Become a Friend of
Featherston Booktown
Thanks for wanting to be Friends!
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Please select how you'd like to donate:
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$200 Business membership
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$100 Family/Individual Membership
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* POLi is an online payment service that allows you to make a secure payment from your internet banking portal directly to us. You don't have to register, so no information is stored that can be used to access your bank account.
Select this option if you require an invoice to pay on. Donation receipt will be sent once payment has been made.
If you're an individual or business that would like to donate more than the standard membership amount, click here for details on how to contact us
Prefer to pay direct from your own Internet âBanking account?
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Using online banking please make your donation to:
Featherston Booktown Trust
Bank account: 38-9017-0233637-00
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In the reference field please put your name and "FOFB2025".
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Then email us at pete@booktown.nz to to let us know you've made a donation. We will email your charitable donation receipt for your taxes.
Friends of Featherston Booktown 2025
Individual and WhÄnau Friends
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Alan Wendt & Dean Knight
Carole Bourdet
Celia Wade-Brown
E & C Kaye
Fraser & Margie Donald
J N Vickers
C R & E M Kay
Catherine Franks
Daphne Geisler
Elizabeth Patchett & J W Taber
Heather Drysdale
Jason Osborne
Major Funders 2025
Sponsors & Supporters
Friends of Featherston Booktown come in all shapes and sizes. They’re keen on things from rugby to cooking and roller derby to ballet, and range from home-makers to dog-walkers, cafe waiters to road workers, lawyers to public servants and everything in between. They come together to support Featherston Booktown to be part of something larger than themselves, contributing to the local community and engaging young people in something positive.
Featherston Booktown’s driving purpose is to position Featherston, the first town over the Remutaka Hill in the Wairarapa, as a world-famous, prosperous and innovative destination for lovers of books and literature. Encouraging 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 broaden minds to drive fulfilment and happiness.
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Each year we host the Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival weekend in May. We also stage many events throughout the year, gathering together our nation’s most acclaimed writers and thinkers spanning many genres to share their experiences and engage young and old.
"I took four of my grandchildren to Chicken and Frog to choose a book each for their Christmas present. A great time was had by all.
The gift of books is something special. Thank you for the opportunity to give book vouchers to children.”
- Sue W.