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One Million Phones Donated to Starship Mobile Phone Appeal
Thursday, 11 December 2014, 2:11 pm | Starship Foundation
The Starship Mobile Phone Appeal has reached the milestone of collecting more than one million mobile phones and has raised more than $2.3 million for the Starship National Air Ambulance Service. More >>
One Million Phones Donated to Starship Mobile Phone Appeal
Thursday, 11 December 2014, 12:35 pm | Starship Foundation
The Starship Mobile Phone Appeal has reached the milestone of collecting more than one million mobile phones and has raised more than $2.3 million for the Starship National Air Ambulance Service. More >>
Ruby Takes the Cake with Her Starship Tea Towel Design
Monday, 13 October 2014, 3:26 pm | Starship Foundation
Patients on Starship’s Oncology & Haematology ward had fun on Friday making cake pops from their hospital rooms to help 17 year-old cancer survivor Ruby Seeto launch her latest Starship-fundraiser cake pop tea towel. More >>
School Children Help Create New Mobile Ear Clinics
Thursday, 11 September 2014, 5:11 pm | Starship Foundation
An alarm clock, toaster, cow, plane, tui, bell, hot air balloon and iPod are just some of the illustrations adorning Starship’s two new mobile ear clinics that were launched at an Auckland primary school today. More >>
Spring Clean for Starship
Friday, 29 August 2014, 5:24 pm | Starship Foundation
Starship Spring Clean launches on Monday 1 September – a campaign that asks Kiwis across the country to clean out their cupboards, sell their unwanted goods and pledge some or all of the proceeds to Starship. More >>
Children to Learn to Eat And Drink Again
Thursday, 21 August 2014, 1:52 pm | Starship Foundation
A groundbreaking pilot programme has just been launched at Starship Children’s Hospital, which aims to help hundreds of children get off feeding tubes, and learn to eat and drink again. More >>
Ruby’s Berry Smoothie Tea Towel a Sweet Result for Starship
Friday, 30 May 2014, 4:36 pm | Starship Foundation
Cancer survivor Ruby Seeto’s latest smoothie tea towel fundraiser has raised a sweet $54,000 to fund an international training fellowship for a Starship doctor. More >>
Christmas Album of Kiwi Artists shines bright for kids
Thursday, 27 March 2014, 5:12 pm | Starship Foundation
Universal Music and Ellis Grant today presented the Starship Foundation with a cheque for $222,354 from the proceeds of sales of The Starship Christmas Album 2013. This follows on from the previous platinum selling album from 2012. The combined total ... More >>
World’s Biggest Easter Egg Hunt Hatches In New Zealand
Tuesday, 25 February 2014, 2:38 pm | Starship Foundation
This Easter, Kiwis can take part in The Whittaker’s Big Egg Hunt – the first event of its kind in the southern hemisphere which invites the public to find 100 giant eggs created by New Zealand artists and designers, all in support of Starship. More >>
Bring Your Old Mobile Phones to Work and Save Lives!
Friday, 31 May 2013, 5:10 pm | Starship Foundation
The Starship Foundation is asking companies both big and small across the country to register for ‘Bring a Phone to Work for Starship’ and support New Zealand’s national children’s hospital. More >>
Starship Foundation: ‘Bids For Kids’ Auction on Facebook
Wednesday, 15 May 2013, 12:57 pm | Starship Foundation
The Starship Foundation launched ‘Bids for Kids’ today – and it is the first charity in New Zealand to hold a live auction inside of Facebook. Every Monday for the next six weeks people from all over the world will have the opportunity to bid ... More >>
Starship Foundation Announces ‘Bids For Kids' Auction
Wednesday, 15 May 2013, 12:10 pm | Starship Foundation
The Starship Foundation launched ‘Bids for Kids’ today – and it is the first charity in New Zealand to hold a live auction inside of Facebook. More >>
21 Hours for Starship’s 21 Years
Thursday, 2 May 2013, 3:27 pm | Starship Foundation
Starship is celebrating its 21st birthday this year and to mark the occasion Specforce Fitness is conducting a 21 Hour Circuit-athon to fundraise for the Starship Foundation. More >>
Record $250,000 Raised From Starship's Christmas Album
Thursday, 21 February 2013, 1:31 pm | Starship Foundation
Universal Music and Paul Ellis Publicity today presented Starship Foundation with a cheque for $251,923 from the proceeds of sales of the Starship Christmas Album 2012. It is by far the biggest donation Universal Music has ever made in New Zealand. More >>
Five Dollars or Fifty Thousand Dollars for Starship
Thursday, 30 August 2012, 4:54 pm | Starship Foundation
What would you do if you won a $50,000 luxury European holiday? Well, if you’re Simon Allen, Chair of the Financial Markets Authority, you generously donate it to Starship’s Spring Clean campaign, which kicks off on 1 September. More >>
High Profile Kiwis and Kids Photographed For Starship Book
Wednesday, 22 August 2012, 10:33 am | Starship Foundation
Well-known New Zealanders allow us a glimpse at their families and share their feelings about parenthood in a new book – all in support of Starship Children’s Hospital. More >>
Sick Teddies Lining up to Be Treated at Teddy Bear Hospital
Friday, 13 July 2012, 12:26 pm | Starship Foundation
Sore paws and broken bones are likely to be typical complaints at the second annual Teddy Bear Hospital, taking place this year at the Otara Leisure Centre in South Auckland on Saturday 28th July and also at Starship Children’s Hospital on Saturday ... More >>
Bring a Phone to Work for Starship
Wednesday, 30 May 2012, 10:44 am | Starship Foundation
More than 250 businesses around New Zealand have already registered for ‘Bring A Phone To Work for Starship’ which is taking place throughout June. More >>
SCOUTS and Starship to launch exciting new partnership
Wednesday, 16 May 2012, 6:35 pm | Starship Foundation
“LET’S MOBILIZE” MEDIA RELEASE 16 May, 2012 SCOUTS and Starship to launch exciting new partnership SCOUTS New Zealand and the Starship Foundation are getting geared up to officially launch their new fundraising partnership in Wellington this ... More >>
Rugby Players Take Inspiration from Starship Kids on GODZone
Wednesday, 4 April 2012, 2:25 pm | Starship Foundation
With less than a week to go until the GODZone Adventure Challenge kicks off in Queenstown, the team racing in support of the national children’s hospital says the physical challenges they’ll be facing “are nothing compared to what Starship kids bravely ... More >>