The idea behind this was that, rather than sending cards to friends and neighbours in the village, residents became part of the village card and then donated the money they saved to a charity of their choice.
The village card started as a picture of an undecorated Christmas tree, as each person/family joined the scheme two things happened:-
- Their name was put on a ‘bauble’ and hung on the tree (i.e. it was added to the card)
- Their name/s, their message to everyone in the village and the identity of their chosen charity was added to the table on the second ‘page’ of the card
The 2011 card itself is viewable from HERE. We started adding baubles on Dec 1st and then updated the card regularly until Dec 21st. Anyone who wanted to could then print the card out and display it along with all their other cards.
The project worked well in 2011 and we will probably run an improved version in 2012 – wtch this space :-
