Summer Fair - Chairman's Letter

OUR SUMMER FAIR 2.00 to 4.30pm SATURDAY 8th MAY

Dear Parents

Do not concern yourselves simply because you have some Easter eggs and chocolate which you just couldn’t eat, I have the remedy. Send these items down to the HQ as they will make brilliant prizes on the Beavers Chocolate Tombola stall at the -coming up soon - GRAND SUMMER FAIR!

Alternatively, do send a bottle or two of anything - alcohol welcomed - for the Cubs Grand Bottle Tombola.

Then, do plan to come yourselves and bring all your children and Aunts and Uncles as well, of course, as all your friends and neighbours because if you have been before, you know that this Fair is always a really good afternoon with plenty of stalls and a whole variety of attractions guaranteed to provide you with total enjoyment.

To ‘whet your appetite’, you can expect to see in the Hall

The Plant Stall Home-made Cakes and Jams Family Tombola Bottle Stall The Chocolate Tombola Lucky Dip

Grand Raffle Double Wine (and maybe a Whisky) Raffle Various Games plus Teas and light refreshments.

And then in the Garden area

The Stocks A Bouncy Castle A Bowling Alley Tin Cans plus games and competitions of all sorts

and an all-afternoon Barbecue serving Hot Dogs and Beef burgers.

As an added attraction, expect to see and meet Bazz from the Playzone at The Wylde Green

Also, running all afternoon will be the well established continuous AUCTION for a whole host of generously donated family ‘Days Out’ including entry tickets for Indoor Play Parks, Museums, Cadbury’s World, Railways, Water World, Zoos, MiniGolf, Children’s Farms, Shakespeare Properties, Bowling etc. etc. plus ‘meals out’ at The Boathouse, TGI Friday’s, The Terrace,

The Cock at Wishaw, New Hall, Pier 39 and more plus there will also the opportunity to bid for a full day for all the family at The Seb Coe Health Club including Lunch at Ramada Penns Hall. You can start the bidding for any or all of these at 2 o’clock and increase your bid amounts right through to 4.30 pm.

You know that the Summer Fair is the most important fund-raising event in your Scout Group calendar and I know that you will be asked to give the event your wholehearted support with donations of new or unused items for the Grand Raffle and the Family Tombola plus, as above, a bottle or two for the Bottle Stall and a box, bar or bag of Chocolate for the Chocolate Tombola. If you can, please also provide items for the Plant Stall and any home-made Jams and/or large or small Cakes to sell on the day.

BUT EVEN MORE IMPORTANT IS THAT ALL OF YOU ARE THERE ON THE DAY.

The Leaders will be there and as we have upwards of 70 boys and girls in the Group, we should have about 200 parents and grandparents etc. able to attend. PLEASE DO COME. A tremendous amount of effort has gone into the the production of this event and it does not conflict with any other major School or Sporting event. From the Summer Fair last year you helped the Group raise £1500 towards the cost of providing equipment and the Headquarters for our Beaver, Cub and Scout packs and as this expenditure is ongoing, we need to do as well this year so please do ensure that the event is well attended and supported.

I promise you, your Summer Fair is good fun for everybody and with FREE ENTRY, is exceptionally good value.

To tempt you further, by next week, we are aiming to produce Programmes for the event, including a listing of items to bid for in the Auction, one for you and some for you to distribute - to hand out rather than dropping through letterboxes - and do note that only Programme holders can enter a FREE PRIZE DRAW.

And it all happens on Saturday May 8th and between just 2.00 till 4.30 pm.

The Leaders, the Supporters and the Parents who are running the Stalls and the Games and myself look forward to seeing you all there showing your support for your children in your Group.

IAN BANKS Group Chairman