Rotary Teams Up with Paper Plus for Cure Kids Red Nose Day



Madison Maka proudly wearing her red nose gives her donation
to Bob Donovan of the Botany East Tamaki Rotary Club watched on by
Botany Town Centre Paper Plus owners Anne and Andrew Gorton.

 Friday the 24th August was Red Nose Day action day for the Cure Kids appeal in Howick and Botany as part of their wider fundraising campaign over the 1st to 24th August.

Cure Kids is one of the community based programmes Paper Plus puts its corporate weight behind. Locally it teams up with the Botany East Tamaki and Howick Rotary Clubs on Red Nose Day to exchange red noses, wrist bands, book marks, packets of jaffas and balloons for a small donation.

On the day they raised over $4500 for the charity.

Paper Plus provides the facilities, red noses and “goodies” and Rotary provides the manpower on the day. Barry Nicholls from Howick Rotary and Karl McInnes from Botany east Tamaki Rotary who were the Rotary organizers said that “it is great opportunity for Rotary to team up with a local business and get in behind a wonderful cause”.

Katie Treneman owner of Howick’s Paper Plus said that “the work that Cure Kids Child Health Research Foundation do is an inspiration for her and the Paper Plus Team and they love providing the facilities and goods to help raise money on the day”. Anne Gorton owner of the Botany Paper Plus mirrored these comments and said that “this is a fabulous way for Paper Plus to interact with the community and help a very worthy cause”.

The Cure Kids fundraising efforts culminated in TV3 airing its Cure Kids comedy based mini telethon that evening and the All Blacks and spectators wearing red noses at the Bledisloe Cup test match on Saturday night.