By MARG APPLEBEE
CENTRAL WEST LACHLAN LANDCARE
Thank you to those of you who responded to our request for feedback for our April 2025 Homegrown Parkes event.
We try to factor in your suggestions moving forward, particularly around demonstrations, workshops, educational opportunities and stallholder suggestions.
We don’t rate our events on the number of stallholders.
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We rate the event on the quality of the event.
It is really important that we maintain a standard that focusses on promoting local and regional small businesses, not for profits etc. Bigger is not necessarily better…and not our goal.
General survey feedback for the event, was 7.6 out of 10.
Location of vendors was rated 7.6 and the mix of stallholders was rated at 7.3.
Overwhelmingly the feedback told us that they would attend a future event.
Given that it was a wet weather event, we were happy with this result.
It was also good to see that we had some first-timers at the event as well as many who were returning after several events.
Of the stallholder/food vendor responses the event was rated 8.76 out of 10, with 9.2 for location and spacing, 94% would definitely return.
We will be sharing the names of the three winners from our survey responses on Friday via our social media.
Central West Lachlan Landcare have committed to delivering Homegrown Parkes events until June 2027.
This is run for people in our local area….and we are hoping to be in the position to be making Homegrown Parkes as a destination event for our region.
Apart from a part-time contribution from my role, we are supported by volunteers from our Landcare committee, volunteers from the Parkes Community Arts committee and with support from Parkes Shire Council.
We are also thrilled to have a financial contribution of support from Evolution Northparkes Mine through the Community Investment Program, that will support some of the additional inclusions and entertainment on the day.
We already have a draft program for our next event and are pleased to be welcoming attendees for the Keep Australia Beautiful Tidy Towns State Awards to our event as well.
We look forward to sharing more details in the months ahead.
Homegrown Parkes events are supported by volunteers from our committee, volunteers from Central West Lachlan Landcare, Parkes Community Arts committee and with in-kind support from Parkes Shire Council.
For further information on this article, please go to www.centralwestlachlanlandcare.org, twitter, facebook or Instagram @cwllandcare
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