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.

For more information about the 2011 fete, please see the photos in the Galleries section, the roundup article on the News and Events page, and assorted mentions on the Home Page.

SUN 5th JUNE: WALKING TREASURE HUNT

From the Surgery Car Park Start 2 - 2.30 pm Entry £1.00 per person or £2.50 per family

TUES 7th JUNE: QUIZ NIGHT

At The Village Hall - 7.30 pm £10.00 per teams of four. Raffle, Bar and Nibbles

WED 8th JUNE: ROUNDERS & PICNICS

At the Memorial Ground - 6.00 pm Bring your own picnic

FRI 10th JUNE: HOG ROAST, BAR & BANDS

6.00pm until 11.00pm Live Bands including popular headliners "May Contain Nuts"

SAT llth JUNE: FETE, CARNIVAL & FANCY DRESS (Board Games Theme)

Carnival Parade assembles in Moonraker's Field at 12.00noon

Fete opening at 1.00 pm by the well known local actor JAMES CLARKSON who has appeared in many film, television and theatre roles, most recently at Salisbury Playhouse, and currently his solo show "The Monarch of Wit", continues to tour throughout 2011.

Craft Tent, Lunches, Bouncy Castle, Side Shows, Bottle Stall, Bar Tent, Country Kitchen, Teas, B-B-Q, Music from New Forest Plonkers, Maypole Dancing, and much more

ALSO, IN THE CHURCH
Display of Competition Entries

GRAND DRAW AT 4.00 PM

1st PRIZE £200.00 and many other fantastic prizes

CARNIVAL & FETE PRIZES

FANCY DRESS—Board Games Theme

COMPETITION—Board Games Theme

Let your imaginations run riot and come up with the winning entry!

SUN 12th JUNE: WHITEPARISH HORSE SHOW

To be held at 10.00am at Brympton Riding School, Whiteparish: 01794 884470.

All entries to be submitted by 5th June to Karen White at The Barn, Street Farm, The Street, Whiteparish. Tel 01794 884470

Please see separate schedule (available from Brympton Riding Stables or the Village Shop).

AND FINALLY . . .

At the time the fete programme went to press, the organisers expressed their thanks and appreciation to the following main sponsors:

Cleansing Service Group Ltd
Golden Acres Garden Centre
Lancer Property Management
Lascar Electronics Ltd
Tax & Strategy Ltd
The People Bureau
Woolley & Wallis

And of course to the many contributors to the Grand Draw Prizes; and everyone else who will be contributing to the success of the Whiteparish Week events.

For a printable file of the above programme, click here.

FIFTH MEETING; 5th MAY 2011: FINAL COUNTDOWN FOR THE SUMMER FETE !!!

Bottles for the bottle stall ??  Take to Alderstone House please

Entries for the painting competitions etc ??  Take to school / church on Friday am

Cakes for the Country Kitchen ??  Take to the marquee please

Scones for the Teas ??  Take to the Tea tent please

Any gazebo(s) to lend ??  Please contact Langdon

Able to help ??  Please contact Sue King

Want to enter a Quiz team on 7 June??  Please contact Maggie Davis on 884126 to book a table.

Want to play rounders on 8 June after school ??  Just turn up at the Memorial Ground

Want to enter in the Horse show on 12 June ??  Pick up details from Brympton Riding stables or the village shop

Entering the procession ??  Please assemble 12 noon at Moonrakers field – entrance far end towards Brickworth.

Any other questions ??  For the last time this year – please contact one of your committee !!

Sue King (884374)

FOURTH MEETING; 17th MARCH 2011

First of all, a big thank you to those who offered to man the Friday night bar following last month’s article.

This month we need to let you know that Liz Forbes is taking bookings for the Craft / Sales tables. Please ring her on 884914 if you would like to book a space. Inside tables will be £15 and those outside will be £12.

Our next committee meeting will be in the Fountain Inn at 8pm on Thursday 5 May. We would like stallholders to attend if at all possible please so that we may finalise the site plan; work out our table and float requirements and generally get prepared.

We are also in need of as many gazebos as we can get our hands on so if you feel you could lend one for fete day, please do get in touch!

Any queries or offers of help, please contact one of your committee.

Sue King (884374)

THIRD MEETING; 3rd FEBRUARY 2011

Wanted !!!!!
There are still a few volunteers needed please to ensure the activities planned can be provided.

We desperately need some folk to help run the bar on the Friday night and we also need marshals for that night to ensure everyone is safe and sound and the ground is vacated at the close of the evening.
We would like volunteers to sell the ice cream on the Saturday.
We would like to know if there are any teams who would like to enter a Tug of War competition.

Competition categories
As the fete theme this year is “board games”, the competitions are based around that idea.

1. Create a new board game
2. Write a poem about Snakes and Ladders with the first line being……….
3. Draw an item from your favourite board game e.g. the old boot from Monopoly

The classes will as usual correspond to the school Key Stage groups plus a category for senior school children. These entries will need to be ready for display in Church on Friday 10 June.

Please contact any member of the committee if you can respond to the above.

The next meeting will be in The Fountain Inn on 17 March at 8pm and anyone is welcome to attend.

Sue King

SECOND MEETING; 2nd DECEMBER 2010

A few hardy souls met on a snowy December evening (in front of a blazing log fire in the Fountain !!) to continue with plans for next summer’s fete.

We are doing all the boring but necessary things like booking the marquees, loos and rubbish containers.

If you cannot come and / or help during fete week, you might like to consider sponsoring some of the above. We are usually very fortunate in that the large cost of those necessary items is mostly paid for from sponsorship money, which of course means more profits from the events themselves.

Please contact Langdon Nichols if you think you can help in that way.

A reminder that the theme is Board Games – at our next meeting on 3 February we will decide on the competition categories.

Remember – many hands make light work – you are all invited to the next meeting !

Sue King

INITIAL MEETING

Our next meeting will be at 8pm on 2 December in the dining area at the Fountain Inn – please come if you can. If we can get names attached to jobs at an early stage, it will not be necessary for everyone who is helping to attend every committee meeting. We particularly need volunteers to be marshals on the Friday evening to help keep order and evacuate the field at the end of the very popular bands night. Please let us know / come to the next meeting if you think you can help in that capacity.

Date for next year – 11 June
Theme for next year – Board Games.

Please watch out for the updates here and in Steeple & Street.

Sue King