Tuesday, December 21, 2010

BRISTOL CITY COUNCIL LOOKS AT BRINGING BACK BONFIRE NIGHT FIREWORKS

Andrew Simmonds is an enthusiastic Western Round Table member who has been organizing charity fireworks display in Downend. None the less he is disappointed with the British City Councils wishes to offer a free fireworks event.

The annual fireworks event that takes place at the Harbour Festival will be now moved to the Downs. This free firework display is bound to take place on the 5th of November 2011.

At the same time the other charity displays will be drastically affected with this. Since the fact being is that post this free display everyone would rather prefer watching a firework display for free then pay for the same. Since the event is charity based, all the proceedings would go for the same.

But if people expect to attend for free then no charity funds would thus be gathered. This will in turn affect many a charitable causes negatively. Volunteers from the Bristol Round Table and the Rotary Club of Clifton would earlier offer a firework display at the Downs.

This was eventually stopped in the year 2008 as they ran into big loses. In this year of 2010, nearly 50,000 people watched a fireworks display over a three-day event which saw the coming together of 250,000 people in total.

The FLIP project encourages local students to become involved in communal & charitable giving in Gibraltar. Visit http://www.flip.gi for more information.

Community Awareness : FLIP project includes participation of local students to provide nonprofit fundraising ideas for charity to create community awareness in Gibraltar amongst the teenagers.

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