Although its been a while since we last updated our blog, it only feels like a day or two. Despite this we have been very busy working our socks off in Bury trying to get volunteers to participate in our ‘red day out’. For practical reasons its been a huge challenge getting people on board, the main reason and obstacle being we haven’t got our collection of red clothes on site and though people are eager to take part, the difficulty is getting them to come back to Bury on another day to try on suitable clothes which we bring from Chorley. We have a small group of definites on board. We also visited the college on Friday and had a very encouraging meeting with Peter Hague who works for the Arts department. He took us on a guided tour of the the different arts courses including the foundation class, photography and performing arts where he introduced us to the tutors, filling them in on what we’re doing and how it would be great to involve them somehow. We are arranging to go back and give a presentation to the students and offer them the opportunity to join in.
On Saturday we began working on Chorley market on a large stall (and a kiosk round the corner which we’re going to use as a changing room) which didn’t take us very long to give a clean up and to display all our red props. We got a very warm welcome from all the market traders, one in particular named Peter who owns a stall with his wife Bev. They sell jewellry and wedding hats and similar accessories. After walking round the market and introducing ourselves to the traders he wandered across with two beautiful red bracelets, one for each of us, which he described as his donation to the project. What a lovely gesture! We had a great day and a very encouraging response from everyone who happened by us that day.
