On 31 July 2021, Auckland Pride Festival Incorporated – the organisation that runs the Auckland Pride Festival its Annual General Meeting and published its annual accounts which showed a deficit of $79,000.
Part of that was due to an increase in expenses of $110,000. The statement of financial position for the society as of the 31st July 2021 indicates that it is in debt and liabilities are outweigh assets.
To talk about this Andrew Whiteside interviewed the society’s co-chairs Kaan Hiini and Robyn Vella.
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In the interview I also asked the co-chairs how they thought the community could be brought back together:
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