CHARITY SHOWCASE: Hastings Little Wishes

IMAGINE if your child’s everyday life was disrupted by specialist appointments, hospital stays or constant surgeries. Children living in regional areas are even more impacted as they may have to travel to access treatment and often miss out on the support from city-based charities. 

Families will often put their own needs aside during these times and that’s where Hastings Little Wishes steps in.

Hastings Little Wishes was established in 2021 by Irene Mifsud who wanted to start a local children’s charity.

The charity supports families in the Port Macquarie-Hastings region including Port Macquarie, Wauchope, Lake Cathie, Laurieton and surrounds.

Funds are directed to families with children and teens up to 17-years of age who have a serious illness, rare disease, chronic and complex conditions that impact families for a prolonged period of time.

Hastings Little Wishes provides these families with gifts of hope, happiness and financial relief.

Its mission is to create a community where every child, no matter their journey, experiences joy, connection, and hope.

Over the last five years, Hastings Little Wishes has gifted many different wishes to lots of local families.

These have included: holidays to Seaworld, themed birthday parties, help with purchasing Christmas presents, hot laps in a supercar, help with household and medical bills, car seats and medical devices, and much more.

It can only do this because of the incredible generosity of locals and businesses in the Port Macquarie-Hastings region who have donated money, organised events to raise funds and contributed towards some very special wishes for some very special children.

If you want to find out more about the charity, make a donation, or if you would like to nominate a family for a wish, please visit hastingslittlewishes.com.au, send an email to hastingslittlewishes@outlook.com and follow on Facebook.