- July’s six shortlisted charities to receive a donation thanks to you!
- We’re helping Kids with Arthritis support Teenagers
- Find out how your votes helped June’s six charities receive a share of $10,000
- We’re helping Cure Kids turn research into hope
- Six donations are being made to six deserving children’s charities thanks to your votes!
Welcome to Sovereign Sunshine
Have your say on how a donation of up to $15,000 is given to six New Zealand children’s charities every month from leading life insurance, home loans and investment specialists, Sovereign. By taking part in Sovereign’s exciting sponsorship initiative you will also be in the draw to win a fabulous monthly prize.
August 2010 - Children’s disability support
The charities shortlisted this month are:
There are three ways you can help:
Many charities are in need of support. No matter what your skills, there's something you can do.
Send money directly to one of the featured charities.
Donate via credit card, internet transfer or cheque.
Email your friends and encourage them to get involved with Sovereign Sunshine.
Introducing: Sovereign Sunshine Days
Every month the staff at Sovereign celebrate Sunshine Day, with fun activities designed to raise funds for the winning Sovereign Sunshine charity. This usually involves getting dressed in theme, and included a stair challenge, and a pie-throwing competition! A different team leads the fundraising each month, staff donations to the winning charity are matched by Sovereign also.
Check the Sunshine Day news items below, to read who benefitted from this month’s fundraising, how much each of the six shortlisted charities received, and for a glimpse of the latest Sunshine Day fun.
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30 July 2010 - July's six shortlisted charities will receive a donation each as a result of your votes! The category for July was 'children’s health - life threatening illness'. We are delighted to be supporting these deserving charities with your help!
30 June 2010 - Your votes have told us exactly how to allocate Sovereign's $10,000 donation to June's shortlisted charities! June's category was 'teenage advice and support', and your votes are going to enable more kiwi kids and their families to receive this type of specialised support.
Sunshine Day
19 July 2010 - Our July focus has been Kids with Arthritis, and the awesome work they do supporting kids and teenagers across the country. The funds we raised on Sunshine Day will help teenagers with arthritis by helping to fund camps, support meetings, and special events which enable the teens to build strong friendships with other teenagers who understand them, listen and support them. We're very proud to be helping Kids with Arthritis, and helping to make a brighter future for teens with arthritis.
17 June 2010 - We’re delighted to be giving this month's staff and company donations to Cure Kids, helping them invest in scientific research into life-threatening illnesses, which could save hundreds of young lives and improve the quality of life for thousands of children. Since being established 30 years ago, Cure Kids has invested $19 million in medical research, with successes in treating medical conditions such as asthma, childhood diabetes, childhood heart conditions, cystic fibrosis, cot death prevention, liver disease, paediatric cancer, respiratory illnesses, rheumatic fever, and spina bifida.
Thanks again for your May votes. Cure Kids received $3,100 from their share of the monthly vote, in addition to the $3,713.10 donated by Sovereign and our staff.
Sovereign Sunshine media releases
31 July 2009 - Newborn babies at Starship Children's Hospital will soon benefit from lifesaving 'BiliBlankets' which are used for the treatment of babies suffering from jaundice. Starship Foundation's Fundraising Director Bobbie Brown, said the purchase of the two blankets was due to a recent donation of nearly $14,000 made by the Sovereign Sunshine initiative.
