Friends of Golowan
Are you a friend of Golowan?
What exactly does that mean?
We love seeing the whole community come together to celebrate everything that’s special about our town. We want this to continue long into the future. But we need your help to make this happen!
Times are hard for everyone as the cost of everything goes up and funding gets ever tighter for community festivals like ours. Penzance Council gives funds every year to Golowan and we are massively grateful to them. But this doesn’t even come close to covering the total costs of putting on all your favourite events which make the festival so successful.
Penzance is not Penzance without Golowan, so this is your chance to help make a difference and make sure it survives (unlike many others) and is still here for future generations.
What Can You Do?
Buy a Friends of Golowan badge
Beautiful one-off enamel badges, wear yours with pride! Available for £10 at Mirva Gallery, 6-7 Causewayhead, Penzance and sign up to be on our ‘Friends’ mailing list so we can contact you when we need your help – with the festival, fundraising, theme choosing etc. Forms available when you buy your badge
Put on a fundraising event
It could be a coffee morning, a pub quiz, a sponsored walk, shaving your hair or beard off, a gymnastics or dance display in your street. Simple as you like. Or put on a gig where the door, or a portion of it, goes to Golowan. You may regularly put on fund-raising events – make Golowan one of your beneficiaries. Let us know and we can share your event/activity on the Golowan Facebook and Insta pages.
Volunteer
We need up to 50 volunteers on Mazey Day and Quay Fair Day. They make the days go smoothly. A few hours on the Golowan stall, marshalling a parade, giving parading children water at the end, litter picking, shaking a collection bucket. Everything needs doing and we all need to muck in. Please contact: community@golowanfestival.org
How will you shine for Golowan?
Fatel wrewgh golowi rag Golowan?
If we all chipped in the price of a pasty: every donation, no matter how small, helps towards the festival.
‘’A trusted few formed themselves into what we call a committee – an anonymous but representative body to whom is confided a large sum of money, never larger than this year, with longer pockets; and these find money for a band of musicians, all the tar barrels and other casks of the neighbourhood, firewood, furze and men to place and ignite the combustibles. All this self-imposed labour ………… – is in honour of saturnalia which are as old as the hills.” The Cornish Telegraph, 30 June 1875
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