Jet Park Making Life Sweeter For SPCA Animals
Staff at Jet Park Hotel near Auckland Airport will be combining their efforts into one very sweet recipe for animals in
need this SPCA Cupcake Day.
Jet Park, which is situated across the road from Auckland SPCA, is donating one thousand cupcakes to the annual
fundraiser, which will be decorated in a team effort by Jet Park Hotel staff, their partners and their children at the
hotel on Saturday the 25th.
“All staff, their partners and kids have been invited and we have set ‘shifts’ of an hour each for people to decorate
in,” says Jeeva Jeeva-Nanthan, Jet Park’s General Manager. “We are running an inter-department competition and
individual prizes for staff, such as best decorated, and most decorated. There’s no theme to stick to – we’re just
letting everyone show their own creativity.”
The baking of one thousand cupcakes will be done this week by Jet Park’s Executive Chef Nancye Pirini and her team.
After being decorated by staff on the weekend, they will be sold at an official SPCA Cupcake Day stand on Hurstmere Rd
in Takapuna on Monday 27th which will be manned by Jet Park staff members, including Food & Beverage Manager Ron Macdonald and Business Development Manager David Boomer.
“We are supporting Cupcake Day is because Jet Park has chosen SPCA as its charity of choice – the owners of Jet Park
Hotel have always had a long love affair with animals and animal welfare,” Jeeva says. “In fact, they adopted two pet
dogs from Auckland SPCA and couldn't be happier with their extended 'family'.”
Jet Park’s involvement with SPCA has grown over the years from supporting them with donations of old newspapers for
their kennels, to working with them (to mutual benefit) hiring out their auditorium across the road for conference
clients.
Jet Park staff will be selling cupcakes at the Hurstmere Rd, Takapuna stand from 7.30am onwards.
Jet Park Hotel, formerly known as “Jet Inn Hotel” was opened in June 1998. It has grown in several stages over the
years; beginning with a 90 room property then in July 2004 the addition of 45 deluxe rooms, and in August 2008 a further
45 deluxe rooms and three apartments were added, bringing the total number of rooms to 170. Throughout this time the
property has been under the same NZ ownership and operation - one of the major reasons it has grown from strength to
strength in the quality of services and facilities it provides to guests.
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