Gazebos are good to go!

For the last 2 years Festival Harvest has all been a dream with a vague bit of structured thought behind it. Well the dream is now reality, thanks to the nice people at Allen Lane Foundation. The peaceful dream has now welcomed the dawnlight and thus far it hasn't proved too chilly, although it is a lot less peaceful. Left over food from music festivals united with people who find themselves destitute. All through the good auspices of various existing projects. Hopefully this blog will be a way for people to keep track of what we do and where we will be.

We are a matchmaking group putting festivals, destitution projects and people prepared to sort and transport food together in a way that hopefully helps everyone. The plan was to continue our collection at the Greenbelt Festival, last year amounting to £6500 worth and add in two more in 2008. Slight hiccup there already. Well, everyone said it was a good idea and what fun it would be. The situation for destitute asylum seekers gets no better, so when offered a presence in one way or another at 6 festivals this year the word no didn't occur.

The FH gazebo is still a glint in the eye of whatever gives birth to baby gazebos and so, trustee LC, loaned her very own barbeque palace to the cause. On a windswept evening we set up on the Cheshire plain and after much wrestling with guy ropes and flapping canvas beat a hasty retreat. Next morning £700 worth of food had gathered under it's eaves, dropped off by happy campers. Thank you!

Thank you also to Tangerine Fields, who the week before passed on their Big Chill sleeping bags to projects in Birmingham. 3 more food collections to go this year, and hopefully we can rehome a load more sleeping bags.