Tribute to the Queen

Please see the Events tab for poster and details. Please note : This is taking place at church on Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd July. Please do not confuse with the Queens Jubilee Weekend in June.

Seven of our church flower ladies, led by Barbara Coe will be arranging flowers , to be displayed with words and pictures, to pay tribute to the Queen’s work during her long reign.

We will be looking for help over this weekend in three main areas 1) On the door 2) Serving tea and cakes 3) Manning a plant stall. if you are able to help please let me know. More details to follow

Queen's Jubilee Weekend Sunday June 5th

The Friends will be taking part in this event on the Sunday, promoting our organisation and the work it does. The history books will be on sale. We will also run a treasure map game and a picture quiz just for fun. Can you help? If you are able to man the tent for an hour on the Sunday please let me know. N

Quiz and Ploughman's Supper Results

It was good to see some of you at the Quiz last Friday. If you weren’t there you missed a great evening! We had over 100 people taking part and it was good to see so many new Bradfield residents. There was a lovely atmosphere in the room with a great deal of chat and laughter. Congratulations go to the winning team of Hollis and Liz Drake together with the McLachlan family. All teams managed over 50% correct answers, so we seem to get the standard of questions correct. The comments received about the event were all very positive. Thank you to the people who brought raffle prizes and those who stayed to help clear up.

Especially thanks to:

Christine Bowen, Sheila Large and Barbara Coe for the excellent Ploughman’s Supper.

John Barrow, Jerry and Margaret Garner for marking and scoring.

Sue Reeve and Margaret Attfield for collecting table monies

Graham Points and Jean Points for sorting the raffle.

All the above, plus Sue Cunningham for setting up the hall.

A great team effort!

The event has raised just over £1000 pounds for funds. Hopefully we will be able to tell you how this money will be spent sometime soon.

Garden Open Day results

Wow what a record-breaking day! A large number of people filling the gardens with smiles and excited chat just so pleased to be out in a beautiful environment. It was good to see such an age range out and about.  The record numbers attending and the generosity of those of you providing refreshments and stalls and not claiming expenses, means we have reached an amazing total of £3,244. This will be used for the maintenance and improvements to St Lawrence Church Bradfield.

Thank you Garden Owners you, did a fantastic job! We would also like to thank everyone who donated cakes and plants to the stalls. It was particularly nice that other community organisation became involved. A big thank you to Geoff and his staff at the local shop, for selling programmes. Julie Church of Mouse House Bakes, for shutting her stall, but making cakes for us and Lauren Lumley of Our Pretty Wedding who donated the proceeds from plants sold on her Flower Stall.

Finally, a thank you to Kat Glover for her brilliant advertising which persuaded many of you to put your walking shoes on and join in. Thank you for your support.

I will be posting some garden photos in the gallery on this website hopefully by the middle of next week. If anyone has some photos they would like to share please email to me norma.barrow@keme.co.uk

 

2020 September Challenges

Well it was all very depressing earlier this year having had to cancel both the large fundraising events for the Autumn with the potential loss of approximately £3000 income ........ however the wonderful generous Friends members and the general public managed to increase the bank balance by around £2000 by the end of August. This was approximately the amount we might have made at the Christmas Craft Market. That left us short of the money we might have made from the Murder Mystery Evening so we came up with an idea to make up the short fall. You were all invited to take part in 2 different challenges. Who took up the challenge? How did the challenges go? Did they make it to the £1000 ? More photos can be found in the gallery tab.

Starting with Challenge 2 which was to organise a social event within Covid guidelines. Thank you to: Lorna W who organised a cream tea. Dagmar G and Pat C went with two events , morning coffee and afternoon tea. Christine B really got into it and organised four meals! Christine said it got her back cooking. Together they raised £350 which was matched by our sponsor to make a total of £700. Everyone had a great time with food , drink and lots of chat. Dagmar received the following poem as a Thank you. See picture below

Challenge 1: 23 Adults , 2 teenagers, a five year old and 2 dogs took up the challenge.which was to do a physical activity covering 26 miles during September. Some of them avoided the camera completely, others seem to either want to hide their identity (or they need to practice selfies!) others can be seen in various weathers and locations! Can you name them? The furthest walked was 100 miles by Rev. Claire. She puts my failure at 22.25 miles to shame. Barbara T in the USA should be congratulated for adding to her miles by walking round her living room as she couldn’t get out for a week due to smoke from the West Coast fires! The entry fees plus some extra donations raised £439 . Well done everyone for taking part. They have now received their medals and certificates. More photos in gallery

The grand total for both challenges and extra donations was £1246.63 additional donations mean it is now £1,284.