Gay Village clean-up, call to action!

Manchester Gay Village Business Association to clean up Gay Village in time for Manchester Pride.

Following on from the success of the first ‘Village Clean-Up’ event, Manchester’s Village Business Association (VBA) are having a second clean-up on August 16 starting at 11 a.m. in Sackville Gardens.

Grab your marigolds, pop on a pinny, go along and help the VBA in their efforts to continue beautifying the village.

Tony Cooper, Chair of Friends of Sackville Gardens, said: “It is great initiatives like the VBA’s Village clean-up that are starting to help create that community feel in Manchester’s Gay Village again as well as helping people re-engage with the fantastic green space we have in the heart of our Gay Village. Working together we can achieve so much and we are already seeing the benefits around our blooming Gay Village and Park.”

The first mass effort to spruce up Manchester’s Gay Village saw a great effort by all volunteers, producing impressive results including the planting of over 100 plants and flowers in both Sackville Gardens and the village itself.

Looking to build upon the already amazing improvements and with Manchester Pride just around the corner, the VBA hope to come together with the local LGBT community on August 16 to take the gay village aesthetic to the next level and make sure it is truly sparkling for the arrival of thousands of people over the bank holiday weekend.

Jackie Crozier, Chair of the VBA, said: “The first clean-up event was a massive success and the perfect start to the journey of rejuvenation for our Gay Village. We have laid the best foundations possible and it is so important that we now come together as a community and build upon them to help make Manchester’s Gay Village the best possible version of itself.”

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What: Gay Village Clean-Up

Where: Sackville Gardens, Manchester

When: August 16

Time: 11 a.m.