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Gorse Hill Glows: 23rd November 2024, Marje Kelly Park

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Gorse Hill’s annual lantern festival just got more exciting!
Join us at Marje Kelly Park for fun and free activities, before our big lantern switch-on and twilight bedtime stories!

Follow our walking trail beforehand, collect the letters, and bring them to the park to win a prize!

  • 3:00-4:30 pm: free activities
  • 4:30-5:00 pm: lantern switch-on
  • 5:00-5:30pm: explore the lanterns
  • 5:30pm: bedtime stories

See below for more details, and look out for a leaflet coming through your door.

Gorgeous Gorse Hill 2024 AGM

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10th October 2024
Trafford House
7pm

Come along, find out more about what we do and get involved. We’re looking for new committee members – no essential criteria but useful skills include gardening, art, blog writing and fundraising.

If you’ve been thinking about volunteering all year but not got round to it, we’d love to meet you!

Be part of our unique, joyful community event: Lantern Parade 2023

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5-7pm, 18 November 2023

Make your own lanterns to decorate your garden and street.
Watch the lanterns come past then join us in Marje Kelly Park at the end.
The parade will also collect donations for care-leavers at Christmas.

We start at 5pm at Gorse Hill Studios, and finish at 6pm at Marje Kelly Park, where light refreshments will be available.

Decorate your own street and garden!

Christmas gifts for young people leaving care

  • As the parade passes, we’ll collect Christmas gifts for young people moving out of care, to help them establish a new life. Bring something out for us if you can!
    • Good gifts include… pads and tampons; adult colouring books; mindfulness books; colouring pens and pencils; bamboo pads; sensitive body wash; body and skin care products for men; hair products suitable for Afro hair; diaries; canvases; and A5 or A4 notebooks.

Can you help make it happen?

The Lantern Parade is completely planned and run by local volunteers. Could you be part of it?

  • We need volunteers to deliver leaflets so everyone in Gorse Hill knows what’s happening. If you could spare half an hour to put leaflets through every door on your street, please email us and let us know what street(s) you could cover.
  • We also need volunteers to be part of the parade, carrying lanterns or stewarding. Again, email us if you’d like to be part of it.

Do you love the Parade and our other events?

You can support Gorgeous Gorse Hill by making a donation. Or if you’re a Co-op member, name us as your local cause, and you’ll support us every time you shop at the Co-op.

Find out how you can help here.