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Parklife Festival Angels are once again making an appearance at the Heaton Park Festival which this year celebrates its fifteenth anniversary. Parklife, which runs Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th June, is a mix of dance, electronic, hip-hop, and pop music, attracting over 100,000 attendees across the two days. Parklife Festival Angels are needed to run three safe spaces across the festival site on both Saturday and Sunday. Rev. Sarah Fletcher, rector at St Thomas with St Mark, Lower Crumpsall and Trinity United, Cheetham, says "I have joined the Parklife Festival Angels team for the last two years and had an amazing experience. It is a great opportunity to serve one of Manchester's largest music festivals and offer safe spaces to the tens of thousands of young people who attend." In 2024 Parklife Festival Angels gave away thousands of plasters, wet wipes, sanitary products, tissues, foil blankets, lollipops and sweets to festival-goers who needed a supporting hand. The team also found that duct tape came in handy to repair several pairs of broken shoes. Debra Green OBE, the founder CEO of Redeeming Our Communities who organise Festival Angels, comments, "Parklife is a significant event for thousands of young people in our city and beyond. The Parklife Festival Angels will be on hand, alongside welfare, security, first aid and others, to ensure that should someone need support they can easily find it." In addition to support inside the festival, neighbouring Heaton Park Methodist Church offers Parklife Sanctuary for those arriving and leaving the Parklife site. This safe space, open Saturday and Sunday 10am - 3am, offers tea, coffee and cake alongside a place to find friends, wait for parents or a taxi, recover from having consumed too much of something, charge phones or for a listening ear. Sign-up and more information on Parklife Angels is available at festivalangels.org.uk/parklife Festival Angels worked at over 60 festivals and events in 2024 investing at least 16,000 volunteer hours into events such as Download, Kendal Calling, Creamfields and Leeds Festival.  Comments are closed.
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