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Reading Scouts salvage festival camping gear for sale
20/08/2009
79th Reading Scouts are working in partnership with Festival Republic, the organisers of Reading Festival, and Bright Green, a community recycling project, to ensure that the thousands of items of camping equipment left behind by festival goers at this year's Reading Festival are cleared away and put to good use.
Taking place over the August Bank Holiday Weekend, Reading Festival has
a capacity of 80,000 and is to be headlined by Radiohead, Artic Monkeys
and Kings Of Leon.
Every year after Reading Festival, thousands of items of camping equipment are left behind by festival goers. 79th Reading Scouts are one of the largest Scout Groups in the South of England. They have been at the forefront of the recycling effort at Reading for a number of years.
79th Reading Scouts will be responsible for helping to clear the festival site, reclaiming usable equipment which is in good condition and redistributing the equipment at a very low cost to community groups.
Buy cheap camping equipment
In early September, 79th Reading and Bright Green will offer this equipment to community groups at a nominal fee.
Groups are invited to come and collect as much equipment as they need. The cost will be £25 for a full carload or individual items for small donations. The money raised will be invested back into the organising groups.
The equipment expected to be offered includes sleeping bags (last year there were over 600!), tents of all sizes, sleeping mats, wellies, folding chairs, small camping and cooking equipment, torches, stoves etc.
To register for the sale email Festival Replublic. You will then receive the location and dates for the sale.
In order to keep administration costs to a minimum this will be a cash only sale.
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