, or accept, a cash donation
- will be carrying Mary Potter Hospice’s Starlight Circle literature with them.
Where are our fundraisers?
Starting Saturday 1st November, our fundraisers will be visiting:
- The Green Expo (2nd & 3rd November)
- Kapiti (remainder of November)
- Porirua (December)
If you have questions or feedback about our fundraisers, please contact our Regular Giving Fundraiser (Penelope Esplin) on 021 897 980, 04 381 0189 or on 0800 627 976 (MARYPOTTER) or email starlightcircle@marypotter.org.nz
Our Starlight Circle regular givers are vital to the work we do