Joint Meeting with Auckland East - 18th March 2024

Speaker: Steve Farrelly – Breakfast Club Kids

In 2007 Steve Farrelly, a former Detective Sergeant in the NZ Police returned from a trip to the USA with enthusiasm to duplicate in a Kiwi way what he had witnessed at the Dream Center on Los Angeles – also later on at the St Louis Dream Center. Their quote ”Find a Need and Fill it…Find a Hurt and Heal it” He resolved this would be his quote too.

Steve along with his wife Brenda, created Breakfast Club in July 2010 starting at the Randwick Park School and quickly spreading to the Glenn Innes area. With the support of New World Eastridge, Rotary Clubs of Epsom and East Auckland plus St Kentigern College he was on his way.

Breakfast Club now has an amazing team of volunteers and supporters who help every day in a million different ways helping make school a place kids want to go. While the name suggests it just provides cereal and toast for hungry kids, Brealfast Club has become so much more than that Steve soon He soon realised they needed much more than food. “ We make sure when families need something, they get it” 

Feeding the children is always the priority but it’s also a very useful vehicle for conversations on what is preventing individual children from learning and ascertain what else needs to be done. It might be a lack of shoes, problems in the home, no budget for sanitary products or no way to stay dry on a rainy day.  The struggles some kids have are beyond what many of us could ever imagine.

Breakfast Club’s purpose is to find a way to assist principals and teachers to get kids what they need so they can concentrate on learning and creating a better future for themselves.  

Click on the following link if you: Ever wondered what a week in the life of Breakfast Club looks like? | Breakfast Club Kids