Teens launch appeal to save Parachute Festival - CathNews NZ

Teens launch appeal to save Parachute Festival

Tuesday, April 8th, 2014

A pair of Thames teens have turned to social media to launch a $500,000 fundraising appeal aimed at saving the Parachute Christian music festival.

Parachute Music chief executive Mark de Jong announced last week that the curtain had fallen on the event, held at Mystery Creek Events Centre near Hamilton, after 24 years. January’s event made a $250,000 loss.

Shortly after, Thames High School students Holly Douglas, 16, and Jennifer Hedges, 15, launched the Help Bring Back Parachute 2015 page on Facebook, and by yesterday it had more than 3100 likes.

On Monday the teens launched the Give Back2 Parachute Twitter account @PchuteSupporter, and on Tuesday a bank account had been opened in their name.

“We have got lots of people on the Facebook page who want to help us fundraise,” Jennifer said.

“We are getting really trusted people from the community that we know to look after the bank account.” Continue reading

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