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National Ostomy Society receives 2019 conference funding from Braemar Trust

The Braemar Charitable Trust are pleased to be able to assist the Waikato Ostomy Society with funding to assist with the costs of running the 2019 Ostomy Conference. The Trusts funding will be applied to the costs associated with enhancing the education and the support of the conference attendees. Ostomates are patients that have had surgery for Bowel Cancer, inflammatory Bowel disease or major accidents and some congenital defects in babies. They will all have a colostomy, urostomy or ileostomy...

New Art Initiative for Hospital Patients sponsored by Braemar Trust

PRESS RELEASEThe Braemar Charitable Trust and Arts for Health Community Trust.Patients in the Older Persons Rehabilitation wing are in for a treat while they recover in Waikato Hospital with the start of three new weekly Arts for Health Community Trust workshops. The art workshops are designed to utilise the creative arts as a healing therapy, increase social interactions and independence and to participate in a community rather than nurse lead activity.These workshops are only possible due to a...

Trust Manager Paula Baker attends 2018 Social Enterprise World Forum, Edinburgh.

As part of Braemar’s focus on excellence, Trust Manager Paula Baker attended the 2018 Social Enterprise World Forum in Edinburgh, Scotland in September. Key defining characteristics of a social enterprise include re-investing profits for social good, being based on principles of trade rather than aid, and having transparency and accountability of all aspects of the business. As one commentator explained “At the heart of a social enterprise is an innovative business idea as an answer to real ...

ParkRun says Thank You to Braemar Trust

ParkRun Cambridge and HamiltonParkRun organise free, weekly, 5km timed runs throughout the world. They are open to everyone, free, and are safe and easy to take part in. They are about inclusiveness and wellbeing, with the goal of having a ParkRun in every community. The Braemar Charitable Trust were approached by ParkRun Cambridge and Hamilton seeking support for the purchase of two Automated External Defibrillators and were very happy to support this great community based initiative as outline...

Whare Ora receives support from Braemar Trust

Whare Ora is a healthy homes initiative whose vision is to create safe, healthy, warm homes for Waikato children. The objective is to reduce Waikato’s avoidable child hospital admissions by focusing on those children who are most at risk.  The initiative offers practical solutions to address both structural and functional overcrowding, cold and damp homes, allergens, pests and safety - all issues that compromise an already vulnerable group of children. The Braemar Charitable Trust support...

Creative Arts Pilot to be sponsored by Braemar Trust

The Trust is pleased to be able to partner with Arts for Health Community Trust, a small community based organisation providing an avenue for people experiencing unwellness or wanting to maintain their wellness using the creative arts. The Braemar Charitable Trust is supporting Arts for Health with a pilot project that involves providing a group arts based service and activities for patients at Waikato Hospital, a service Arts for Health were forced to discontinue in 2016, due to financial limit...

Braemar Trust goes Pink for Waikato Breast Cancer Walk

Over the last four years the Braemar Charitable Trust has supported the annual Waikato Breast Cancer Research Trust “Pink Walk” with all funds raised enabling the Trust to continue its valuable work looking for new treatments to beat breast cancer....