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Name: | Ryan Terry |
Age: | 19 |
Year of the Fix: | 2014 |
Location: | Nottingham |
Campaign: | To spread cheer in our community |
Being able to spread happiness is a great thing. It can be so satisfying to know you’ve helped make someone smile.
Even if you only brighten one person’s day or cheer up one person who’s feeling down, you never know the knock-on effect this could have.
That’s why, with the help of Fixers, my team and I organised a Good Gestures Day.
It’s an initiative that involved several groups of young people at various locations nationwide.
Together, we raised the spirits of passers-by, by giving out free hugs, fist bumps, handshakes and high-fives.
The national campaign was inspired by my friend, Stephen Sutton, who had incurable cancer.
He was one of the most enthusiastic and vibrant young men you could ever meet and he helped organise the first Good Gestures Day, which took place last year.
I hope this campaign will encourage people to see things from a different perspective – taking the time to appreciate those around them.
Here is a list of Fixers helping me with my Fix:
Andy Mitchell
Daisy Samford
Ellie Brandon
Glen Cockin
Jamal Syed
Jiawei Tian
Katie Pullan
Liam Healey
Olivia Greenwood
Paige Roden
Pauline Mautuzrvicius
Sophie Lawrence
University of Nottingham Students' Union
The team at the University of Nottingham SU are supporting our Fixers project. They’re helping us recruit young people to get involved in our National Good Gestures Day event.
May 2015
After the success of last year's event, I'm leading National Good Gestures Day in Nottingham again on May 16th.
April 2014
Our National Good Gestures Day event was held in St Peters Square in Nottingham on Saturday 10th May.
Click here to find out more about National Good Gestures Day 2014.
It was great to hear in real life how many people Stephen's story has touched. People responded so brilliantly and even got involved with giving out the good gestures! They were really touched and moved by the fact that people were actually spreading a bit of cheer.
Scroll down to see photos from the event.
Fixers give out hugs in St Peters Square
A team member hands out stickers
National Good Gestures Day aimed to make people smile.
'Ben'
Hannah Carter
'Kate'
Mary-Anne White and Lucy Wills
Jack H
Becky Thorn
Sam Womack
Hannah Baker
Alexandra Garrick
Fixers
Olivia G
Fern Lulham
Shannon Rawlings
Hafsa Ur-Rehman
Ethan Mcinally
Meghann
Shak & Natasha
Me and my friends want young people to know that calories aren't the enemy!
Mason Latey
Sam Barakat
Becky