Environment & Culture
COAST 2010 was a 10-day multidisciplinary arts festival in October half-term week. A programme of 65 creative and cultural events took place in a wide range of venues and locations in Cromer and Sheringham towns and their surrounding rural villages.
The festival was coordinated by Cromer and Sheringham Arts and Literary Festival (CASALF), which was formed in 2009 as a direct result of a new spirit of
cooperation and collaboration between the hitherto rival seaside towns and their surrounding coastal and inland parishes.
The coalition sought to find innovative and relevant ways to tackle common concerns in this isolated pocket of rural north Norfolk. Central to this was an agreement between the town councils and Local Area Partnerships to help develop two joint, community-led festivals at either end of the season.
The themes of ‘Crab and Lobster’ in May and ‘Arts’ in October were chosen because they represent and could support two of the towns’ most important and accessible local industries.
While the two festivals were organised autonomously, their objectives were the same. The towns worked together to involve existing community initiatives, meet local needs, avoid conflict and overlap, and make the most of opportunities for joint planning and promotion.
COAST won the Partnership and Strategic Working category of the East Action for Market Towns Awards.
Lead organisation: Congleton Partnership In June 2009 Congleton Sustainability Group formed to nudge the Town towards a greener, more climate change friendly way of living.
At a seed swap that October, amongst all the bartering of plants and seeds, people bought apples to swap, but many were left – and they weren’t very pretty apples. In conversation it was it was suggested that they could be used to make apple juice.
The group talked to Eddisbury Fruit Farm who make Cheshire fruit juices commercially and they agreed that if the group gave them more than 100 kilos of apples they could keep the Congleton apples separate through their production process and bottle and label the juice.
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