Carnival 2006 – News It’s Showtime – 3rd August 2006

Carnival 2006 – News It’s Showtime – 3rd August 2006

It’s Showtime and the ‘Circus’ is coming to town! The 24th Helmdon Carnival is fast approaching and the weekend of 26th – 28th August promises to be a fun filled, entertaining family weekend.

See Carnival Timetable of Events.

The fun begins on Saturday evening at 7.30 up at the Sports Field with live music from ‘Sunfly’, a pig roast and Bar. Tickets will be on sale soon so watch this space for more information.

Sunday 27th August at 10.30 – Rev Will Adams will lead a special and unique Sunday Morning Worship and Songs of Praise up at the Sports field in celebration of Our community, the Church and the Carnival Weekend. Hymns chosen by Village groups and organisations will be sung to the tunes played by a brass band. This promises to be a momentous occasion so please come and join in. Please also join us for light refreshments after the service. (This service replaces the previously scheduled service in the church at 10.30 a.m. However, Holy Communion will be celebrated at 8 a.m. as usual.)

Sunday evening at 8 pm – Quiz at the Bell Inn Public House. Enter a team!

Monday 28th August is the Fantastic Carnival Day! The Carnival begins at 1.30 with a procession of walking floats from the School up to the Sports Field led by 1460 Sqn Marching Band. There is still time to enter your WALKING FLOAT and join in and with the theme of ‘CIRCUS’ there is plenty of ideas to choose from. Jeffs Coaches have once again kindly donated a coach for the day to collect passengers from the war memorial and will follow the procession up to the field.

On the Carnival field there is a whole host of entertainment:

Sheep shearing
Cresta Run
Craft and Horticultural Tent
Vintage Ploughing
Icarus Falconry Display
Live Punch and Judy Show
Helmdon Dog Show – enter your Hound!
Riverside Reflections Dance Troop
Tug of War – enter a team!
Grand Raffle Draw
Magician and balloon modeller
Climbing Wall
Beer tent and Refreshments
Face Painting and Ceramic painting
Pony Rides
Side events, stands and demonstrations, Plus much much more
A Great Family weekend – come and join us.

If you have time to help with the preparations over the Carnival weekend, or can make a cake for the cake stall or refreshments, please contact one of the Carnival Committee members.

Thank you

Claire Bryant, Carnival Chair

Success For Sports Raffle – 26th July 2006

The winner of the John Terry shirt.

The Helmdon Sports Raffle Draw was a great success and great fun. The weather was warm and sunny, perfect for a BBQ and a Sunday afternoon at the Bell Inn.

A fantastic £1,160 was raised from the Sports Draw, BBQ, Balloon release and England Shirts. Indeed, the shirts themselves raised a superb £660!! Connor and his family from Middleton Cheney successfully bid for the John Terry Shirt, and Chris from Helmdon was successful with his bid for Frank Lampard.

Balloons are being reported as being found and the winner of the furthest balloon will be named on Carnival Day. See you there!

Thank you to everyone for you continued support. This is what makes the Carnival so successful.

Claire Bryant, Carnival Chair

England Shirts Up For Auction – 20th June 2006

Roll up Roll up!! Here is the fantastic opportunity to place a bid to own 1 or even 2 signed England Shirts (proof of authenticity) by John Terry and Frank Lampard.

Monies raised goes towards Helmdon Carnival Charities. Click on one of these links to bid for the John Terry shirt, or the Frank Lampard shirt by e-mail (state your name, telephone number and amount) – or come along to the Sports Raffle to be held on Sunday July 2nd from 12 pm at The Bell Inn, Helmdon.

Bids will be accepted up until 3.30 pm on Sunday 2nd July and the successful person being named at 4 pm. See the Carnival link on the main page for further details about this and the fantastic Sports Raffle draw. See you all there!

12th June 2006

The 2006 Sports Raffle Draw will take place on a fun-filled family Sunday afternoon at the Bell Inn, Helmdon on 2nd July 2006. The fun and festivities start from 12:00 midday and include ceramic painting, balloon release, face paints, BBQ and the ever popular bouncy castle.

Click here to download the publicity poster (and if you want to print it off and put it in your window/car/office/wherever that would be great!).

The Sports Raffle tickets are on sale from any member of the Carnival committee. The prizes are bigger and better than ever, so buy yours now!!

23rd April 2006

After some discussion it was agreed that the 2006 Helmdon Carnival theme will be “The Circus” to include several of the suggestions received from the school, and it also gives wide scope for fancy dress and walking floats.

This year there will be a balloon release and a pottery activity for the children. The winner of the balloon release i.e. the balloon found farthest from Helmdon, will be announced on carnival day and a prize will be awarded.

Main attractions for carnival day being considered include:

Falconry/birds of prey display
Mobile climbing wall
Pony rides
Runner duck display
Dog agility display

Pitches on carnival day only cost from only £5.00 per table so village groups and other interested parties should book now!

The carnival committee would like your suggestions about what you’d like to see at this year’s carnival. There are suggestion boxes in The Bell, the school and the shop.

This year’s Sports Raffle is to be drawn on Sunday 2nd July at the Bell Inn, time to be confirmed. Prizes include: gym membership, tickets to various horse racing venues, Renault race team shirt, signed England Shirt from a Chelsea Player and lots more.

The next meeting of the carnival committee will be on May 17th. Please contact a member of the committee if you would like to participate/contribute.

2nd February 2006

Preparations are underway for the 2006 Helmdon Carnival to take place over the August bank holiday weekend.

With only 207 days left to get everything organised (!) a new committee has been formed with Claire Bryant (last year’s secretary) at the helm.

The committee are looking at last year’s successful event to build on the positive and work on the areas for improvement. It is hoped the 2006 Carnival will be as big a success as previous years.

Do you have a suggestion for this year’s theme? The committee would love to hear your ideas! Please get in touch with carnival secretary John Coatsworth in the first instance.

If you have any comments or suggestions, or you would like to get involved with the fun of organising the Carnival, please contact any member of the committee.