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*** FRIENDS OF BLYTHE HILL FIELDS FESTIVAL 2015 ***

The Friends are delighted to announce that the Festival will be held on SATURDAY 4 JULY this year!

Please save the date and spread the word!

*** We are looking for stall holders and volunteers (to distribute leaflets, help at the festival on the day etc.) ***

If you'd like to get involved please get in touch.

Pictures from last year's Festival can be found here:

http://www.blythehillfields.org.uk/gallery.htm

Calling all cake bakers!!!

Can you help?

Each year at the Friends of the Blythe Hill Fields Festival, the Friends sell cakes to help cover the cost of putting on the Festival. Plus, any profits from the Festival are used to improve the park's facilities. The cakes are all baked and donated by lovely local people.

So if you feel you could help us by baking a cake or two, please get in touch by emailing volunteers@blythehillfields.org.uk or calling Ellie on 07786 331007.

The Festival will be held on 4 July this year, from 12 - 5 pm. Please come and join us! For more information please check out our Facebook page or our website: http://www.blythehillfields.co.uk

Hi all

If you wish to get in touch, please email stalls@blythehillfields.org.uk

Thanks!

Brrr! It's a bit chilly out there.

But don't worry! We've got something that'll warm you up (on the inside).... Volunteer at the Blythe Hill Fields Festival 2015!

We need some help with the following:

- selling raffle tickets;
- placing a Sebastian Roche sign/hoarding, advertising the festival outside your property;
- baking a cake (or two) to be sold in the Friends tent at the Festival;
- acting as a steward on the day day, manning the gate, helping out with the Friends tent and/or litter picking;
- help to set up the Festival and/or help with the clean up.

With just two hours of your time, you could help us put on a fantastic show. If you are interested in volunteering, please get in touch! Email volunteer@blythehillfields.org.uk

This year's Festival will be held on 4 July 2015, from 12 - 5 pm. For more information please go to http://www.blythehillfields.org.uk

***Blythe Hill Festival***

It's just over three weeks to the Festival and we are getting very excited! If you'd like more details of what's planned, please take a look at our website: http://www.blythehillfields.org.uk

Thank you to all those who have volunteered so far; you're doing a fantastic job! Thank you!

We do still need some help though. If you can spare an hour or two of your time, we would love to hear from you at secretary@blythehillfields.org.uk

You could help in the following ways, by:

- selling raffle tickets;
- baking a cake (or two) to be sold in the Friends tent at the Festival;
- acting as a steward on the day, manning the gate, helping out with the Friends tent and/or litter picking;
- helping to set up the Festival and/or help with the clean up.

With just two hours of your time, you can help us put on a fantastic show for the local community!

This year's Festival will be held on 4 July 2015, from 12 - 5 pm.

Drum roll please...

Introducing the Friends Blythe Hill Fields Raflle 2015!!

This is your chance to win:

*** Grand prize! *** Sainsbury’s Super, Sydenham 32” FLAT SCREEN TV
Le Querce - £40 voucher
Mamma Dough- £40 voucher
Proud Sow - £30 voucher
Sainsbury’s Local, Honor Oak Park - £30 voucher
Barbaros - £30 voucher
Ine Twist Children’s Parties - £20 off a children’s party
Lucy Makes Amazing Cakes - A voucher for 12 cupcakes
Shannon’s Garden Centre - A planter of beautiful plants
Eos Dance School - 5 free dance sessions
Jumping Bean - A hamper of kids toys
Hills & Parkes - A hamper of delicious food
The Forest Hill Food Assembly - A hamper of delicious food

A BIG thank you to all our wonderful donors!

Tickets cost £1 and are on sale at Hills & Parkes and the Proud Sow. The raffle will be drawn at 4pm on 4 July 2015 at the Festival.

All proceeds go to making Blythe Hill Fields an even lovelier place!

We need just a few more volunteers to help us sell cakes and help with packing away the Festival. So if you have a couple of hours to spare on 4 July, please get in touch.

Thank you!

It's nearly BLYTHE HILL FESTIVAL time and it's going to be AWESOME!

Please come along on 4 July (12 - 5pm); here's a taster of what you'll find:

• on the Main Stage, live music from local acts and performers, including Blues Patrol, Siobhan Parr and DJ Polar Bears Can Dance
• on the ALL NEW Woodland stage you can enjoy Punch and Judy, comedy from the Scummy Mummies and here you can have a go at hula hooping, swing and street dancing in our taster sessions
• lots of fun things for the kids in our story telling and craft tents - decorate your own hula hoop with Hoop Club, get crafty with the Secret Adventurer's Club, magical storytelling with Smallprint Ltd, take a drama class with Mini Drama, fun and games with Fitness for Mummies and meet some furry friends from Surrey Docks City Farm
• over 40 wonderful stalls offering an eclectic array of lovely things to tempt and interest you
• stalls offering food and drink from all over the world, including bangers from the Proud Sow, the award winning Babur restaurant and locally sourced beer from the Beerseller
• a fun fair

... and so much more. It’s going to be a cracking afternoon - come and join in the fun!

All funds raised go to support our ongoing work in the park. So come and help us make Blythe Hill Fields an even lovelier place!

We are grateful to the following organisations for their sponsorship of the Festival: London Borough of Lewisham Council, Catford Rotary Club, Sebastian Roche Estate Agents and The Blythe Hill Tavern.

If you would like to volunteer, then please email secretary@blythehillfields.org.uk

Blythe Hill Fields, SE23 | http://www.blythehillfields.org.uk

This evening the Festival planning committee had its final meeting. We are looking good for Saturday!

If you are interested in helping out, then please get in touch. We will be setting up on Friday evening from 7 pm, to about 9 pm. Then we will be back again from about 9 am on Saturday, ready to open from 12 pm. The festival ends at 5 pm and we have to be all packed up by 6 pm that evening. Come and join us if you can! If not we hoe to see you at the Festival.

A message from the Friends of Blythe Hill Fields:

Thank you very much to everyone who attended the Festival on 4 July. It was an incredible day! We were delighted to see so many people there, enjoying themselves.

Our next Friends' meeting will be held at 7.30 pm on 29 July at the Honor Oak Pub, St German's Road, SE23. Please come along and have your say about the Fields, any improvements you'd like to see and we would welcome any feedback about the Festival as well. If you are not already, please consider becoming a 'Friend' by joining our mailing list: http://www.blythehillfields.org.uk/ We are also on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/10388387145/?fref=nf

A huge thank you to all of the volunteers who made the Festival possible - it is entirely run by volunteers - you did an utterly amazing job!

We are grateful to the following organisations for their sponsorship of the Festival: London Borough of Lewisham Council, Catford Rotary Club, Sebastian Roche Estate Agents and The Blythe Hill Tavern. We would also like to thank the many local businesses who donated a prize to our raffle.