Posted October 21st, 2009 by lee
What a whirlwind the last week was for Otis Frizzell. After a delivery malfunction Otis completed the 8 x 2m work at Te Papa in a speedy four days. In fact he finished just in time to have a well earned beer before catching a flight back to Auckland.
It is amazing what [...]
Tags: givealittle, museum hotel, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, new zealand red cross samoa tsunami relief fund, otis frizzell, resene, samoa, te papa, tsunami
Posted October 13th, 2009 by nathalie
To all the wonderful people that have supported the Symes family at the cause page over the last 7 days, please know that the Givealittle team have put together a great big card capturing all of your messages of support and we will be sending that to the family tomorrow.
This has been an incredibly sad [...]
Posted October 8th, 2009 by lee
As often happens with the Givealittle team, ideas come late at night and result and a flurry of phone calls that always start with ‘Hey, I’ve got an idea, what do you think about ….’. A couple of nights ago I received one of these calls from Nathalie.
As previously mentioned the comments donors are [...]
Tags: New Zealand Red Cross, otis frizzell, samoa tsunami, te papa
Posted October 7th, 2009 by lee
A round of applause to Suzuki New Zealand for coming on board and sponsoring the New Zealand Red Cross Samoa Tsunami Appeal at Givealittle.
And a huge thank you to Xero for being the first sponsor to support this appeal.
These sponsorships are paid to directly to the New Zealand Red Cross and ensure that 100% of [...]
Posted October 7th, 2009 by nathalie
Earlier in the week Givealittle was in contact with the Office of the Prime Minister to invite a video message to acknowledge the fantastic response from New Zealand charities and donors to the tragedy in Samoa.
The Prime Minister kindly found time yesterday to record the following message acknowledging all of the ways New Zealand charities [...]
Posted October 6th, 2009 by lee
We’ve been blown away by the comments from donors all around the world being left on the the Samoa Tsunami Relief Fund page and decided that these must be recorded in suitable way.
So we plan on commissioning a piece of art to record the comments and then gift the work with the people of Samoa.
Details [...]