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Can help provide emotional support to people who have had to leave their homes.

$25

Can help ensure our Disaster Welfare and Support Teams are trained and equipped to respond.

$50

Can provide stretchers and blankets for those in desperate need when an emergency strikes.

$100

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Thank you so much for your donation to the New Zealand Disaster Fund. Your support will make a huge difference to help people, families and communities who have been affected by the recent severe weather events, as well as helping those impacted by future emergencies in Aotearoa New Zealand.

If you provided your email address, a copy of your tax receipt is on its way to your email inbox now.

Together, we have been there for those across the country who have been affected by Cyclone Gabrielle as well as the flooding in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Northland, Hawke’s Bay, and Tairāwhiti.

Thanks to the generosity of people like you, our Disaster Welfare and Support Team members – experts in helping people in an emergency – have delivered crucial assistance in areas dealing with these catastrophic events.

Thank you!

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We cannot do what we do without people like you. And now, as communities face more frequent and extreme weather events across Aotearoa New Zealand due to climate change impacts, your generosity and kindness are needed more than ever!

Your donation today will help us to continue to be there for those impacted by devastating disasters and emergencies across the country, such as Cyclone Gabrielle. It will also help ensure we are prepared to give life-changing assistance to those affected by the next emergency we face in Aotearoa New Zealand.

We rely on the kindness and generosity of people like you to ensure that our teams are fully trained, equipped with essential supplies, and ready to give critical help to people caught in a disaster or emergency.

Climate change is causing increasingly frequent and severe weather events across Aotearoa New Zealand. We’re feeling this impact now more than ever. Cyclone Gabrielle battered our communities whilst we were barely in the recovery phase of the flooding in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland and Northland, causing unthinkable devastation across the country. People and families have lost everything, and tragically, lives have been lost.

Severe flooding brought on by more heavy rainfall in the North Island has caused further unimaginable damage and left communities in areas such as Hawke’s Bay and Tairāwhiti isolated and in desperate need.

New Zealand Red Cross teams work with emergency management agencies to deliver vital assistance across some of Aotearoa New Zealand’s hardest-hit areas. Thanks to the generosity of people like you, so far, we have been able to:

deploy our specialist Red Cross people to deliver psychosocial support to those affected
help run Civil Defence Centres and give practical help to those who have been forced to leave their homes
purchase and distribute emergency supplies such as generators, fuel containers, satellite phones, and portable radios into affected communities
restock emergency equipment like bedding and stretchers
provide first aid kits, dehumidifiers, and clean-up kits.

We know that recovery from the recent emergencies will take time. We will continue to support communities through the recovery for as long as we are needed. We also know that our support will be needed more often and for longer in the future.

By making a donation to the New Zealand Disaster Fund, you will help us continue to be there for the people and families that have been severely impacted by recent weather events. You will also help to ensure that when the next emergency or disaster hits anywhere in Aotearoa, we are ready to give urgent emergency aid and recovery assistance to those affected.

So please, donate now if you can, and know that you’re not only assisting our response and recovery in the communities affected by recent events, such as the Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland flooding and Cyclone Gabrielle, but you’re also making sure that the next community facing an emergency here at home will have access to our support and a helping hand in their time of need.

Don’t forget that when you make a donation of over $5.00, you can claim 33.33 percent of it back from IRD!

Donating via ASB branch or internet banking

New Zealand Red Cross banks with ASB Bank. You need the following details to make a deposit.

Account name: NZRC Fundraising

Account number: 12-3192-0043737-00

Particulars (Limited to 12 characters): Your first name or initials and surname or organisation name.

Code: NZ Disaster

Reference: Your supporter ID number if known. You will find this number on correspondence from Red Cross, it starts with “RE"

Leave blank if you don’t have a supporter ID number.

Tax Receipts

Via ASB Bank:

Ask the teller for a stamped deposit receipt if you want us to post or email you a tax receipt.
Post your stamped deposit receipt to:
New Zealand Red Cross – Supporter Services, PO Box 12140, Thorndon, Wellington 6144.
Or scan your deposit receipt and send via email to fundraising@redcross.org.nz.
Tell us your name, email address, postal address, and phone number.

Via Internet Banking

To receive a tax receipt email fundraising@redcross.org.nz after you have made the donation.
Tell us your name, email, phone number, amount donated, and date deposited.
We will email you a receipt.
If you need us to post you a receipt, please tell us your address.

Please note that we have been quite literally overwhelmed by the generosity of people like you and, as a result, there is a delay in us being able to issue tax receipts within our usual time frames. Please expect to have your receipt within two-to-three weeks of making your donation. We apologise in advance and appreciate your patience during this busy time!

New Zealand Red Cross does not accept management payments on behalf of any entity or organisation. Any and all transactions received via this page, are a donation to New Zealand Red Cross (CC21860).

If you have any questions or queries, please contact our Supporter Care team on 0800 733 276 or email fundraising@redcross.org.nz.

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