Abergavenny Pride 2024 Fundraising

Abergavenny Pride 2023 is over but we're already planning for 2024!

Now that we've recovered from the biggest day in the calendar year, let’s have a lil recap of a few of the successes (and there were many) of Abergavenny Pride 2023! The response from all the attendees at our third pride event was absolutely mind blowing to us. It was a lot of firsts for us – the first Abergavenny Pride Parade. This was so successful that we had over 200 people join us, and the parade was almost as long as the high street!!! These numbers far exceeded our expectations of the first time we were doing this – as far as, when we submitted the form to the council etc, we estimated 30-50 people would join us and oh! were we wrong!!!

We also installed the very first Rainbow Crossing in Abergavenny!! After weeks and weeks of planning, paperwork, discussions and decisions, the Friday before Pride we got our tools and our Hi-Viz jackets (very Village People) and met up outside the market and everything got really real, really quick. There were so many factors we didn’t consider like fencing until it dried, almost running out of paint and covering our shoes so they didn’t get ruined – but after everything it was more than worth it and boy did she shine and added a much-needed dose of queer colour and vibrancy across our little town.

By far the biggest success for us as a team, was the introduction of our “Out Of The Closet” space. Our team worked closely with schools and youth groups across the area, and quickly discovered there was a lack of safe spaces for anyone to explore their own gender identity. We realised that this is an issue not just in Abergavenny but in nearly all places across the UK and felt that we were able to make a big difference to people’s lives with just a small act, so set to work to make this happen. We set up clothes rails bursting with donations, two small changing areas, and gave everyone the opportunity to be their most genuine selves AND take everything home with them for free!

Again, most of the success comes from those who took the time to donate their clothes, shoes, accessories etc, and we believe we are the first Pride event to ever do this – so we are making History!!

Thirdly, we would like to thank every single person who helped make the event the success that it was. The volunteers, donors, stall holders, sponsors, charities, food and drink vendors, performers, talkers, hosts, attendees, and everyone else in between!!

And we thank YOU, every donation through GoFundMe has been put towards the event and hope you can see that in the video and photos attached.

So that was 2023, now we need to start raising for 2024. We have more plans, events we'd like to have run through the year to help educate our town and county as well as providing a social aspect for all parts of our community. We welcome any amount and thank you again.

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