A big thank you

posted by: Nick Lowles | on: Sunday, 17 May 2009, 21:54

I would like to thank everyone who took part in our weekend of HOPE. I'm still collecting reports of events around the country but it seems that well over 500,000 leaflets and newspapers were distributed.

Leading the way today was Leeds, where over 40,000 leaflets were delivered from two locations across the city. Leicester came in second with almost 20,000 newspapers put out. Over 50 people came out in North London to deliver 10,000 leaflets. Other events took place in Birmingham, Thurrock, Tameside, Bury, North and South Manchester and St Helens.

Today was also Burnley's big day of action and a total of 12,000 newspapers were delivered or collected to do in the next couple of days. A further 5,600 newspapers were given to a local vicar who has promised to deliver them throughout the churches in the town. Jason Hunter was masterminding proceedings so he was only able to do two hours leafleting, but he still managed to knock off another 532 newspapers. This brings his current total to 2782.