Fundraising Highlights

We are extremely grateful to have the support of our amazing community. By helping us, you’re helping hundreds of people every day in lots of ways. Thank you for helping to keep our service free to everyone who needs us.

Aotearoa plunged into another lockdown in August 2021 and our Onesie Day 2021 had to move purely online to keep our people, patients and community safe. This could have costed us the loss of a new ambulance that we were fundraising for, as well as $100,000 towards our lifesaving work. But thanks to you – our incredible group of supporters – this unfortunate turn of events led to our most successful Onesie Day on record. The community and our key sponsor Summerset rallied behind our cause and this campaign, raising $283,000 and enough to create the one-of-a-kind Onesie Day ambulance. A huge thank you to all schools, businesses and our community who fundraised to make this possible.

+ Summerset and their villages were avid supporters of our work, donating a significant $40,000 towards our

Onesie Day ambulance and becoming

Onesie Day’s Principal Partner. + We received 6251 donations from kind individuals across the region and beyond. + 270 people and 61 teams signed up to fundraise.

In early 2021, we appealed to the public to support the specialist work of our Rescue Squad, in particular donating towards a brand new custom-built 4WD vehicle that will help our rescue crew respond to people in need, even in the most difficult of locations that an ambulance or helicopter can’t reach. Because of you, we were able to raise $336,000 that will not only secure us a new vehicle but allow us to better equip our Rescue Squad with other essential equipment. We look forward to it arriving and joining our fleet, helping our Rescue Squad to continue to be there, ready for any eventuality. Thank you for making this a reality.

A huge thank you to all those who funded a new ambulance to join the Wellington Free Ambulance fleet during the year. Each year we must add an additional 6-8 ambulances to our fleet to ensure we are equipped to respond to emergencies across our region. Due to ongoing COVID-19 related delays some of these ambulances have not been officially launched into service, but we are incredibly grateful to each and every donor who has made this extraordinary commitment.

Kindly donated by Amrit and Kamal Chavda