Family dinners
Family dinners are the highlight of our House calendar. After spending many hard and emotionally exhausting days at their child’s hospital bedside, cooking dinner is often the last thing parents feel like doing. Our weekly home cooked meals all prepared by our wonderful House volunteers are a welcome treat for families.
Our volunteer cooks do a brilliant job of preparing delicious and nutritious meals that can be enjoyed by adults and children alike.
The Family Dinner programme is generously supported by Tegel Foods and the Mad Butcher Point Chevalier, who supply all the meat and chicken for our volunteers to cook.
The RMH Auckland Trust funds and governs Ronald McDonald House Auckland (48 rooms), the Ronald McDonald House Family Room (13 short stay critical care rooms) in Starship Hospital and RMHA St Martins (16 offsite apartments). It is a registered community charitable trust comprised of the following partners: Auckland District Health Board, Child Cancer Foundation, Heart Children, The Rotary Club of Downtown Auckland, Ronald McDonald House Charities and 2 community representatives. The House, Family Room and St Martins provide a ‘home away from home’ for over 3,000 families of children with life-threatening illnesses each year. The Trust through its staff and partnerships actively fundraises throughout New Zealand to achieve the $3,000,000 p.a. it needs to run the facilities and support its families. Charity Registration number: CC23591