Take Them a Meal

02/10/2026

Our biggest cooking collaboration yet!
Across two HUGE days, our community and two local business teams created 605 packages of meals, baking, desserts and sides — now stocked and ready to support families.

Day One — BECA
Their first time partnering with us, bringing fantastic energy and teamwork.
Day Two — ANZ Business & Agri
Returning for their second year. This day was dedicated to their past colleague and friend Duane Cameron, who recently passed away. The team carried him in their thoughts — a beautiful tribute through service.

Thank‑Yous…
• Sacred Heart Girls’ College — for the facilities.
• On the House — for supplying most ingredients.
• Our community — for ongoing donations and financial support.
• All our volunteers — Take Them a Meal helpers, BECA, ANZ Business & Agri, and the wonderful young people who stepped in.
• Linda — for weeks of prep and organisation.
• Dee — for our Thermomix.
Some meals went straight out to families the same day — a reminder of why this mahi matters. This collaboration showed teamwork, remembrance and connection.

Thank you, Taranaki. We have real heart here!

27/09/2026

We have a busy week ahead with some of our fabulous Take them a Meal volunteers and a couple of businesses collaborating by donating their time to get our freezers full. We need the following ingredients for this cook up.
If you would like to contribute please let us know in the comments below. All items to please be delivered to 135 Heta Road or 82e Smart Road. We only have a few days as these cooks ups are next Thurs and Fri so please have delivered by Wednesday 30th Sept. There will be a chilly bin regularly checked at the front door. We appreciate any donations! Thank you 🙂
Flour 10kg
Baking powder 400g
Golden syrup 1kg tin
Brown sugar 1kg
Curry powder 100g
Cumin 1 packet
Tomato paste 8x 500g
Maggi beef goulash packets 6x
Baked beans 6x cans
Red kidney beans 5x cans
Refried Beans 6x cans
Thai curry paste red or green 2x 210g jars
Red lentils 6x packets
Soy sauce - gluten free (550ml)
Pasta sauce (any flavours) 7x 500g
Maggi cheese sauce 12x sachets
Maggi devilled sausages 6x sachets
Watties just add meal base cottage pie/ hearty savoury simmer sauce 6x cans
Enchilada sauce 6x jars
Flour tortillas- Pam’s 4x 15 pack
Rice- any size/amount
Rice- any microwave bags or pottles
Nacho chips- any sized and amount of bags
Chicken breasts x 18
Bacon pieces 500g
Oven bags - large - 12x bags
Snap look bags- sandwich size (any amount)
Snap lock bags large size (any amount)

14/09/2026

We’d like to send out a huge thank you to the Inglewood Lions group. We were fortunate enough to be chosen as one of the groups to receive funding from their annual book sale this year. What a surprise to receive a $3000 donation!

The Inglewood Lions are a hardworking and longstanding team that are doing some fantastic work supporting individuals and community groups in the local area.

Julia and Julia spent an evening sharing with them more about what we get up to with TTAM, how we started, the work we’re doing… and then also hearing from some other groups that have been supported through Lions - very inspirational.

Thank you to everyone involved in the Inglewood Lions and this years book fair

19/08/2026

We’re so proud of Gabby and the fantastic work she is doing. Well done for all your hard work this week Gabby.
How lucky are we to have such a capable and community minded young person supporting us ‘oldies’ with our social media. 👵🏻👵🏻👵🏻👵🏻😝😝😝😝

Gabi is working as a Social Media Intern at Taranaki Careers Expo. Gabi manages Facebook, Instagram and Tik Tok content for this massive event which hosts over 3000 visitors. Gabi also has SM experience with Take Them a Meal. Ka pai Gabi!

10/08/2026

A huge part of what we do relies on freezer space. It’s how we’re able to respond quickly when needs arise. We keep freezers in different locations so if power ever goes out, we minimise the loss of meals. One of our second‑hand freezers, donated to us years ago, stopped working a number of months ago. Thankfully it was noticed straight away and all meals were safely transferred. We’ve talked for a long time about buying a new freezer for reliability and power efficiency, but the cost has always held us back. Every dollar spent on equipment is a dollar not spent on ingredients and we try to stretch every bit of funding as far as possible. So we waited… and waited… hoping for a good sale that never came. Today a van with a delivery arrived 😲The O’Sullivan family have kindly purchased a brand‑new freezer for us. A gift that brought happy tears, because we know exactly what this means — greater capacity to store meals, less risk of loss and ultimately more mouths fed.
We usually stick to thanking businesses rather than personal contributions, as every act of generosity comes with its own level of sacrifice and we value them all equally. But this gift directly strengthens the backbone of our operation and acknowledging it feels right.
We thank the O’Sullivan family for this incredible kindness.

06/08/2026

We are incredibly grateful to the Move Foundation team for choosing Take Them a Meal Taranaki as their July recipient and for their generous donation of $984.

This support will help us continue providing meals to families within our community who are going through difficult times. Every donation makes a real difference and we are so thankful to have organisations like Move Foundation standing alongside us!

A huge thank you to everyone involved in making this donation possible. Your kindness and commitment to supporting our community is truly appreciated. ❤️

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Move Foundation July wrap-up ⚡
Not sure where July has gone, but we were super excited to hand over our monthly donation to Julia Kuriger and the awesome team at Take Them a Meal now that the month is over.

Their incredible work helping people in our region doesn’t go unnoticed!

The donation of $984 is our way of helping out, and takes the Move Foundation's confirmed total contributions to $48,448.

If you feel ‘moved’ to help out the TTAM team, head to their page to stay up to date with the latest or to reach out to them on Messenger:

𝗙𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗞: facebook.com/TakethemamealTaranaki

Stay tuned for more updates on our monthly recipients, or head to our website: bestmove.co.nz/move-foundation

05/08/2026

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for our Bingo Fundraiser and helped make the evening such a success!

We are incredibly grateful to all those who attended, donated prizes, purchased raffle tickets and supported the event in any way. Because of your generosity we have raised over $850, that will help us continue to provide meals and support to the families within our community.

Thank you to our wonderful volunteers and donators for their hard work behind the scenes, and to everyone who showed up and created such a fun event!

23/07/2026

Bingo Fundraiser!!
This Sunday 26th July at 6pm

EFTPOS AVAILABLE.
Only $5 per card, which means the whole family can play.
Plus raffle prizes galore!

22/07/2026

BINGO - Bring the KIDS!!

Kids will love joining in filling up the Bingo cards. And we’ve got this whole selection of kids prizes for them to choose from if they win a line or a row!!

At only $5 per card, everyone can have a game.

Sunday 26th July
6pm @ Stumble Inn

22/07/2026

BANK DETAILS UPDATE

Please note our new bank account details below. We are not changing banks and still have the excellent financial manager we have always had. Just the account name and number changing slightly.

Any problems please speak with Julia Kuriger.

Name: Board of Trust of New Plymouth Assembly of God
Account no: 15-3953-0270716-000
Reference: Name and TTAM donation

Thank you!!