Peterborough Environment City Trust’s Green Festival 2009 – the best one yet!

Peterborough Environment City Trust’s two week Green Festival, which ended on Sunday, has been the most successful one yet according to organisers from the green charity.

The Green Festival has been running for 18 years and according to Janine Starling from PECT this year has been the most successful in terms of the number of local people attending events throughout the fortnight.

Janine said: “The launch day on Saturday 23rd May had a fantastic buzz and there were definitely more people attending than we have had in previous years. I think this was down to the fact that we had some great activities for the whole family to enjoy, and the entertainment with the junk band was superb. The sunny weather helped too!”

Janine continued, “We also noticed more people getting involved in the events throughout the Green Festival fortnight such as the swish clothes swap, the cycle race, and the eco-fashion show in Queensgate. There were around 500 people at the grand finale summer party organised by Riverford Organic Veg at Sacrewell Farm on Sunday, despite the rain!”

PECT carried out surveys throughout the Festival with people that had attended, responses included:

“The whole family had an amazing time”, “Enjoyed it all would like to see more events like this” and, “Good range of family activities to enjoy and good ideas on how we can improve our green-ness.”

When asked which part of the Festival they had least enjoyed, one attendee responded “that it doesn’t go on longer.”

Event organisers are now seeking ideas for the theme of next years Green Festival which will launch on Saturday 22nd May 2010.

The theme in 2008 was ‘get a green grip’ where reusable carrier bags were given out to cut the number of plastic bags in the city. This year the theme was grow it, cook it, eat it, focussing on healthy eating, growing your own food and supporting local farmers.

If you have an idea for the theme of the Green Festival in 2010 send it over to the team at PECT by emailing janine.starling@pect.net or calling 01733 866439.