We’ve been a Five Star Partner of the Starship Foundation since 2001 and during that time our customers have joined forces and raised millions for our national children’s hospital. They’ve helped the team at Starship provide world-class care and helped Starship kids experience a little bit of wonderful. See details below.
It’s easy to add a small donation to your monthly bill and you can make a real impact for our kiwi kids too.
Lennox is a very special little boy. A real fighter. At 20 weeks of pregnancy a heart-defect was spotted, at birth he was put into intensive care, and at 3 weeks he was moved to the Starship National Children’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for open heart surgery.
At 10 weeks he underwent further surgery, spending 9 months in ICU. He’s still battling today but doing well, thanks to his incredible spirit and the world-class care he’s receiving.
If you’d like to help children like Lennox, it’s easy, sign up to donate a little on your bill each month.
Bake it Better for Starship is back and we want to make it the best one ever! So blow the cobwebs off your family’s yummiest recipes, get baking and raise money for Starship kids.
Like Eloise here, who by the age of 18 months had gone through three open heart surgeries and spent over 6 months in Starship.
Just make sure you remember to follow the Ministry of Health’s Covid-19 guidelines for your region.
See how Starship donations have helped many kids like Ezekiel and his family.
By joining forces, our Starship donators have helped fund a magical $3.8m three year transformation of the Outpatients Department.
Watch the many ways you've helped the kids at Starship experience a little bit of wonderful, like our 360° experience and more!
Every cent of your donation goes to support the Starship Foundation. Over 20,000 Mercury customers donate as little as $3 on their monthly bill. It all adds up.
Combined with our contributions, our customers have donated $11m over the past 18 years. Now that's wonderful!
$12m donated to starship since 1999
22K MERCURY CUSTOMERS DONATE EVERY MONTH
19 YEARS AS A FIVE STAR PARTNER
The generosity of our customers has helped to fund projects over the years such as:
an amazing $3.8m transformation of this crucial service that sees over 80,000 outpatients every year.
the first of its kind in New Zealand, to help young children at risk of vision loss.
a flying intensive care unit to treat critically ill and injured children from all over the country and transport them to Starship Hospital.
fitted out with life-saving equipment to bring desperately sick babies to Starship from anywhere in the country.
to help save the lives of unborn twins affected by Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome.
providing free ear checks and specialist ear health services to children in the community.
the pilot phase of this project saw patient waiting times reduced from 12 to 3 months.
for children and staff in the new Medical Specialties and Neuroservices wards (Level 6).
providing a colourful and child friendly alternative to the traditional IV poles.
to brighten the walls of the wards and make the environment more child friendly.
to keep vulnerable and premature babies warm.
where families can wait close by whilst their child is having surgery.
provided in the rooms for a parent/caregiver to stay with their child in comfort.
assisting children to stand in physical therapy
including an introduction course and equipment.
which can be taken to the rooms of children unable to leave their beds.
was upgraded and transformed.
for clinical teams to train and practice their skills.
had its first upgrade since the hospital was built in 1992 with a new purpose-built play room, an infant feeding therapy room and whanau room.
including an echocardiography system to give surgeons 4D images of the heart.
Script for Paediatrics is an app that makes prescribing antibiotics smarter and more efficient.