Charities organise Auto Show at Ballee Playing Fields, Ballymena // Sat 13 May 2023
Two local charities, Compassion Group Network and Street Meets NI, have come together organise an Auto Show and Fun Day aimed at the whole community. This will take place on Saturday 13th May 2023 at Ballee Playing Fields, Ballymena. (Open at 9am for stallholders and 10am for the public.)
A press release from the organisers said: ‘This is a first time joint public platform and social event between ‘Compassion Group Network’ a NI registered charity with its head office in Ballymena and ‘Street Meets NI’, a province wide group of vehicle owners who use the meet ups as a social inclusion and community development tool to bring people across our community together in a spirit of unity no matter of their faith, creed, skin colour, ethnicity or any other label that would divide us.
The upcoming event “Street Meet NI meets Compassion’, is not just an event to promote mental health awareness in our community and other issues, but is an event to unite the wider community, voluntary sector and statutory agencies to assist each other in areas of funding, skills, joint ventures, awareness, training and to seek communalities that bring our divided communities together such as deeper inclusion between voluntary sector and statutory agencies, greater community representation, government policy and harnessing development strategies to improve much needed services to increase life chances for those in the poverty cycle and the generations to come.
We would like to invite all public elected representatives, public figures, statutory agency representatives, the press and especially the public to this event to show unity and solidarity for better community, services and inspiring solutions to work together for the common good.
At this event will be many organisations and statutory agencies. Represented will be the likes of the NI Fire Services Authority, NI Police Service, St John’s Ambulance Cadets and 955 Safety Car. Statutory bodies, elected public figures and other voluntary organisations in a spirit of working together to make a better society.
In reflection that both ‘Compassion Group Network’ and ‘Street Meets NI’ wanted to make the day a family fun day out for all, we have secured the following companies and others who will have a stall at our joint event such as ‘AutoSmarts, NaviWax and other local car product distributors and branded food stalls such as AutoBake, Dinky Donuts, Crepes, multiple refreshment outlets and for the children we have BOUNCE NI providing children’s entertainment and others to incorporate a fun loving event with a thought provoking theme relevant to all people groups.
Lastly in relation to music we have Q Radio at the event along with their marketing crew and also DUBS of Vanarchy DJ and Sound Systems formally hosted DubShed along with vehicle based prizes from our sponsors especially for this event such trophies, children’s toys, vehicle based products, restaurant vouchers, gift cards and goodie bags and we would like to thank all of our sponsors for their kind donations such as Cameron’s of Ballymena, Domino’s Pizza, Spar and Vivo, JK Components, Fyffes and many others.
Finally we would like to invite all media to this event to help us get our message out to the wider community and rest assured all positive endorsement and promotion of this event will be greatly appreciated by we are sure everyone involved.’
You can find more information on Compassion Group Network on their Facebook page
