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Fund applications open after sale of Toi Ohomai Charity House
15 Feb, 2021 01:54 AM
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The Toi Ohomai Charity House has sold and now the $30,000 profit will be injected into the Rotorua Community. Photo / Supplied
The Toi Ohomai Charity House has sold and now the $30,000 profit will be injected into the Rotorua Community. Photo / Supplied
Rotorua Daily Post
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Thirty thousand dollars will be injected into the Rotorua community following the sale of the Toi Ohomai Charity House.
The Charity House project, which has been running since 2013, sees Toi Ohomai carpentry students build a home with support from industry partners.
Source: Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology
Thirty thousand dollars will be injected into the Rotorua community following the sale of the Toi Ohomai Charity House.
The Charity House project, which has been running since 2013, sees Toi Ohomai carpentry students build a home with support from industry partners. Professionals McDowell Real Estate has been on board since the project’s inception, using their expertise to market and sell the property, and the money raised is given to Rotary Rotorua Sunrise Charitable Trust to distribute throughout the community.
The latest house has recently sold, with the profit of $30,000 available to be dished out to various community organisations.
Rotorua Daily Post Christmas Appeal: Hume Pine collects more than 200 items
15 Dec, 2020 11:00 PM
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Hume Pine staff were enthusiastic about backing this year s Christmas Appeal. Photo / Supplied
The generosity of the Rotorua community this festive season cannot be understated.
At the start of November the Rotorua Daily Post launched its annual Christmas Appeal for the Salvation Army Foodbank and people, organisations and businesses leapt to get behind the cause.
One of those businesses was Hume Pine which collected an impressive 216 items to donate to the appeal, including non-perishables, toiletries and other gifts.
Sales office manager Donna McCauley said staff were asked to donate whatever they could manage and they were all enthusiastic about getting behind the cause.