The year 2023 marks 50 years since we were founded as Christchurch Women's Refuge, changing Aotearoa New Zealand's social landscape permanently.
To celebrate half a century of life-saving work, we will be shedding a light on the thousands of lives we have impacted, the vital mahi we continue to do, and thanking the partners who are on this journey with us.
Ticket sales are now closed.
This is a ticketless event. If you have purchased a ticket, you will receive an email with all the event information. If you have not received this email by Friday 24th March please contact, [email protected]
Our celebrations will kick off on Friday 31 March 2023 with a night to remember at Te Pae in Christchurch.
The night will include:
Doors will open at 6.30pm. Dress code is fancy, whatever that means for you.
Elly Ridge
Champion Supporter
Supporters
We would like to extend a huge thank you to the generous supporters, who have decided to step up their support for our 50th year. We are so grateful to them for their generosity and bold choice to partner with us. Not everyone wants to. Partnering with us means facing a reality that most people don’t want to think about: that family and sexual violence remains a huge issue in our society.
Violence is ruthlessly democratic: it affects people of all ages, genders, ethnicities and economic status. It lives rent free in the lives, relationships and homes of tens of thousands of people in Aotearoa. It’s not the “new hot topic” and, if we know one thing after 50 years, it's that we won’t fix it overnight.
Are things getting better overall? We think so. But progress will only continue if we keep doing the work. And the thousands of adults and tamariki still living with violence and trauma need us to keep doing the work. That's why our sponsors make such a difference.
“We need to get beyond the stigma and really look at the impact and what will happen if we don’t do something about it. Talking about it doesn’t normalise it, but it does humanise it.”
- Brett Anderson, Christchurch Casino (Champion Sponsor)