What The Flock? ArtWorks events is a hit with the community

ArtWorks’ latest project ‘What the flock’ brought the community to Barrow Park where they were introduced to a meadow of pom poms and 16 big wired sheep made by people across the world.

One of the volunteers Sharon Tait said the event was a great success with a big turn out.

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She said: “We had a really good time and a really good turn out so I’m really pleased.

“We had 16 sheep in the end and we thought we’d only have six. I counted to 10,000 pom poms and had to stop but we probably had about 40,000 in the end.

“We had a big meadow of sheep and a meadow made out of pom poms. We had the five main charities we’ve worked with and extra charities that chose to join the project.

“We had a host of activities going on. We had Park play, alpaca yoga and ‘flockercise’ which was a dance exercise class and we had a boogie class with Bill from Dalton Leisure Centre dressed up as a farmer and ‘animalrobics.’”

The five chosen charities for this year's project are Youthability, Stitchability, Furness Pride, Furness Creative and space2create.

Sharon said her and the team tried to cover a range of charities and will be picking a different set after this project.

She said: “The whole idea was to support small local charities.

“We have never run an event like this so BarrowFull helped and support us a lot.

“ArtWorks are already planning the next event and with the community putting in so much work for this one we want to get them out their on the scene more and make sure more people get to see the flock.”

The flock is temporarily in storage but are set to make more appearances at future events.

Sharon said: “They will appear at the Coast Road festival this summer and the charity Mind are running an event soon.

“We already have groups asking for the sheep to come and visit including Chetwynde who made some pom poms for the dressing.”