For more than a decade, the Toronto Zombie Walk has provided a fun and safe avenue for locals to experience the zombie apocalypse. Now, the annual Toronto tradition is in danger of being cancelled.

With the Walk $7,000 short of the $50,000 it needs for its 2014 iteration to go down, parade organizers are turning to crowdfunding to try and make up the difference. Thea Munster, the woman responsible for bringing the parade to Toronto, is calling on locals to “lend a limb” to the financially troubled parade.

If the parade is unable to raise $7,000. the event’s organizers will be forced to dip into their reserve funding for next year, which, they say, will likely jeopardize the existence of the Zombie Walk.

The Zombie Walk got its modest start in 2003 when Munster and her husband, Adam Pearson, organized an initial walk through Trinity Bellwoods Park. Since then, however, it has steadily grown in size; more than 13,000 people attended last year’s Zombie Walk. Of course, as more and more people have taken part in the Walk, its costs have gone up, too. The Zombie Walk’s costs include street closures, security, insurance, volunteer expenses, entertainment, transportation and rental equipment, all of which escalate in price as events like this grow bigger.

As of the writing of this article, the campaign has raised $2,326 of its $7,000. Should the campaign surpass its initial goal, any additional funds will be donated to The Canadian Wildlife Federation and its Help the Bats initiative. [Via Toronto Star]

Images courtesy of Andrew Hui.
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Igor Bonifacic is the managing editor of Toronto Standard. Follow him on Twitter.

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