Community Clients

DLA Phillips Fox supports community organisations through a range of initiatives including volunteering, fundraising, administrative support, gifts in kind and Workplace Giving.

Here are some of our community clients:

Oxfam New Zealand

Oxfam supports communities around the world to overcome poverty and injustice, linking local action with international campaigns to make trade fair, control arms and make poverty history. DLA Phillips Fox supports Oxfam through participation its annual Oxfam trail walk, fundraising, volunteering and the provision of legal services.
www.oxfam.org.nz

Auckland City Mission

Every Christmas, Auckland City Mission makes Christmas happen for families in need. The Mission receives 250 requests for emergency food each month, so is always in need of donations of non perishable food. Staff at DLA Phillips Fox’s Auckland office raise funds annually, collect new Christmas gifts for children in need and donate non perishable items of food. In December a team of DLA Phillips Fox volunteers heads out onto the local streets to collect funds for the Mission.
www.aucklandcitymission.org.nz

Downtown Community Ministry

Downtown Community Ministry works to find long term solutions to poverty and social exclusion. DLA Phillips Fox’s Wellington office supports the Ministry through fundraising raffles and special events. The firm donates books to the annual book fair and provides food parcels to the food bank.
www.dcm.org.nz

Habitat for Humanity

Habitat for Humanity works in partnership with people who help families to be housed appropriately by renovating or building simple, affordable, quality houses. DLA Phillips Fox encourages its Auckland and Wellington staff to provide free labour in construction of homes.
www.habitat.org.nz

Radio Lollipop

Radio Lollipop is a radio station broadcasting to hospitals around the world. Volunteers spend their evenings playing games, making crafts and entertaining sick children. The children can interact with radio DJs, enter quizzes, request songs and generally just have fun. Radio Lollipop ensures that children in hospitals throughout New Zealand have some company, games and crafts to help make their stay in hospital as enjoyable as possible. DLA Phillips Fox supports Radio Lollipop at Auckland's Starship Children's Hospital.
www.radiolollipop.org

Wellington Hospitals and Health Foundation

The Foundation raises funds for projects to improve the comfort and welfare of patients and their families at Wellington and Kenepuru Hospitals, Wellington Children's Hospital and Kapiti Health Centre. DLA Phillips Fox supports the Foundation in various ways.  The firm recently held its annual Golf Day in Wellington which was in support of Wellington Children's Hospital, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. Each year DLA Phillips Fox staff participate in a gingerbread house making competition and donate funds raised to the Foundation.  A group of staff also knit for new-born babies at the Wellington Hospital.
http://www.whhf.org.nz/

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