2020 Cheriton Light Festival - The grant will contribute towards artist fees to run workshops to make small, candle lit pyramid lanterns with Sandgate Primary School students and 3 day workshops to make larger, led lit sculptural lanterns with students from Folkestone School for Girls which will be carried in the opening parade at 6pm on Saturday 22nd February.

To provide funding of £300 to the above project.

Reason for decision:

Kent based People United will continue to measure responses to Cheriton Light Festival for Strange Cargo since it began. Feedback has revealed:

•96% thought it had been very successful and would want to be involved in future events.

•37% of people had not been to a similar event before

•The “community coming together” at the event presented an exceptionally high value in response to a question “What did you like best about the event”?