SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARMED FORCES DAY
AIMS & OBJCETIVES
CEREMONIAL
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Parade - bring together uniformed personnel, standards, veterans and youth organisations to parade at the start of the event
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Drum Head - hold a short service to commemorate and remember
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VIPs - dignitaries will be invited to take part and a leading officer or civic dignitary will take the salute
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Presentations - we will help facilitate any formal medal presentations, where we can.
ARMED FORCES
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Military Assets - we will always try to arrange for a presence from our armed forces
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Education - have stands from the Armed Forces to inform an educate the public on what our forces do and to provide information on future careers
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Entertainment - where possible, we will provide entertainment from the armed forces community
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Family - the event will be family friendly and should be suitable for forces families.
ENTERTAINMENT
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Vintage vehicles - we will try to host a number of vintage vehicles for the parade and static display
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Rides - we aim to have one of the major funfair companies for each event
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Local - one of our aims is to be as local as possible and include as many local acts, singers, enetertainers as possible
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For all - we need to make the event multi-generational with something for all age groups.
CADETS & YOUTH
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Locality - cadet and youth groups will be selected from the local area
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Education - our aim is to try and bring an element of learning for young people
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Entertainment - we will always try and include younger people in our entertainment choices
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Presentations - we will help units with formal presentations, where possible.
COMMUNITY
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We aim to be close to a town centre to assist local traders
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The event location should be accessible to the general public with good public transport links
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Our event will rotate locations to include as many people as possible
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Our event must have local support.