{"id":172110,"date":"2025-12-07T13:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T13:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/172110\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T13:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T13:59:10","slug":"hawkes-bay-trio-aims-to-top-500-donated-cookie-buckets-for-christmas-cheer-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/172110\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawke\u2019s Bay trio aims to top 500 donated cookie buckets for Christmas Cheer Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lexi has taken over her father Chris Ormond\u2019s Giant Brewing warehouse in Havelock North, which he says has now become \u201ca cookie factory\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to Christmas when they will hopefully be all sold and I won\u2019t have to fight my way through cookie boxes to get to my office \u2013 which is also full of cookie related clutter,\u201d Chris said.<\/p>\n

\"GiantGiant Brewing warehouse in Havelock North packed with pallets of cookie stock. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n

Last year, Jeremy and his brother, Louis, donated more than 400 buckets, placing them among the top Christmas Cookies sellers in New Zealand.<\/p>\n

This year, the goal is bigger.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are aiming to beat that number so as many buckets of cookies as possible can be directed to families in need,\u201d Lexi said. <\/p>\n

\u201cMost people have been really awesome and love that we are doing this for our community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lexi said the goal is to donate more than 500 buckets of cookies, and Hawke\u2019s Bay is getting behind the initiative.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been so pleased with the amount that\u2019s been donated so far, especially in a time that tends to be financially difficult for a lot of people,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere have also been multiple instances where we have experienced people who are unable to afford a bucket for themselves, who have still chosen to donate money towards the charity initiative.\u201d<\/p>\n

All cookies donated through the trio will go to the Christmas Cheer Appeal<\/a>, an annual campaign that distributes food and gifts to families, elderly people and children across the Bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lexi has taken over her father Chris Ormond\u2019s Giant Brewing warehouse in Havelock North, which he says has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7615,4886,6375,1561,111168,65616,18399,111167,49479,2082,1976,111,43,139,69,61,3010,13082],"class_list":["post-172110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-7615","tag-aims","tag-appeal","tag-bay","tag-buckets","tag-cheer","tag-christmas","tag-cookie","tag-donated","tag-for","tag-hawkes","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-to","tag-top","tag-trio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}