About 35 groups had stalls at the Festival - each working in some way to make the world a better place to live in. Details of a selection of stalls are shown on this page:

The AMETHYST PROJECT - a community development project working with women in the Peak District (often on low income or in isolated situations)

Unit 7, Eccles House Telebusiness Centre, Eccles Ln, Hope, S33 6RW,
Tel 01433 621822,
Email amethyst@pdrdf.freeserve.co.uk

Hope Valley Amethyst Group

Moorlands Walks with Children

Yorkshire Bridge Community Group

Women in Farming

Flagg Tuesday Group

• Promoting general awareness and acceptance of human rights by education and lobbying.
• Opposing specific abuses of human rights, such as torture or degrading treatment, detaining prisoners of conscience, unfair trial, excessive use of force, the death penalty, deliberate/arbitary killings, taking hostages, disappearances, or the use of children in armed conflict.

Borderland Voices creative workshop
offers a creative space for anyone in need of or interested in the promotion of mental health.

"The workshop provides a safe and calm space to put paint, crayon, and felt pens to paper, to put your thoughts and feelings down in whatever way you want... even if you end the session with a blank page or a scribble! You can just come and have a chat, have a coffee or play with clay. The time is yours and nobody tells you what to do, there's no good or bad artwork, every mark counts... we're all artists I suppose, in our own way"

Contact: Sheena 01538 266068 or Sue 01298 83269

CHRISTIAN REVIVAL CHURCH
High Street, New Mills - Minister: Peter Bird

"Come and refresh your spirit at our loving and caring family Church"

Churches Together in New Mills give you a warm welcome to come and worship with us at any of our Church Services, as we believe Jesus is indeed alive today -

Derbyshire Alternative Technology Association brings together people who have an interest in developing the role that sustainable technologies can play in the region.
Alternative and sustainable technologies encompass a broad range of activities, all of which aim to protect or improve our environment. DATA tries to avoid being a 'pressure group that opposes things without having a better idea', in favour of trying to set an example, and where possible, demonstrating a better way.

DATA, c/o 181 Belper Road, Stanley Common, Ilkeston, Derbyshire DE7 6FT, Tel 0115 9448911, Mobile (John Beardmore) 07785 563116, Email DATA@DerbyshireAta.org.uk

A unique network of campaigning local groups, working in 250 communities in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Glossop FOE Coordinator: Albert Hodgson, 138 Padfield Main Rd, Padfield, Glossop, Derbyshire SK13 1ET, Tel 01457 862 022.

Hope Valley Community Rail Partnership

The Hope Valley Rail Partnership is an exciting and innovative project which promotes public transport as an essential part of the community. The line runs between Sheffield and Manchester, through some of the most spectacular scenery in the Peak District but the Partnership is always on the lookout for new community connections.

Hope Valley Community Rail Partnership, c/o New Mills Town Hall, New Mills, High Peak SK22 4AT, Tel 01663 746377

 Intermediate Technology Development Group    

ITDG is an international non-governmental organisation which specialises in helping people to use technology for Practical Answers to Poverty.
With ITDG, poor women and men can develop technology which puts people first. It is technology which draws on their experience and feeds it. Which recognises their potential and releases it. Which respects their environment and nurtures it. Which builds on their past, to sustain the future.

Kinder Mountain Rescue Team provide mountain and moorland search and rescue services under the control of the police, as part of the Peak District Mountain Rescue Organisation. The 50 team members cover an area including the Plateau of Kinder Scout and westwards to the outskirts of Stockport.

Sec: Alan Brentnall, KMR, Westfield, Spring Bank, New Mills, High Peak SK22 4BH,
Email secretary@kinder-mrt.org.uk

Oxfam GB is a development, relief, and campaigning organisation dedicated to finding lasting solutions to poverty and suffering around the world. We believe that every human being is entitled to a life of dignity and opportunity; and we work with poor communities, local partners, volunteers, and supporters to help this become a reality.
We aim to make our shop in New Mills an asset to the town and its people, and to attain a high standard of goods and pleasant place to shop - 11 Union Road, New Mills, Tel 01663 747333.

Providence UR Church on Mellor Road have initiated an exciting project to redevelop their building as a
7-days/week place of service to the wider community in addition to Christian worship.

See NEWSMILL article.

Minister: Revd. Jane Barron, Tel 0161 427 2231.
Sec: Mrs Ann Swann, Tel 01663 743763.

Save the Children believes all children have a right to a happy, healthy and secure start in life. We are committed to narrowing the gap between reality and our ideal.
We listen to children - learning about their lives, hopes & views.
We support practical projects which involve children and their families in improving their day-to-day lives. We also use our global experience and research to lobby for changes that will benefit all children, including future generations.

Margaret Bryant, 36 Hall Street, New Mills, High Peak SK22 4PN

SMALL GROUP PROJECT - Practical help and support
to small local voluntary and community groups in the High Peak

Are you in need of help or encouragement in starting or developing a community or voluntary group?  
Do you have a good idea, but don't know where to start?
Perhaps you need information or advice?

We are here with free help and advice on: training, funding, constitutions, running meetings, structuring the group, Management Committees, charitable status, networking.

Contact: Sandy Schofield,
c/o Glossop Volunteer Bureau, 73 High Street West, Glossop, Derbyshire SK13 8AZ, Tel 01457 858529, Mobile 0771 8386098, Email theschofields@whaleylane.freeserve.co.uk .