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Hot of the Press-Our 50 year celebration book "Braemar in the Community" is now available

The Braemar Charitable Trust is excited to announce that our celebratory book ‘Braemar inthe Community’ has been published. Our book shares the 50 year history of the Trust, the accountsof those who have helped shape the Braemar family we are today and was written by esteemedWaikato-based journalist, Kingsley Field.The following excerpt is from the foreword written by Trust Chair, Victoria Ashplant, which describeswho we are and what we stand for – an identity we are very proud of after 50...

Reflections from the Braemar Charitable Trust Scholarship recipient- Karen Turanga

At the beginning of 2022, Karen Turanga, Ngāi Tahu, recipient of the Braemar Charitable Trust’s Bachelor of Health scholarships in partnership with the University of Waikato, began a work placement at Braemar Hospital as part of her scholarship package.The placement had Karen working alongside the Quality and Risk Manager at the Hospital, focusing on a range of health, safety, and wellbeing initiatives that could be implemented for the benefit of both staff and patients. Karen has spent her t...

Congratulations to our Trustee Kelvyn Eglinton and the team at Momentum for success at Waikato Business Awards

Congratulations to the team at Momentum Waikato Community Foundation for your success at the Waikato Business Awards. Really proud to have CEO Kelvyn Eglinton as one of our Trustees and part of the Braemar family.Momentum Waikato took out both the ‘Community Contribution’ and ‘Not for Profit’ Awards at the Waikato Business Awards 2021 held by the Waikato Chamber of Commerce last Friday night.Chief Executive Kelvyn Eglinton says winning such recognition on the first attempt is a huge hono...

BCT supports Waikato Equitherapy to improve health outcomes in our community

Waikato Equitherapy is a not-for-profit organization operating out of the Waikato, with a team of 70 volunteers and 11 specially trained therapy ponies. Though the core purpose of Waikato Equitherapy is to increase the quality of life for differently abled riders, holiday programs are also run that cater to children of all abilities. The organization believes that horse riding can improve the health of riders while developing coordination, balance, and muscle strength. However, the costs of runn...

Braemar Hospital becomes the first hospital in New Zealand accredited to pay staff a living wage

Really proud to share this shareholder moment. Congratulations Braemar Hospital. This move underpins our values, our guiding principles of addressing inequities and strengthens our collective drive to improve health outcomes in our community.Braemar Hospital in Hamilton has become the first hospital in New Zealand to become an accredited living wage employer. It’s one of the largest private hospitals in New Zealand, and announced on Sunday it would begin paying its lowest-paid workers - includ...

Braemar Charitable Trust invests in the next generation through the Kudos Science Trust

The Kudos Science Trust is another example of a community organization that the Braemar Charitable Trust is proud to partner with and support.Established in 2007, Kudos aims to recognize top scientists in the Waikato; excite young people about science-based careers, and raise the profile of science in the community. In 2021, the Braemar Charitable Trust signed up to be a Science Spinners supporter, sponsoring a workshop being run by Kudos that gave high school students a chance to experience han...

Meet Braemar Hospital Board Chair, Graeme Milne

Graeme Milne is the Chairman of the Braemar Hospital Board. Braemar Hospital is 100% owned by the Braemar Charitable Trust. In mid-2020, Graeme applied for and was offered a position on the Braemar Hospital Board. He was quick to accept the role of Chairman, and since then has helped the team focus on ensuring that the hospital runs efficiently and strategically. Graeme strongly believes that being a charitable Trust, Braemar meets a vital need in the community with a vision that revolves around...

Braemar Studio provides a creative space for exploring wellness through Art

Emma is making herself home in the Braemar Studio. If you’ve been a friend of the Braemar Charitable Trust Facebook page for a month or two, you would have seen consistent mention of our partnership with the Arts for Health Community Trust. A not-for-profit organization, Arts for Health is an amazing addition to the Hamilton community that offers a safe and welcoming environment for its participants to heal and grow through use of the arts. Seen in this image is Emma, one of many members of ou...

Introducing Jamie McAuslan

Braemar Charitable Trust would like to introduce you to one of our volunteers, Jamie McAuslan. Jamie is leading a refresh of our financial and non-financial dashboard used by management and the board to track financial performance and drive better health outcomes from monitoring the impact of our charitable activities. Jamie brings impressive software capability and reporting acumen from the work she does every day and used her employer’s volunteer program to put these skills to use at Braemar...

Watch this neat video about Arts for Health Community Trust

The Braemar Charitable Trust is a proud partner of the Arts for Health Community Trust. Whether through funding, time, or resources, we have spent the last 4 years working alongside Arts for Health Community Trust in their endeavor to provide a safe and welcoming space for members of our community to achieve their wellness through art.Arts for Health Community Trust A2ugu1stpo 2o5e5, 2a02ga1  ·  ...

Meeting the current challenges in Oral Health through the Braemar Charitable Surgery Programme

In the midst of Government budget allocation and the financial complications of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new issue regarding the health of New Zealanders is quickly gaining attention.The state of oral health in NZ has not improved in the last 30 years despite the declared intentions of various political parties. Katie Ayers, spokesperson for New Zealand Dental Access to Care, Braemar Charitable Trust Trustee, and Braemar Hospital Board Director, noted how in her 26 years of dentistry work, low-i...

Meet our wonderful Trust Board Secretary, Brooke Gregory

Brooke Gregory is a young woman based in the Waikato, who has spent part of 2021 volunteering her time to the Braemar Charitable Trust.Brooke’s role involves taking the meeting minutes at BCT Board events and ensuring that any decisions made by Trustees are clearly noted down. The experience so far has increased Brooke’s knowledge about the roles and responsibilities involved in board governance and being a Trustee, and she has enjoyed the insight of watching firsthand how conversations prog...

Community Radio Podcast of interview with Trust Manager, Paula Baker

Click the link to listen to a radio interview given by Paula Baker, manager of the Braemar Charitable Trust, on Community Waikato Radio. https://www.accessradio.org/ProgrammePage.aspx......

Would you like to be part of our Charitable Surgery Programme?

In 2021, a young man named Michael required oral surgery to remove several painful and abscessed teeth. Due to a significant waiting list, Michael was unable to be seen in a timely way through the public health system and the pain and ongoing infection were impacting on Michael’s quality of life and his ability to work. Without the financial means to afford private treatment, Michael applied to the Braemar Charitable Trust for treatment under the Braemar Charitable Surgery Program. Having met ...

Introducing one of our charitable surgery anaesthetists-Kelly Byrne

Kelly Byrne has been a consultant anesthetist for 10 years and has been involved in several charitable surgery programs overseas, including in Fiji, Tonga, and Cambodia. As Kelly provides anesthesia services at Braemar Hospital as well as for the Waikato DHB, he was attracted to the Braemar Charitable Surgery program when looking for charitable surgery opportunities in New Zealand. Over the last two years as a medical associate assisting with the charitable surgery program, Kelly has assessed p...

Happy Birthday Braemar Charitable Trust!!

In 2021, the Braemar Charitable Trust celebrated its 50th birthday, a milestone that was highlighted by the completion of a book written about the Trust by Waikato journalist, Kingsley Field. Kingsley has had a long career in Waikato journalism and newspaper, having worked for the Waikato Times as chief subeditor. He was also the Waikato news-bureau chief for the New Zealand Herald for eight years. Later he went on to freelance work from 1999. He had been contacted before about writing books for...

Showcasing one of our valued Oral Surgeons-Simon Lou

Simon Lou is an oral and maxillofacial surgeon that has been working at the Braemar Hospital for the past 10 years. He has also spent a decade working at the Waikato Hospital as a consultant and was a Supervisor of Training at Waikato District Health Board. Simon has a history of donating his time and expertise to charitable surgeries and has been involved in the Islands of Smiles Charitable Trust, through which he volunteered his services on 2 trips to remote areas of Fiji. When he heard about...

Charitable Surgery Programme makes a positive difference to health outcomes in our community

When a young University student named Brooklyn noticed a toothache from his developing wisdom teeth in early 2021, he began to look for a dental solution. As a full-time student, Brooklyn was receiving student allowance through WINZ and worked a part time job at KFC. Despite these forms of income, Brooklyn had no way to fund the cost of removing his wisdom teeth, especially after it was discovered that he was also suffering from tooth decay. Fortunately, Brooklyn was able to be seen by a surgeo...

Needle Free Sedation Research funded by Braemar Charitable Trust

2021 marks the second financial year that Braemar Charitable Trust donated up to $30,000 per annum to the Waikato Medical Research Foundation as part of a Memorandum of Understanding between the two organization, that is in place for the next three years. The Foundation funds research that mirrors Braemar Charitable Trust’s vision of improving health outcomes in the Waikato, and this partnership is an example of how more can be achieved when organizations work together. In this case, the colla...

Keen to work with us?

Working with the Braemar Charitable Trust is an opportunity that enables like-minded organizations in the Waikato who share our vision to come together and collaborate in the pursuit of improved community health outcomes.Please get in touch via email, Facebook, or LinkedIn, or through completing a funding application form which can be found on our website https://www.braemartrust.co.nz/ . We look forward to hearing how your mission aligns with the Braemar vision of improving health outcomes in o...

Arts for Health Community Trust-a key partner

The Arts for Health Community Trust is a Waikato-based non-profit organization that serves the community by accessible art studios for any person who wants to use the creative arts as a medium through which to achieve wellness. The Trust was established by Rosemary Biland, wife of a practicing doctor at Waikato Hospital who saw an opportunity for hospital patients to engage in meaningful activity to distract them from an often very difficult health-related experience or accident. 34 years later...

Showcasing one of our team- Katie Ayers

Katie Ayers has been a valued member of “Braemar family” since 2003, when she began working at Braemar Hospital as a Paedeatric Dentist. She expanded her involvement, by joining the Braemar Charitable Trust as a Medical Trustee in 2014 for a term of 3 years. Needing to step down as a Trustee for a period to focus on her governance role with the Dental Association, Katie was reappointed to the Trust in 2020 and then in 2021, to the Braemar Hospital Board. Katie was originally attracted to Bra...

We love sharing good news stories from our Charitable Surgery Programme

Sometimes special events occur which give members of the Braemar Charitable Trust the certainty that what they are doing to improve the health of the community really is making a difference. The trust along with Braemar Hospital medical specialists, perform a growing number of charitable surgeries each year. These surgeries are greatly appreciated by patients and can be life changing. Here is just one example. For reasons of privacy, the name of the patient and their family member has been chang...

André Becker is 2021/2022’s second recipient of a Summer Research Scholarship funded by the Braemar Trust

André Becker is 2021/2022’s second recipient of a Summer Research Scholarship funded by the Braemar Trust. The question André is posing, and will aim to answer by the end of the summer, is “What are the unmet needs in Waikato children with Otitis Media?” Otitis Media is a medical condition involving infection and/or inflammation in the middle ear. Serious cases can result in the use of grommets or surgical interventions, though fortunately these measures can often be avoided. André’s...

Karen Turanga, Bachelor of Health and Population Studies and recipient of the 2021 Braemar Charitable Trust Bachelor of Health Scholarship and Summer Research Scholarship

Braemar Charitable Trust believes in building capacity and capability within the wider health sector. Not only do we provide funding for ongoing medical practitioner professional development, we are also committed to supporting the next generation of health professionals, recognizing that they are key to improving health outcomes in our community. An example of this support is found through Braemar’s funding of tertiary scholarships at the University of Waikato. Karen Turanga, Ngāi Tahu, is ...