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By helping us, you're helping hundreds of people every day in lots of ways. Thank you for helping to keep our service free to everyone who needs us.

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By helping us, you're helping hundreds of people every day in lots of ways. Thank you for helping to keep our service free to everyone who needs us.

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Monthly donations

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Make a regular donation

Be a Community Champion! By regularly donating to Wellington Free Ambulance on an ongoing basis, you’re helping us be here for thousands of people in the Greater Wellington and Wairarapa region. Thank you for your life-changing support.

As a regular and ongoing donor, you're an essential member of the Wellington Free Ambulance team. As a 24/7, 365 days a year service, we need to be here year-round - that’s why we need your year-round support.

Your regular and ongoing donations ensure everyone in our community can access emergency ambulance care, when they need it most – free of charge.

It's quick and easy to set up your regular donation online using this form, but you can also ring (0508 932 3733) or email us if you prefer.

Why your regular donations are so important

Your regular and ongoing donations help our paramedics to save and change lives, every single day - the lives of people like Stuart, Joe, Joanna and Shelley.

Michael and Bronwyn's story

Michael and Bronwyn’s story – “We’re so grateful for what Wellington Free did”

“We decided to donate to Wellington Free because of our son, Sam.

Back in 2017, he was working when he collapsed. The fire brigade and Wellington Free took care of him. They worked on him for quite a long time, including restarting his heart with an AED [automated external defibrillator]. He got through that.

Over the years, Sam needed repeated defibrillation and the ambulance always turned up.

We decided to donate to Wellington Free on a regular basis because we’re so grateful for what they did for Sam.”

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Your impact

Each year we must raise $8 million from the community to ensure we can be here when people need us most, free of charge – your regular and ongoing donations form a crucial part of this.

Your regular and ongoing donations are used to provide essential healthcare services, including our Emergency Ambulance Service.

Last financial year, regular and ongoing givers donated around $637,000 – that’s 980 emergency ambulance responses they helped fund this year alone. Each of those people that we helped during those call-outs are parents, grandparents, children, friends and loved ones. They might be someone you know or care about. Thanks to this support, they got the help they needed at no cost to them.

What Wellington Free Ambulance achieved over the last year, thanks to our communities' support

 

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You Rights & More info

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Your Rights

As our patient, and under the Health and Disability Commissioner’s Code of Rights, you have the right to:

  • Be treated with respect
  • Be fully informed
  • Freedom from discrimination, coercion, harassment and exploitation
  • dignity and independence
  • Services of an appropriate standard
  • Effective communication
  • Be fully informed
  • Make an informed choice and give informed consent
  • Support
  • Respect of teaching or research
  • Complain

If we don’t respect these, let us know and we’ll do everything we can to put it right.


Support in the process

If you need support or help with making a complaint, you can contact the office of the Health and Disability Commissioner and ask for an advocate.

www.hdc.org.nz
0800 555 050

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