2014 - First Sod turned for Cancer Treatment Centre

On 20 February 2014, the culmination of over three years of fundraising activities was celebrated with a dawn blessing and later in the morning, the first sod was turned for the Jim Carney Cancer Treatment Centre. The centre is named after a prominent Whangarei businessman and philanthropist Jim Carney who died in 2004, and whose family made a generous donation to the Project Promise funding campaign, which was led by the Northland Community Foundation.

Around eighty people attended the sod-turning event, representing the businesses, community organisations, service groups, individuals and families who supported Project Promise.

The new Maternity Unit, Te Kotuku, was also progressing well with an expected opening date in the first half of 2015.