Another grant was received from ANZ NZ Staff Foundation, making this the third year in a row we’ve received support from them!

We would like to say a HUGE thanks to Louisa & Patrick Emmett Murphy Foundation from Public Trust for their very generous grant donation, supporting our Journey Back to Awesome Programme.

The Taupo Great Lakes Relay 2022 was held on October 8 and the Jarden Team, with 20 Jarden Partners Ltd staff members, raised funds for Youth In Transition.

Bev has been a volunteer for YIT for the past three years and is one of our behind the scenes superstars. Bev we can’t put into words our thanks for all you have done and how much we will miss you!

The Whangaparaoa Rotary Club kindly donated funds for the purchase of a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5-TR), Fifth Edition.

We are on the lookout for volunteer superstars to join our team at The Hope Shop. We have both casual and permanent shifts available, especially over the summer.

A HUGE thanks to the house leaders from Wentworth College who hosted a bake / pizza sale recently and decided to donate the profits to Youth In Transition.

Another HUGE thanks for this amazing delivery to the Millwater Ladies Group. Your kind donations ensure our clients (and staff!) never go hungry and can take some goodies home with them.

On Wednesday 31st August the Youth in Transition team got together with the hope shop volunteers for an evening get-together.

We welcome our new counselor, Kiera to the YIT team (started 25th Aug). Kiera is passionate to work with children and young people who need support, empathy, and a listening ear without feeling judged. She has a Person-Centred approach and is experienced in Creative Expression.

A number of our young people have been attending the art activities held by the Estuary Arts Centre in Orewa on Thursdays from 1pm to 4pm. Our life coach, Nat Fox, narrates that the participants are not only learning new skills but are bonding and supporting each other.

Over the past few months, a team has been busy working on a comprehensive review of our activities so that we can share the hard work and successes of our Charitable Trust. We hope you will enjoy reading more about the vast number of families that we have helped to date.

Last week, Tina our Executive Director was presented with the wonderful gift of a BRAND NEW CAR for Youth In Transition. Thank you Nomads Golf Club Inc!

If you live on the Hibiscus Coast and celebrated with a real tree this Christmas, our friends at Tree Solutions can once again help you out! They will collect your tree after you've finished with it, in exchange for a donation to their annual fundraiser, with funds being split between Youth In Transition and other fantastic Coast charity, Love Soup.

Since our last update, we have endured over 100 days of lockdown in Auckland. While we understand the rationale behind the lockdowns, there is no escaping the fact that they intensify the challenges faced by our clients, the young people in our communities from the North Shore, across Rodney, the Hibiscus Coast, and up to Warkworth.

We were delighted to receive a lovely letter from the Chairman of the Chenery Memorial Trust letting us know that they are giving us a grant this month to help fund counselling costs for our Journey Back to Awesome programme.

What a wonderful gift this is just before Christmas, when we are so very busy supporting our many young people and their families to navigate ever-more challenges to their wellbeing.

The Estate of Ernest Hyam Davis & The Ted and Mollie Carr Endowment Trust, proudly managed by Perpetual Guardian recently gave a donation to YIT. This donation is a wonderful boost to our work, with so much more help currently needed for our young people.

We would like to say a HUGE thank you to Cara Cashmere for their wonderful gift of a Cashmere shawl…our Director Tina Jones was gifted this gorgeous wrap for her birthday which she absolutely loves and when Cara Cashmere heard about our charity they gifted another to be auctioned at our Golf Day fundraiser and auction to raise funds to help our young people.

A big thanks to the Auckland Foundation. We are thrilled to be recipients of this fund, which is going to help us enormously. The past few months have been an extremely difficult for many due to the pandemic, and our charity has certainly been no exception. We thank you sincerely Auckland Foundation for your valued support and belief in our organisation and in the precious young people at the heart of our work.