Community Day

Sat, Jul 9th 2016 at 8:00 am -

It"™s back for another year, bigger and better in 2016! It"™s a FREE opportunity to Raise your Profile, Recruit new Members and Volunteers, Raise Funds, Promote your Cause, Provide Information and Advice and Sell Merchandise

Community Day - Members of Wigan Rotary Club with the Mayor of Wigan

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Community Day

Sponsored by

Rotary Club of Wigan

To all Local Charities and Good Causes

It’s back for another year, bigger and better in 2016! It’s a FREE opportunity to Raise your Profile, Recruit new Members and Volunteers, Raise Funds, Promote your Cause, Provide Information and Advice, Sell Merchandise to the thousands of local people who will be there to enjoy all the fun and activity on the day.

The venue is WIGAN TOWN CENTRE: the date is SATURDAY 9^th JULY 2016 between 8am & 4 pm.

You will be allocated a 9 foot frontage along Standishgate. Here you can erect a table, gazebo or mobile display unit and distribute your literature, sell your merchandise, hold a Tombola or other game of chance. The Rotary Club of Wigan, who is sponsoring the event, has obtained the necessary licences, all you have to do it turn up and join in!!

To attract the Public there will be a stage outside the Moon under Water on which jazz groupsand local community groups will be entertaining all day.

All that is asked ofyou is that you pay a £10 Deposit which is Returnable if you observe a few simple rules. If you enter Standishgate by motor vehicle, you must take you vehicle away before 10 am when the barriers go up. You will not be able to return with a vehicle before 4 pm. You must not do anything illegal or which offends, create a noise that spoils it for others, sell food, use gas cylinders or similar apparatus or leave rubbish behind.

To book your stall, please print the booking form below and send it with your cheque for £10 made payable to the Rotary Club of Wigan and send it to the address at the top of the reply slip. We look forward to a fun-filled day which will benefit all the Good Causes in the borough. Please publicise the Wigan Community Day on your website and in your newsletters – spread the word.

So “come on down” and make it another successful event. Book early to avoid disappointment.

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To ROTARY CLUB OF WIGAN, 18 SPENCER ROAD WEST, WIGAN WN6 7HP

I would like to book a stall at the WIGAN COMMUNITY DAY on Saturday 9^th July 2015 on behalf of (insert name of Charity or Group)..........................................................................................................

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Type of stall Proposed...........................................

I enclose a cheque for £10 made payable to the Rotary Club of Wigan, which I understand will be refunded as long as we abide by the rules laid out.

Name: ...................................................................................................................................................

Address.....................................................................................................................................................

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Tel No:........................................

.email address:......................................................................................

Any queries e-mail mervyn.reeves@blueyonder.co or phone 01942 242950

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