The Wray Scarecrow Festival was held on the 23rd of April and we decided to give our project a bit of a boost by running our own stall to promote our products. After a brief struggle against the wind we managed to get our tent and our scarecrow set up (in a manner of speaking).

We brought a selection of products to display and inside the tent some of our volunteers worked on a large plant-pot which will be a showpiece at future displays.

Overall we were pleased with the reaction we received from those who stopped by to see us. We managed to hand out all of our leaflets and even a couple of order forms, one of which has come back to us filled out. It was also a pleasant surprise to hear people say they had read about us in the Lancaster Guardian.

We hope to take part in more events like this in the future and apply the lessons we’ve learned from Wray to really make the most of the opportunities they provide.

The new financial year started last month and we managed to get things off to a flying start with some generous funding from Lancaster Round Table. We were presented with a cheque for £3500 at the annual Lancaster Round Table Beer Festival.

This award will go a long way towards covering Fragments’ total support costs for the coming year and was much greater than anyone expected.  We were so pleased with our funding that we decided to run a press release which was published by the Lancaster Guardian.

However, as generous and substantial as the award from Lancaster Round Table is, we still need additional funds to cover our support for the rest of the year and to fulfil our goal of running Fragments over 2 days each week. If you feel you could help us achieve this goal, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

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