About
Us

Who we are

The Catholic Caring Foundation provides grant funding for the care and support of families and communities who struggle with the affects of poverty and hardship. We support agencies within the greater Auckland area - stretching from the Far-North to the south of Auckland who help struggling families/whanau, children/rangatahi and communities. We are guided by gospel values and Christ's message "Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did to me." (Matthew 25:40)

OUR PATRON

Bishop Stephen Lowe is the 12th Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland and the Patron of the Catholic Caring Foundation.

He was born and educated in Hokitika, and worked in forestry before entering Holy Cross Seminary, Mosgiel in 1990. His final year was completed at St Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia during 1994 - 1995. He was ordained in 1996.

He served as assistant priest in Mairehau, Ashburton and Greymouth before being appointed parish priest of Timaru North. He completed a Licence in Spiritual Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome in 2007 and in the following year was appointed to Holy Cross Seminary as Formation Director until the end of 2014.

OUR BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Most Reverend Bishop Steve Lowe (and patron of the Foundation)

Chair: Treacy Bell

Members:

Dame Lyndsay Freer
Monsignor Bernard Kiely
Matheus Vermunt
Loraine Elliott (Vicar for Social Impact and Communications)

OUR PEOPLE

For general information, please contact a member of our team:

Coordinator, Grant & Donor Administration
Claudia Cachay
Ph: 09 360 3045
Email: [email protected]

Manager
Ann-Marie Parker
Ph: 09 360 3012
Email: [email protected]

OUR DONORS

Our donors are caring, compassionate people who believe in caring for their neighbour, just as Jesus taught us.

As Jesus reminded us in Saint Matthew’s gospel: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. Love your neighbour as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.”

Why I choose to support the Catholic Caring Foundation

Thank you Elizabeth for sharing why you support the Catholic Caring Foundation.

“Being a more hands-on ‘action-orientated’ person, with a strong desire to put into practice my deeper belief in caring for those in need (a big part of my Catholic upbringing), I was a bit stuck for what I could do to help when I returned to New Zealand some years ago.

Why stuck? Despite all the will in the world, I was not one of those with the innate ability to provide hands-on care in the experienced, skillful, practical way that is required in cases of desperate need. That ability is a real God-given gift, and those with that gift need support around them from the rest of us.

Discovering the Catholic Caring Foundation and the types of organisations it funds and supports, gave me my own kind of ‘active’ way of helping change lives, within my Catholicism, through making my donation to the CCF every month so that the remarkable work can continue.”

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