Become a Friend of Featherston Booktown
Recognised as a Charitable Trust, Featherston Booktown continues to achieve significant milestones each year, bringing the importance of reading, writing and discussion to the fore.
We are now inviting community members to become an official ‘Friend of Featherston Booktown 2020’ in return for a tax deductible donation.
A surprising fact is that our Friends are not just bookworms! Friends of Featherston Booktown come in all shapes and sizes, with different interests from rugby to cooking and roller derby to ballet and varied vocations from home-makers to dog-walkers and lawyers to public servants and everything in between. Despite the differences, they all share one commonality, to be part of something bigger, contributing to the local community and engaging young people in something positive.
Our driving purpose is to position Featherston, the gateway to the Wairarapa, as a world-famous, prosperous and innovative destination for lovers of books and literature. Encouraging people - children and adults alike - to not just open a book, but to love reading or be inspired to put pen to paper and write; to provoke creativity and the broadening of the mind to drive fulfilment and happiness.
Each year, in addition to the Featherston Booktown weekend in May, we stage many events, gathering together our nation’s most acclaimed writers and thinkers spanning many genres to share their experiences and engage young and old.
Featherston in recent years has evolved into a haven for writers and those who enjoy the romance of searching for that next read in an eclectic selection of bookshops dotted around the town. Bookshops engulf the senses, whether it be the smell of an antique bookshop and the aged pages within the covers that decorate the shelves, the visual allure of a new release cover and the charm of meeting the author that draws one in or an interaction with the bookstore owner to help you uncover a treasure with their inside knowledge.
Our patrons, sponsors and Friends of Featherston Booktown are investors in the future! You can be part of this investment in the world of reading, writing and ideas, through a generous donation of $50 per person or $85 per family.
Your donation will support the annual Featherston Booktown weekend festival programme, whether that be indirectly buying a book for a local school-age child, or securing a popular writer to present and share their knowledge.
Your contribution will
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Buy a book for a school age child in Featherston
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Welcome a host of different writers to share their stories
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Assist to promote literacy through varied subject matter and interest areas
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Inspire young minds and the potential literary stars of the future
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Help Featherston Booktown join with other organisations such as the NZ Book Council and events who share a similar goal for greater reach and awareness
In return, you will receive
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Official recognition on our website
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An invitation to the Featherston Booktown Annual Weekend Festival Launch Party
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Preferential and advance booking opportunities for Featherston Booktown events
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An opportunity to meet the presenters at Featherston Booktown events
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Monthly newsletter to keep you ‘in the know’
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Tax deduction due to Featherston Booktown’s charitable trust status, Charity No. CC52369
The Friends of Featherston Booktown are a lively group of supporters who underpin our efforts and who are the driving force to help make Featherston Booktown one of New Zealand’s most valuable cultural events. Be proud, become a Friend today.
Friends of Featherston Booktown
$50 - Individuals
$85 - Family
All donations are for annual ‘Friend of Featherston Booktown’ status and may be renewed annually. We appreciate that personal circumstances can change year to year and as such welcome one-off donations with no commitment for ongoing contributions.
Email today for more information!
What do I do next?
1. Using online banking please make your donation to:
Featherston Booktown Trust Bank Account: 38-9017-0233637-00
In the reference field please put your name and "Friends of Featherston
Booktown 2020"
2. Send an email to us to let us know you've made a donation and providing your postal address.
Then what happens?
1. Booktown will email your 'charitable donation' receipt for your taxes.
2. Booktown will post you your decal sticker for use on a glass window to
indicate you are a Friend of Featherston Booktown.
Friends of Featherston
Booktown 2019
Bee Dawson
Brian King & Bobbie-Joe Wilson
Carolyn Henwood
Cath de Groot
David Cuthbert
David Woodhams
Ella & Felix Hallwass
E S Marsden
Faith Wrigley
G J & R Burnard
Gerald Hensley
Henri van de Weyer
J & L Adler
Jenny Neligan
Jo Beetham
Joanna Ludbrook
Karen Ross
Kathryn Seagrave & Jeremy Thompson
Liz & Graham Mellish
Luit Bieringa
McLuskie
Maria Gollan
Marie & Robert King
Martin Grice the Baker
Mary & Peter Biggs
N J F Biggs
Pain & Kershaw Mitre 10
Pete Roberts
Romain Busby
Ritchie Wards
Scilla Askew & Robert Carew
Virgina & Ernst Kunz
Wendy Campbell