Alrewas Canal And Music Festival

So here we are at the end of an absolutely brilliant 5 days of radio, music, beer and community spirit. With regards to the post I wrote last weekend about The Alrewas show, I just wanted to expand on a few points.

There is one thing that always gets me about this village that I live in. There is a great amount of different groups and organisations in the village that do lots of good things for the village. Now it is all very well and good having this, but what makes thing extra special is when they all get together in 1 big event like the Alrewas Show or the Arts Festival or the Canal and Music Festival, each part encorperating a different part of our village heritage: the canals, the arts and the creativity and the agricultural side of the village community, that pays tribute to the fact that the village was once upon a time just a group of farm buildings.

There are plenty of other things that inspire me about this type of event. Just general people trying to make a difference to the world in which they live in, starting with the local community. Not only are there lots of hassles involved with organising these type of events, but they are also very time consuming and require a lot of dedication and commitment from lots of people involved, to the point where people are sleeping in marquees to make sure nobody pinches the beer in the middle of the night!

These type of events inevitably come with their own problems to sort out and with organising so many people together, if one person doesn't pull their weight then the whole thing could have a negative effect on the whole chain of things.

Having organised the radio for this event and others similar, there is so much of it that can prove to be so tricky and time-consuming that to be organising the whole event is a mammoth task in itself!

However, it is the end result that is really something inspiring. If you achieve something as succesful and as memorable as you achieve with these events, not only making people aware of the great things that go on in the village, but also raising so much money for the local community, organisations and groups is an absolutely brilliant thing to have and something that is really good for us to be able to say that we have been part of.

And it is for those reasons that I am proud to say that I am from Alrewas. Community participation and generosity of time, to make things happen for the good of the entire community, that I will miss when I go off to university in September and leave the village.

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