Ride-on mower for disability group
By Brent Jenkin
NZ $5,475 pledged
46 people pledged
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NZ $4,885 minimum target
This campaign was successful and closed on 31/05/2020 at 3:00 PM.
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Ride-On Mower For Disability Group
Project 2020-02-21 15:48:51 +1300
Paul loves using the John Deere ride-on mower at the Moxie Orchard, his weekly work-skills initiative set up by Recreate NZ.
Paul is an awesome young man living with Down Syndrome, who looks forward to working at the lemon orchard each week.
As Paul's mum says:
'Paul loves the outdoors particularly the physical work associated with gardening and this has given him the confidence to use equipment such as the ride-on mower, hand mower, secateurs and tools for maintaining the orchard. Through the programme, Paul has also learned about health and safety and has cited several examples to me on maintaining safety, how to use gardening tools appropriately, how to harvest the fruit as well as enjoying selling the fruit to the public.'
'Paul also enjoys the social aspect of catching up weekly with his friends, having some laughs, learning alongside them and how each of them work differently. I believe the inter-personal relationships are just as important as the work skills learned and Recreate provides both of these through a well organised and supportive learning environment.'
Unfortunately, the engine recently seized on the current ride-on mower and it stopped working! At only 4 years old this was unexpected and has now left Paul and his colleagues in a dilemma - how to get a replacement quickly, as the grass will soon be growing fast again?!
As a registered Charity Recreate NZ needs to fund-raise for capital items and using Pledge Me for the first time seems like a great idea.
Please consider supporting Recreate NZ, Paul and his colleagues by pledging any amount you feel like giving.
Should you wish to know more about the Moxie work-skills initiative offered by Recreate NZ, visit our website or click on the link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZwBY7aJ7fQ
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Updates 10
Raffle ticket Prize draws!!!
24/06/2020 at 2:54 PM
We are pleased to advise that the Pledgeme prize happened this afternoon, videos on Facebook.
Congratulation to the winners:
$100.00 Our Harvest Hamper is Megan from Tauranga!
$150.00 Little Creatures Voucher is Victoria Cooksley!
Thanks for the support from all our pledgers, we are now the proud owners of a brand new John Deere ride-on mower!
We will be in contact with the winners to arrange delivery of your prizes.
Wahoooooooooooooooooo!!!!
19/05/2020 at 6:52 PM
We made it!!
.........thanks to all you donors..........
This has been such a great exercise for us, with what do on our Moxie initiatives being generously vailidated and supported by all your pledges!
We have gone and ordered Paul (and the crew) a new John Deere D130 ride-on mower!!! So stoked....
Small print:
Pledges will be collected shortly after 31 May (you should have received a confirmation email, if not let me know)
If you have selected a prize, we will draw out the winners shortly after 31 May as well, and will let the winners know. if I can I will also post the winners here in the updates.
Thanks once again to the 45 donors that have pledged and gotten us across the line in our fundraising campaign!!!
Kind regards
Brent
GM Recreate NZ
Awesome........!!!
01/05/2020 at 3:10 PM
A special thanks goes out to Victoria and Boun for their incredibly generous donations this week, that have seen us screaming past the $4k mark and oh so close to our target!
Thanks to all our donors to date, Paul and the team are going to be so stoked to get back out to the orchard and mowing. (once we can that is..)
Warm regards to all
Brent
All the Threes....
28/04/2020 at 9:26 AM
All the threes today!
Alert Level 3
31 pledgers
Over 3 thousand raised
3/4 of the way there!
Thanks to everyone for their genrosity, we're going to get there for sure...
Campaign extension!
30/03/2020 at 5:48 PM
Hi all, Pledgeme have kindly agreed to extend our closing date due to the current unique circumstances! Yah..
We now have until the end of May to raise our funds.
What that means for existing pledgers is that you won't be asked to finalise your pledge until the end of May 2020.
We'll post more once things have settled down and people are more comfortable with this ''new normal'' we are living in.
Take care
Four days to Goooooooo....
27/03/2020 at 5:22 PM
We're a good way there!
A last little effort should get us over the line and have Paul and Co cutting those lawns again - the ride-on has been voted way better than the push mowers!
Every little bit helps...
thanks all
UPDATE - Naming rights available for the new mower!!
13/03/2020 at 2:09 PM
Hi all...
An update - the largest pledge will now receive naming rights for the new mower (should we hit our taregt!), call it what you like...
All our vans and trailers are named so why not the ride-on mower!?
Pledge now and it could be you naming the big green beast!
Cracked $1,000.00!! thanks all...
12/03/2020 at 2:37 PM
So nearly a week in and we've shot past the $1,000.00 mark - thanks again to all those who have pledged! We are now over 20% of the way there, so please share so we can spread the word and get Paul back on the ride-on again!
New video
05/03/2020 at 5:35 PM
Hi all, today we loaded a new title video of Paul and the Moxie Kumeu team doing their thing, enjoy!
Progress report
04/03/2020 at 2:07 PM
Wow!! 10% of the way there already, in less than 24hours - thanks so much to those 11 awesome doners who have pledged already!
Pledgers 46
20/05/2020 at 7:17am
19/05/2020 at 12:41pm
19/05/2020 at 9:20am
"Hopefully this will help to get your mower up and running. Best wishes, Suzanne Townsend "
12/05/2020 at 2:37pm
"Tom's favourite part of moxie driving the ride on. Jane and Martin "
06/05/2020 at 9:01pm
"Thanks for the great work you do. Pledge on behalf of Adam Jones"
06/05/2020 at 5:44pm
"Can't thank you enough for all you do for Matthew"
06/05/2020 at 3:26pm
05/05/2020 at 7:14am
"Hope you get out on your ride on mower soon!! it must be fun!! "
04/05/2020 at 8:09pm
02/05/2020 at 2:27pm
02/05/2020 at 10:08am
01/05/2020 at 1:32pm
"Congratulations on all the good work your doing. Can’t wait to see the mowers name 😁"
30/04/2020 at 4:24pm
""I forgot the lawn and the lawn won!" - we don't want this so here is my $20.00"
29/04/2020 at 7:26pm
"From Chrissa , Helen & Mike"
28/04/2020 at 2:35pm
26/04/2020 at 11:51am
"Thank you for all the great work everyone in this organisation does."
21/04/2020 at 2:10pm
16/04/2020 at 3:37pm
01/04/2020 at 3:51pm
01/04/2020 at 3:50pm
01/04/2020 at 3:49pm
30/03/2020 at 9:18pm
22/03/2020 at 9:20pm
"Thank you Recreate for all you do."
22/03/2020 at 5:11pm
"Hoping John will get back on the mower at the Moxie Orchard!!"
19/03/2020 at 1:46pm
19/03/2020 at 12:54pm
17/03/2020 at 9:51pm
17/03/2020 at 2:37pm
17/03/2020 at 2:36pm
17/03/2020 at 12:45pm
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Ride-On Mower For Disability Group
Project 2020-02-21 15:48:51 +1300
Paul loves using the John Deere ride-on mower at the Moxie Orchard, his weekly work-skills initiative set up by Recreate NZ.
Paul is an awesome young man living with Down Syndrome, who looks forward to working at the lemon orchard each week.
As Paul's mum says:
'Paul loves the outdoors particularly the physical work associated with gardening and this has given him the confidence to use equipment such as the ride-on mower, hand mower, secateurs and tools for maintaining the orchard. Through the programme, Paul has also learned about health and safety and has cited several examples to me on maintaining safety, how to use gardening tools appropriately, how to harvest the fruit as well as enjoying selling the fruit to the public.'
'Paul also enjoys the social aspect of catching up weekly with his friends, having some laughs, learning alongside them and how each of them work differently. I believe the inter-personal relationships are just as important as the work skills learned and Recreate provides both of these through a well organised and supportive learning environment.'
Unfortunately, the engine recently seized on the current ride-on mower and it stopped working! At only 4 years old this was unexpected and has now left Paul and his colleagues in a dilemma - how to get a replacement quickly, as the grass will soon be growing fast again?!
As a registered Charity Recreate NZ needs to fund-raise for capital items and using Pledge Me for the first time seems like a great idea.
Please consider supporting Recreate NZ, Paul and his colleagues by pledging any amount you feel like giving.
Should you wish to know more about the Moxie work-skills initiative offered by Recreate NZ, visit our website or click on the link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZwBY7aJ7fQ
Comments
Raffle ticket Prize draws!!!
24/06/2020 at 2:54 PM
We are pleased to advise that the Pledgeme prize happened this afternoon, videos on Facebook.
Congratulation to the winners:
$100.00 Our Harvest Hamper is Megan from Tauranga!
$150.00 Little Creatures Voucher is Victoria Cooksley!
Thanks for the support from all our pledgers, we are now the proud owners of a brand new John Deere ride-on mower!
We will be in contact with the winners to arrange delivery of your prizes.
Wahoooooooooooooooooo!!!!
19/05/2020 at 6:52 PM
We made it!!
.........thanks to all you donors..........
This has been such a great exercise for us, with what do on our Moxie initiatives being generously vailidated and supported by all your pledges!
We have gone and ordered Paul (and the crew) a new John Deere D130 ride-on mower!!! So stoked....
Small print:
Pledges will be collected shortly after 31 May (you should have received a confirmation email, if not let me know)
If you have selected a prize, we will draw out the winners shortly after 31 May as well, and will let the winners know. if I can I will also post the winners here in the updates.
Thanks once again to the 45 donors that have pledged and gotten us across the line in our fundraising campaign!!!
Kind regards
Brent
GM Recreate NZ
Awesome........!!!
01/05/2020 at 3:10 PM
A special thanks goes out to Victoria and Boun for their incredibly generous donations this week, that have seen us screaming past the $4k mark and oh so close to our target!
Thanks to all our donors to date, Paul and the team are going to be so stoked to get back out to the orchard and mowing. (once we can that is..)
Warm regards to all
Brent
All the Threes....
28/04/2020 at 9:26 AM
All the threes today!
Alert Level 3
31 pledgers
Over 3 thousand raised
3/4 of the way there!
Thanks to everyone for their genrosity, we're going to get there for sure...
Campaign extension!
30/03/2020 at 5:48 PM
Hi all, Pledgeme have kindly agreed to extend our closing date due to the current unique circumstances! Yah..
We now have until the end of May to raise our funds.
What that means for existing pledgers is that you won't be asked to finalise your pledge until the end of May 2020.
We'll post more once things have settled down and people are more comfortable with this ''new normal'' we are living in.
Take care
Four days to Goooooooo....
27/03/2020 at 5:22 PM
We're a good way there!
A last little effort should get us over the line and have Paul and Co cutting those lawns again - the ride-on has been voted way better than the push mowers!
Every little bit helps...
thanks all
UPDATE - Naming rights available for the new mower!!
13/03/2020 at 2:09 PM
Hi all...
An update - the largest pledge will now receive naming rights for the new mower (should we hit our taregt!), call it what you like...
All our vans and trailers are named so why not the ride-on mower!?
Pledge now and it could be you naming the big green beast!
Cracked $1,000.00!! thanks all...
12/03/2020 at 2:37 PM
So nearly a week in and we've shot past the $1,000.00 mark - thanks again to all those who have pledged! We are now over 20% of the way there, so please share so we can spread the word and get Paul back on the ride-on again!
New video
05/03/2020 at 5:35 PM
Hi all, today we loaded a new title video of Paul and the Moxie Kumeu team doing their thing, enjoy!
Progress report
04/03/2020 at 2:07 PM
Wow!! 10% of the way there already, in less than 24hours - thanks so much to those 11 awesome doners who have pledged already!
20/05/2020 at 7:17am
19/05/2020 at 12:41pm
19/05/2020 at 9:20am
"Hopefully this will help to get your mower up and running. Best wishes, Suzanne Townsend "
12/05/2020 at 2:37pm
"Tom's favourite part of moxie driving the ride on. Jane and Martin "
06/05/2020 at 9:01pm
"Thanks for the great work you do. Pledge on behalf of Adam Jones"
06/05/2020 at 5:44pm
"Can't thank you enough for all you do for Matthew"
06/05/2020 at 3:26pm
05/05/2020 at 7:14am
"Hope you get out on your ride on mower soon!! it must be fun!! "
04/05/2020 at 8:09pm
02/05/2020 at 2:27pm
02/05/2020 at 10:08am
01/05/2020 at 1:32pm
"Congratulations on all the good work your doing. Can’t wait to see the mowers name 😁"
30/04/2020 at 4:24pm
""I forgot the lawn and the lawn won!" - we don't want this so here is my $20.00"
29/04/2020 at 7:26pm
"From Chrissa , Helen & Mike"
28/04/2020 at 2:35pm
26/04/2020 at 11:51am
"Thank you for all the great work everyone in this organisation does."
21/04/2020 at 2:10pm
16/04/2020 at 3:37pm
01/04/2020 at 3:51pm
01/04/2020 at 3:50pm
01/04/2020 at 3:49pm
30/03/2020 at 9:18pm
22/03/2020 at 9:20pm
"Thank you Recreate for all you do."
22/03/2020 at 5:11pm
"Hoping John will get back on the mower at the Moxie Orchard!!"
19/03/2020 at 1:46pm
19/03/2020 at 12:54pm
17/03/2020 at 9:51pm
17/03/2020 at 2:37pm
17/03/2020 at 2:36pm
17/03/2020 at 12:45pm
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