Sunday, 18 August 2019: Kibitz and Networking on Alwoodley Village Green

On the afternoon of Sunday 18th August there was a free concert on Alwoodley Village Green when Kibitz performed Klezmer and Eastern European Folk music for an appreciative audience.

Despite fears that the concert might be cancelled due to the weather (it rained heavily earlier in the week), it was a lovely afternoon, though a little blustery.

Friends of Adel Woods decided that this would be a great opportunity to publicise our work and to muster up some more recruits and we put up a grand gazebo at the northern end of the green. Our treasurer Judith was anxious that the gazebo might blow away in a gust of wind, but in fact the real problem was remembering how to put it up and the chair had to go home to find the instructions!

Once up, the gazebo was turned into a treasure house of interesting information about the fauna and flora to be found in Adel Woods and the work carried out by FOAW.

Thoughout the afternoon we had a visitors to our stand and we signed up six people to our mailing list.

At the end of the afternoon, Fetch, the pet shop on King Lane, brought over some gluten free cakes to revitalise our enthusiastic volunteers – and very nice they were too!

Thanks to Stephanie and Judith for excellent creativity and ingenuity in providing displays for our stand and to Barbara, Tamsin, Michelle, David, Rob, Diana, Chris and Pippa for helping to put up the stand and talk to the public about our work.

Thank you to Kibitz for an excellent afternoon’s entertainment. Thanks to Alwoodley Parish Council for organising the event. And thanks to Fetch for some excellent cakes!