Cowra's Peace Precinct was blotted with every colour of the rainbow on Sunday as more than 400 people took part in St Raphael's colour explosion.
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The fundraiser involved a course with colourful checkpoints, obstacles and a couple of firetrucks, courtesy of the RFS, to keep attendees cool.
Organiser Tamara Harris said the event was a huge success, with more than $2,500 collected at the gate and $13,000 raised by the students through sponsorship.
"I think it was a brilliant day, it was such a huge effort on the P&F's part but also the whole school and community getting behind the event," she said.
"We had well over 400 people there, so that was a huge success for us and it was lovely to see the town and the school being fit and healthy and active and everyone had a smile on their face."
Mrs Harris said money raised from the colour explosion would go towards new playground equipment for the students at St Raphael's.
"We've really been working at rejuvenating the playground, we've resurfaced it, we've added shade sails and different native vegetation areas," she said.
"The money from this particular event, we are looking at a climbing wall, something along those lines to add to the playground...
"The kids are excited."
Mrs Harris said the colour explosion replaced St Raphael's Christmas Fete as one of their major fundraisers for the year.
"As time has gone on, it has become hard to find a date [for the Fete] so we were trying to come up with an alternative that could raise the same sort of money for the P&F," she said.
"At that time of the year, it's just another thing to be spending money on so we thought this was a really nice time to spread things out and give people a fun activity.
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"We scattered around and we had a bit of a brainstorming about what could work and came across the colour run."
Mrs Harris said the colour explosion also promoted health and fitness.
"One of the things we've been really focused on to as a school community has been around health and fitness," she said.
"We just thought it fitted nicely around that."
