ORGANISERS of an open day hope visitors will be in a good mood when they stage the event later this month.

For Thongsbridge Community Club for the over 50s plans to put people’s smiling faces in the frame for a Thongsbridge’s Got Smiles video.

The aim is to produce something along the lines of the highly successful non-profit Huddersfield’s Got Smiles video – shot and produced earlier this year by John Edmonds, of Timetrappers.com

One day in May, John captured more than 500 smiling faces on video in Huddersfield town centre.

The resulting video proved a big hit in Youtube.

John has joined forces with Terry Bainbridge, volunteer co-ordinator at Thongsbridge Community Club for the over 50s, to organise the unusual addition to the open day programme of events.

Holme Valley residents are invited to come along between 11am and 3pm on Wednesday, July 28, to the gardens of St Andrew’s Church, Miry Lane, Thongsbridge and have a few seconds of their smiling face included on the video.

This will then go on to Youtube and the website GlobalSmile.com – where they can potentially be viewed by thousands of people worldwide.

The open day will also include crafts to try and buy, mind games and puzzles, quiz sheets, light refreshments and musical entertainment from organist Geoffrey Lockwood.

Mr Bainbridge said: “I came into contact with John, who made the Huddersfield’s Got Smiles video and thought: ‘What a good idea.’

“If lots more people in villages, towns, cities and even big businesses all over the world made their own We’ve Got Smiles video, wouldn’t it be a wonderful and positive project to create?

“Maybe, if more videos like this were made, it might even be possible to build a video library of smiling people all over the world and bring cultures together.”

Mr Bainbridge said everyone was invited to attend the open day – and get themselves included in the special video.

Under 16s will need to bring their parents with them to sign a consent form.

He added: “It’s quite a unique opportunity which could go down in local history as people may very well be watching this video 100 years from now.”