LaDIYfest raise £1000 for WiCAT!
We were very lucky this year to be approached by LaDIYfest who wanted to use this year's festival to raise funds for WiCAT. We were also invited along to take part in the festival offering some hands on experience of fixing to walls and bricklaying.
We all had a great time at LaDIYfest but weren't sure what to expect on the day so were really pleased to be greeted so warmly and made to feel at home. With all the seminars and involved discussions upstairs we wondered what people would make of our hands-on crash courses. Needless to say, once word got round that we were there, we were soon inundated with visitors and our carefully laid plans for a two-session event gave way to a rolling performance from Tracy and Claudia with crowd control provided by Laura and Mandy.
Some of our team, who’d not seen the ‘fixing into walls’ class in action, were amazed at the transformational effect that giving someone the confidence to use a power tool – usually reserved for construction workers and confident DIYers – for something as simple as fixing a screw securely into a wall had on the participants.
The festival was a great success and WiCAT were very fortunate to receive a fantastic donation of £1000 towards our work! Many thanks to all the hard work of the LaDIYfest organisers and the generosity of those attending.
We all had a great time at LaDIYfest but weren't sure what to expect on the day so were really pleased to be greeted so warmly and made to feel at home. With all the seminars and involved discussions upstairs we wondered what people would make of our hands-on crash courses. Needless to say, once word got round that we were there, we were soon inundated with visitors and our carefully laid plans for a two-session event gave way to a rolling performance from Tracy and Claudia with crowd control provided by Laura and Mandy.
Some of our team, who’d not seen the ‘fixing into walls’ class in action, were amazed at the transformational effect that giving someone the confidence to use a power tool – usually reserved for construction workers and confident DIYers – for something as simple as fixing a screw securely into a wall had on the participants.
The festival was a great success and WiCAT were very fortunate to receive a fantastic donation of £1000 towards our work! Many thanks to all the hard work of the LaDIYfest organisers and the generosity of those attending.
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