Crowdfunding campaigns for young refugees whose trip to the Efteling amusement park was cancelled following intervention by immigration minister Marjolein Faber have raised around €180,000 for alternative activities.

The original day out was organised to prevent tensions between local and refugee youths during the busiest day of the village fete in Sint Annaparochie, Friesland, later this month.

Last year, fighting during the event reportedly led to three local teenagers being stabbed. Three young refugees were arrested and later moved to another part of the country. Nevertheless tensions in the village of 4,000 remain high.

Faber said on social media that the trip, an annual event funded from refugee centre resources for recreational activities, would not go ahead. She described it as a “fun day out” at taxpayers’ expense.

At least seven crowdfunding pages have since been set up to raise money for the teenagers. The largest, organised by Aad Brinkman, has brought in €145,000.

Refugee settlement agency COS described the fund-raising efforts as “heartwarming” and said the money will be used to fund activities for children and teenagers at refugee centres across the country.

It is not yet clear whether the planned Efteling visit will still take place. Faber has declined to comment but COA has said it is not in the interest of its charges to be in the public eye.

Around 400 asylum seekers live in the 80 caravans that make up the Sint Annaparochie refugee centre, including 44 teenagers aged 15 to 18 who arrived without parents or guardians. Younger unaccompanied minors live with foster families.

Faber’s stance was endorsed by her party leader Geert Wilders, who said: “One outing that would be possible is everyone in a bus, out of the country.”

Nicolien van Vroonhoven, leader of the PVV coalition partner NSC, called Faber’s comments on social media “ugly” and said she hoped the minister would focus more on passing her draft legislation “than making a fuss out of nothing all the time”.