Fairer Living Festival 2024

Join in at the Fairer Living Festival 2024 on 11th May at the Walsall Football Club and meet sustainability champion, charity founder, and ‘The Repair Shop’ host, Jay Blades. This is a free event for the whole family with lots of activities including:

• Our AGM

• ‘The Repair Shop’ host, Jay Blades, is joining us for a Q&A session and will be staying to mingle with guests throughout the day

• Meet local community partners and charities such as Ablewell Advice, Black Country Womens Aid and Street Teams. Find out more about what they do, and how we can support them

• Get career ready with our ‘Suited for Success’ bus with great advice and support from experts on overcoming barriers and achieving long-term sustainable employment

• Family fun for everyone including live music from local artists, cooking demonstrations, circus entertainment, face painting and crafting workshops

The day will be packed with things to see, discover and do, including getting close and personal to TV personality, Jay Blades.

Our Fairer Living Festival brings together like-minded social enterprises and individuals who are passionate about building a fairer, more sustainable, and ethical future.

Meet ‘The Repair Shop’ host, Jay Blades

Jay is well known as the host of BBC One’s successful ‘The Repair Shop’. He is celebrated as the nation's favourite furniture up-cycler, believing that the old can become new, the worn can shine again, and the broken can be fixed.

Jay’s views on sustainability and supporting communities are very much aligned to ours. As the co-founder of former charities Street Dreams and Out of the Dark, Jay has been a huge source of motivation for thousands of disengaged and disadvantaged young people. He is passionate about supporting charitable causes that are close to his heart and loves the opportunity to get involved in projects that inspire change.

Get involved at our Annual General Meeting – members only

Our Annual General Meeting takes place between 10am - 12pm when we’ll discuss our annual performance, showcase how we’ve been supporting our local communities, talk about our plans for the future and vote on key Society matters. There will also be an open Q&A session.

Members will receive 100 membership points for attending the AGM.

If you can’t make the AGM in person why not join online?

If you’re not able to make it to Walsall on 11th May, why not join our AGM online? You’ll be able to have your say and participate by voting on key matters and ask questions to the Board. You can sign up for the online event here.

Fun for everyone

Join in the family fun. There’s something for all ages from cooking demonstrations and crafting to a circus workshop, face painting and music from local artists. And, it’s free!

• Local Artists (Music)
• Kids Face Painting
• Cooking Demonstrations
• Circus Entertainment
• Crafting Workshops
• Book / Toy / Clothes Swap Shop - Bring along and swap the following:

Books for all ages that are in good condition - we are unable to accept books that are damaged with missing pages

Children’s toys mixed ages e.g., educational games, board games -we are unable to accept cuddly toys or toys with missing or broken parts

Clothes mixed ages in good condition worn but wearable and clean- we are unable to accept dirty or ripped, damaged clothes

Doing good together in your community

Meet local community partners and charities and find out more about what they do and how we can support them. Partners attending include:

• Alz Café
• Street Teams
• Community Heartbeat Trust – Defibrillators
• Black Country Women's Aid
• Local Foodbank Partners

Our foodbank partners will be happy to receive donations of food at the event, please note if you bring along an item it needs to be non-perishable and in date

• & many more

And why not check out our Parent’s First Aid and Basic Sign Language training too?

Career help and guidance

Get career ready with great advice and support from experts on overcoming barriers and achieving sustainable employment. We’ll be joined on the day by:

Suited for Success Bus

Just Straight Talk

Steps to Work

Fairer Futures Programme

Walsall College

Book your free place today!