2024 Starship Tea Towel

Ruby Seeto has shared her Victoria Sponge Cake recipe on her new Wallace Cotton tea towel design for 2024, to raise funds for Starship Children’s Hospital. Ruby’s delightful Victoria Sponge is classic, delicious and a beautiful celebration cake perfect for birthdays, afternoon teas and served as a sweet treat after dinner. The new tea towel design is colourful and fun featuring an illustrated sponge cake decorated with bright red strawberries on a red gingham tablecloth, a colourful addition for your kitchen and ideal for gifting. Ruby’s Victoria Sponge Tea Towel and Washcloth Sets are available to purchase in-store and online with $6 from the sale of each tea towel and $4 from the washcloth sets being donated directly to Starship.

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Fundraising for Starship

Working together since 2009, we’ve raised over $750,000 for the Starship Foundation. These funds have supported vital projects including improvements to the Neurology ward, a refurbishment of the Phlebotomy Laboratory, establishing an ovarian cryopreservation banking protocol to benefit young cancer patients and the upgrade of the Children’s Emergency Department staff tearoom.

Proceeds from Ruby’s Starship Victoria Sponge Tea Towel and Washcloth Sets will help fund home hydration for adolescents and young adults following chemotherapy. This will dramatically reduce time spent in hospital for young cancer patients, allowing them to receive part of their treatment in the comfort of their own homes.

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Starship Soda

Put a spring in your step with a refreshing glass of Starship Soda, a recipe from Ruby Seeto perfect for sipping on during the warmer months ahead. Ruby has shared how to make her zingy sweet and sour Soda to raise funds for Starship Children’s Hospital. The tea towel design is bright and fun featuring lime slices and red chillies, a colourful addition for your kitchen and ideal for gifting. $6 from the sale of each tea towel is donated directly to Starship.

Proceeds from the sale of Ruby’s Starship Soda Tea Towel are helping fund a project close to Ruby’s heart – a child cancer research project named ‘Kōrero Pono: understanding the experience of child cancer whānau’. Each year, over 150 Kiwi children between the ages of 0-15 are diagnosed with cancer. Kōrero Pono aims to provide critical insight into whānau experiences of child cancer services and use these insights to support improvements to support service improvements across the country.

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Thank you

With help from our wonderful and generous customers, we’ve raised over $750,000 for the Starship Foundation. So, we’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has supported this worthy cause, because every little gesture can make a big difference. Thank you, it means the world to us and more importantly to the young patients and families of Starship.

“I am absolutely humbled by the unwavering support of everyone who has purchased a tea towel or washcloth over the past 14 years,” said Ruby Seeto. “It’s incredible to reach this milestone and so heartwarming to see so many people rally behind a cause that is so close to my heart. Something as simple as purchasing a tea towel can make such a big difference – my dream is to reach $1 million raised for Starship!” - Ruby Seeto

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Partnering for good

We believe that a small gesture can make a big difference. We love partnering with people and organisations who have a passion for helping others and the environment. We’re proud to have been working with Ruby since 2009 and to have collaborated with Live Ocean to help raise funds for several marine environment projects. Read more about our partnerships for good.

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