Each year, many individuals and organisations in Whiteparish work together to stage the village's summer Carnival, Fete, and associated events. Profits go to benefit All Saints' Church and All Saints' Primary School.

FINAL FETE UPDATE. This is the last fete update – the week’s festivities will soon begin !

A reminder that all entries for the competitions should be delivered to the Church on Friday morning – 18 June please.

The entries for the procession should assemble at 12 noon in Moonrakers field (behind the houses in Brickworth road) by kind permission of Trevor King. The entrance will be signposted. Judging will take place at 12.15 – by our guest for the day, the New Forest author, Mr Simon Chadwick. He will officially open the fete at 1pm – by which time the procession should have reached the Memorial Ground.

Football fans need not be disappointed! The first England match in the World Cup takes place on 18 June coinciding with our band and hog roast night. Arrangements have been made for the match to be screened at the pavilion.

You will no doubt be bombarded with requests to make cakes, buy raffle tickets and help set up or clear up over the coming days – please respond generously – but most of all , enjoy the activities during fete week !

Thank you from your fete committee

(Printed copies of the fete programme will be distributed in the June issue of Steeple & Street, and the same info will also (hopefully) be somewhere on the website soon !)

FETE UPDATE

This year’s fete theme is “ Storytime” , so the competitions this year reflect that.

Design a book cover. This category is open to three classes, Key Stage 1 and 2 and above. The pre school children can draw a picture of their favourite story character. The entries should be A4 size.

Write a poem. Again open to three classes, Key Stage 1 and 2 and above. The first line of the poem is “ It was the night before the Whiteparish fete “……………, and entrants should complete the rest.

This year we are also inviting adults to join in. Using the “Storytime” theme, you can submit either a painting, a sculpture or a collage of a reasonable size.

Advance notice of Events during Fete Week
Sunday 13 June: Walking Treasure Hunt, 2pm (more details later)
Tuesday 15 June: Quiz Night. This will be held in the Village Hall at 7.30pm. There will be a bar available and nibbles will be served.
The entrance fee will be £10 per team of four. Please apply for a table to Mary Bithell on 884885.
Wednesday 16 June: Rounders Evening and Picnic after school.
Friday 18 June: BBQ and Hog Roast, with Live Bands
Saturday 19 June: Fancy Dress Carnival Procession and Fete.

Next Committee Meeting is on Wednesday 19 May in the Kings Head at 8.00 pm.

Thank you from your fete committee.

FETE UPDATE

Calling all you adult Picassos ! This year we plan to open the Art competitions to grown ups too!

The theme of the fete is "Storytime" so look out next month for the final entry details – size, topic, closing date etc

All entries will be displayed in the church and judged on the Friday. We do get a lot of visitors in Church on Fete day to see both the competition entries and the splendid flower arrangements provided by our Altar Guild.

Thank you to the kind folk who have volunteered to run the Country Kitchen and the Teas. If we could have some volunteers to man the rotas that would be great.

Thank you from your fete committee.

2010 FETE PREPARATIONS

Your committee (see below for names and contact numbers) are pleased to report that things are beginning to take shape !

We now need to ask for volunteers to come forward to take ownership of the known money making stalls please. These stalls are:

• Teas
• Bottle stall
• Country Kitchen

(the BBQ and the lunches have owners already !)

It would take a load off our mind if we knew those areas were taken care of , so please contact any member of the committee if you can help us. The next meeting will be in the Kings Head at 8pm on Monday 8 March—all are welcome.

FETE DAY 2010 IS TO BE SATURDAY 19 JUNE (WITH OTHER ACTIVITIES DURING THE WEEK LEADING UP TO THE GREAT EVENT ). The theme for fete 2010 is to be “Storytime”- so the competitions will be based around that and all you children who like to dress up for the parade can be thinking about your favourite story character.

The committee members for this year are:
Karen White – 884470
Mary Bithell – 884885
Di Cross – 884030
Langdon Nichols – 884587
Jane Legat – 884600
Sue King 884374

We would be happy to hear from you with ideas and offers of help; or would welcome you to attend our next meeting which is to be held on 10 December at 8pm in the King’s Head.

Please watch out for regular updates in the magazine and on the village website.