Anyone Volunteering for the 3 day Royal Coronation Event

I suppose you could say I’m an organiser 😄

We've already organised our chairperson, committee and the wine for the committee meetings beforehand 😁

Is it some kind of mandatory volunteering that we all have to sign up for?

Yes, SueDonim, it's like jury service, you have to have an excellent excuse to get out of it.
😂😂😂

We have a street party every year in July. We won’t be changing it this year. If any residents want one in May they can organise it ( they won’t).

I'm volunteering to get on a Eurostar train on the Friday before the Coronation and return home the Tuesday after.

Mondays are one of my volunteering days anyway, so nothing new for me. I hope my organisation is open that day.

We shall enjoy the Coronation and hope the sun shines on the New King and his Queen. Looking forward to some fun and joy.

notgran

I'm volunteering to get on a Eurostar train on the Friday before the Coronation and return home the Tuesday after.

I haven’t actually given any thought to what I shall be doing. I may volunteer to do a family barbecue.

Calendargirl

Surely the key word is ‘volunteering’?

No one is being forced to do anything.

No they are not. Also working people will get 3 days off, whats not to like.
Let those who do not wish to engage do so, others can choose to enjoy it. I really do not get why some posters are so miserable.
We live in a democracy we have freedom of choice, let everyone do what they want, including volunteering if they wish.

Could it possibly be because for thousands upon thousands of citizens, volunteering is part of life? For thousands upon thousands of citizens slogging away at work, which is the norm to work over salaried hours just to get the job done or keep their job, the idea of getting an extra day or two off work means working extra hours before and after to keep on top of work? Oh so many reasons spring to mind.

Please stop calling people who don't want to be patronized and thrown some crumbs from a rich man's table, "miserable".

Or I might want to call people who like street parties and royal parades "gullible", "easily led" and "silly". I'd never do that though.

I was neutral about royalty and royal events, but the unpleasantness of many republicans has made me think I’d prefer to be a monarchist. I think the unpleasantness derives from a preoccupation with money, which is much more prevalent than it used to be.

"I don't want democracy because the people are so nasty." 😫

We tried republicanism in the past. Didn't work. Restored the monarchy. What's that about failing to learn from history?....

It was 400 years ago and the man who took power won it by force and tried to set up his own dynasty.

I'm not sure that's a valid reason in the 21st century for sticking with Kings and Queens in gold coaches.

Just consider, if we were a republic now, Boris Johnson would win any Presidential election with a huge majority, so in the past would Tony Blair.

Be careful what you wish for.

Grandyma

^volver

Living in a republic doesn't remove your free will. You can still have opinions.^
Of course but our constitution makes me feel protected against a dictatorship .

What Constitution?????

We have at present an unelected Head of State, an unelected Prime Minister, and unelected Higher House.

Third Pm in a row who have been guilty of breaking yhe law, whilst in office.

M0nica

Just consider, if we were a republic now, Boris Johnson would win any Presidential election with a huge majority, so in the past would Tony Blair.

Be careful what you wish for.

Aaarrrggghhh!!!

“Democracy is the worst form of government except for all others that have been tried.” So said Winston Churchill.

I won't even be watching any of it, let alone anything else. I never watch their weddings, funerals, jubilees etc anyway. We are just not interested. If they are that interested in homelessness etc., perhaps they could house a few?

Thank God for Netflix and Sky - I can avoid most of the faff.

He became King the moment his mother died, so I'm not sure why we need to spend millions, that could be better spent, confirming it lol 🤔

Our local area never does anything like street parties etc., so it'll pass us by, other than the usual media drooling and saturation of it.🙄

I'm not offended but I won't be volunteering. I expect there may be another street party as there was for the Jubilee, which we couldn't attend as we were at my DGD's birthday party.

No, definitely not! I tried to organise a street party for the Jubilee on our cul de sac..........it was like pulling teeth!
In the end just three households got together and had a fabulous time, we all mucked in with food and drink and then shared the clearing up.
Someone did ask us the following day where the music, merriment and laughter was coming from the previous afternoon/evening...........we took great delight in saying we were celebrating the Jubilee in ****'s conservatory.
Chances are we will be doing the same for the Coronation.

Suppose I'll drag myself to whatever the local community decide to do but shan't be volunteering to organise anything.

So much negativity on here…. And the OP doesn’t seem to ‘get it’ that volunteers are being encouraged to ‘volunteer’ in THEIR area…..!!!

I live in a village and a year ago we set up a Friendship Group. 3 people came to the first meeting which was held in the pub. The landlady supplied tea coffee sandwiches and cakes and we got a grant from the County Council to support people who had become isolated and lonely due to the covid lock-down, A year later we have 40 people . We have all made new friends. We had a lovely party for the Queen's Jubilee. We meet every week and it has been wonderful to see people losing their sense of shyness and getting to know each other. We have had such generosity from the rest of the village and now it feels as if we are part of a large extended family. When you volunteer you will almost always get far more back than you actually put in. I feel sure we will have an extra special celebration for the Coronation and I am looking forward to the whole weekend where generations will mix and have a really good few days together.