Chip Packet Project New Zealand

Happening next Sunday! See you there!

In honour of , a poncho made from recycled chip packets. Its the silver lining aka the thermal affect.

Its about gifting a warm nights sleep

On this World Environment Day we remember the interview from TV3 (back in the day).

CPPNZ has now been operating for over 4 years and the number of those in need of a warm nights sleep across NZ is increasing. We still need your to help spread the word and share the love!

Turning chip packets into shelter | The Project NZ Your leftover chippy packets could really help someone out.That's...

EAST AUCKLAND Fusion Group
Meets every Thursday and Friday @153 Pilkington Road Glen Inness between 10am-1pm. Come along to join in the fusion fun!

St Philips Anglican Parish, St Heliers and Glendowie
Please share this around so CPPNZ can get the votes needed to be awarded $1000. We need your help :)

WE NEED YOUR VOTE - CPPNZ could be awarded $1000.

To celebrate and offer support to our local community, the team at Morrisons Funerals are giving away 10x $1000 community sponsorships.

CPPNZ has been nominated!!! We are reaching out to our local community to nominate CPPNZ by using the QR code below and tell Morrisons Funerals why CPPNZ is a worthy cause before 31 May 2026.
Funds will be used to get blankets into the hands of those who are cold right now.

WE NEED YOUR VOTE - CPPNZ could be awarded $1000.

To celebrate and offer support to our local community, the team at Morrisons Funerals are giving away 10x $1000 community sponsorships.

CPPNZ has been nominated!!! We are reaching out to our local community to nominate CPPNZ by using the QR code below and tell Morrisons Funerals why CPPNZ is a worthy cause before 31 May 2026.
Funds will be used to get blankets into the hands of those who are cold right now.

Think on this...

I've been sitting with today's social housing announcement and I keep coming back to the same thought: this policy has been designed around numbers on a spreadsheet, not around people.
Let me tell you what I see.
Social housing is not where people choose to live — it's where they end up when every other door has closed. The private rental market has already rejected them: their income is too low, their history too complicated, their family too large. For these New Zealanders, social housing is not a stepping stone. It is the floor.
Today the Government decided to charge them more for it. From April next year, minimum rent contributions rise from 25% to 30% of income. For 84,000 households, that's an average of $31 more a week. I want you to think about what $31 means when you have nothing to spare. It doesn't get absorbed. It becomes debt. And debt, for people already at the edge, has consequences that ripple through families for years.
The redesigned needs assessment will funnel the most complex, highest-needs people into social housing — but without any additional funding for the wraparound support that makes tenancies work. We are being asked to house the hardest cases with fewer resources to support them.
And then there are duration limits. The Government's own data shows these people cannot access the private market. Putting a time limit on their tenancy doesn't create a pathway out. It creates a deadline — and on the other side of that deadline is the street.
I also want to speak up for the community housing providers — the charities, trusts, and iwi — who stepped forward when the state couldn't do this alone. They invested their own money, built homes, and signed long-term contracts in good faith. They were not consulted before today's announcement. They find out the same way everyone else does — through the news.
That's a profound breach of trust with organisations that took a risk to help solve a public problem.
Good housing policy creates stability. Stability creates everything else — health, education, employment, family wellbeing. What was announced today undermines all of that, and shifts the cost onto the people and organisations least equipped to bear it.
I'll keep saying this until someone listens.

What a testimony!
It warms our hearts to receive messages from those who have lived on the streets.
Thanks to our friends at Te Whare Mahana for making the recent workshops happen!

Sunday- what a great day and reason to come together 💚 ♻️