Music News - Cheque shirts worth $10,000
Yid-Ee Goh and Hinewehi Mohi
11 December 2006 - 0 Comments
Far from giving the shirt off their backs, Kiwi music fans have been doing just the opposite for the benefit of a national music therapy charity.
T-shirts manufactured on behalf of the NZ Music Commission and sold through Hallensteins to promote NZ Music Month have resulted in a cash windfall for the Raukatauri Music Therapy Trust.
Kiwi music fans purchasing and donning the distinctive black and white T-shirts generated $10,000 and the commission presented a cheque to the trust at a function in Auckland on Thursday 7 Dec.
The Raukatauri Music Therapy Trust runs a centre in the Auckland inner suburb of Newton providing music therapy for special needs children of school age and younger. It is New Zealand’s first music therapy centre.
Trust chair Campbell Smith says the funds will be put to good use.
“We are extremely grateful for these funds,” he says. “There’s a waiting list for places here at the centre and the money will be used to bring in new therapy staff in order to shorten that list.”
The Trust gets no government funding and last night’s function doubled as a thank you to artists who performed free of charge at a charity auction in aid of the Raukatauri Centre.
That event raised $210,000 to assist the centre with day-to-day running costs and provide funds to help hire new therapists and go towards plans to build a purpose-built music therapy centre.
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