Te Puke Times - 02 Feb, 2011

Camper's pikelets are in the pink.


Devonshire Tea was the mid-morning snack at the Papamoa Beach Top 10 Holiday Park last Thursday as campers celebrated having the Trelise Cooper Caravan on site to raise money for the Breast Cancer Research Trust.

A group of industrious regular campers - the women of the Currell family, led by Joan, 86 and her friends Beth Cropp from Te Puke and Bev Mccartney - set up their frypans and turned out pikelets which others, including Joan's daughters Lynne and Gill, who were dressed in pink cloaks, offered around the campground inviting a donation to the Breast Cancer Research Trust.

About 3kg of flour and 500g of butter went into the morning tea from 9.30am - 11.00am.

They raised $420 which will be added to the camp's New Year's Eve Pink Party and another $1000 of donations made at the camp office.

The Trelise Cooper Caravan is an old-timer retro-fitted inside by the fashion designer in her favourite colours.  

Papamoa Beach Top 10 Holiday Resort hosted the 'van on behalf of the Breast Cancer Research Trust and the Holiday Parks Assn of NZ (HAPNZ) to help boost fundraising efforts in the Holiday Parks Challenge, which is set a goal for each of the 300 parks to raise at least $1000.

HAPNZ hopes to raise more than $300,000 to assist in the funding of critical research.

In 2009, more than 4.6 million guests nights were spent in holiday parks.

These guests are invited to join the fight and help make the target.

The caravan left Papamoa Beach Top 10 yesterday.

It is to be auctioned off at the end of the fundraising drive.