Three charities are set to benefit from the 2013 Queenstown Winter Festival, including a trust established to provide financial assistance to children at Wakatipu High School.
The Branches Charitable Trust is behind the popular camp for year 10 pupils at Wakatipu High School and keeps the 12-day outdoors experience affordable, so no teenager misses out.
The trust will run the Thriller in the Chiller auction.
CanTeen Otago and Southland branch has been selected to have a food stall and sell bandannas.
The charity, a New Zealand organisation which supports young people living with cancer, was founded by Michael Carr-Gregg in 1988. He was diagnosed with a malignant tumour in his neck in 1978, at the age of 20.
It was his experience of being treated at Wellington Hospital which inspired him to form CanTeen Australia while studying there.
Phillip Townsend, a New Zealand teenage cancer survivor, met Mr Carr-Gregg while visiting Australia and decided to bring the charity to New Zealand.
The Otago and Southland branch is one of 14 operating in New Zealand, none of which receives government funding.
KingsView School, based in Frankton, has been selected to sell glowsticks throughout the festival.
The Queenstown Cricket Club will be working at the bars during the festival, raising money to encourage cricket for all age groups across the district.
Festival manager Lisa Buckingham said she was delighted so many groups had applied to take up the opportunity and she was pleased the festival had the additional opportunity to give something back to the community.
The festival runs from June 21 to 30.
