Deal With It top ten

Well, with all the hard work it's nice to put our feet up and take a view back of all that happened on Saturday. Here's our top-ten features of the day:

10: we had a gloriously sunny day, not something to take lightly this Summer!
9: we had a good turn-out. We were hoping for around 300 people to pass through over the time we there - we definitely got that.
8: Sue (and Adam) excelled herself in her 'Snack Hut' - she raised around £110 for Hope UK
7: the bouncy castle and mendhi proved extremely popular with large queues
6: Doreen's Line Dancing troop were certainly a hit - it was particularly good to see a few people get up stage to have a go!
5: we had 12 stalls there - most of them providing important information about drugs and alcohol
4: there was plenty of opportunity for people to make new friends and meet others from the Ocean Estate
3: the park became a place of fun and real community for the day - no drug dealing to be seen
2: the drug action forum was able to recruit some new faces and lots of really good conversations about drugs issues were shared.
1: most importantly the issue of drug misuse was brought to the fore and the community came together to show that we really want to 'deal with it'

Thanks particularly to Niki, Ruzina, Sue, Nick and Ishaque for all their organisation in making the day happen at all. Roll on next year!

Here are some photos from the day...

Sue's Snack Hut!


Pete and Ishaque on the sound desk


Line dancers:


Bellringing:


Stall holders