This evening saw the gang get together with the aim of spreading the word about great things on offer in our community!# We had one flyer for the training on offer at the YMCA and their facilities, another flyer for the Repair Cafe. Transition Bournemouth and Bournemouth Council want to encourage local people to consider repairing damaged items, even if they are unsure how, by ‘asking the expert’ at a Repair Café and learning new skills for next time as the item is fixed. Then on the other side of that we were promoting the excellent Give or Take Day. Give or Take Days are like jumble sales, but everything’s free. It doesn’t cost anything to donate your unwanted items. You can take home anything you want – for free. Sounds pretty sweet to us! And the other flyer was a GoodGym flyer trying to find us more missions in Bournemouth.

Once the gang had gathered and we had welcomed back Andrew we set off at a very mellow pace through the pedestrian district, through the Square and gradually up towards Holdenhurst Road with the aim of reaching Windham Road and our starting spot.

With the flyers nicely sorted we handed out individual packs and split up into two group to cover both sides of the road. In no time we had done most of it and it was time to cross the rail track, safely of course, and onto Churchill Gardens. There were a couple team swaps at some points and Caprice even managed to get lucky flyering her own house!

We regrouped and checked our times and how many leaflets we had left and headed back a different route. By the end of it I reckon Fredrika had gotten familiar with a whole new part of Bournemouth!

Thank you to Caprice for being a great Backmarker as always!

Well done everyone, that's a lot of flyers we dropped off for lots of different causes. We even heard from Abi, who we flyer dropped for three weeks ago, that her event was a great success and that instead of the 300 or so people she was expecting around 900 turned up instead and that a lot of them mentioned they had seen the flyers! Brilliant!

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