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Rebel with a cause - June Challenge

 The June Challenge - spend a month making a positive change for a cause of your choice. Without giving myself loads more extra work, this one was a little tricky to manage. You see, I am chairman / chairwoman / chairperson of FOTWHOP - A friends group for our local park. Our local park was bought by the town council (from the district council) to safeguard it from development, and I am a co-opted member for the town council park committee. The story is quite involved, and one that I will go into at another time, as my work for the park will form a large part of my Activist badge, and also part of my Fundraiser badge.

Anyway - during June I continued to promote and run the 200+ Club that we run to raise funds for our group. I also signed up with Devon Connect - a website where groups can advertise the volunteering opportunities with the public. I applied for funding from our local Round Table (they had advertised on Facebook that they were looking for local community groups to give money to), and our group was successful in getting part of the funding, allowing us to buy a heavy duty lockable box for sports equipment, that is free to use in the park. In addition to this, I sent out an email request for more gardening volunteers for the park - the idea is that our park is the people’s park; the people of the area were determined to keep it in its entirety, and that momentum needs to continue, if we are to have a park we can be proud of, that is a showcase for the area. A picture of the request I sent out is below - and we had a good response to it, - about 5 or 6 more people came forward, and I passed their details on to the volunteer gardener coordinator. We also had offers of tools come from this as well.

In a little way I wonder if this is cheating a little - as it is what I would be doing already. However - I don’t have time to give any other causes, as there are several other groups I’m involved with that also require my time. I’m continuing with the work - we’re starting to collect seeds for the seed swap, and I’ll be putting a call out for volunteers to help look after the equipment box soon.


Rebel with a Cause - complete! - and still ongoing 😂🥰


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