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Brixham
Fun Day 2009
With
plenty of sunshine, the Brixham Fun Day was a huge success!
Many Brixham families and visiting families enjoyed all the
FREE rides, games and activities on Furzeham Green.
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The Brixham
Young Volunteers from Y.E.S.(Youth enquiry service) organised
and ran the FREE event with the help of the Y.E.S. staff and
H.Y.P.A. (Helping young people achieve) group, using funding
secured from the Big Lottery Funding.
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From
12 noon the people and families arrived to enjoy the activities,
rides and refreshments including free fruit and panninis made
to order by the young volunteers and the Salvation Army Food
Van serving up burgers. With the Young Volunteers helping all
around the event in their Fun Day t-shirts including face painting,
bouncy castles donkey rides and the rock wall with long queues
forming,as everyone keen to have a go!
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Feature
items included clay making activity run by Sarah Jones a local
South Devon College student allowing young people and families
to make clay men based on the Anthony Gormley Exhibition at
Torre Abbey. The results will be shortly on display at Brixham
Heritage Museum. There was also the Brixham Library stall with
the Guest Seekers encouraging young readers to read books over
the summer and an I-Pod Shuffle competition for those who read
6 books.
With music playing
throughout the day, live bands arrived from 6 to 10pm and Palm
FM radio.
There will be a Review
of the event by the Young Volunteers to follow…. |
