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Our Generous
Supporters 2025

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The Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival 2025 would not have been possible if it weren't for the amazing support of our generous supporters: organisations, charities, businesses, schools, whānau and individuals.

A massive thank you from Featherston Booktown!

Major Funders

Manatū Taonga Ministry of Culture and Heritage
Trusthouse
South Wairarapa District Council
Wairarapa Building Society
Creative New Zealand
The Lion Foundation
Eastern & Central Community Trust

Key Partners

100% Proof Red
Ant North
Avis
Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand
C'est Cheese
The Design Space
Embassy of Ireland, New Zealand
Farm Strong
Featherston Ferret
Featherston Owls
For the Love of Books
JSW Contracting
Kuranui College
Makaro Press
Mela
Mrs Blackwell's Village Bookshop
Oak Estate Motor Lodge
Pete Monk Photography
Read NZ Te Pou Maramara
Shepherdess Magazine
Tauherenikau Cottage
The Vintage Party
Wairarapa Lifestyle
5 Senses of Tea
Anzac Club Featherston
The Bakehouse Collective
Bottle-O Martinborough
Chicken and Frog Bookshop
Destination Wairarapa
Eventfinda
Featherston Baker
Featherston Fire Brigade
Featherston School
Greytown School
Jen Bhati Property Brokers Wairarapa
Loco Cafe & Books
Martinborough Bookshop
Messines Bookshop: Military History
Nikau Books
Olivo
Pirinoa School
Regional News
South Featherston School
Ton of Feathers Design
Vixen Burger
Wairarapa Times-Age
Adamson's Mobil Service Station
Arotahi Communications
Baxters Catering
Bower & Book
The Cook’s Loft
The Dickensian Bookshop & Tea Rooms
Everest Cafe
Featherston Community Board
Featherston Menzshed
Fell Engine Museum
Ihi Research
Kahutara School
Longwood
The Martinborough Hotel
Mitre 10 Martinborough
Nikau Foundation
Pain & Kershaw Martinborough
REAP Wairarapa
Resene Paint
Spreading Wairarapa
Tranzit
Waimarie Eatery & Bar
Allen & Unwin
Assembly of God Church
Big Sky
Brac & Bow
Copthorne Hotel & Resort Solway Park Wairarapa
Dilmah Tea
Farm Focus
Featherston Crystals and Curiosities
Featherston Motels
Festival Hire
JOIY
The Kennedy Foundation
Lucia Zanmonti Photography
Martinborough School
Mr Feather's Den
Noise Productions
Papawai Marae
Ray White - Steve Chapman
The Royal Hotel
St Teresa's School
Underhill Cottage
Wairarapa Library Services
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Friends of Featherston Booktown 2025

 

Individual and Whānau Friends

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Alan Smith
Anastacia Kirk
Anne Hynds & Derek McCluskie
Bessie Sutherland
Burton Silver
Carole Bourdet
Celia Wade-Brown
Cora Trevarthen
Dan & Adele RIchardson
Daphne Geisler
Elizabeth Patchett & John Taber
Fran Wilde
Gay Monteith
Hallwass Family
Heather Hutton
J Maher
J Tolerton
Jason Osborne
Jenny Morel
Jo Cormack
Joanna & Julian Ludbrook
Joanna Hoogvelt
John Broeren
John McKinney
Judy Dell
Justin Kerr
Kate Morrison
Liz Mellish
Louise & Paul Ramsay
Martin & Tania Connelly
Mary McCallum
Mike Butterick
Paddy Maloney
Penny Griffin
Reuben Johnson & Willow Sainsbury
Robyn Ramsden
Romain Busby
S M Sheriff
Scilla Askew & Robert Carew
Sharn Riggs
Shirley Vollweiler
Tracy Watkins
Wendy Campbell
Alan Wendt & Dean Knight
Andrew Morrison & Deborah Barratt
Ashley Sault
Beverley McNally
C R & E M Kay
Catharine Franks
Charlotte Berney
Craig Linkhorn
Danielle Pullan
Deirdre Drysdale
Emily Greenberg & Katie Beattie
Fraser & Margie Donald
Gillian Cross
Heather Drysdale
Hilary Beaton
J N Vickers
Jan Stephen
Jennifer Clark
Jenny Neligan
Joan Hinton
Joanna Baldwin
John & Gail Thomason
John Lawson
Josephine Lowe
Julie Elstone
Kate Maher
Kate Tucker
Liz Stringer & Robbie Morrison
Maarten Weavers
Mary & Peter Biggs CNZM
Michael Burrows & Kate Mahoney
P A & J M Stuart
Paul & Mary Mason
Pete Roberts
Robyn Hambleton
Roger Steele
Ruth Shaw
Sarah Uruski
Shara Hudson
Shirley Roberts
Tana Klaricich
Waione Te Paa
William Pitt

Business Friends of Featherston Booktown 2025

A1 Renovations Wairarapa
Gawith Burridge Lawyers
Printcraft
Bowen Galleries
Hedleys Books
Property Brokers Wairarapa
Breadcraft
Lamb-Peters Print
WCM Legal
Core Legal
Massons
Framework Building & Carpentry
Osborne Group

© 2024 Featherston Booktown Trust, New Zealand Charity Registration Number CC52369

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