Tuesday 5 August 2014

Because We Care

Saturday began really early – Bob was at the BBC by 7am to be interviewed on BBC Radio Leicester’s Saturday Morning show. Then he was back at church, offering a warm welcome to the punters

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We wanted to put on something to help the community find out what is available to those who need extra support and care, just to manage the ordinary day-to-day aspects of life. We had more than thirty groups exhibiting, and over two hundred folk turned up to find out – the first Kirby Muxloe Free Church Social Care Fair was definitely a great success. A number of exhibitors asked when the next one was happening and could they come again? A lot of the visitors expressed gratitude for being able to find out so much information. It was all really good

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The chairmen of both the Parish Council, and the local District Council dropped in [wearing chains of office] as did Sir Clive Loader, our Police and Crime Commissioner. 

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Blaby District Council exhibited - and also kindly gave us a grant towards costs, as did Samworth’s a local food business [thankyou]. We provided free tea, coffee, cakes and biscuits for all visitors- and all exhibitors were given lunch. Thank you to the ladies of St. Bart's Parish church who came in and catered that for us.

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I somehow never took a picture of Jan, our chief organiser- but here’s her sidekick Christine, about to enjoy her salad lunch

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“Oh no, this is going to appear on the blog, isn’t it?” [Yes!]

Pete, whose wife Janet was another of the key workers was the official photographer for the day and kindly lent me a memory stick of photographs.

So I do have one of Jan – here on the right, in the stripey top, with Sir Clive and his wife.

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Here’s my shot of the ‘chairobics’ – with Pete in the background

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And Pete’s shot of the same - with me & camera in the background!

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Here’s Janet, watching someone doing mouth-to-mouth

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A fabulous day – thanks again to all involved!!

16 comments:

  1. Looks like it was a huge success and one that must be repeated for those that couldn't come this time. Well done
    Carolx

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  2. That looks brilliant! What a good idea!

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  3. What a brilliant days' work from all of you!
    Yes, a must have repeat!
    Where did you get the idea/inspiration from?
    Begs the question why other organisations haven't done this locally before?
    I don't usually wear hats but, if I had one on, I'd take my hat off to you all! Bless you.

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    1. As usual, the initial idea came from Bob, then everyone else helped to make it become a reality

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  4. What a great idea, every village should do something like this I think.

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  5. Such a good idea, and one that more councils or churches could adopt. I have found it difficult to access some of the information I needed. To have all disciplines in one place is so helpful.

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  6. What an excellent idea. So glad it went so well. Vee x

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  7. A great idea - so good for people to find out what's going on around them - our local paper always surprises me with the features - always something going on or available I knew nothing about. This is how I found out about the free pottery class I attended.

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  8. Bravo. There's a great need for this kind of event which helps to communicate to people what is available and how to access it all.

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  9. Looks amazing - well done! (not sure if last comment worked or not!)

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    1. Thank you - no sign of your previous comment!

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  10. Eventful day! Well done. Are you doing foodbanks yet? Tesco are donating loads to our local collections which are proving to be very successful - don't know whether that's a good or a bad thing really.

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    1. We support a foodbank run by a church a few miles away - we will have a big collection of food at Harvest Thanksgiving. It is good to help others - but not so good that there are many who need the help.

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  11. It was an amazing day. All the planning and hard work was well worth it to see so many people benefitting from the event.The lunch was excellent too.

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  12. What an amazing thing to organize and implement!,well done x

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