Gingernut’s Angels was founded in 2024 by Jaimee Lupton, in honour of her and her partner’s daughter Gingernut. Gingernut was born too early in March 2022 after a much tried-for IVF pregnancy. Jaimee knows all too well the complexities and emotions involved when having a child doesn’t come easily, experiencing firsthand the immense joys and severe heartbreaks throughout her own fertility journey.

One in four people will experience infertility and one in eight require some form of medical assistance to achieve a pregnancy. With Gingernut’s Angels, Jaimee hopes to help alleviate some of this burden for people—with financial grants toward their own unique fertility journey.

In 2005, Scott Perkins established The Louise Perkins Foundation, named after his wife Louise, who passed away in 2004 after living for ten years with incurable breast cancer. Louise lived with absolute positivity and went about life with cancer as a small part of living rather than as a main focus of her life.

Sweet Louise was launched in 2006 with the vision of improving the quality of life for New Zealanders living with incurable breast cancer.

Sweet Louise provides practical, emotional and social support and services for New Zealanders living with incurable breast cancer. We provide the compassion and care they need to live as well as possible, for as long as possible.