People were able to visit information stalls for NSW Fair Trading and other Orange community organisations or enjoy a sausage sizzle, jumping castle, entertainment by a dance group and belly dancers or children could pat the animals in a bush farm.

NSW Fair Trading western region community liaison co-ordinator Carleen Cunningham said the fun day was held in celebration of Fair Trading Week and to promote the consumer protection agency.

“It’s just having all the financial services available in Orange so they can share their information with the community,” Ms Cunningham said.

“It was really busy in the morning, it died off a bit in the afternoon.

“There’s been lots of people visiting the stand, there’s been a lot of interest.”

The other 29 groups represented at the event included housing, indigenous support groups, community services for visual and hearing impaired people, health services, aged services, employment groups and other community and social organisations.

Indigenous welfare support worker Kayla Murphy helped out at the Wambigi indigenous community links stand and said it was a good opportunity to tell people who they were and what they did and she was surprised by the number of people who did not already know about them.

For Cassandra Moore of Orange, the event was an opportunity to take her sons Tyler, 2, and Jackson, six months, to a fun day out with Tyler particularly having fun patting and cuddling the animals in the Bounty’s Bush Farm petting zoo.

“It’s great to have such a wide variety of information to be collected as well but mainly it’s to get the kids out and to get them involved in the community as well,” she said.

For more information or to make a complaint about a rental issue, product or retail service phone 13 32 20.

Photos: JUDE KEOGH