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Children are paying the price of cost cutting and this needs to end, says Bonnie Robinson, director of The Salvation Army Social Policy and Parliamentary Unit. The latest figures for child poverty released today reflect the analysis from our State of the Nation 2025 report released last week. Thousands more children...

The Salvation Army’s Christchurch Bridge programme has launched the Te Awhina Peer Support Service, offering a powerful way for people to recover from drug and alcohol misuse. The Salvation Army Bridge provides a range of effective support services that help reduce the harmful effects of alcohol and other drugs in...

Aotearoa New Zealand is backsliding on many areas of social progress, making life harder for people and their whānau across the motu, according to The Salvation Army’s State of the Nation 2025 report, titled Kai, Kāinga, Whānau, The Basics—Food, a Home, Family. “Our country needs to do better for people...

It’s once again that time of year, when Kiwis across the motu will be visiting Resene stores and donating cans of food in exchange for Resene paint testpots. Resene's Hunger for Colour campaign has been making a difference in communities across New Zealand for over a decade. The 11th edition...

The Salvation Army has entered an exciting new partnership with the Highlanders rugby club, a combination of two iconic brands that’s a win-win for southern communities. The Salvation Army’s iconic red shield logo will be seen on Highlanders players’ and training shorts for the duration of the 2025 Super Rugby...

A new report released by The Salvation Army reveals the increasing unaffordability of rents as a key driver of the unacceptable levels of poverty and homelessness in Aotearoa New Zealand. The report, titled ‘Tackling Rental Affordability in Communities’, shows that the lack of affordable rental housing is a key cause...

Commissioner Janine Donaldson has become the first female territorial commander of The Salvation Army New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga and Samoa Territory.  The territorial commander is the spiritual leader of The Salvation Army in these nations and chairs the Territorial Governance Board (TGB), which is charged with the achievement of The...

I had the privilege earlier this year of attending the Testify Congress in the Salvation Army’s USA Western Territory. There were many highlights that weekend, but what stood out for me were the amazing stories of transformation. Men and women whose lives had been radically transformed when they encountered God’s love for them...

The Salvation Army has fully opened its newest social housing (SASH) complex in Levin, providing people and their whānau with warm and safe places to live amid increasing cost of living pressures and a deepening housing crisis across the motu.  The Hinemoa Housing Community comprises 52 new units for individuals...

The Salvation Army is doing it tough like many people across the motu—which is why those who can are urged to donate, to give people and their whānau a little joy this Christmas and in 2025. The Salvation Army’s annual Christmas Appeal, titled ‘Give A Little Joy This Christmas’, is...

The Salvation Army has reviewed the 138 recommendations in the Royal Commission’s report: Whanaketia–Through pain and trauma, from darkness to light Whakairihia ki te tihi o Maungāongo–on abuse in state care and in the care of faith-based institutions in Aotearoa New Zealand, and our response has been submitted to the Crown...

The Salvation Army’s annual Christmas Appeal, titled ‘Give A Little Joy This Christmas,’ has launched.  Thousands of Kiwis across the motu are struggling as the cost-of-living crisis deepens—challenges that can feel even harder around Christmas.  That’s where ‘Give A Little Joy This Christmas’ comes in. When people donate to the...