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Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob
Some of the towns stallholders and shopkeepers might feel agrieved at being left out of the festival - that's good - encourage them to take part by taking a stall for the evening.
Gayle could actually do a bit to help by persuading her various groups to make stuff especially to be sold for the event and talking endlessly to the Observer and the Telegraph about it. Schools could also take part through competitions which would have their culmination on the evening of the event.
Your only expenses so far are the Christmas Tree and the fee for the Special Events Notice, which, as the event is for the good of the town centre, the council will be leant on or, shamed into, waiving. Take what is available voluntarily and use it to the maximum and that way it won't cost much at all. Get all the participants blogging and tweeting and posting vids on Youtube prior to the event - free publicity. A poster in every school and community centre etc etc.
But the most important thing of all it will be the people of Accrington organising the whole thing. Doing it for themselves instead of allowing the council to fork out vast sums of taxpayer cash directly into the pockets of Z-list celebrities and wanna-be's for a few half-hearted renditions of half-witted pop ditties.
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This is the big stumbling block of course.
Finding some people to actually do these things - there are plenty of people willing to pitch in with good ideas but they seem to expect some mythical body to actually do these things.
Let's look at some of the tasks needed
Decide what the actual event would be
Design posters
Print posters - who's going to pay for that?
Distribute posters - all around Hyndburn, Blackburn and even Burnley
Sign up stall holders/participants
Notify all shop keepers as to how they can be involved
Get stall holders at the market involved
Send out letters to the press to get publicity
Apply for the licence
Fill in any forms needed to get road closures or permissions - bear in mind that even if you want to put a poster up on a highway you need to apply for permission
Do a running order of the event - if it's an event
Decide what the competition is - organise it and then judge it
Find judges
Get prizes - talk to people about donations for prizes
Award prizes - invite the Mayor to come
Look after the Mayor for the evening
Do you need a loud speaker system so that the Mayor can be heard?
Invite people down to the event - print invites - cost involved.
All of these items on the list are off the top of my head and I'm not saying it can't be done. But you need to find quite a few people willing to share out the jobs and do it because it might sound simple but never is.
Find the people and I'll help.