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Please scroll down this page for information about: White Poppies for Peace Appeal 2025: The Annual Appeal week runs every year from 17 to 24 April, and the 2025 Street Appeal day is Wednesday, 23 April. White poppies are available from us by post providing we receive your order by 30 March 2025 (to allow for posting), thank you. Donations for White Poppies for Peace: By direct credit or internet banking to 02 0536 0323908 08 - if you would like a receipt, please send your details to us, thank you. If you are interested in information about ANZAC Day 2024 peace activities, details are available here. The white poppy is an international symbol of remembrance for all the casualties of war - civilians and armed forces personnel - and of peace. Some people see it as an alternative to the red poppy, others see it as complementary; some choose to wear both poppies, some one or the other, and some no poppy at all. A brief history of the white poppy is available below. White poppies are available for a donation to the White Poppy Peace Scholarships.
The White Poppy Peace Scholarships comprise grants that are awarded to assist with the costs of research that includes analysis of one or more of these topics: the impacts of militarism, militarisation, military deployment and / or warfare; alternatives to militarism, militarisation, military deployment and / or warfare; opposition to militarism, militarisation, military deployment and / or warfare; military recruitment practices and messaging; state construction of national identity based on militarism and militarisation; the military-industrial complex; or media coverage of militarism, militarisation, military deployment and / or warfare. The Scholarships are for students studying at any tertiary education institution in Aotearoa New Zealand. Each grant is a minimum of $1,000 - one is for a Maori or Moriori student, with the other/s open to any student with New Zealand citizenship or permanent residency. Information about the Scholarships is available here. The White Poppy Peace Scholarships are entirely funded by the White Poppy Annual Appeal, as well as other donations for poppies and donations given directly for the Peace Scholarships. The amount and number of grants awarded annually is determined by the amount raised during that year, and the quality of applications. There are two ways you can support the Peace Scholarships - by making a donation, or by helping to collect donations for white poppies. Your generosity will help to promote peace by directly supporting research into militarism, militarisation and war. To make a donation by direct credit or internet banking, please use the form available here which has the account details - if you would like a receipt, please fill in your details and send it to us, thank you. White poppies are available at any time during the year for a donation to the Peace Scholarships, or you can order poppies for your peace event then send us the donations collected afterwards. You can get them by using this form; during the Annual Appeal (details below), white poppies are also available from authorised collectors. The White Poppy Appeal is held annually from 17 to 24 April. White Poppies for Peace collection boxes are distributed to collectors in different parts of the country from Hokianga to Dunedin - thank you to everyone who helped with the last Annual Appeal, by spreading the word about white poppies for peace, and collecting donations and sending your own. If you would like to help with the 2025 Annual Appeal, please use the form available here, thank you. White Poppies for Peace, PO Box 39-059, Te Puni Mail Centre, Lower Hutt 5045. Tel (04) 382 8129, email, web site http://www.whitepoppies.org.nz So far as is known, white poppies were first produced by the Co-operative Women's Guild in Britain in 1933, and later the Peace Pledge Union undertook their annual distribution. In subsequent years, white poppies spread to other countries around the globe, and the white poppy became an international symbol of remembrance and peace. How and when white poppies first came to Aotearoa New Zealand is unknown, but certainly they have been worn around ANZAC Day and Remembrance Day in the past. In recent years, the annual white poppy appeal was run as a fundraiser for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Wellington around the time of Hiroshima Day in August. Responsibility for organising the annual appeal was transferred to Peace Movement Aotearoa, as part of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament's closing down process in 2008, on the understanding that:
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The white poppy 
About the white poppy