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Kieran and Kaitlin

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Name: Kieran and Kaitlin
Age: 17
Year of the fix: 2012
Location: Harwich, Essex
Campaign: Stop people stereotyping 'hoodies'

We hope to achieve a positive image in our community of young people and eliminate the negative stereotypes associated with people that wear hoodies, teenagers in particular. We want to provide a fun event for everyone, bringing the whole community together. 

 

We decided last year that we wanted to do something good in our community. We feel that there isn’t much to do in our town, so the idea of the hoodie festival came about.  As we aim to achieve our goals of eliminating stereotypes and bringing the community together by putting on this event.

 

The festival is on the 3rd of November from 10:30 till 5. There will be a range of young local talent throughout the day ranging from folk to pop to rock to promote further the positive image of young people. We also have music from a brass band to target a different audience. There will be a variety of stalls from cakes to face painting, snakes to craft and jewellery.

 

Fixers have been supportive and have suggested some new ideas to us. They have helped give our festival the professional edge that we want to achieve.

 

We hope to eventually take the festival outside and to keep growing it year by year. We want the festival to be open to everyone in our community and for our town to support us as a group.

We had a whole team of people helping support and organise our project, including:

 

Oliver Locke (16)

Hannah Cook (18)

William Patrick (21)

Ashleigh Lovett (16)

Teen Talk Harwich:

Hayley Lovett from Teen Talk Harwich supported our project by helping us organise and run the event. The group empower young people to work through their problems at their own pace, giving support to young people in our area, and their support enhanced the festival

 

Click here for more information on Teen Talk Harwich

​2013:

We are planning a bigger and better Harwich Hoody Festival for 2013. It will be held on 9th November 2013 from 10.30am-3pm. 

 

The event will be held at the same location as the previous two years at Park Pavilion, Barrack Lane, Dovercourt, Harwich, Essex, CO12 3NS

 

To raise money for the festival, we are sleeping under the stars in the haunted fort in Old Harwich!

 

6th December 2012:

​Our festival was featured on ITV Anglia Tonight news, the first of the Fixer pieces in this region

 

Following this, our story was featured on the Harwich and Essex Community website. Click here to read it.

 

5th December 2012:

A total of 70 people attended the Teen Talk awards in Harwich - a large increase from the previosu year - and this was due to the festival!
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