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09/10/2026

Please help us raise $10k for our Taranaki Farmers and $10k for our Taranaki Tradies. Building Wellness Taranaki & Rural Support Taranaki

This $4000 Limited Edition Chainsaw has been kindly donated by Damon and Tracey from STIHL SHOP Hawera

You can purchase a $50 ticket in store on Glover Road, or you can email me and I will arrange a ticket and payment details! Only 400 tickets available!

[email protected] for ticket enquiries outside of Hawera.

Drawn on 30th of October at 5:00pm at our annual Recharge Tradies Golf Day at Te Ngutu Golf Club.

All golf teams are sold out but please come and join us for prize giving, raffles and auctions from 4:00pm on Friday 30th of October! The more the merrier!

Bring a crew! Bring your whole workplace! There’s going to be over $40,000 of prizes in our raffle and auctions and there will be some amazing bargains!

All proceeds donated to support mental health!

See you there! ⛳️🏌️

21/09/2026

I am blown away by the generosity of some of our Taranaki business owners.

I think we would be sitting somewhere in the vicinity of $30k of prizes for our upcoming Recharge Tradies Golf Day which will be raffled and auctioned off.

Check this out! This one’s a bloody doozy!👇

Damon and Tracey at STIHL SHOP Hawera have generously donated this incredible $4,000 Limited Edition STIHL MS 500i Centennial Chainsaw, and we’re going to raffle it off for a bloody good cause!

Every dollar raised will be split equally between Building Wellness Taranaki and Rural Support Taranaki

Here’s the plan…..

Only 400 tickets available.
$50 per ticket.

If we sell all 400 tickets, that’s $10,000 to Building Wellness Taranaki and $10,000 to Taranaki Rural Support Trust!

HOW TO GET YOUR TICKET?

Call into STIHL Shop Hāwera at 25 Glover Road and see the team, or email me directly at [email protected] and I’ll sort you out.

The winner will be drawn at 5 pm on Friday 30th October at our Recharge Tradies Golf Day at Te Ngutu Golf Club.

These tickets will sell out fast, so don’t muck around!

A massive thank you to Damon and Tracey for getting behind this. What an incredible contribution to our community!

Let's get behind our Taranaki tradies and Taranaki farmers.

It's bloody tough out there at times, and we are determined to keep doing our bit to help fund the mental health support that we all need from time to time.

I will contact the winner on Friday 30th at 5:30pm and we will also announce it here on Facebook.

Give us a follow on Facebook or Instagram to stay up to date on the progress!

Let’s make it happen!

Please share to your socials page and your stories to help us get this done!

Cheers!
Ben and Tess 👊

16/09/2026

Huge appreciation post here! Please share! 🙏

I would be very grateful if you had 3 minutes to watch this video!

We are putting on our Recharge Tradies Golf Day on the 30th of October and our mission is to raise $25,000 for Taranaki Tradies health and wellbeing!

We’ve got 144 players across 36 teams all locked and loaded.

Last year we hit $15k and donated to Building Wellness Taranaki but I know this year we can do better!

We’ve had some amazing prizes sponsored already and we would be super grateful if any other businesses or individuals out there would like to help!

I would love some items that we could auction off on the night! 🙏

Check out the video for how you can purchase a $50 raffle ticket that will get you in all 10 raffle draws that we will draw at prize giving after the golf.

Check out this list below of the incredible people and businesses that have donated a prize. If you would like to offer an item to help get us closer to our $25k goal, I would be bloody grateful!

We can do it! 💪

A huge thanks so far to….

STIHL SHOP Hawera
Harvey Norman New Zealand (New Plymouth)
Arthur Brown Construction
Bourke Building Ltd
Precision Building & Maintenance LTD
Backhouse Jones Group
Baked By Blanche
Stratford ITM
The 19th
Apparel HQ New Plymouth Grant Douglas
Habberfield Landscapes
Drake Plaster & Paint
J. A. Russell Ltd Hawera
Shining Peak Brewing
Metcalfe Real Estate
Fairview Hawera
Elixir West Cafe
Culture Culture - Craig Thorn
Bods Massage Hāwera
Subway Hawera (Monica)
PlaceMakers Hawera
Kelsen's Home Kill & Processing
Please share this post for us! 🙏

Please also support these businesses, and if you’d like to help us smash our $25k goal with a prize donation, we would be super grateful!

As mentioned, I would love a few big ticket items to auction off! Anyone got something floating around they would like to donate?

Let’s look after our Taranaki Tradies, just like they deserve!

Cheers….. and I will do another update as more prizes roll in!

Ben

🍻🏌️⛳️

A quick one for the dads that follow us as we sign off for another week, and rip into the new one! I hope all of you dad...
06/09/2026

A quick one for the dads that follow us as we sign off for another week, and rip into the new one!

I hope all of you dads out there had a bloody good day with the fam! Back to work tomorrow!

Just remember there’s always another day to get the work done.

Book the time off for your kids’ cross country, school productions, sports days, rugby games and what not!

It doesn’t matter how much money you go out and make, you can’t buy back those moments and memories.

Your kids will NEVER forget that you were there.

But that the client you prioritised to install their heat pump, or fix that leaking tap for… I can guarantee you’ll soon become a distant memory to them!

For me?

Family.
Physical & mental wellbeing.
Then business.

It’s bloody easy to get those priorities around the wrong way when you’re running a business. We’ve all done it. Sh*t….i still f**k this up! Getting there though….but no one can crack this all of the time!

Build a business that gives you a life! Not one that takes it away.

The work will still be there tomorrow.
The kids won’t stay kids forever.

Happy Father’s Day lads 👊🏼

17/08/2026

Long read….up to you!

But if you know someone who might be a bit average….just take 2 mins and then send this to them! It would be much appreciated! Or feel free to share. 🙏

I started Recharge Retreats a few years back for one simple reason.

Most blokes don’t act on their mental health until they hit rock bottom. They bury their head in the sand, crack on, and tell themselves they’re all good.

I want to catch it early. And I want lads to not feel weird about getting some help.

Most people don’t have a “busy” problem. They have a priorities, or boundaries, problem.

Here at Recharge, we run retreats on our private family farm in Taranaki where we do some cool s**t, slow things down, and get our focus dialled back in on the important stuff.

Personal. Business. Or most often... both.

My passion is helping lads take that overwhelmed, cluster-f**k of a headspace, calm it down, reset, build a plan, and then execute it together with support.

A bit about me...
I’m a Plumber, Gasfitter and Drainlayer of 25 years. Alongside Tess, my wife, we started, scaled and sold a thriving plumbing business.
And I burnt myself out big time in the process.
Tess booked me onto a men’s wellness retreat up North. It was a game changer, and Recharge Retreats was born.

These days Tess and I run Recharge Group, our accounting and advisory business dedicated to the trades industry, with clients all over NZ.

But these retreats are something I bloody love doing, and I need to do more of them.
So what do we actually do?

Hunt • Fish • Ice Baths • Breathwork • Cook Over Fire • Sausage & Salami Making • Knife Making • Bush • Motorbikes • Golf • Massage (not by me) plus we spend time working out what’s important and building a plan.

We even learn about meditation, yoga, the nervous system and what the hell all that’s about.

And importantly... No weird s**t.

You don’t need to own a business.
You don’t need to be a tradie.
You don’t need to be at rock bottom.

You just need an open mind and a willingness to take a few days out.

Private retreats, groups, work teams, dads and lads, partners in business… we can tailor something to suit.

Is there a cost? Yep. Let’s chat about options.

Can you pay it off? Yep.

And if you don’t want a retreat but you’re struggling a bit...Reach out anyway.

Don’t leave it too late.

[email protected] 🫡

Hi Taranaki Tradies! Did you know you may be eligible for 50% funding towards business advisory?We work with trades busi...
09/08/2026

Hi Taranaki Tradies!

Did you know you may be eligible for 50% funding towards business advisory?

We work with trades businesses throughout NZ, helping owners get more clarity, improve their numbers and build better businesses.

Some of the areas we can help with include:

* Increasing sales and improving margins
* Understanding your numbers and cashflow
* Business planning and strategy
* Systems and processes
* Scaling and growth
* Getting the business less reliant on the owner
* Succession and exit planning

And this isn’t just for businesses that are struggling.

Some of our best advisory work is with businesses that are already doing really well and want another set of trades-specific eyes over things to work out what’s next.

If you’re based in Taranaki, there may be an opportunity to have 50% of the cost of our advisory work funded.

Eligibility criteria apply, but if you’d like to know more, flick me a message or give us a call.

[email protected]
[email protected]�027 900 9064

Hey folks!Last week we got amongst it with a room full of business owners for a day of planning, learning, brainstorming...
25/07/2026

Hey folks!

Last week we got amongst it with a room full of business owners for a day of planning, learning, brainstorming, and networking.

There’s always something new to learn, and having a day like this once or twice a year helps unlock so many ideas.

It helps you narrow in on what the next 6–12 months need to look like, what the priorities are, and where to put your focus and energy.

This day was led by the weapons from nextAdvisory with an epic digital marketing session from Roimata at Burst Digital

In the next few months, Tess and I will be hosting our very own business planning, learning and networking day for tradies, and we’d love to have you on board!

Whether you are a thriving business, a struggling business, have been in the game for years, or are just getting started... you simply CANNOT shift the needle without investing in yourself and some business development.

Don’t worry you don’t have to share any private info!

Who’s keen?

Stay tuned for details!

05/07/2026

Day 7 – Q&A Time!

Today's question:

What do we look for when back-costing?

A bit of plumbing chat in the video, but relevant to all trades businesses that work across a variety of categories within their trade.

What’s your most profitable area in your business?

Check the video! 😉


Help us raise $25,000 to support our Taranaki Tradies!We are pumped to be putting on the Recharge Golf Day again this ye...
05/07/2026

Help us raise $25,000 to support our Taranaki Tradies!

We are pumped to be putting on the Recharge Golf Day again this year!

Friday 30th October!

In 2024, we pulled the tournament together in just 3 weeks and raised nearly $14,000 for tradies when they need it most. This time, we've given ourselves 4 months....so we're going all out to build up a massive haul of raffle and auction items for charity.

Our goal this year is $25,000.

We've got 36 teams locked and loaded, with 144 players hitting Te Ngutu Golf course ready to battle it out (and spend up large on raffles and auctions along the way!). It might be a wee bit slow with that many players out there... but it's going to be a bloody good day, all in support of our Taranaki Tradies. I'm sure we will all keep ourselves occupied in between shots.

Keen to donate a prize?

If you can offer anything for our raffle or auction, big or small, we'd love to hear from you.

We know it's tough out there right now, so every contribution is genuinely appreciated, and we'll make sure everyone knows about your support on the day. Keep an eye out, we'll be reaching out to Taranaki businesses over the next couple of weeks too.

Missed out on a spot?
Sorry....we did our best to fit everyone in! Pretty much all of last years players wanted back in, so they got priority.

Jump on the cancellation list by emailing [email protected]

The cancellation list will be offered on a first in - first served basis.

Stay tuned for more updates!
Cheers,

Ben and Tess

03/07/2026

Day 6 - Q&A time!

Todays question:

What advice do you have for a struggling business at the moment?

Check the video!


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