Twenty-two members of the StormCo group travelled to Tenterfield for a week’s worth of fun, laughter, community service, and clowning around, all for the benefit of the local children and community.

The StormCo project, which finds its home in the Avondale Memorial Seventh-day Adventist Church in Cooranbong, is run by youth, for youth during the Easter school holidays.

While in Tenterfield, the StormCo group held a daily kids’ club in Jubilee Park with crafts, songs, drama, games, puppets, face painting and balloon sculpting included as part of the fun.

Around 50 school children were taking part in activities on Wednesday.

Tenterfield team leader Andrew Wishart said almost all the StormCo members were still students themselves, aged between 14 and 22 years old, and had paid their way from the Central Coast.

Their reason, he said, was simple: “They love doing it.”

“It’s an awesome feeling to see the kids smile, and it’s awesome to see the parents faces when they hear it’s free, too,” Andrew said.

“This is something the youth of our church just loves doing.”

No job is too small, and none too big for the StormCo group. Apart from the kids’ club, the group also helps with maintenance work at the Tenterfield Showgrounds and other jobs like collecting wood for an elderly resident.

If you or your kids missed them this year, mark it in for next year’s April holidays.The group comes every year and because the members “adopt” certain towns, the group features many familiar faces - even if they are hard to recognise under all that clown paint.