Warwickshire Communities - WAG Action Day May 27th 2006

Saturday 27^th May 1- 4pm

At Wellesbourne Primary School

Loads of activities and fun things to do for all ages

Health checks, bouncy castle, karate demonstrations, face painting, mobile craft unit, climbing wall, street dancing, arts and crafts and light refreshments

Info stands from lots of local groups

Click here to see photographs of the event

Comments on the Day

The Wellesbourne Action Day proved very successful. The theme was WISC up Wellesbourne (Wellesbourne Inclusive and Safer Communities). The main intention was to get local people involved in and be responsible for their own community. Although the weather was terrible all events carried on indoors. There were many organisations involved from the County and Voluntary Sectors. It was very useful for networking and several groups had not heard of VLOs. One particular group operating at Studley was a Credit Union which would be great for Wellesbourne. The County Groups include Library Service, Community Education, Connexions, Police, NHS, Warwickshire Childrens Information Service. There were other local groups involved such as WI, Karate, Neighbourhood Watch, Wellesbourne in Bloom etc.

I think all groups interacted well and learnt a lot about each other. There was a good attendance by local , district and county councillors. Most amazing was a comment from our local parish / district councillor, David Close, "I did not know anything about the VLO scheme !" He does know now and apparently District County are looking at ways of better dissemination of information and he agreed that the VLO route would be ideal. I gave him Karens name as a contact." Geoff Blundall VLO

"Just to say thanks for the invite to the above last Saturday. I
> thought it was well organized and was good fun. I recruited two adult
> learners, which was very positive and unexpected. Events are always
> good for networking but rarely produce learners signing up there and
> then - so thank you.
>
>" I think the logo for WAG designed by a group of kids, was truly amazing."
>
>" May see you at another event some day !"

"The chance to hear and see different groups and past times. It is also great to get the community together!"

"I had never heard of WAG until today. I think that such a co-odinated group demonstrates the pride people have for their community"

" I realised that there are a lot of people who care about the village. My family and i have only been here 4 years but are already proud."

Photos from Action Day
Photographs

Winner of WAG Logo Competition, Christopher Teakle (Aged 8), presented with prize by District Councillor Chris Saint and Parish Councillor John Grantham

Councillor David Close Meets his Match !

Rev Kate Mier, Kully Takhar, Anti-social Behaviour Officer and Joanne Rooke, Community Engagement Officer

Geoff Blundall, Wellesbourne Village Liaison Officer with his stand