Purpose | The theme of your life

Purpose | The theme of your life

What's the theme of your life?

It's something we have been thinking about for the last few months. Why are we ticking off our to do lists, writing our goals and working our guts out!?

We decided that 2018 is going to be all about examining and re-shaping our lives so that we bring a sense of intention and purpose to what we do. 'Setting a theme' so to speak. Not for the sake of it, but to energise us into a life that we really love living. 

Why does purpose matter?

Having purpose sets the context of our lives. Without knowing why we do things, we are just ticking off tasks, creating goals and actions for the sake of it.
A purpose gives us meaning and direction. It's bigger than a goal you write down and aim for, its the theme of your life. It helps us from getting lost in the humdrum obligations of everyday life. Purpose is something we find through examining and exploring our own life. It emerges and reveals itself through the small and common themes in our lives.

Our purpose is already present in life,
we may just need to take the time to notice it.

We made our 2018 Planner to ground you in finding your purpose.

We're so glad you're here on this earth with us.
Let's make something wonderful shall we? x

December 11, 2017 by FRANK Stationery
FRANK Stationery School Books

How You’ve Been Helping Kiwi Kids Reach Their Potential - One Notebook at a Time

My schooling days were full of scratched knees, silly crushes on boys, swapped lunches, and fresh new stationery at the beginning of each year. Now, my knees stay pristine and untouched, my crushes are on just one boy, and my lunches are saved just for me. The one thing that hasn’t changed, though, is new stationery - waltzing into my life at the beginning of every important milestone.

I am a self confessed notebook hoarder. There, I said it! And, I know I’m not alone. Ever since I was 8 years old I have been writing, drawing, and recording my life in notebooks. This has created in me a habitual need to write down, unpack and stand back from my thoughts, ideas and feelings. To be able to write and read has been one of the greatest privileges ever afforded to me; one that many people are unfamiliar with.

As stationery lovers, our hearts break at the knowledge that many kids in our community are starting school a step behind their peers – no excitement over fresh new school books, no first page to fill with their neatest handwriting, nowhere to document all the things they’ve learnt.


 Over 1 in 4 kiwi kids are living in poverty - the basics, like schools books, a luxury many families can’t afford.

You can read more about child poverty here »


Since our last giving day in 2016, we had our eyes set on doubling our giving amount; so we are thrilled to announce our partnership with School Kit and Go Sweet Spot (two awesome organisations we’ll talk more about later) to bring 20,000 school books to 200 schools on the first day of term two this year. If you’re not up to play with the dates of school terms – this is today!

 

We are thrilled to announce 20,000 school books have been donated to 200 schools on the first day of term two this year.

If you’re not up to play with the dates of school terms
– this is today!

 

Being part of the global FRANK community, you know that we are big on beautiful stationery with a purpose. What you may not know is that by choosing FRANK as a medium to plan, scheme, and dream with - you have given a school kid the opportunity to do the same!

 Each item you’ve bought from us has allowed a school book to be donated to a child in need. This has enabled us to give over 45,000 school books, in the past few years, to those knee scrapped, boy/girl crushing little humans running about on the playgrounds of New Zealand.

 

In the spirit of gratitude, we would like to thank our partners School Kit; who have cleverly helped us identify which schools need the books the most, and Go Sweet Spot; who’ve generously helped us deliver the books to the schools in need. But, our most important partners have been YOU! As you write in your FRANK notebook at your local cafes, in your work meetings, and your university lectures - imagine little hands learning to write their first sentences, the mathematicians in the making solving complicated times tables, and, most of all, the beautiful young minds whom you have inspired and equipped for a better life.

Thank you for using FRANK in the pursuit of your dreams, the writing of your thoughts, and the making of your plans! Keep going - you’re helping kiwi kids do the same.

Jess (FRANK Founder)

May 01, 2017 by FRANK Stationery
10,000 reasons to feel stoked

10,000 reasons to feel stoked

For the past two weeks our garage/office has been filled to the brim with 10,000 books that we are getting ready to give away this week. While it’s always in my mind that for every book we sell, we are going to then give a school book away, it becomes much more real when I have a huge pile of school books staring me in the face.

June 14, 2016 by FRANK Stationery

Customised Notebooks

If you’ve got a business event or conference coming up, we can customise our notebooks with your logo. Everyone will love knowing that for every notebook you buy, a kiwi kid receives a school book to further their education.

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