Our Community Can – Activity Taster Day
Thank you to everyone who responded to the Activity Taster Day consultation, in total, there were 48 responses.
The suggested activities that scored the highest votes, we have tried to organise a taster session with an instructor. The below image details the activities that will be taking place on the 3rd September.
The sessions are open to EVERYONE, you do not have to live in Fairfield, Wildmoor or Stoneybridge.
Our thanks to Active Herefordshire and Worcestershire for organising this day for you.
You can attend the whole day, or for a session or two. You could just pop along for the HOMEMADE CAKES.
At the end of the Taster Day, YOU will decide which activity or activities should continue and when.
In addition to providing activity suggestions, some people used the consultation to leave comments, to prove that we do read your comments, we have provided some responses, please do get in touch, and help us deliver the solution:
“More distribution locally of flyers detailing whatsoever. Too many people do not know about Fairfield Village Hall events.”
As community events & village hall activities are mentioned in the FVCA newsletter, which is delivered to approximately 380 homes in our community every quarter, what additional information would you like to see in the event flyer? Is it a reminder flyer, and how often should it be delivered? If additional flyers are to be printed & distributed, we would need to recruit more volunteers.
“Daytime Activities cannot be attending by a lot of people who work. Looking at photos that appear on facebook etc. it would appear that most of the people who attend are retired.”
Every evening at the Village Hall activities take place, as well as increasing number of Wednesday afternoon activities. We also have cover bands & some of the region’s best indie artists perform at our village hall every month on a Saturday night, movies on a Sunday evening, plus event cinema, with screenings on the same day & time as the major UK cinema chains. It is true, most of the people that we attract are either Over 50 who live locally or young adults (25 to 35 yrs) that live outside our area. To increase the number of local 25- to 45-year-olds is something that we can encourage and would like, perhaps if local younger adults could get involved, others will also join in. If there is an activity that you would like to see that would attract young adults, please suggest and help organize. Facebook does not show photographs for all activities that take place, and the people attending. Some activities are delivered by third party organisations.
“We need extra social gathering for the elderly as there are none in Fairfield on a daily basis.”
We would love to have more activities for all age groups, but venues are limited. We are hoping that the Taster Day will help us identify more than one additional activity that we could deliver in our community, hopefully reaching out to all age groups. Please pop along to The Wednesday Social, and encourage other older people to do the same, tell us what you want (we note you not did tick any of the boxes) and what you will support.