One Tree Hill college ‘Bring It On’ dance crew approached us as part of their process to join this year’s dance competition. They needed to complete a community service project and we joined forces with Sally Eustace, Ellerslie town centre Manager to provide a great day out! On Saturday, 4 May, 40 students turned up …
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For several years now, the volunteers of TableSide have provided Christmas presents for children living at Dingwall campus. Dingwall does an amazing job of looking after kids under care of the state (short and long term). There are several cottages housing the children with fantastic care-givers who love and care for them day in and …
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Remember our town clean up in Ellerslie? The children that turned out to help us that day were supervised by One Tree Hill College students to make christmas decorations. The decorations, a TableSide idea, were kindly designed by Nikki of Ortim Design, and sponsored/supplied by Fi & James of Smudge Digital (thank you!!) They turned …
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After two installments of creating the new Library Cafe Community Garden, we were more than ready to celebrate! Joined by fellow partners, Debbie Leaver & the team from the cafe, along with Emily & the team from Urban Pantry…we relaxed in the garden on a fine summer’s night. Drinks & nibbles flowed and a few …
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The weather on Sunday, 18 November, threatened to cave in, but with some good will, lots of hope, and a huge tree to shelter under…we outlasted the doom & gloom and ended up with a fab day and a fab event! Once again, well over 100 people gathered in Cornwall Park, Auckland, to celebrate all …
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As part of the Community Garden build, we arranged for several kids of the community to come and prep the fence ready for a colourful mural to go up. They mucked in with gusto, got paint everywhere, but did a great job! We’ll be going back to paint a flora/fauna mural based on the art …
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150 people gathered in Ellerslie, Auckland, to spruce up their local village. Once again T-Side partnered with the Ellerslie Business Association (thanks Sally & Adie!) to complete another highly successful event. The weather was perfect and the entire task list completed! In true TableSide style, food and music came out at the end and the …
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We did it! The plants are in and things are looking great over at the Library Cafe. We’re delighted that our joint venture with owner Debbie Leaver & her cafe team, along with charity ‘Urban Pantry’ has been a great success! Despite a little bit of rain, we had several dozen volunteers turn out and …
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After being approached by the Onehunga Business Association to provide volunteer help, the TableSide team were only too pleased to support the annual Heritage Festival on Saturday, September 29th, 2012. Last year we had our volunteers show up for the Christmas parade, but this year it was pony rides, petting zoos, bouncy castles, and directing …
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The TableSide Trust team came 2nd in the Poverty Cycle event organised by TearFund! After an early morning start at Ti Papa events centre in Clevedon, our team hit the circuit for their 100km and did us PROUD! We raised over $3,700 for the event and proceeds go to stopping human trafficking of young girls …
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