Our Impact

We donate thousands of much needed knitted items annually and we also provide support by fundraising for much needed items that help hospitals support premature babies and their families.

These items have been purchased predominantly through the sale of our fundraising merchandise and one off donations.

Here’s some of PKC’s recent impact:

 2024

1. A specialist chair for Christchurch NICU that will allow for some quality bonding for preemies with their whanau, it's perfect for skin to skin (Kangaroo Cuddles) and breastfeeding.

2. Books donated to Waikato NICU from the profits of our fundraising mugs with Goodwin Ceramics

3. Breast pump parts to Waitemata Hospital for the North Shore Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU). PKC received a plaque in recognition of ongoing support.

2023

PKC donated over $3,000 to purchase a video laryngoscope intubation tool.

This piece of equipment helps doctors identify and respond to unpredicted difficult airway cases faster with fewer attempts, and confirm intubation success sooner, with greater confidence. This helps to ensure success at intubation for our vulnerable infants.

North Shore Hospital SCBU had this to say ...

"The team have been so excited to receive this piece of equipment as a donation. It was much needed by our service. This has enabled difficult intubations to be made easier, which helps alleviate additional stress on an infant that is already in a critical condition.

One infant already has been successfully intubated using this device, the doctor was so thrilled at how it performed. Having this piece of equipment made a stressful situation totally less stressful for her. There will also be opportunities to utilise it when we perform surfactant administration.

We are so very grateful – a huge thanks from the team at NSH SCBU.”

2022

Super excited to be able to share that the PKC community has purchased 10 hospital grade breast pumps for Wellington NICU

These were bought with the profits of the merch recently sold Really happy to be able to support Wellington, we regularly donate knitting to them and I love working with their team. This year they indicated that these were the items that they needed most, here’s some info below from the team:

We are very grateful to the Premmie Knitting Club for their generous donation of 10 state of-the-art breast pumps to NICU.

These pumps will ensure that all of our mothers have access to a breast pump whilst on the unit and will also provide us with the capacity to loan pumps to mothers to take home for short periods while they get breast feeding established.

This wonderful gift is a huge help in supporting our Mum’s to produce breast milk for their premature or sick babies, thus giving them the best chance of recovering and thriving. Thank you Premmie Knitting Club!

We’ll be donating to another hospital shortly, I’m still working to understand what they need most but it feels SO good to support TWO hospitals this year.

Special thanks to Justine at The Little Miracles Trust for helping to facilitate the purchase and to Jane and her team at Wellington NICU