• East and Bays Courier 20 December 2006 - Star thrilled at appeal success. Lucy Lawless is thrilled with the way readers of the East & Bays Courier have supported Starship.
• Starship Christmas Appeal Letter from Lucy on behalf of Starship Children's Health.
• Starship Letter from Lucy Lawless - August 2006
• NZ Herald 1 March 2006 Lawless picks sick kids over Oscars Lucy Lawless will forgo Sunday's Academy Awards in favour of a charity ball to benefit Starship hospital. Lawless yesterday confirmed she would attend the Mercedes-Benz Auckland Cup Charity Ball on Monday, which is raising funds for the Starship Foundation.
• NZ Woman's Weekly 20 March 2006 - Scan/Transcript - Starship's Charity
  Ball. Starship's most famous supporter, Lucy Lawless, came home for a special event last week. She was one of a number of stars to attend the Auckland Cup Charity Ball in support of the Starship Foundation, at Ellerslie Convention Centre in Auckland. Kerre Woodham hosted the event and looked every inch the hostess, in a sparkly blue Shoshama dress.
• Starship Foundation 28 February 2006 - Lucy Lawless Races Home For Auckland Cup Week New Zealand's own Hollywood star chooses Starship Foundation over Oscars While most of Hollywood is preparing to shine at the Oscars, LA based
  New Zealand star Lucy Lawless is racing home to attend an inaugural event for the Starship Foundation and the Auckland Racing Club.
  Read more...
• Starship Christmas Appeal Letter from Lucy on behalf of Starship Children's Health.

• Mighty River Power News - May 2005 Star Supporters Club rockets ahead The Star Supporters Club has almost reached its first goal of raising $160,000 for the Starship Foundation. Scan of Lucy with a young child
• Starship Log - February 2005 - Lucy Lawless attends Starship Ball and co-hosts it with Simon Dallow (scan of Lucy with Simon)

• Sunday Star Times - 10 October 2004 - Lucy's set to sparkle at Starship ball. Article is about Lucy's quick stop trip to NZ for the Starship Ball and her plans on making a movie in New Zealand
• Lucy attended the Starship Foundation Charity Ball - 16 October 2004
  Added article from Sunday Star Times - 17 October 2004. Article talks about Lucy's 30 hour quick visit back home for the Starship Ball
• Lucy out and about in Auckland and at the Starship Bal
• lNZ Herald - 5 May 2004
  Starship Foundation trustee and television star Lucy Lawless became the first Mercury Energy customer to sign up to a donation scheme to raise money for a new mobile image intensifier. Under the Mercury scheme, customers can donate $2 or more each month through their power bills. The company yesterday donated $35,000 towards the cost of the new machine.

More on the public outcry over the name change to Starship Hospital and Lucy's involvement

Actor and foundation trustee Lucy Lawless also expressed surprise at hearing of the amended name from the media rather than the board. "I think the public, who feel a great amount of ownership over the hospital, have sent a message loud and clear - 'hands off, leave the name alone'."
NZ Herald - 29 April 2003

Lucy Lawless, a trustee of the fundraising Starship Foundation and the most famous person associated with the hospital, has called the change a nonsense. "The place will always be, in people's hearts, the Starship. Visually, that's what it looks like, so why strip it of official recognition?"  She and other trustees were to discuss the implications at a regular meeting at the hospital today. Ms Lawless believed it would be harder to raise money for something "that sounds like something from the socialist era".
Manawatu Standard - 28 April 2003

The NZ Herald has a story about the change of name for the Starship Hospital and Lucy's reaction to it. Lucy is a trustee on the fundraising Starship Foundation.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storyprint.cfm?storyID=3451495

The following is from the NZ Herald on moving past the name change of the Starship Hospital to what is more important - the kids.
Even Lucy Lawless, the face of the foundation, had her diplomatic face firmly in place. The fight over whether the Starship is a hospital, department, service or dastardly brandname was on hold. "This occasion is just about making kids better," said the former Warrior Princess. She hoped the kids would be made better not only by the live diagnostic video-conferencing, but also through the system's potential for training and multi-venue, real-time brainstorming. Click here to read entire article

The weekend's best deal must be the Sky City Starlight Symphony in the Auckland Domain. The entertainment begins at 6 pm tomorrow with cheerleaders, a charity endorsement by actor Lucy Lawless and the Volvo Ocean Race presentation. The concert, featuring Dame Malvina Major, the Sky City Massed Choir and the Auckland Philharmonia and more, begins at 7.30 pm and is hosted by John Hawkesby. Admission is free. Volunteers will collect donations towards the Safe & Sound Appeal to benefit abused children and young people. No parking is available in the Domain. The concert will finish about 10.30

Added link to NZ Herald - 25 January 2001 - Stars emerge for feast of music magic at Starlight Symphony

Lucy is once again lending her support to raise $100,000 for the Starship Children's Hospital. Today's NZ Herald has an interview with Lucy about the appeal.
[click here to read article in NZ Herald]

Starship Log - Annual Appeal - July 2001

The t-shirt Lucy signed for Safe and Sound Appeal Charity that Creation auctioned off on Ebay went for $1477. Lucy and the Starship Hospital continue to be amazed by the generosity of all the Xena fans who have been donating money   through various fund-raising efforts for their battle against child abuse.
[Source: The Official Xena Fan Club]

Goodbye Warrior Princess, hello corporate queen 03 DECEMBER 2000 By DONNA CHISHOLM Say farewell to the Warrior Princess . . . and hello corporate queen. When Lucy Lawless puts her screen persona Xena to rest in May, she will be settling into a new role, using her brain more than her face. Lawless is joining the board of trustees of the Starship Foundation - becoming in effect a company director. In the unpaid role she will help to raise $3 million a year for the nearly 80,000 children from around the country treated annually at the Starship Hospital in Auckland.
[click here to view entire article from the Sunday Star Times - 3 December 2000]

The Starship Log - The Newsletter of the Starship Foundation & Friends of Starship - November 2000 - Lucy Wages War on Child Abuse Stars Join Timely Appeal

Fundraising fears hit child abuse ad  - NZ Herald - 15 November 2000
A television advertisement raising awareness of child abuse - starring Lucy Lawless, Liz Gunn and Michael Jones - may not screen.  But the anti-child abuse campaign they are promoting is alive and well, says Lawless, the
star of Xena: Warrior Princess. [Read full article on NZ Herald Web Site]

According to the a recent NZ Herald article about the ongoing Safe and Sound Appeal, the article stated:
Yesterday, the foundation received a "flood of cheques" totalling more than $12,000 for the centre from Xena: Warrior Princess fans. The star of the TV series, Aucklander Lucy Lawless, is the public face of the campaign.  United States-based fans - and many of her New Zealand-based film crew - have already given around $5000. [Click here to read full article]

As a follow up to yesterday's post about Xena being a role model to head up the anti child abuse call..Lucy said something that just confirmed why I'm a fan of this show and why I'm a fan of Lucy Lawless. The following article is from from the AFP Newswire - 11 September 2000 -

``If they (the critics) had bothered to watch, Xena is about the triumph of love, friendship and forgiveness in a dangerous world, and mostly about empowerment and that's what these kids need.''  - AFP Newswire 11 September 2000
[click here to read the entire transcript]

transcript from NZ Herald about Xenites contributing to CARES - Lucy's appeal to stop Child Abuse

The NZ Herald has another article about Lucy's involvement with CARES
”Child abuse-help flows in as nation says 'no more'
[Click here to read]

In today's issue (September 4) of The NZ Herald it has an article on how Lucy and Liz Gunn are forming an action group to fight child abuse
[Click here to read the article]

Warrior Princess Xena weeps for kids -NZ Herald - 31 August 2000

Warrior princess goes into battle for children - Dominion - 30 August 2000