With 90% of the funding required now raised, the Featherston Camp Sculpture is under way. The crew at the Dibble workshop are hard at it making the molds ready for the bronze pours. Thanks to all who have contributed ideas for the backs of the columns. Definite themes are emerging, and these are [...]
We’ve made it! With recent funding grants from Trust House, Lion Foundation and the Lottery Grants Board, we are now in a position to go ahead and commission the sculpture. Public consultation for ideas for the bas reliefs on the back of the columns will now go into full swing. Please add [...]
THANK YOU!!! A heartfelt thanks to all our supporters – fundraising for the Featherston Camp Sculpture has reached $200,000. The Trust is particularly grateful to the Lion Foundation and Trust House Foundation for their ongoing support. Along with the generosity of individual supporters and other [...]
The campaign to raise funds for the nationally significant memorial to those who passed through the Featherston Military Training Camp in World War One is tantalisingly close to its target amount. “We’ve raised close to $140,000 – which is a fantastic achievement,” says Featherston [...]
A few snapshots of events from over the Centennial weekend. (Use the arrows on the left and right of the gallery to go forward and [...]
The Featherston Sculpture Trust is combining forces with the Featherston Anzac Club Society and the RSA to plan a fabulous birthday celebration for the wonderful Anzac Hall built by the people of Wairarapa in 1916 to provide a venue for entertaining the soldiers at the nearby Military Training [...]
Following the great success of the Michael Houstoun piano recital, in the style of an old school ‘back in the day’ Anzac Hall event, the Featherston Camp Sculpture Trust is once again putting on a fundraising music event. This time the talent has a mix of music styles for all ages to get into. [...]
On June 26th, Featherston will host New Zealand’s eminent pianist, Michael Houstoun, for an afternoon of Bach, Brahms, Poulenc and Fauré. The concert will open with six preludes and fugues from the second book of Johann Sebastian Bach’s well-loved and timeless “Well-Tempered [...]
A recently completed feasibility study (funded by a WW100 Lottery Grant) concluded that: “There is no other place with such a unique history and connection to the New Zealand soldiers of World War 1 and a small, typical rural town that supported and connected with a very large intrusion in its [...]
At the recent fundraising luncheon we announced a Trust House grant of $50,000 towards the cost of the sculpture project. We are very pleased to have the support of one of the largest funders of community events and organisations in the Wairarapa area. Ray Southey, Chairman of Masterton Licensing [...]
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