Nominet Exhibition- Our Day Out

The Windmill Hill City Farm Community Development Team are on a day out today.  We are at the Nominet Exhibition in Broadmead.  We are here all day chatting to people and exploring ways to see how the internet can bring people, ideas, learning and communities together.

We met local resident Ron today, who went online for the first time only a few days ago. He had lots of stories to tell us about being sustainable, due to his thrifty lifestyle during the war years spent working on a farm.  He chatted to us about the benefits of being resourceful, how he keeps himself young and always open to learning new things.

Lots of inspiring people came into the Nominet exhibition who shared with us the ways they contribute to their local community and environment. We met Mohammed who works with children and adults with learning difficulties and supports them with numeracy and literacy skills.  He talked to Iwona our Fruitfulness volunteer worker about how is always finding ways to be an 'Active Citizen' in his community in Portishead.

Georgina, Jamela, Abby and Megan from a local school came along to the exhibition to find out what we were up to at the Nominet Exhibition.  Abby was interested in blogging and setting up her own blog about climbing and reading - the other girls said she is a brilliant writer.  We had a chat with her about how to set up a blog and we are looking forward to reading her new blog.

The girls were also interested in volunteering and Jules the Community Development Worker and Rosie our volunteer Sustainablity Engagement Worker talked to them about volunteering at the Farm.
We look forward to finding out what volunteering opportunities they may get involved in.

Today we have also been developing some new exciting projects for Active Citizens in 2013. We are developing a project which we hope will encourage people in the local community to find ways to be more sustainable in everyday life. Step Out for Sustainability (SOS) will explore ways to encourage households in the local community to make thoughtful decisions about how they travel, cook, shop, run their houses and deal with their waste.  Details coming soon...