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:molly beddingfield Left: Natasha Step up and be an Angel! Below: Natasha at Global Angel Awards www.globalangels.org Get behind a worthwhile cause this year May 4 Girl Guide Action Month 4th May – 4th June May 6 Red Cross Annual Appeal Week 6th – 12th May 13 New Zealand Sign Language Week 13th – 19th May 20 Asthma Awareness Week 20th – 26th June 30 Neurological Foundation Annual Appeal 30th June – 6th July July 1 Glaucoma New Zealand July Annual Awareness Appeal Month 1st – 31st July 12 The Sir Peter Blake Trust Red Socks Day August 23 Red Nose Day to Cure Kids August 26 SPCA Cupcake Day August 30 Cancer Society Daffodil Day September 15 Keep New Zealand Beautiful National Clean Up Week 15th – 21st September 20 Loud Shirt Day September 24 Arthritis New Zealand Annual Appeal 24th – 30th October 7 Mental Health Foundation of NZ Awareness Week & Appeal 7th – 13th October 11 NZBCF Pink Ribbon Street Appeal 11th & 12th October 29 RNZFB Blind Week 29th Oct – 4th Nov November 1 Leukaemia & Blood Cancer New Zealand – Blood Cancer Awareness Week 4th – 10th December 20 SAFE Street Appeal for Animals 12 | www.h e rmagaz i n e . c o. n z Q: What forms of communication do you use and which work best for a charity as large as yourselves? A: We use the internet, website, social media, Vimeo, Youtube and word of mouth as our main tools of communication. It's the way forward, it's green, it's cost effective and it's sustainable. An important ingredient when looking to have major impact as a charity is being culturally relevant. This means live-streaming concerts, filming our projects and utilising hands-on social media is intrinsic to who we are. Q: Looking at your career, so far it seems you have always been in roles that have helped people, from being a teacher, counsellor, mother and then founder of a huge charity. Who, would you say has been influential in making you the person you are today? A: My family and closest friends have always encouraged me in my belief that if we are united in our passion to help impoverished communities break the cycle of poverty we can change the course of history. Through music, business, charity, sustainability, friendship and love, each of us in our various fields have inspired each other to reach for the highest. Q: How important are your family to you? A: They are my treasure, my life and my hope. At the end of the day, the joys of family and the legacy we leave behind us makes life worth living. Q: How have you been able to share your love for helping others with your children? A: Children assimilate what they see their parents doing. We involved ours in all the community work we were involved in. They learned that you don't have to have much to be able to give and make a real difference, so it is natural that they make philanthropy a central part of their existence. Q: What has been your proudest moment as a mother of highly successful children? A: There are many moments when I've felt proud of my children, like the times they've sung for princes, received standing ovations from people like President Obama and Stevie Wonder, performed at events like Nobel Peace Prize ceremonies or headlined the opening of the Vector Centre in Auckland. I'm proudest of the way they love and care for people and their passion to support those less fortunate than themselves. Q: What's your next big idea/quest/goal? A: To provide 100 villages in India with safe drinking water over this next year - that's 100,000 people. Another is to launch Global Angels here in New Zealand and grow our base of Angels and Corporate Angels. Q: What's your favourite holiday/dream holiday destination? A: I live in London so my favourite holiday has got to be to come home to New Zealand and hanging out with friends and family at the beach. I love New Zealand with a passion.