Our Stories

At six years old Dion Williams joined the Nippers programme as a ‘grom’ at Wainui Surf Lifesaving Club and he’s never looked back.

In the early days of Sunrise, a scholarship fund was set up with EIT to support one or two students each year who are facing hardship or where financial assistance will make a difference.

At just 24 years of age, Jodi Iremonger suffered a cavernous angioma in her brain stem, leaving her with stroke-like symptoms.

Tairāwhiti Museum is excited about its upcoming exhibition COLOURS DELUXE. This will showcase The Art Album of New Zealand Flora, a rare book published in 1889, by Gisborne couple Sarah and Edward Featon of Gisborne.

A bequest left by Les McGreevy has been used to establish the Alzheimer's Gisborne-Tairāwhiti Endowment Fund with Sunrise. Alzheimer’s Gisborne works alongside those diagnosed with dementia, and their whanau, offering service and support.

We would like to say a huge thank you to Lilian Tangaere-Baldwin who has resigned from both of her voluntary positions with Sunrise.

In May, the latest watch of 14 local Year 12 students spent two weeks at Outward Bound.

Wills Month, an initiative of Community Foundations of New Zealand, is a good reminder of the importance of having a will and keeping it current.