Fertility treatment funding trust gives first grant

We are proud to announce that at the end of 2016 we were able to give out our first funding grant to help give a Christchurch couple another chance.

Radio NZ covered the story over the summer, highlighting the trust and the need for funding. "A trust set up to help fund fertility treatment for people who do not fit the criteria for public funding is receiving an application a week.The Fertility Funding Charitable Trust has made its first grant to a Christchurch couple for a cycle of IVF treatment. The trust has been established by Fertility Associates, whose medical director, Simon Kelly, said there were gaps in public funding for women over 40 with unexplained infertility, or who had already had a child" 

"Christchurch woman Bodeine said she and her partner got public funding for an IVF cycle that produced their first child, but could not afford $15,000 for treatment for a second child. She said news their application for funding from the trust was successful came after they lost a baby during a pregnancy that her father helped to fund. "I just cried and cried and cried and I don't even know if what I said made sense when I got the call, but it was the best news we'd had all year - it was amazing."

Click here to read the full Radio NZ article 
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