Dear Anonymous DonorsThis is a special word of thanks to you, since we can't email you individually with our appreciation. You've helped us generously, so that we could not only reach but exceed our original cautious target.  Now we can look forward with certainty to welcoming Saraid de Silva to Randell Cottage this year.  And we can plan to host her successors in the coming years too, knowing we have the backing of so many wonderful people from the arts and heritage communities.Randell Cottage Writers Trust

Saraid was chosen for 2025 from a highly competitive group of applicants, based on her track record and the potential of the writing project she submitted.  The selection committee’s judgment has been borne out by the recent inclusion of Saraid’s novel Amma in the longlist for the Jann Medlicott Acorn award for literature in the 2025 Ockham Awards and sensationally in the UK Women’s Prize for Fiction.

As we reach the last days of our campaign, we want to thank all of our wonderful donors for your generosity and your concern for the survival of our writing Fellowship and our heritage cottage.  You've made sure that Saraid de Silva can take up the opportunity to live and work in Randell Cottage for a dedicated six-months' residency.  And you've put us on track to host future writers as well.  We are overwhelmed by your support and your commitment to the New Zealand literary scene.  Please keep in touch with us on www.randellcottage.co.nz (you can register for updates).  Follow the news of Saraid, our current French writer Titaua Peu and - we fervently hope - a continuing series of writers-in-residence at Randell Cottage.

Thank you to everyone who has donated to our campaign! We’ve made it to our goal and beyond! We're at 103% ! It’s been awesome to see the donations still coming in! It’s been amazing to see all of the beautiful messages and support from our community! You are all invited to our Grand opening May 2nd at 5:30pm ! Check our FB / insta for Further updates :)

Wow, YOU did it! -  You got me to the Globe!I'm so so grateful. If you'd asked me this time last year if this could be possible it was a hard NO WAY. But thanks to you and the amazing generosity of our family, friends and community, I can go.This is an incredible opportunity, that I worked towards for two years. I'm so proud of the piece I created but this programme will help me learn and grow so much, developing my skills and understanding in a way that very few get a chance to do.Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.Chloe xxx

Kia ora generous boosted donors,Last week we officially delivered Beast Mode and man was it satisfying to ship to the NZ Film Commission headquarters. To celebrate we wanted to share our official poster for the film, designed by Chye-Ling herself.  Let us know what you think!Over the next year we'll be traveling Beast Mode locally and internationally on our festival run. We'll keep our Boosted updates going but latest details will be posted to the One7 Pictures Instagram.Without your support this would not have been possible.Thank you,Joyce and the Beast Mode team. 

Kia ora everyone, It's Joyce here, Producer and creative budgeting expert. I wanted to say a huge thank you for your support with Beast Mode. Today we woke up and have officially reached 70% of our campaign goal. CRAZY! Your hard earned dollars are not going to waste, over the past few weeks we've locked our edit, and jumped into the next phase of post-production. From jumping into our first session with extraordinaire sound mixer David, and finalising our score with Bayker. It's been an amazing process to not only have the privilege to finish this film, but also to feel your support behind the kaupapa of the project.If you have capacity, we'd really appreciate you sharing our campaign with your networks to get us to 100%. Thank you once again.Joyce and the Beast Mode team. 

Kia ora,Joyce here, Producer on Beast Mode and creative wife to Chye-Ling. On the 8th March, the world celebrated International Women's Day. It's a day to commemorate women's fight for equality and liberation, and to draw attention to issues that our communities are facing. On social media we released a statement and I thought it'd be awesome to share with our amazing donors.As a proud supporter of Beast Mode, I want to thank each and every one of you for supporting the mission to fuel more open and healing conversations around sexual assault and violence against women.Boosted is a all or nothing platform, the fact we're still $1000 away from completing our campaign is definitely daunting. But with 5 days left we are confident we can make it, if you could share our campaign and help get us to 100% we would be incredibly grateful. See you at the top!Joyce.

The final "Create a Book Together" workshop to co-create the backgrounds and shape the words of the Seeking Will book, was held in the April School Holidays at Arataki Centre, Waitakere. All helping to make this book together!!!