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Service and Inner Wheel New Zealand

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National Service Projects
District Service Projects
International Service Projects

In 2024-25*

56,200 hours of volunteer service

307 Charities & Causes

$279,000 gifted funds

* 1st June 2024 - 31st May 2025

Encouraging personal service is one of the three objectives of Inner Wheel. As members of Inner Wheel, we make a significant contribution to our communities, both by giving our time and fundraising to make financial donations.

Up and down New Zealand, Inner Wheel Clubs support charities to thrive.

Each Club decides the charities they want to support. In 2024-2025, we supported 307 different causes and charities. We also have a national Service Project, Look Good Feel Better and we often work together on projects of mutual interest to Clubs.

National Service Projects

Look Good Feel Better

Inner Wheel supports Look Good Feel Better through Members contributing their time preparing lunches and laundry, as well as fundraising.

Free Feel Better Classes are for anyone undergoing treatment for any type of cancer at any stage. It’s time away from the world of diagnosis and treatment to help face cancer with confidence, feel stronger and live better.

Period Poverty

Clubs are helping to provide sanitary products in schools, community centres and places in need through many communities in New Zealand as well as supporting the actions of these two charities.

Days For Girls

Every Girl, Everywhere, Period.

Days For Girls charity allows women and girls to go out during menstruation by providing them with their own unique, sustainable feminine hygiene kit. Our simple solution gives the days back to the girls. Days that change their lives.

Clubs throughout New Zealand sew kits for girls.

Read the July 2024 Days for Girls Newsletter here.

Learn more about Days for Girls

My Cup NZ

Menstrual cups can be life changing. My Cup NZ offers a opportunities for clubs to donate a cup to a person in need.

Clubs are helping My Cup NZ to end period poverty in NZ by providing a safe, eco-conscious, economic and healthy menstrual management solution.

Learn more about My Cup NZ

District Service Projects

District NZ294 - Days for Girls

As a District, NZ294 supports Days for Girls, which is an organization that aims to shatter the stigma of menstruation through providing menstrual products, education and support for local businesses. This organization partners with governments, health coalitions and various campaigns to advocate for menstrual equity across the world.

Click on the poster on the left to see suggestions for fundraising activities.

District NZ297 - Hats for Hamlin

NZ297 are assisting in knitting hats for newborns in Ethiopia thorugh Hats for Hamlin. These handmade creations will offer warmth and comfort to babies born in rural areas where cold nights are common and resources are scarce.

A warm hat can be lifesaving for a vulnerable newborn. And in communities where women traditionally birth at home without medical care, gifting a baby hat encourages mothers to seek a safe delivery with a skilled Hamlin midwife - potentially saving both their lives.

Learn more

International Service Project

IWNZ Members are invited by the IIW Past President Ebe Martines to participate in an International Inner Wheel Campaign for awareness of Cervical Cancer.

Clubs around the world are encouraged to launch projects that will STOP CERVICAL CANCER among women and girls.

Worldwide, cervical cancer is the 4th most common cancer. Mortality is high due mainly to diagnosis at the late stages of the disease, as well as the frequently unavailable, inaccessible, or unaffordable treatment. Yet, cervical cancer is the only cancer that is preventable with early detection through screening and HPV vaccination.