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Filling the need at Christmas

A Hamilton grandmother raising 14 grandchildren was moved to tears  when she learned Cambridge-based charity Kids in Need Waikato was giving her family a new trampoline for Christmas.“Jumpflex has donated a trampoline every year for us and this year it’s going to this particular family,” said Linda Roil, who founded Kids in Need with her husband Graeme in 2018.“They’re very excited.  The grandmother cried when I told her.  She just cried.  It means those kids a...

KIN Newsletter November 2021

Some of our amazing Kids in need volunteers...

Project fosters generosity

Cambridge Middle School students Ella Millar and Aidan Tidd have collected bag-fulls of goodies for Kids in Need Waikato....

Water boy visit promotes benefits of volunteering

Kids in Need Waikato founder Linda Roil, and The WaterBoy founder Thomas Nabbs, flanked by Korakonui School students Nicholaas Van Hout and Wyatt Foster, and Knighton Normal School student Quinn Hodgson....

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Hundreds come to the pyjama party

Piles and piles of kids' winter pyjamas donated by people in and around Cambridge have left collection organisers "absolutely amazed".Read the article at Cambridge News...

Charity helps Waikato Kids in Need

Linda Roil knows a lot about the importance of winter pyjamas.She is the founder and organiser of the not-for-profit group, Kids in Need Waikato. It is to that charity that hundreds of pairs of pyjamas collected throughout June by Cambridge Real Estate will be donated, then filtered through to children and teens in need.Read article at Cambridge News...

Hamilton woman raising 10 grandchildren on her own 'overwhelmed' as donations flood in

A grandmother of 10 who quit her job and moved from Blenheim to Hamilton to care for the children has had a helping hand from the community to settle in.Martine, who didn't want her surname published, said she's still emotional and overwhelmed at the donations she's received.The solo grandparent now has five grandchildren - aged 2, 3, 4, 7 and 10 - in her care full time, as well as five others in her home every other week. One of the children is non-verbal and autistic and others have behavioura...

Spreading the love around

Mary Waters (left) pictured with Linda Roil (Kids in Need Waikato), Harriet Dixon (Cambridge Community House) and Jumble Around president Marianne Jarvie....

Concert in Cambridge Town Hall to support struggling families

Linda Roil, founder of Kids in Need Waikato, has hundreds of donated items in her Cambridge shed....

Kids in Need has room to grow

Linda Roil in front of her enormous new shed, which will help take Kids in Need Waikato to the next level....

Cambridge News Person of the Year 2018

Cambridge woman Linda Roil has a heart for children, and it is her work for kids in care that has seen her named the first-ever Cambridge News Person of the Year. This year, Linda has started a community initiative which makes up packs of clothes and toys to give to Waikato kids who come into care, often arriving with the clothes on their backs and little else. She’s lost count of how many packs she’s taken out to kids, but reckons it’s around 400. A caregiver herself, Linda was saddened w...

ASB Good As Gold Award

In December 2017, Linda was awarded with the ASB Good As Gold Award. This is award is given to Kiwis that are making a difference in their communities. Linda devotes her life to foster children in the Waikato, from fostering babies as young as 3 hours old, to making up care packs for every child in the region being fostered. Watch the video here...