Our teams have had a busy summer as festival season hit! Both V Festival sites, Leeds and Reading Festivals, Beverley Races Ladies Day and Edinburgh Fringe all had volunteers from local churches, Street Angel, Street Chaplain or Street Pastor groups.
The Leeds Festival (and Facebook / Twitter) saw 120 volunteers ( along with Bishop of Leeds Nick Baines) running the Lost Property, a Prayer Cafe and detached teams across the site from 12noon Wednesday to 12noon Monday. At Chelmsford's V Festival beer goggles, games and a Hall of Fame were featured whilst in Stafford cups of water were handed out, listening ears offered and a prayer space created. In Edinburgh the team patrolled the busy last weekend of the Fringe until the early hours whilst at Reading the Street Pastors offered a safe place cafe.
We hope to develop festival work over the coming months through the Festival Network. |
