Participants at the inaugural Kaweka Hospital Daffodil Day Colour Run paint the scene with biodegradable colourful powder at Mitre 10 Sports Park. Photo / David Cairns
Participants at the inaugural Kaweka Hospital Daffodil Day Colour Run paint the scene with biodegradable colourful powder at Mitre 10 Sports Park. Photo / David Cairns
The sun wasn’t the only thing bright in Hastings on Sunday as people gathered to throw colourful dust around to raise money for charity.
Just over 1000 people registered to run or walk around a 1.3km track at Hastings Mitre 10 Sports Park while being showered by biodegradable colourful powderat the first ever Kaweka Hospital Daffodil Day Colour Run, raising money for the Cancer Society.
The event was the brainchild of Sukhdeep Singh. Attendees were encouraged to wear a plain white T-shirt to the start of the course, so they could finish the event looking like “a living rainbow”.
Participants at the inaugural Kaweka Hospital Daffodil Day Colour Run paint the scene with biodegradable colourful powder at Mitre 10 Sports Park. Photo / David Cairns
Jacqueline Supra, event organiser and fundraising vice-chair at Cancer Society Hawke’s Bay, said 1033 people registered for the colour run which helped raise $5677 for the Cancer Society.
Supra, a Hastings District Council candidate, said it was; “absolutely brilliant, it exceeded our expectations”.
“The weather gods were on our side, which made a huge difference.
“There was just so much happiness and smiling and love, it was an incredible day.”
Famous Hawke’s Bay locals got behind the event, including the likes of Silver Ferns great Irene van Dyk, Black Cap Blair Tickner, former Black Sticks Shae McAleese and Emily Gaddum, plus Hastings mayor Sandra Hazlehurst.
Boxing coach Craig McDougall in his dinosaur costume at the start line of the Kaweka Hospital Daffodil Day Colour Run at Mitre 10 Sports Park in Hastings. Photo / David Cairns
Supra said it was important to celebrate local boxing coach Craig McDougall in his “lovely dinosaur outfit running around the field”.
“He must have been so exhausted in that heat,” laughed Supra.
Supra said the first event had been such a smash hit that she was already looking forward to 2026’s event.
