Gingerbread houses, wheelbarrow raffles, advertising on their family car and bales of hay. Siblings Alice and Hollie Bruce are fundraising any way they can to get themselves to Tamworth, Australia for the 2016 American Quarter Horse Youth World Cup.
While the girls have competed in western performance horse riding across New Zealand for the past three years, they both say being selected to represent New Zealand came as quite a shock.
Alice, 16, explains while riders compete at events throughout the year, anonymous selectors choose who will represent the country at the biennial Youth World Cup.
"It was so exciting to hear we had been selected but we had no idea it was coming so it was a huge surprise."
The Youth World Cup is open to riders aged between 13 and 18, with just eight riders from across the country making the New Zealand team.