We are very excited to announce that again this summer, from Tuesday 2^nd to Saturday 6^th August, we are organising to bring into the community a substantial number of young people to be involved in large scale community projects in Poringland and Framingham Earl. From 6,000 to 8,000 young people (11 to 18’s) from all over the country are expected to attend the ‘Newday’ Youth Festival at the Norfolk show-ground at this time.

On the afternoon of each day hundreds of these young people will volunteer to be bussed into various communities in and around the Norwich area in order to serve these communities in practical ways. The minimum number will be one coach full (49 young people) but it will be possible to receive several hundreds (or even more) if we can come up with ideas to organise and utilise them.

We also expect local teenagers from Poringland and Framingham Earl to be included amongst the volunteers. As well as the physical labour such a group will provide, we feel it will also serve to raise the reputation of teenagers across the local community and help develop community spirit, especially across the different generations. Last year, similar projects were held in different areas in and around Norwich and the Police say they are still noticing the positive impacts where these community projects happened; the local press were also often involved.