A big thank you to Kathy Wilkinson for arranging yet another wonderful selection of craft and food stalls, despite having to deal with family illness in the lead up to the event. It was once again a friendly,happy occasion resulting in a profit of £1960. We received a very complementary letter about event, particularly praising Father Christmas.Thank you to everyone who worked so hard preparing and running the event.A specially well done to Fontaine who made a profit of £165 selling the quiz and mistletoe. The winner of the quiz,drawn from the sheets with correct answers,was John and Joy Baker.
AGM AND QUIZ
AGM 2nd September 3.30
Quiz and ploughman's Saturday October 10th
Further details can be found under events heading
Church yard clear up day July 15th
Clear up day. The churchyard committee are asking for help on Saturday 15th July 10am to 12. If you would prefer an earlier start, there will be people around from 9am. Please bring any useful tools for edging, weeding, cutting etc. There are many jobs large and small. If you are unable to attend on this date but would like to help, please contact Jennie Brightman (01206 391091) for information on jobs needing attention.
2017 AGM
The AGM will be held on the afternoon of Saturday 2nd September. Please keep this date free. More details to follow.
Open Garden Day Results
Firstly a very big thank you to everyone who supplied cakes, refreshments, books and plants to sell last Sunday or gave their time to help in anyway. Also thank you to Roy and Katie Huffey for the beautiful flowers in church which were admired by visitors. Finally thanks to the Garden owners who worked so hard to prepare their gardens. The visitors were very complimentary.
Financially the day was very successful. You may have noticed we increased the ticket price to £4 this year to bring us in line with other open days. This, together with some generous donations and the excellent returns from food provision, stalls and activities on the day meant a profit of £1,922 which is the highest total ever. There was also an increase in numbers attending (approx. 262)
More photos under gallery heading
John has informed me that there have been 23 Open Garden Days since 1991 which have raised a total of £31,835. That is a wonderful community effort. The money from this year’s event will be going towards the completion of the south transept reordering. I am pleased to say that the PCC have accepted a tender for this work and are now waiting for a start date.