December 31, 2024 • 4 mins
The New Year’s Honours list revealed nine kiwi appointments as Companions of the King’s Service Order and seven awards of the King’s Service Medal.
Becoming a Dame is Julie Chapman, who is behind long-running charity KidsCan.
Julie has been given the honour for services to children and the community, having founded KidsCan in 2005 and providing food, clothing and health support for more than 60-thousand children a year.
She tells Tim Beveridge the honour was a big surprise.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yes, and the New Year's Honest List, as we know,
has been released, and we've all been digesting some of
those appointments. Nine appointments as Companions of the King's Service
Order with the seven Awards of the King's Service Medal.
I think, sorry, Nights, I think I think we might
have it the wrong way around anyway. Becoming a Dame
is Julie Chapman, the woman behind the long running charity
(00:37):
Kids Can. Julie's been given the honor for services to
children in the community, having founded kids Can in two
thousand and five and providing food, clothing, health and support
for more than sixty thousand children a year. And I
think I can say, Dame Julie Chapman is with us,
good morning, Happy New Year.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Hey, you can say that.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Sounds important, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
It sounds a little bit kind of weird. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
If you invite people for a party, If you invite
people for a party, are you going to put Dame
Julie and invites you to such and such?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
No, definitely not.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
What about last What about last night? Did you have
a bit of a celebration, bit of a knees.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Up, you know what. I feel like I'm a bit
of a nana. So I was actually in bed before midnight.
I like my sleep, and had a few glasses of bubbles.
But that's the kind of extent of it. Nothing, nothing outrageous.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Good on you. Hey, how does it feel to receive
that top onor how much of a surprise was it?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Oh, it was a huge surprise. I was actually sitting
in a meeting at work at kids Can scrolling through
emails on my phone and saw that this email had
come through, And you know, of course I probably should
have been paying attention to the meeting, but I saw
the email and was like, oh, what's this? And then
(02:03):
I read it and I was like, okay, I'm just
going to have to close that down now and just
the ten like nothing is going.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
On because you keep it a secret, I guess, well,
yeah you do, so.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Yeah, but it was. Yeah, it was a big surprise,
that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Was it hard to keep it to yourself? You've got
to sit on that for a while, don't you.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
I think I just kind of blocked it out for
one of a better thing I obviously told I did
tell my husband, fair enough.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I don't think they expect you not to tell you
your husband, do they.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
I would hope that. I mean, like, is that some
kind of test, you know, test of your ability to
keep a secret. So now I did tell him, but
then I kind of just put it to the back
of my mind until you know, about a week and
a half actually before when they send you the official
kind of letter.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
When you started this in two thousand and five, did
you think it would still be going now? Where did
you think you'd be almost twenty years later? Well, twenty years.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Later, are well? I hoped it wouldn't be going because
it's actually not something to celebrate that there is so
much need out there, and you know, kids can now
operate in over a thousand schools and early childhoods, and
the material hardship that we're seeing is really at an
(03:29):
all time high. So for me, it's that's not something
to celebrate. I think the thing that I am proud of, though,
is that we've been able to build an organization that's
never had to turn away a school or an early
childhood that really needed out for their kids so they
(03:49):
can get the most out of their education. And so
that's you know, that's a good thing because we don't
want children missing out on those essentials, you know, food, clothing,
those sorts of things, which does impact their ability to
take advantage of their education.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah. Well, Julie, thank you so much for your time
this morning.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
For more from News Talks ed B, listen live on
air or online, and keep our shows with you wherever
you go with our podcasts on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to a podcast from news Talk zed be
follow this and our wide range of podcast now on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yes, and the New Year's Honest List, as we know,
has been released, and we've all been digesting some of
those appointments. Nine appointments as Companions of the King's Service
Order with the seven Awards of the King's Service Medal.
I think, sorry, Nights, I think I think we might
have it the wrong way around anyway. Becoming a Dame
is Julie Chapman, the woman behind the long running charity
(00:37):
Kids Can. Julie's been given the honor for services to
children in the community, having founded kids Can in two
thousand and five and providing food, clothing, health and support
for more than sixty thousand children a year. And I
think I can say, Dame Julie Chapman is with us,
good morning, Happy New Year.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Hey, you can say that.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Sounds important, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
It sounds a little bit kind of weird. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
If you invite people for a party, If you invite
people for a party, are you going to put Dame
Julie and invites you to such and such?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
No, definitely not.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
What about last What about last night? Did you have
a bit of a celebration, bit of a knees.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Up, you know what. I feel like I'm a bit
of a nana. So I was actually in bed before midnight.
I like my sleep, and had a few glasses of bubbles.
But that's the kind of extent of it. Nothing, nothing outrageous.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Good on you. Hey, how does it feel to receive
that top onor how much of a surprise was it?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Oh, it was a huge surprise. I was actually sitting
in a meeting at work at kids Can scrolling through
emails on my phone and saw that this email had
come through, And you know, of course I probably should
have been paying attention to the meeting, but I saw
the email and was like, oh, what's this? And then
(02:03):
I read it and I was like, okay, I'm just
going to have to close that down now and just
the ten like nothing is going.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
On because you keep it a secret, I guess, well,
yeah you do, so.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Yeah, but it was. Yeah, it was a big surprise,
that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Was it hard to keep it to yourself? You've got
to sit on that for a while, don't you.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
I think I just kind of blocked it out for
one of a better thing I obviously told I did
tell my husband, fair enough.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I don't think they expect you not to tell you
your husband, do they.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
I would hope that. I mean, like, is that some
kind of test, you know, test of your ability to
keep a secret. So now I did tell him, but
then I kind of just put it to the back
of my mind until you know, about a week and
a half actually before when they send you the official
kind of letter.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
When you started this in two thousand and five, did
you think it would still be going now? Where did
you think you'd be almost twenty years later? Well, twenty years.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Later, are well? I hoped it wouldn't be going because
it's actually not something to celebrate that there is so
much need out there, and you know, kids can now
operate in over a thousand schools and early childhoods, and
the material hardship that we're seeing is really at an
(03:29):
all time high. So for me, it's that's not something
to celebrate. I think the thing that I am proud of, though,
is that we've been able to build an organization that's
never had to turn away a school or an early
childhood that really needed out for their kids so they
(03:49):
can get the most out of their education. And so
that's you know, that's a good thing because we don't
want children missing out on those essentials, you know, food, clothing,
those sorts of things, which does impact their ability to
take advantage of their education.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah. Well, Julie, thank you so much for your time
this morning.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
For more from News Talks ed B, listen live on
air or online, and keep our shows with you wherever
you go with our podcasts on iHeartRadio.
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