TOTARATALK your connection to Hospice JANUARY 2019 tou hononga ki Hospice

HELPING TO MAKE HOSPICE HAPPEN When Melanie Kennerley took on the role of Community Champion at the Z service stations she owns with her husband in South at the end of 2016, Totara Hospice was just one of several charities their business supported. While Melanie knew Hospice did good work, she had never had anything to do with them. Then that changed suddenly.

Melanie had been organising the She was given the name of a palliative Good in the Hood programme at their oncologist who worked with Totara stations (in which Z customers vote for Hospice and could answer some of local charities to receive a cash her early questions. As soon as her donation) and monthly community husband Wayne arrived in Auckland volunteering by their Z staff. After with Neville, Melanie took her brother- some contact with Totara Hospice in-law to a doctor and then Middlemore Hospital referred him to Sponsorship Manager, Mel Seal, she Totara Hospice. was starting to get more of an understanding of Hospice’s work. He stayed in the Inpatient Unit early Then, Melanie and her family were on while they established his pain floored by news that her brother-in-law management and he then returned Neville, who lived in Arizona, had home to live with the Kennerleys and pancreatic cancer. their children, while the community nurses visited 2-3 times a week. It was especially difficult as he was Melanie Kennerley(R) volunteering at the 2018 Sunrise Walk with regular volunteer Julie Bailey first diagnosed while already caring for “I don’t know how you would do it his wife, who had terminal lung cancer. without the support of somebody like She died over Christmas of 2016, and of the station staff helped at this year’s the next month Neville was told he had Sunrise Walk and at the Ladies’ just weeks left to live. With no other I’d always heard so many great things about Totara Lunch, and at other times their staff family in the US, he decided to come help to service the nurses’ cars or home to , which he had Hospice, but until you go through it I don’t think you have wherever Totara Hospice needs left 40 years earlier as a teenager on a any appreciation of how much they do and the impact it assistance. Melanie also donates tennis scholarship. has on the family that’s looking after somebody.” goods for Hospice fundraising. Melanie says having her terminally ill “When I started the role at Z I hadn’t brother-in-law arrive to live with them been to Totara Hospice and hadn’t the Hospice,” says Melanie. She says had anything to do with them and then was a huge change for everyone. “For that made it the best it could be, given Melanie, “but until you go through it I Neville struggled to understand why lo and behold we had this huge me, it was like ‘I want to do this. But the circumstances. From the support don’t think you have any appreciation there was so much support available of the nurse home visits, to family card of how much they do and the impact it life-changing event together. But once what do I do? I’m going to have as it was very different from his tournaments in the Hospice dining has on the family that’s looking after you do go through it you certainly someone with end-stage pancreatic experience in the States, where he room, and the spacious patient rooms somebody.” understand that they’re amazing.” cancer arriving on the doorstep, who’s had looked after his wife by himself at designed for family members to spend become a diabetic, who’s been given home until the she died. time with loved ones; even to stay Neville’s estate made a substantial If you would like to help Make Hospice just weeks to live and we have to work Happen with a donation of funds or Neville lived just nine weeks after over, as the Kennerleys did with Neville donation to Totara Hospice and out how to look after him. How do I just before he died in March last year. Melanie and Wayne continue to goods for fundraising, please contact arriving in New Zealand, and while his Melinda on 09 640 0208. even get him into the system?’ It was time with his family was short, Melanie support it through Good in the Hood, this complete unknown.” says it was the help of Totara Hospice “I’d always heard so many great things and their gift hamper business about Totara Hospice,” reflects Paddock to Pantry. Melanie and some

Join us for the 2019 JOIN OUR FRIENDLY TEAM OF VOLUNTEERS Do you have some spare time and want to make a difference? We are seeking volunteers Lunch to work in various areas to support the work of Totara Hospice. Ladies Lunch Drivers – We need your Retail – Help turn Ladiesfor help to be able to pre-loved donated continue to provide goods into much- all our services free needed support Hospice of charge – our for our patients with Julie Biuso Volunteer Drivers and their families. are integral to being We are looking for able to do this, as volunteers to help they help our in our six Hospice Gather the ladies for an entertaining afternoon while patients get to where Shops – , enjoying a glass of wine and a three course luncheon, they need to be. Some , The of our patients need help Gardens, Takanini, prepared by Grant Allen and Alfriston College getting to Totara Hospice or to a medical Pakuranga and Howick – and in our Takanini students. Featuring the appointment and that’s where you’ll come in. Distribution Centre. If you have an interest in fabulous Hospice To register your interest please contact our providing positive customer service and want to Fashion Show, a silent volunteer services team on 09 640 0025 do some good in your community then we want or [email protected] to hear from you. Please contact our volunteer auction and raffles, services team on 09 640 0025 or it’s the perfect [email protected] Mother’s Day treat! Inpatient Unit – Would you like to help provide caring support to our Fundraising – th patients and their Would you like to Friday 10 May, 2019 families? help raise much- We are seeking needed funds for 11:45am - 3:00pm compassionate Totara Hospice? Tickets $70pp - Table of 10 $650 people to help with The Fundraising meal service, light Team is looking Totara Hospice, 140 Charles Prevost Drive, Manurewa, Auckland housekeeping duties for motivated and various other volunteers to help BOOK NOW: tasks to support the with our community www.ladieslunch.co.nz medical team in caring for our appeals and patients. We will provide you with the support and assistance with events. All proceeds to Totara Hospice advice you need to do this role. If you have No experience is necessary but a positive attitude understanding and respect for the journey each and willingness to help is crucial. If this sounds Enquiries: [email protected] or 09 640 0243 patient and their family is on, please get in touch like you, please contact Julayne on 09 640 0250 on 09 640 0025 or [email protected] or [email protected] Premier Sponsors

Mary McDonald - Residential Sales Totara Talk - your connection to Hospice // 01 A WILDLY SUCCESSFUL LONG LUNCH! A huge thank you to everyone who Special thanks to our generous joined us on Sunday 28th October for sponsors Davis Funerals, Andrew our 6th annual Long Lunch at Simms, Walthall Ward, Drake Medox, Alexandra Park. 300 guests – our Scarecrow, The Tasting Shed and largest ever Long Lunch crowd – Mike Pero for your ongoing indulged in the best of New Zealand’s support of our flagship event. Thank Wild and Farmed cuisine, expertly you to our incredible auction prepared by Chefs Ben Barton and sponsors, food, wine and event Sam Campbell. supporters and to those who participated in the auctions and raffles With the help of our generous on the day. sponsors and guests, we are thrilled to announce that over $75,000 was With the Long Lunch growing year on raised for Totara Hospice – by far our year, and with ten tables already sold most successful Long Lunch yet! for the 2019 event, it is sure to be a sell out! Lock in Sunday 20th October We could not have achieved such an 2019 in your calendar and go to www. amazing result without the support of eventfinda.co.nz/2019/hospice-long- our fantastic Youth Ambassadors, lunch to secure your seats. Celebrity Hosts, MC and Host Mike Puru, entertainers HALO and our For more information contact fabulous Chefs, assisted by the NZMA Melinda Seal on 09 640 0208. Culinary Students, who continue to wow us with incredible dishes.

Table Host Melodie Robinson and MC Mike Puru

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Pop in for a bite to eat at Café Aroha here at Totara Hospice, we have great coffee and offer a range of simple, yet delicious food and beverages; all served with love and supported by our volunteers. The last Wednesday of each month we have a Pop Up Mini Market – a fabulous chance for you to enjoy a yummy bite to eat with a spot of shopping! We have the following confirmed days booked with some fabulous stalls:

• Wednesday 27/2/19 • Wednesday 27/3/19 • Wednesday 29/5/19 Café Aroha has free Wi-Fi and indoor or outdoor seating is available. Dogs are welcome in the outside dining area when on their leads; the perfect stop off after a walk around the Auckland Botanic Gardens. See you soon! Café Aroha Monday – Friday, 8.30am – 3pm Totara Hospice, 140 Charles Prevost Drive, The Gardens, Manurewa

Helping Hospice step by step, remembering and honouring someone special you love... Sunday 17 March 2019 Auckland Botanic Gardens at 7:45am

Adult Walk (16+ Years) $35* • VIP Adult Walk (18+ Years) $50 Children 15 and under FREE* (dogs can walk with you for free too!) *children (& dogs) must have a paid adult accompanying them Theme - colours of the Rainbow dress-up to win prizes!

Soy Delights NZ Market Day

02 // Totara Talk - your connection to Hospice MORE CHOICES FOR PATIENTS THANKS TO YOU, OUR DONORS Supporting independence, patient driven decision making, and an introduction to Hospice care are all part of the important work at the Totara Hospice Outpatient Clinic. For some people living with life-limiting She says it is also an opportunity to illness in the South Auckland ‘demystify’ what Hospice is about, as community, the Outpatient Clinic at it can be viewed as a ‘final stage’ for a Totara Hospice has increased their patient, but points out that Hospice feeling of independence and improved offers much more than that. access to care whilst simultaneously debunking myths and providing real “A lot of people get a scary feeling that insight into what Hospice offers. being referred for hospice care means it’s a place they are going to go to die. The Clinic was set up as a pilot in Hospice does care and support 2017, thanks in part to community patients and families on death but it is donations and fundraising. The pilot so much more, hospice is about was operated as Totara realised there helping people not be so scared and were many patients with an incurable live every moment. So, after an condition who were still living quite outpatient appointment they’re offered independently with a chronic disease the option of having a walk through or cancer. They may still be receiving our inpatient unit and to look through chemotherapy or radiotherapy and the Hospice and the surroundings and just needed some extra input from the to see what support they or their Hospice team to enhance their family can have. The family quite like L-R: Clinical Director - Dr James Jap, Nurse Practitioner, Robyn McCullough & Community Clinical Manager Samantha Abbott independence. The clinic is a way for that as well because they can come the Hospice specialists to work with and see what it might mean for them.” the patients other clinical teams in the community and services like oncology. Once a patient has been referred to Totara Hospice and identified as being Patients who are still living independently and The clinic now runs 5 days a week suitable for the Outpatients Clinic, they who want to make more choices about where and so far has seen over 500 patients. visit for a nurse assessment to It is led by Director of Nursing at Totara establish a care plan. “If the nurse they receive care can come to a clinic rather Hospice, Kathy Peri and supported by feels they might need a multi- than being seen at home.” the Community Clinical Manager disciplinary assessment, meaning Samantha Abbott, Senior Nurse Julia they might need a physio assessment Ward and Nurse Practitioner Robyn and some treatment or a spiritual happily at home, doing their own thing She says while there aren’t any The Outpatient Clinic is partially McCullough amongst others. Kathy advisor or counsellor, then the patient and setting their own goals,” says volunteers involved at the moment, funded from community donations says she believes the clinic plays an can come back and get those Kathy. “Unfortunately the cancer they are hoping to have some to help that you our supporters have important role in the services of treatments provided in the Outpatient returned and now they’re needing in future. “Instead of the nurses generously donated, thanks to you Hospice, especially when it comes to Clinic as well,” explains Kathy. some more treatment from our walking the patients and whanau this wonderful additional service is giving options to patients. “Patients Hospice team.” groups around the Totara Hospice now helping our patients and families. The Outpatient Clinic can provide an who are still living independently and building and surrounds we’ve asked on-going treatment plan for patients who want to have more choices about For Kathy, a key part of the Outpatient that two or three volunteers be trained To Donate to Make Hospice Happen and, in some cases, patients may be their care can choose to come to the Clinic is the fact it is nurse-led, offering to do that for us and we’re looking in your community see the Donation discharged. “I was reading a referral clinic rather than being seen at home, the holistic care approach in which the forward to that.” Form on the next page with easy ways which was the only other option they where a patient had treatment from us senior nurses specialise. for you to support Totara Hospice. had before it was set up.” and had been discharged then had a year of living quite independently and

A BRIDAL STORE THAT DOES MORE

Get dressed for less for your big day, whilst helping those in the community with a life-limiting illness. The Wedding Loft, located upstairs at the Manukau Hospice Shop, is more than a bridal store – it’s a bridal store with a heart, doing good for Hospice. Featuring a wonderful range of Distribution Centre, but it was difficult and better quality dresses are coming wedding gowns, bridesmaid dresses, to find the space to display them. We through with people wanting to help. grooms attire, flower girl and page also wanted to give everyone the boy outfits. Also a range of beautiful chance to have the same experience The Wedding Loft is open six days a ball gowns and accessories including whether they were buying a $100 week at 29B Cavendish Drive, with shoes, gloves and veils, you can have dress from Hospice, or a $3,000 appointments available on Mondays the wedding of your dreams, or be dress in a bridal shop, so a lot of time to have one of our assistants help the belle of the ball, without breaking was spent making the space beautiful with your dress fitting. Or if you have a the bank. and giving it a boutique feel. wedding or ball dress that you would like to donate to help Hospice and Totara Hospice Head of Retail, Now we are able to display the make someone else’s big day special, Laura Marshall said the idea for the dresses all in one place and can give please contact us on 09 298 3108. Wedding Loft came after Chief people the experience of finding their No. 8 Natural Market Day Executive, Tina McCafferty perfect dress, with the added bonus There are plenty of other great challenged the team to utilise the of knowing they’re raising money for bargains to be found downstairs at space above the Manukau Hospice charity,” Laura said. our Manukau Hospice Shop, and at Shop in an innovative way, that would our other five Hospice Shops in also involve a social aspect – The Wedding Loft launched in May Manurewa, The Gardens, Takanini, HOSPICE SHOP CRAWL providing something for everyone in with a fabulous fashion show held at Pakuranga and Howick. You can find Grab the ladies for the ultimate the local area. South Auckland Motors, featuring a fantastic range of affordable, quality shopping day and be assured Totara Hospice Youth Ambassadors, pre-loved clothing and accessories, “There was a number of beautiful volunteers and staff as models. homewares, furniture, books, your credit card won’t take a hit! dresses spread across our Since then donations have increased antiques and more. Enjoy a day out travelling via bus to four Hospice Shops and in the Hospice shops and grab yourself some amazing bargains, plus enjoy a scrumptious lunch stop along the way - all included. Saturday 2nd March 9.30am - 4.30pm Tickets $65pp Book your tickets now at www.hospice.co.nz/store/products/shopcrawl

Totara Talk - your connection to Hospice // 03 CHANGE IS CONTINUAL AND THAT’S OK Kia ora tātou, Kia Orana, Talofa Lava, Malo e lelei, Fakaalofa Lahi Atu, Ni sa Bula Vinaka, Namaste, Ní hăo, Hola! Greetings All Happy New Year all. I hope you community, supporters, sponsors Our refreshed partnership with our of their lives with a loved one, and enjoyed a summer holiday period and donors alike, we have been able DHB and Middlemore Hospital supporting that hospice continues filled with fun, friends and family. to provide more palliative care and enhances this, also providing a better to happen while having a lot of fun support to patients and their loved sense of delivering care safely into the in the process. We are now in our 37th year and I’d ones, in more ways than ever before. future. It is a time of promise and like to thank you all for gifting your Out patients, home visiting, day energy to achieve together. In closing, thank you again for all you time and skills and being such a big hospice, in patients and our Poi do for us and I will see you at the part of the ‘story of us’; a story of community partnerships with General Talking of energy I hope to see you at Sunrise Walk for Hospice! advocacy, growth, action and a Practice and residential care have the Sunrise Walk. This is one of my Kindest regards, common compassionate belief in ensured that we have extended our personal favourites in the community Tina McCafferty supporting each other. reach; supporting a hospice care events calendar for Totara as it brings approach across the community to together people from the rich tapestry As a result I am delighted to share almost 1000 families a year resulting of the wide communities we serve, all with you that thanks to the efforts of in over 15,000 care contacts. sharing an experience they have in everyone – workforce of staff and common – how Totara has been part Tina McCafferty Chief Executive volunteers, youth ambassadors,

BNI Metro Trivia Night BNI Howick Golf Day South Auckland Motors Classic Golf Day On Friday 10th August BNI Metro and Totara Hospice hosted the Thank you to BNI Howick for holding the Totara Hospice The annual South Auckland Motors Classic Golf Day was Mid-Winter Christmas Trivia Night Fundraiser. It was a great Charity Golf Day on 21st November at Pakuranga Golf Club. held at Golf Club on Friday 23rd November. The sun night of fun, food tasting challenges, raffles and auctions, with an An impressive field turned out to play on the day and thanks to came out for the golfers to play and visit the Totara Hospice raffle incredible $17,000 raised! A huge thanks to BNI Metro, and to their generous support, $35,068 was raised for Totara Hospice! station at Hole 9 with a Webber BBQ and summer hamper to be everyone who attended. Thank you BNI Howick for Making Hospice Happen. won. Thanks to South Auckland Motors, Southern Auto Motors and the golfers on the day, $2,500 was raised for Totara Hospice.

BNI Howick present a cheque to Totara Hospice CE Totara Hospice staff and volunteers at the A great turn out at the inaugural Mid-Winter Christmas Trivia Night Tina McCafferty and Head of Fundraising Melinda Seal South Auckland Motors Classic Golf Day

THANK YOU TO THE FOLLOWING ORGANISATIONS FOR YOUR GENEROUS GRANTS • Delany Trust • Ted and Mollie Carr Endowment Trust • Transpower CommunityCare Fund • Louisa and Patrick Emmett Murphy • Stevenson Village Trust and Estate of Ernest Hyam Davis • Ara Lodge No. 348 I C Foundation • Whitford Community Charitable Trust Charitable Trust • NR Thomson Charitable Trust

OUR WISHLIST

Are you able to donate any of the following items to support the work of Totara Hospice? Please contact Rachel Clarke before purchasing:

• $308 for a TomTom GPS Navigator for our Day Hospice van for our volunteer drivers when they are picking up patients (three I would like to donate to help Hospice support patients and their families. required). YES!  It’s easy to donate • Quality Men’s Razors (non-disposable with changeable blades) for use in the Inpatient Unit. 1 Donate online 2 Internet Banking 3 Call 4 Mail • Ecostore Body Wash and Bubble Bath ASB 12-3032-0715880-02 - Soap Free for Sensitive Skin for patient Visit www.hospice.co.nz Mail the donation slip below to Particulars: Surname/Company Totara Hospice baths. to donate please enter (09) 640 0250 Code: First Name Reference: PO Box 75560 reference NL0119 • 8x voice recorders $85 each and 30 x USB NL0119 Manurewa 2243 drives $10 each for our volunteer life reviewers. Please accept my donation of: If you wish to pay via credit card: • $600 for a portable data projection unit for ❑ $30 ❑ $50 ❑ $100 Please debit my: Visa Mastercard Amex Day Hospice and Education use. Surprise Us: $______Card Number: • $150 for a UE Boom Bluetooth speaker for DETAILS: Day Hospice and daily mindfulness and First Name: Expiry (mm/yy): CVC code education sessions. / Surname: • $198 for a Breville Nespresso Essenza Mini Cardholder’s name Espresso Machine and Nespresso capsules Address: for our Day Hospice patients to use. Signature If you can help please contact Phone: [email protected] or 09 640 0255, Please make cheques payable to Totara Hospice. All donations over $5 are tax please do contact Rachel before purchasing. Email: deductible - Charities Commission number: CC21683 Thank you for your support  ❑ I’m interested in learning more about leaving a gift The Privacy Act of 1993 requires us to advise you that we keep contact information of supporters on file to help us with to Totara Hospice in my Will. fundraising. If you do not wish us to keep your information, please advise us. If you wish to check the details that we have on your file, you are welcome to enquire. Please notify us if you wish to be removed from our mailing list. 04 // Totara Talk - your connection to Hospice