South Wairarapa Meals on Wheels
The Martinborough Skyline Challenge is a community fundraising event by the Martinborough Lions Club.
All proceeds from Skyline Challenge go to the South Wairarapa Meals on Wheels (MoW) service.
MoW provides cooked meals in their homes to people who are unable to cook for themselves. This includes people being discharged from hospital and needing support with meals, people having recently lost a partner and who are struggling with adjusting, people needing to change their eating habits as they age and/or deal with illness etc.
Just by participating in the Skyline Challenge & Family Day you will be helping MoW with its work. If you can’t participate you may choose to donate directly using the form on this page.
South Wairarapa Meals on Wheels is operated from Wharekaka, Martinborough by the Masonic Villages Trust. It employs a full-time chef but relies on volunteers to distribute the up-to 700 meals each month to clients in Martinborough, Featherston and Greytown.
The meals are distributed to clients in Martinborough by volunteer drivers. The Martinborough drivers also deliver to Red Cross volunteer drivers in Featherston and Greytown who in turn deliver the meals to local clients.
The Lions Skyline Team is hoping to buy specialist equipment (a blast/shock freezer) so that MoW can freeze meals in advance while preserving the texture and flavour of the food. This will then help immediately to provide meals when the chef is unavailable, avoiding the cost of buying in meals. In the longer term it will also allow the service to be extended into more rural areas of South Wairarapa, where there is a significant need.
If you want to donate to South Wairarapa Meals on Wheels then please use the Make a Donation form on this page. Simply leave us a note at the end of the donation form if you wish to remain anonymous.
Thank you!