Plea for volunteers to keep festival going

Two people attended the last annual general meeting, organisers said

Organisers of a festival that celebrates the arrival of spring have warned it faces being cancelled if it cannot attract enough volunteers to help run it.

The Clun Green Man Festival has taken place in the Shropshire town for several years and draws on myths, fairy tales and folklore.

Jack Limond, who sits on the committee running it, said just two people came to their last annual general meeting and he feared, if numbers did not pick up, the contemporary craft festival would come to an end.

"We run an event that will have over 3000 people attend but there aren't many bodies on the ground helping to organise it," he said.

"Two people running a festival like this in a town like Clun is challenging, we need people from here to join in."

Mr Limond said they wanted people able to offer time to sit on the planning committee but also to volunteer as stewards.

"We're looking for people that will be able to get to meetings, willing to help out and create a great fun day out," he said.

"If we can't get enough people to organize it, we will have to call it off."

The festival is usually held over the early May bank holiday but was cancelled last year due to the wet winter affecting the event's field.

"We all have other jobs but we try to find time to organise everything and make it safe - it would be unfortunate to have to call it off," Mr Limond said.