Setting up and stewarding at the Sneinton Festival

GoodGym Nottingham are taking part in the Sneinton Festival on Saturday 13th July to help support this amazing annual event.

We have been asked to help with two tasks in the morning:

1. Setting up the tables and stage for the main event in Hermitage Square (9am-10am)

2. Stewarding the parade which starts at Edale Road and finishes at Hermitage Square (10.45am-11.45am)

You are welcome to join for the whole morning (9am to 11.45am) or for part of it - please let us know by commenting on this listing or via the WhatsApp group before the event if you plan to join part way through.

If joining at 9am, we will meet at Hermitage Square

If joining at 10.45am, we will meet outside Edale Rise Primary School on Edale Road

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.