Events and Hospice functions
We hold a variety of events throughout the year which help us raise awareness and some of the funding for the support services we offer.
Annual Street Appeal
Look out for our friendly volunteer collectors at a supermarket near you, right across the region.
We rely on your generosity to provide free services in Wairarapa, so please donate if you can. EFTPOS available. If you can’t get out to donate in person you can do so online anytime online here.
Wairarapa Wool Weekend
Hospice Wairarapa is proud to be the charity partner for the inaugural Wairarapa Wool Weekend.
Wairarapa Wool Weekend is a fibrecraft event designed to promote the Wairarapa region and the New Zealand wool industry while acknowledging te ao Māori and developing a whanaungatanga, or community, of crafters.
Wairarapa Wool Weekend will be held once every two years and each muster (gathering) will be based in a different Wairarapa town to allow participants to discover and explore the greater Wairarapa region. To add an international flavour we will also be focusing on countries (or parts of the world) where people have emigrated to New Zealand from and celebrating the craft and culture they have brought with them. In support of this there will be a guest speaker and/or workshop tutor who will share their love and knowledge of the unique craft history and identity of the area.
Activities will include fibrecraft workshops, public talks, a traders hall, tree planting ceremony, lights up crafting, craft café evenings, specialist tasting sessions and a gala evening event. Entry to the event is by way of a paid registration fee. Fibrecraft workshops will incur an additional fee.
Registrations open now.
For more information, and to register visit - wairarapawoolweekend
Hospice Wairarapa Golf Day 2025
Hospice Wairarapa Golf Day 2025
Friday, 21 March 2025
Registrations open from 9.00am
Tee off: 10:00 am
Entry fee: $320 (team of 4)
After the event’s huge success in March we are bringing back it in 2025!
The event will be held on Friday 21 March 2025 (postponement day, Friday 28 March) at Carterton Golf Club, and promises to be just as big.
The popular food and beverage offerings will be back, including the Mitre 10 Mega BBQ brekkie, barista coffee supplied by Gracias Coffee, and the slow cooked deliciousness of Caveman BBQ for dinner. Out on the course, there will be food and beverage options flowing all day…yes those refreshing drinks carts will be speeding about making sure no thirst goes unquenched!
Adding value to the day will be entertainment, exceptional prizes, and the highly anticipated auction.
Team Registrations are now open - strictly limited to 36 teams so get in quick to avoid disappointment.
Enjoy a great day out on the course for a great cause!
Fabric-A-Brac Greytown
Attention Fabric Lovers!
Fabric-a-brac Greytown is back in January 2025!
Our Wairarapa event is held in Greytown, on Wellington Anniversary, in conjunction with the annual Sidewalk Sale in Greytown so it’s a great excuse to have a weekend away! It’s held in the Greytown Town Hall on Main St.
Fabric-a-brac is a fun fabric and sewing supplies market where you can shop for vintage and modern sewing and upholstery fabric, patterns, haberdashery and more. It brings the sewing community together to share stashes, stories and delight in our mutual love of textiles.
Fabric-a-brac is volunteer-run, and is a fundraiser for hospice – in Greytown this is Hospice Wairarapa. All profits from this event are donated to their work.
This event is held annually on Wellington Anniversary weekend.
Selling fabric
If you have a stash you’d like to sell, you can come and take a stall. You pay a stallholder fee (which goes to Hospice) but anything you make on the day is yours to keep.
If you have fabric, haberdashery or patterns you’d like to move on, but don’t want to have a table, you can donate (locations TBC). This will all go onto the hospice table on the day, and all profits will go to their wonderful work.
Buying fabric
BRING CASH as many of the stallholders will be selling by cash only.
GOLD COIN ON ENTRY IS APPRECIATED.
If you are looking for some new inspiration for future projects, great bargains, funky old fabric and quirky bits – Fabric-a-brac is for you. Come along and pick up some fantastic sewing-related bargains.
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Email us on wai.fabricabrac@gmail.com