Next fete meeting, Thurs 10th May, 8PM, 108 Hambalt Road

All welcome!

Ents Rep Found!

Thanks Sheila, much appreciated!
If you want to perform at the fete or have ideas about events on the day, please contact Sheila Jones at sheila.jones27@gmail.com

Ents Rep needed!

We need to fill the post of Ents Rep!
Duties to include:
Coordinate with local school and musical / other groups to see what entertainment is available
Draw up list of entertainment venues / locations around Abbeville
Schedule various activities into the various venues
Act as a conduit for requests / expression of interest to perform ….

If you know of anyone who might be interested or you would like to help, please email info@abbevillefete.com.
Thanks!

2012 Charities Proudly Announced

The proceeds of this year’s fete will shall go to the following charities and the church:

1. Ace of Clubs

Set up in 1995 in the old school building of St. Mary’s primary school on St.Alphonsus Road, Ace of Clubs is a day centre for homeless, vulnerable and isolated people in south London open Monday to Friday every week of the year. Since it opened more than 2,500 different people have walked through their doors.

http://www.aceofclubsclapham.org/

2. Lambeth Summer Projects Trust
The initiative serving schools in Clapham will be based at the Evelyn Grace Academy in Brixton. The PCC has spoken at length to the project manager, PC Neil Hagerty, and is satisfied that children in the local area will benefit from the trust. Further information can be obtained the website:

www.lambethsummerprojects.co.uk

3. Age UK Lambeth
A grant might be directed to the Befriending Service. Further information is available on the website:

http://www.ageuk.org.uk/lambeth/

4. Kids City

Kids City run before and after-school schemes and holiday playschemes, which we offer at not-for-profit rates to the majority of families and where through fundraising and work with schools and agencies, Kids City also provide heavily subsidised and free places for children in need. Examples include children experiencing domestic violence, bereavement, parental ill health, children with disabilities etc.  For whatever reason a family finds it difficult to meet their children’s needs, Kids City help to pick up the slack.

www.kidscity.org.uk

Over for another year

The Abbeville Fete 2011 is over for another year, and it was fantastic. Thanks to everyone who came and supported our charities, everyone who volunteered, ran an event or performed at the Fete, all the traders who took stalls, the police, the fire brigade, everyone behind the scenes, and all our magnificent sponsors.

We’re still adding up the figures and chasing the last few payments, so we don’t have a final total for the day’s fundraising, but we can report that the silent auction alone raised more than £6000. And every penny the Fete  makes goes to charity.

Meanwhile next year’s fete will take place on Saturday 30th June 2012, and if you’re interested in helping to making it happen then please drop us a line: info@abbevillefete.com. We’d love to hear from you.

Music and Dance

We’ve got the schedules for the performances in the church and around the Abbeville Village area on the day of the fete! It looks like this:

Performances Inside the Church
1.00–1.30  Whitlam
2.00–2.30  South London Choir
2.30–3.15  Flamenco Olivar, perfoming authentic flamenco dances
3.15–3.45  St Mary’s School Choir

Performances Outside the Church
12.00–12.30  Lambeth Academy Steel Pan group
12.45–1.15  Lambeth Academy Steel Pan group
2.00–2.45  Jebb the Juggler
2.45–3.30  Band of Two
4.00–4.45  Band of Two

The Lambeth Academy Steel Pan group are a regular feature of the Abbeville Fete, as well as at Lambeth Academy school concerts. This year the band have also played at St Martin-in-the-Fields, and later in the summer they will be playing at the Clapham Society Summer Party at the bandstand on the common. Their set will include Amazing Grace as well as a selection of other classics.

Band of Two is guitarist Pete Fyfe and fiddler Garry Blakeley, performing a mixture of celtic and folk music, with energy and charm.

You can download this schedule as a printable PDF, along with a map and a complete timetable for everything that’s happening on the day, by clicking this link.

New Sponsors!

As well as the sponsors mentioned in the programme book (which you can download from here), we want to acknowledge and thank two others who have recently come on board. They are:

Hamptons the Estate Agents, sponsoring the fete bar, the performance by ‘Band of Two’, and the on-the-day leaflets.

Kremer Signs, sponsoring additional signage.

2011

The 2011 Abbeville Fete will be held on Saturday 25th June, opening at noon and closing at 4pm. The theme for the event will be JUNGLE.

Everything’s in place for the event, and we’re hoping the weather will hold out and it’ll be another fantasic year. Meanwhile, can anyone advise on whether there are jungle fairies? We have a three-year-old who’s very firm on what dress she’s going to wear for the fancy-dress parade….

Announcing the 2010 total raised

An invitation

On Sunday 19th September we’ll  be celebrating the funds raised at the Abbeville Fete 2010 and their distribution to the supported charities.

So join in the Harvest Festival service on Sunday 19th September at 10:30 a.m. at Church of the Holy Spirit, Narbonne Avenue SW4

How you can help

The Harvest Gifts of food and materials will be donated to Ace of Clubs —please see www.holyspirit-clapham.org.uk for how you can help by bringing some food or materials

A wonderful day…..

We again attracted huge crowds to the Abbeville Road neighbourhood, proving once again the worth of this simple community event with a purpose, which gives such pleasure to all who take part.  With other streets in the neighbourhood starting their events, we know we’re on to a good thing!

The bar, the barbecue, teas and cakes actually took more money than last year, and the Silent Auction matched 2008.

See you all next year!