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By helping us, you're helping hundreds of people every day in lots of ways. Thank you for helping to keep our service free to everyone who needs us.

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By helping us, you're helping hundreds of people every day in lots of ways. Thank you for helping to keep our service free to everyone who needs us.

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Volunteer to be part of Wellington Free Ambulance

We are the ones who help the sick and injured across the greater Wellington and Wairarapa region. Our fundraising volunteers are a generous and committed team who play a huge part in helping make sure we're there for anyone who needs us, 24/7 - free of charge.

2 young women in onesies smile in front of a Wellington Free Ambulance

At Wellington Free Ambulance, volunteers are at the heart of what we do. Looking after our community is a team effort, and everyone has their part to play.

If you're interested in making a difference to your community, check out the different opportunities we have for you to help. 

Help us fundraise

You don’t have to wear the Wellington Free green to have the opportunity to make a difference. We have to raise around $8 million every year to keep us here and keep us free.

Onesie Day

Onesie Day is our biggest fundraising campaign of the year. It’s the one day we call together everyone; every school, every workplace, every business, every person in our region, and ask them to support us.

If you’d like to volunteer to collect on our Onesie Day Street Collection 2024,  please fill out this form.

To host a Onesie Day fundraiser at your school or office, find out more here.

Onesie Day is in September each year.

Fundraise for us 

When there’s an emergency, our highly skilled paramedics can make the difference. When you fundraise for us, your work is making a huge difference too.

Your donation helps save lives.

If you’re hosting a fundraising event for us, please get in touch: [email protected].

Caring for our community is a team effort, and a good team helps each other. When our paramedics need back up, they call our highly trained call centre. When you’re fundraising, you can call us. We can help you with resources, promotion, and advice.

Help us by sharing your story

Not everyone knows that we're the only emergency ambulance service for the Greater Wellington and Wairarapa region, and the only ones in the country who are free. But you can help share our story, by sharing yours.

Street Collector holding out a box of stickers that say Nice One

If you have had a positive experience with our service and would be happy to share this with our community, we would love to hear from you. Sharing real stories really helps demonstrate our work to others and lets people know how we help.  Please click here to share your story with us. 

We share these good stories in a number of ways including here on our website, as well as our monthly eNews and social media platforms. 

Newsletter

Sign up to our monthly newsletter to find out what’s happening at Wellington Free, and share the stories you love with your friends.

Social media

Like us on Facebook, follow us on Instagram or LinkedIn and hear all about the people we help, and the people helping us. The more you like, the more your friends and family will hear about us too.

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You Rights & More info

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Your Rights

As our patient, and under the Health and Disability Commissioner’s Code of Rights, you have the right to:

  • Be treated with respect
  • Be fully informed
  • Freedom from discrimination, coercion, harassment and exploitation
  • dignity and independence
  • Services of an appropriate standard
  • Effective communication
  • Be fully informed
  • Make an informed choice and give informed consent
  • Support
  • Respect of teaching or research
  • Complain

If we don’t respect these, let us know and we’ll do everything we can to put it right.


Support in the process

If you need support or help with making a complaint, you can contact the office of the Health and Disability Commissioner and ask for an advocate.

www.hdc.org.nz
0800 555 050

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