The Neonatal Trust

Who We Are

The Neonatal Trust is a New Zealand based charity that exists to provide support to families of premature or sick full-term babies as they make their journey through neonatal care, the transition home, and onwards. Approximately 10% of New Zealand babies are born premature every year - that’s around 5,000 babies that have a difficult start to life.

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How We Create Change

We are committed to supporting these courageous families and the people who care for them. We are able to provide the services we do due to the support we receive from many volunteers, patrons and partnerships with wonderful businesses.

We are committed to “Making a difficult start to life that little bit easier”.

The Neonatal Trust has three objectives:

1. The primary focus for the Trust is supporting parents by helping them in whatever way we can to get through what is usually a very traumatic time. Neonatal Trust volunteers, the majority of whom have had babies in one of the country’s five NICUs, work to reduce the stress typically felt by families with premature or ill babies. They visit parents in the NICUs to assess individual needs, which can range from wanting access to information, to practical, financial, or emotional help.
2. The second aim of the Trust is to assist the NICUs in practical ways such as purchasing or contributing to the cost of equipment and funding for staff to attend neonatal educational seminars or other professional development.
3. The third aim of the Trust is to aid neonatal-related medical research.
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These objectives are delivered on in a range of different ways. To view a gallery of examples of our support, head to this Facebook gallery.