How to help Arohanui Strings+

 
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Donate funding

As a registered charity, we operate entirely on donations from local and central government, from corporates and trusts, and from members of the public who recognise the value of learning music. Tax certificates are available.

To donate via credit card, you can use our Give a Little page, or it’s very quick and easy to give via Stripe by scanning the QR code below and adding your details:

There is a small fee deducted from your donation via the two above systems, so if you’d like to avoid that, please email us for our bank details.

However you choose to donate, know that 100% of your donation goes to supporting our children and the professional musicians who work with them.

Ongoing donations are particularly critical as it gives us sustainable funding. Please consider setting up a regular payment, perhaps as an automatic payment or part of your workplace/payroll giving.

Planned giving

If you are interested in leaving a lasting and impactful musical legacy for our nation’s tamariki and rangatahi, please consider making provision for Arohanui Strings in your estate.

Please email us to discuss. And - thank you!

What your donation can buy

  • $6,000 pays for a one-week holiday programme for up to 60 children

  • $5,000 pays for a year of beginner violin classes in a low-decile primary school, reaching 20 under-served children twice a week with two professional artist/teachers

  • $1,000 sponsors one child's music education for one year

  • $1,000 buys one cello

  • $500 buys a violin or a viola

  • $100 pays for strings and rosin

  • $50 buys a set of sheet music.

 

Donate time

There are many ways you can donate your time to support the children of Arohanui Strings.

As well as volunteer music teachers, we also often need drivers to take children to musical events, to pick up high school students to bring them to after-school orchestras, help with general admin, roll keeping and afternoon tea making, and to help with our music library. If you have a skill you could contribute to the running of our organisation, and the benefit of our children, please let us know. Email us – we’d love to hear from you.

Please note that all volunteers who have contact with the children will undergo police vetting and are required to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

Donate instruments

We gladly accept used – or new! – instruments in good condition. We mostly need smaller sized string, brass and woodwind instruments, along with some full-sized instruments.

While we absolutely appreciate all donations, we cannot afford to repair unplayable instruments , so please consider this before donating.

Selling your house? List with Ray and Linda Wallace, mention Arohanui Strings+, and they will donate $500 from a successful sale to support us!