Festival of Lights 2019 - Diwali

To all our pledgers, supporters, volunteers and visitors to 2019 Festival of Lights celebrations: It was a perfect Indian Summer's day on that October afternoon which made for a perfect festival full of vibrant colour, music, food, dance and drama and activities for the whole family. I along with my organising team are delighted to share with you a 5 minute video highlights of the day, see link provided below. The festival of light is the perfect event to enrich the mind, body and soul. We are delighted to announce that we made great progress for 2020 crowdfunding campaign. Just before the COVID 19 lockdown we received a large pledge of £5000 from Aylesbury Vale District Council that took us over 80% of funds raised that are needed for the project to go ahead on 10th October, the date of this years Festival of Lights (Diwali). We have "HOPE" that life will be 80% back to normal by then. Please follow our new project for 2020 where you can also get updates of our progress and plans, for ease link to new project is as follows: https://www.spacehive.com/festival-of-lights-2020---diwali?searchText=festival%20of%20lights%20ayles Help keep this community growing stronger day by day. Thank you and stay safe see you on the other side of lockdown in the mean time stay connected digitally Watch highlights from 2019 here: https://youtu.be/BUB4R3n6Ljo Poonam Gupta

Thank you to all the pledges, we have a few days of overfunding. There has been overwhelming positive response. While we would love to organise again, we do need a head start, any pledges

Thanks to Aylesbury Garden Town members of the Community, parents and children together enjoyed a wonderful art session of making their lanterns to using sustainable materials. The lanterns were beautifully displayed for a few days at Friars Square Shopping Centre, and the makers are excited to walk with them in Aylesbury’s very first light parade 7pm Kingsbury Square 19th October 2019. Looking forward to seeing you there.