Bayfair Shopping Centre is deeply involved with a wide range of community initiatives. For example:
Sponsorship
Paper4Trees
The paper4trees project is run by the Environmental Education for Resource Sustainability Trust (EERST). The monetary donation by Bayfair Shopping Centre supports the paper4trees program to more than 60 schools in the Western Bay and Tauranga, by funding EERST's visits to schools to ensure that they have sufficient resources to continue the project.
EERST works with each school to manage the recycling programme and organize the delivery of plants. The school works directly with the local recycling operator or centre, to arrange the removal of the paper. A number of rural schools are transporting their own paper for recycling.
Placing paper and cardboard in a landfill creates methane gas which is 21 times worse than vehicle emissions. The paper4trees programme aims to keep those products out of landfills and incinerators by giving schools support, assistance and incentives to recycle.
Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind
If you’ve visited Bayfair you may well have seen trainee guide dog puppies pounding the aisles and pavements. These outstanding animals are brought into the centre by their handlers to hone the skills they need to assist local blind, deafblind and vision-impaired people get around safely with greater speed, confidence and independence.
Negotiating traffic in the carparks, locating common destinations such as the supermarket, travelling on public transport and dealing with travelators are all part of becoming a world-class guide dog.
Next time you’re at Bayfair watch out for our local guide dog puppies as they progress on the path to graduation. Two stars who currently make regular appearances are Guide Dog puppy Pearson, a Labrador retriever puppy walked by Ted Joyce and Guide Dog puppy Farley, a standard poodle, in training with Wendy Isaacs.
Christmas Gift Wrapping Services
Every year volunteers come to Bayfair to help raise money for their affiliated charity and assist shoppers by wrapping their Christmas gifts.
For a gold coin donation customers have their presents beautifully packaged ready to give to their loved ones and know that they have helped a worthy cause along the way. In the lead up to Christmas in 2010, 22 groups benefited.
Should you wish to find out more about how you can raise money for your charitable organisation in this way, please contact
dawn.kelly@ampcapital.com.
Safe Shopping at Bayfair
Police Information Centre
Ensuring that we provide a secure and comfortable environment for customers to shop is ones of Bayfair’s highest priorities. That is why we are pleased to announce the outstanding work carried out seven days a week in our very own Police Information Centre.
The Police Information Centre, located near to the ground entrance from the under cover carpark, was commissioned by New Zealand Police to provide support to the general public in locations such as Bayfair. Volunteers of the PIC now exceed forty in number and assist shoppers with a wide range of enquiries.