C3 CARES

C3 Cares exists to help people in need, crisis or isolation in our local communities. We believe in community and bring a message of hope and practical support.

We provide perishable and non perishable food items, and warm winter essentials, to people linked with our C3 community and through our partners Pillars, Heart for Youth and the local schools we have relationships with.

There are plenty of opportunities for you to make a difference. Volunteers can contribute weekly, monthly or at a special event. If you need help, or want to nominate a family please email help@c3.org.nz

A new initiative we have started in 2021 has been to run community meals in our Manukau and West Auckland locations. Once a month the invitation is given to vulnerable members of the local community to come and enjoy a hot meal with our team. A delicious, heart warming, meal is prepared for those in need - completely free. During the night there is an opportunity to win prizes - through a fun game - and a brief message of hope is shared.

COMMUNITY MEALS

GIVE TO C3 CARES

There are many ways to give to C3 Cares.

  • Contribute items towards a pack - drop to Ellerslie location through the week, or at any of our church locations on Sunday.

  • Pay for a shop - Groceries ordered online and delivered straight to the home of those in need.

  • Make or buy a Meal and Drop off on Sunday to Ellerslie location

  • Join our packing and distribution team

You can give by automatic payment via the bank account below - please just reference the Box Name, Shop or C3 Cares.
When you give to C3 Cares we can provide you with a giving number so that you can claim your giving back on your tax return each year. To get a giving number click here.

C3 Cares
03 0195 0236880 005
Please reference ‘C3 Cares’

If you have a giving number please include it in the reference fields

PARTNERS

C3 Cares & The Flower Mission

For every $100 worth of flowers bought by a customer at Flourish, they donate a
beautiful country posy to C3 Cares to accompany food parcels.

C3 Cares & Pillars

Pillars is a charity that works with children who have a parent in prison. Their vision is to support these children to have crime-free futures. There are 23,000 children affected and Pillars has been working in this area for 31 years. When a parent goes to prison, the children left behind have an uncertain future. As well as the possibility of less family resources or a change of school or caregiver, they must also learn to live with the stigma of being the child of a person in prison.

And none of this is the fault of the child.

Pillars works with these children and their families to help them all have lives which are positive and contribute to healthy and successful futures. They do this through programmes which range across mentoring for the children and wrap around services for the families and whanau. They work in prisons and the community and have a team of well trained, experienced staff around the country.

Care Boxes will be sent to Pillars’ families that are in need.

C3 Cares & Heart for Youth

The Mission of Heart for Youth is “To accept, connect, equip and encourage youth & young adults through the integration of training processes and programs covering life skills/ values, self-awareness, self-esteem/ self-discipline principles and personal growth of all youth/young adults from any ethnicities - inclusive of youth at risk, those marginalised, underprivileged and those having special needs or disabilities in Aotearoa New Zealand”

H4Y work with vulnerable families and children and we are delighted to partner with them.