Our Platinum Jubilee celebrations got off to a cracking start this on Thursday 2nd June with a fabulous Jubilee Tea. We were all assigned tasks by our President who had earlier that day masterminded the decoration of the hall – thanks to Alan W, Bob T & Chris E for all their hard work in making this happen ! The hall & garden looked simply magnificent. Members got to work ensuring the afternoon was a memorable one for the 70+ local residents who attended.
Behind the scene members plated up a scrumptious tea for everyone whilst others prepared our fantastic and much anticipated huge raffle, and trade tables.
After our friends and neighbours had enjoyed their tea we all enjoyed a rousing sing along before ending the day with us all standing to sing God Save our Queen.
On Saturday 4th June our members played a key role in our village Jubilee Fun Day. This was a joint community effort. Our main role was to organise a host of competitions for all ages to enjoy. For this we hired a huge marquee, a team of ladies decorated this in red, white and blue rosettes and bunting. On the morning of the event entries began to flood in for competitions all with a Jubilee theme. Everyone had worked very hard to produce entries of a very high standard indeed. We also organised the street party, crafts for the children and made jellies for the Teddy Bears Picnic.
Our ladies also contributed to the event in other ways – notably as members of the local Art Class, whose display of Jubilee themed paintings in the Village Hall was amazing!
In the WI Marquee we had fantastic stories, posters, gardens on trays and some incredible robots made with up-cycled material from local children. Adults entered cup cakes, Jubilee decorated Hats and flower arrangements worthy of county standards.
You can see the absolute delight on the faces of some of the children who won, pictured with their winning entries. All the winners were presented with a commemorative Jubilee crown.
During the afternoon children enjoyed making a range of crafts with some of our very talented members. Throughout the day we were royally entertained with some fabulous music and enjoyed a picnic street party. The day rounded off nicely with a challenging quiz.
