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hedman2003 · 09-09-2012, 09:33

Last night we went to view the Preston Guild Torchlight Procession it contained over 3000 participants and nearly 70 floats and there were massive crowds watching the procession. What was very noticeable was that all sections of the community were involved

Having participated in the Accrington Carnival in the late 70's early 80's and in the last few it has become a pale shadow of its former self I would be interested to know why this is such poor participation

This in no way is a critiicism of the Accrington Lions who do a fantastic job in seeking participants and organising the event but where have have all the bands, majorette troups, floats from schools, local companies etc participating. Why dont the local sports clubs/ youth organisatons/ Churches/ Cultural Organisations not use the Carnival as a means of advertising their organisations to the local population and perhaps boost their membership

Hyndburn has many thriving voluntary groups that we should be proud of surely the Carnival is a direct way of showing off the groups that we have in the Borough

Do people outside of Accrington ie Ossy, Gt Harwood etc not consider it relevent to be in Accy Carnival?

Has the demise of large local companies made it difficult to get hold of vehicles?

Why do all sections of the community not feel that they can participate

Is non participation down to cost, apathy

Should consideration be given to it being a torchlight procession which coulod mean that more people are able to be involved

Last night on the back of the Jubilee and the Olympics you could feel amongst the crowd there was a real sense of Proud Preston - should we not be aiming the same way for our community

More questions than answers but would appreciate your views

09-09-2012, 09:33	#1
hedman2003 Full Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 395 Liked: 6 times Rep Power: 1542	Accrington Carnival - Community involvement Last night we went to view the Preston Guild Torchlight Procession it contained over 3000 participants and nearly 70 floats and there were massive crowds watching the procession. What was very noticeable was that all sections of the community were involved Having participated in the Accrington Carnival in the late 70's early 80's and in the last few it has become a pale shadow of its former self I would be interested to know why this is such poor participation This in no way is a critiicism of the Accrington Lions who do a fantastic job in seeking participants and organising the event but where have have all the bands, majorette troups, floats from schools, local companies etc participating. Why dont the local sports clubs/ youth organisatons/ Churches/ Cultural Organisations not use the Carnival as a means of advertising their organisations to the local population and perhaps boost their membership Hyndburn has many thriving voluntary groups that we should be proud of surely the Carnival is a direct way of showing off the groups that we have in the Borough Do people outside of Accrington ie Ossy, Gt Harwood etc not consider it relevent to be in Accy Carnival? Has the demise of large local companies made it difficult to get hold of vehicles? Why do all sections of the community not feel that they can participate Is non participation down to cost, apathy Should consideration be given to it being a torchlight procession which coulod mean that more people are able to be involved Last night on the back of the Jubilee and the Olympics you could feel amongst the crowd there was a real sense of Proud Preston - should we not be aiming the same way for our community More questions than answers but would appreciate your views Last edited by hedman2003; 09-09-2012 at 09:37.