Helping clear up after the Sneinton Festival

GoodGym Nottingham will be helping the Sneinton Festival team with clearing up after the main event on Saturday 13th July.

This will involve putting away tables, packing up the stage and litter picking around the area. This will be a huge help to the festival volunteers as this day of celebrations draws to a close.

We will meet at Hermitage Square at 6pm and aim to be done by 7pm.

About the Sneinton Community Festival and Parade

Sneinton Festival as we know it today started in 1984 - though we think it happened every summer for many many years before that. The festival has for the past 40 years been a celebration of the diversity of cultures and personalities of the community that lives here. The festival brings people together, across generations and cultures, to enjoy arts, music, sports and activities for free. To enjoy what each other do and feel good together! We need this more than ever before as many people are being pushed into poverty.

Sneinton has been a welcoming home, since WW2 at least, to many diasporas, refugees, migrants and asylum seekers.

Over the last few years the festival has suffered due to innumerable cuts, inflation, cost of living crisis, pandemic and under funding of local government. There was no festival since 2019 until last year (2023) when Green's Windmill generously and successfully hosted the event. Green's Mill are unable to host the event again as they are busy mending the windmill.

This year the theme is 'There's No Place Like Home' to celebrate this community and to acknowledge that Sneinton has become home to so many people from around the world - and to celebrate the homes that many of us have left behind.