ME Respite

04/06/2026

All welcome ❤️ .

🎈Join us for the Official Opening of The Charity Boutique on Sat 6th June!! 8.30am start, shop open 9am-3pm 🥳. We have had a soft-launch, but this will make it official! Looking forward to seeing you all there!!

🦋 The Charity Boutique
10 Central Terrace
(By the carpark behind the Saturday markets)
Howick
☎️09 537 1127

Supporting those with ME/CFS to live their best life 🌱. ME Respite www.merespite.org.nz

01/06/2026

Don't forget to have your say. We know there's a huge need in our community for Accommodation and Care. A place where it's quiet, there's help and the loads are lifted off allowing for any progress that's possible to be made. We'd love to hear your thoughts. Our survey asks the questions we need answered to plan ahead. If you don't wish to answer a question just write n/a but if you wish to be contacted make sure you fill out, at least, one contact option.

ME Respite recognises the need many in our community with mild, moderate and severe/very severe ME/CFS and LC have for accommodation and care. We would like to find out the level of need and what level accommodation and care is required. This survey will help us answer these questions: I. Do you nee...

29/05/2026

New research from the University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka has confirmed what so many in our community already know firsthand.

Led by Dr Nick Bowden of the University of Otago's Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, the study provides the first national picture of how people with ME/CFS are faring across multiple aspects of life.

People living with ME/CFS and Long Covid in Aotearoa face not only serious health challenges, but also limited access to support and significant long-term economic hardship.

This isn't just about being unwell. It's about the financial strain, the barriers to care, and the exhausting fight to access the help that should be there.

For those living with ME/CFS or Long Covid — or caring for someone who is — this research matters. It puts evidence behind the lived reality, and makes the case for real, meaningful change.

You can read more about the study here: https://www.otago.ac.nz/news/newsroom/chronic-illness-linked-to-hardship-study

It's why access to the right support matters so much. 💙

29/05/2026

Our Waiheke ME Co Op Stall is operating tomorrow. Come along and say hi to Marion, she'd love to meet you ❤️.

26/05/2026

It's important to listen to your body.

23/05/2026

📣The Charity Boutique (and the charity behind it, ME Respite www.merespite.org.nz) has been featured in the latest issue of the Eastern Times https://www.times.co.nz/digital-issues/
🙏🏻🌱👀. Thank you so much for illuminating our cause!!

The Charity Boutique LOVES being part of the Howick Community!! Super grateful for you all! By supporting The Charity Boutique you are supporting our charity ME Respite - wrapping around those who live with ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia, and Long Covid. Many of our recipients are housebound or bedbound and your support makes a massive difference 🌱

We currently have a clearance sale at The Charity Boutique in Rice’s Mall … and we will be having the opening of our new bigger space at 10 Central Terrace (next to the carpark by the markets) on Sat 6th June👏🏻 💕. We hope you will join us!!

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21/05/2026

ME Respite will be at the Waiheke Ostend Market this Saturday. Look out for our banner and say Hi to Marion who runs the stall for us 😀

20/05/2026

Wear blue this month - May is ME Awareness Month! Our CEO Phil Morton has helped us to accomplish so much as he brings to the Trust a diverse range of skills and uses them all! Thank you Phil we really appreciate you!!!

20/05/2026

New Address 10 Central Terrace Howick, come and say hi!

19/05/2026