Following the last weeks news concerning the refugee crisis in Syria and Europe Tom Ellam (Tank Tapes) organised an event to raise some cash for a very important cause.
Fliers, prizes, sound and press releases were all sorted in under a week, but come Sunday morning the Bury Skatepark Committee Facebook message thread was alive with talk of postponement due to the terrible weather forecast. By 10am the word had gone out that the event was regretfully not going ahead.
By 2pm the forecast had changed and as a group of us sat in a school playground in Ipswich sheltering from the rain, the message thread was again busy as people got the word out that the event was back on! And as our planned skate had been rained off, I headed back to Bury St. Edmunds and to the skate park.
After a photo call for the East Anglain Daily Times and with the amusingly abusive Stu Barnham on the mic, the event kicked off at 5pm with two Subrosa flat rails positioned in the park and a high hop competition planned for later in the evening. All the BMXers had to do was donate to enter, and they did, raising around £200. This cash will be split evenly between Unicef and Calaid.
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