Gatwick Airport is supporting a summer of community activities across the local region, providing sponsorship and resources for events in Crawley, Horley, Charlwood and Horsham, including this weekend's Horley Carnival.
Taking place at Horley Recreation Ground, the carnival returns following a two-year absence due to Covid-19. This year's theme is Superheroes, and a parade will pass through the town, starting from the Victoria Road car park at 12:30 on Saturday 18 June.
Horley Carnival is one of a number of this summer's local events sponsored by Gatwick Airport. On Sunday 8 May, Gatwick was the official sponsor of the Run Gatwick RaceCrew team, a group of more than 300 volunteers who helped support runners and spectators through marshalling duties, manning the bag drop and water stations and setting up the Event Village.
More than 20 Gatwick Airport staff also signed up across the half marathon, 10k and 5k events, raising much needed funds for the airport's charity partners, including Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex, and Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (SASH Charity).
Gatwick is also sponsoring Crawley Pride between 19 - 21 August and recently sponsored Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex's month-long Hound Hike 100 event and the Crawley Community Awards.
The airport supported the Charlwood Platinum Jubilee Celebration on 4 and 5 June, and is supporting the Horsham Children's Parade on 3 July, and providing on-airport space for Creative Crawley's 'Aura' installation - a five-metre-tall puppet, celebrating Crawley New Town's 75th anniversary - on 11 August.
This is alongside a programme of education and skills initiatives with local schools, including Learn Live broadcasts, Speakers for Schools and the Dare to Dream project - through which a number of Gatwick staff have been mentoring students from Hazelwick School in Crawley.
Melanie Wrightson, Stakeholder Engagement Manager, Gatwick Airport said: 'Following two difficult years for Gatwick, the aviation industry and all our local communities, it's fantastic to see these brilliant events return for 2022.
'We are proud to be able to continue to support our communities through sponsorship of a number of events and activities, as well as supporting our wonderful charity partners through staff fundraising initiatives.'
Mike George, chairman, Horley Carnival said: 'Gatwick Airport has been the lead sponsor of the Horley Carnival for a number of years, which has enabled us to grow into one of the town's leading community events, attracting many residents not only from Horley but the surrounding areas.
'Gatwick's continued support has allowed us to achieve one of our founding ambitions in making the carnival free to enter.'
Gatwick has started a focused statutory public consultation on its Northern Runway plans, which closes on 27 July, concentrating on the airport's updated highway design, which has changed in response to feedback received during the
Autumn 2021 consultation. The consultation also includes a number of general project updates.
Full details of the updates and the revised plans for the roads around the airport are available on the www.gatwickairport.com/futureplans web pages.
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