Wanna support Good in your Hood?
Our new Winchester chapter kicks off with a hack-sprint-day type event on March 18th (sign-up here!) and we‘re inviting local enterprises to help feed and water everyone who’ll be giving up a day on their weekend to do good.
The beauty of Good for Nothing is that passionate, highly skilled local people show up to accelerate projects that improve their local places. And a small backbone crew forms to organise events and build the community. And they do it all for nothing. Yep. Zip, zilch, nada!
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Our first ‘gig’ in Winchester is no exception. We’re excited to say we’re being donated some beer from the lovely people at the award-winning local microbrewers Alfred’s Brewery and we are being hosted in the beautiful studios of the insight-led design practice Thursday. Thank you to Steve Haigh and Simon Harmer (and your teams) for your generosity 🙏🏻 (although you don’t need to have the initials SH to support us 🤣!).
What will we be doing?
Our first project is exciting — we are going to create an inspiring people-powered vision and campaign for what Winchester could be like if it were more pedal and pedestrian friendly. Showing how this vision will be good for residents, good for the local economy and good for the environment 🌎.
High fives 🙌🏻 to local architects Design Engine for this brilliant visual. Would you like to see the one-way system look like this? A space to walk, cycle, sit, chat, play, relax and eat instead of a car-fumed corridor where getting on a bike means taking your life into your own hands.
So what do we need to make this happen?
We’re expecting up to 30 people with a mix of skills from the worlds of branding, architecture, market research, design, animation, illustration, film-making, advertising, town planning, campaigning and community building, plus other misfits, mavericks and general doers to show up and gift what their good at to build this new campaign on the day.
But, there are other ways to support doing good in your hood…
☕️ Fuel
We’d love for any local businesses to help feed and water participants for a day — either providing tea, coffee, snacks, breakfast, lunch, soft drinks, beers, wine, and cider or making a small donation for us to get these (from local, sustainable businesses, where we can).
🎥 Film
We’d love someone to come and film the day and create a short video edit to invite others to join the Good for Nothing community, get involved in building this exciting campaign, and work on other local projects.
🔊 Tunes
We’d love to get a sound system put into the studio for the day and any local DJs to come and spin some tunes whilst everyone else gets busy creating and making things for the campaign.
💷 Dosh
We’d also happily chat with anyone who’d like to sponsor the first event in a way that suits them. We don’t (yet) have a proper sponsorship package with levels and all that jazz, but we are happy to discuss how we could best make something that works for everyone!
What’s in it for you?
Other than the massive feelgood vibes and warm fuzzies you’ll get from being both generous and generally awesome, you’ll also get a lot of love and kudos from a group of highly passionate, connected and influential residents in a city who are motivated to make where they live better.
And as Good for Nothing, we’ll ensure you are properly recognised and acknowledged for your role in helping this community grow and thrive in all the usual ways. We use social media a lot to spread the word, and we have a great group of Friends who’ve helped us in the past. You’ll join this esteemed list of generous backers!
If that sounds like you or someone you know, please get in touch with either Tom (07748116479) or Lucy (07789207023) or email hello@goodfornothing.com, and we’ll get back to you asap!
