Holywood Underground
H.U.G. started off to give out free tea, coffee, drinks, biscuits, sweets and balloons to shoppers on the main street - to bring a smile and a free gift where out culture is maybe more used to judgement and condemnation from churches on street corners! Instead of proclaiming God's love on the high street, we aim to show God's love in the town. All our work is self-funded. We don't accept donations.
The teams hit the streets the week before Christmas 2005, equipped with free batteries for smoke alarms, mulled wine, thermometers, mince pies, balloons and lots more! As well as all these freebies they gave their time in carol singing, visiting Redburn Care Home, cleaning graffitti off the streets, gardening and lots of other practical good deeds.
In summer 2006, the H.U.G. team were regularly out and about, whether tidying overgrown gardens, clearing the steps at Seapark, or more graffitti removal.
Summer 2007 saw Holywood Undergound up a gear, with weekly projects. After being part of StreetReach 2007, a large team of enthusiastic young people got to work. A new subway was painted to remove the graffiti, we handed out balloons, tea and coffee and painted faces at Seapark, helped people by tidying their gardens, cutting the odd hedge, weeding High Street, Church Road and Demesne Road, and repainted the green telegraph boxes which had suffered from graffitti. The summer concluded with a Big H.U.G. at the end of August, when we joined forces with Snatch, run by Holywood Youth Trust, with a day of gardening, weeding, free tea and coffee and free car washes in Holywood High Street.
If you, or anyone you know could benefit from a H.U.G. or would like to help, get in contact with Chrisby, via the link below.
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