Healthcare Support and Assistance
Doing our best for the community.
How are we
helping you?
Educating our community
On many aspects of healthcare and wellbeing.
Supporting our local medics
Ensuring that our local medical services, including our doctors and clinics, have the resources and support wherever possible.
Offering kindness
Where we can to people who are feeling isolated or lonely.
Offering emotional support
With our dementia support group and ad hoc trauma counselling.
Mission statement
Based in Kenton on Sea, Coastal Kindness, and its branches, provides practical advice and support, both physical and emotional, to community members and healthcare workers. Our volunteers seek to spread kindness one helping hand at a time.
Board of Directors
Robbie Avis (Chair)
Simon Avis
Jennie Bowen
Doug Swanson
Nick Wagg (Treasurer)
Portfolio holders 2024/25
Administration: Patsy Burn
CPR & AED Training: David and Margie Morrell
Equipment: Doug Swanson
Media & Communications: Robbie Avis
Minute Secretary: Jean Martens
Operations and Training: Jennie Bowen
Purchasing: Simon Avis
Help us
to help you
Community organisation, leaders and ‘influencers’ in and around Kenton can help us by
Be invested in your future
Be invested in your future and help us to help you!
We have a team of doers, thinkers and workers comprising
Teachers
Accountants
Linguists
Admins
Doctors & Nurses
Designers
Coastal Kindness Founding Members
Robbie Avis
Simon Avis
Eugene de Witt
Ruleen de Witt
Dr Eleanor Galpin
Ockie Goosen
David Howard
Suzie Mann
Dr Barbara Matthews
Debbie Park Dobell
Carol Taggart
Redmond Taggart
Doug Swanson
Nick Wagg
Charlotte Woods
From our blog
Chairman’s End of Year Report 2024
Coastal Kindness NPC provides practical advice and support, both physical and emotional
I am drowning in paperwork!
Coastal Kindness to the rescue! In the form of Cathy Campbell and her team of Excel-experts!
When (Coastal) Kindness is not enough
Ekuphumleni resident suffered a serious, potentially life- threatening, asthma attack.
Thank you for your kindness
Chamber of Business
The Kenton Raiders
As well as several individual donors and many volunteers.