Community groups and charities will be sharing the success of this year’s Stone Festival as organisers distribute £6,000.
The Stone Festival team has been able to distribute £6,000 again this year, despite the rain on Carnival Day.
The following organisations are benefitting from Stone Festival this year:
- Age Concern Stone
- Alleynes High School
- Alzheimers Drop in Club
- Christchurch First School PTA
- County Air Ambulance
- Donna Louise Trust
- Douglas Macmillan Hospice
- First Stone Scouts
- Friends of Trinity Skills for Life
- Guides – Mombassa Project
- Katherine House Hospice
- Keep Stone Tidy
- NSPCC
- Oak Tree Farm Project
- SAMS (MS)
- St John’s Ambulance
- St Michael’s ‘Bells Appeal’
- St Michael’s First School PTA
- Stafford & Stone Canoe Club
- Stone & District Stroke Club
- Stone ATC
- Stone Community First Responders
- Stone Good Companions
- Stone in Bloom
- Stone Scout and Guide Band
- The Wells Bladen Centre in Westbridge Park.
However, Festival Chairman John Sayer said the takings on Carnival Day were very significantly lower than recent years.
He said: “The rain and the new traffic arrangements at the bottom of Christchurch Way, which meant that the Parade couldn’t go through the High Street, both conspired to reduce the cash collections. However, some very generous additional cash sponsors came aboard this year and the Spring Funfair had helped the team to find enough to maintain the level of distribution.”
Stone Festival Annual General Meeting will be held on Tuesday 6th September at 7.30 pm at the Stone Station Community Centre, and next year’s Festival is planned for Sunday 10th to Sunday 17th June 2012.
The Festival team is already thinking about next year’s events and the Festival Chairman said they are always looking for new ideas and helpers.
If you want to help make the 2012 Stone Festival an event to remember then go along to the AGM and talk to the team.
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