Big Buddy News
Businesses help boy develop resilience and independence
This May, Waikato boy Morgan Glover was sponsored by Go Rentals and Barworks to attend Outward Bound for a week. The 14 year-old Little Buddy trained hard to get match-fit for a course that is known to develop the very things that Big Buddies look to bring out in these boys: resilience and independence. Thanks […]
Mentoring withTeina and Laurence hits headlines….twice!
We lose count of the number of mentoring relationships that make a difference. But in the case of Little Buddy Teina Kanohi and his Big Buddy Laurence Stanaway, we can definitely point out two occasions that the impact of their long-lasting relationship has had on readers. Firstly in 2014, reporter Cherie Howie wrote about them: […]
‘Our Boys’ still a wealth of wisdom
It’s just over two years since Ruth Kerr and Richard Aston posted news about their book Our Boys on the site, and the relevance of their thoughts, humour, research and experience is as strong today. As CEO until August 2017, Richard steered Big Buddy from a fledgling organisation operating under the wing of Man Alive, […]
Big Buddy welcomes partnership model
A charity that finds good-hearted mentors to enhance the lives of 7-14-year-old fatherless boys is realising staff and expansion plans at an accelerated rate, thanks to a new business relationship model. Big Buddy has always received far more requests to find Big Buddies than there are available men. But the agency is planning to close […]
One year anniversary for first Hamilton Buddies
Little Buddy Nicholas Perano and his Big Buddy, Colin Malcolm, haven’t even been matched for a year, but mum Penny Perano says she’s seeing positive, tangible differences in her ten-year-old already. Eleven months ago, the first Hamilton Buddy pair began spending Sunday mornings together. Colin says they’ve been doing anything from finding a quiet corner […]
Call for mentors in the Capital
A national organisation that finds mentors for fatherless boys says that after 20 years in the business, they’re still looking for men with a kind heart rather than a saintly disposition. The message is vital for an increasingly busy Big Buddy, a charity that has just added a Hamilton post to its Auckland and Wellington […]
Biggest Buddy moves on after 15 years
August 2017 In 2002, disillusioned after many years in management and corporate IT, Richard Aston jumped ship at 50 to take up the reins of a fledgling social agency with the lofty vision of changing fatherless boys’ lives. Back then, Big Buddy was a paper-based social agency with five matches on its books. But Aston […]
Gallagher Chiefs train Little Buddies
July 2017 When boys’ mentoring charity Big Buddy talks about finding positive male role models for fatherless 7 to 14-year-olds, they’re not asking for saints or sports stars to put their hands up. Although, anyone watching some of the Gallagher Chief’s best-known rugby players and five ‘Little Buddies’ at a training session last week would […]
Four years on, a mum shares her gratitude
From time to time, we share letters with you that have great meaning straight from the source, In this case, it’s an update from a very grateful Little Buddy mother. ” River has just got back from his three-month exchange in Germany and will be seeing Trevor over the weekend. They’ve been hanging out every single weekend […]
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