The St Margarets Autumn Fair, held in Crown Road on Saturday, 17th September, was a big success. Hundreds, perhaps a thousand, people came out to enjoy a day of live music, food, drink, clowns, art, a fun fair and more.
A big thank you to all those who helped put on the day’s event. Some major thanks goes to:
- St Margarets Tavern and Oisin Rodgers who sponsored the band, The All Beats
- The Rugby Football Union, who generously supported the event
- Simon Chapman of Cutters
- The St Margarets Traders Association
- Paul O’Rielly, local resident and business owner provided the stage (at great cost)
- Kim Hare of Nigel Hare Joinery
- Karen Pengelly
.. and Ann Murray, Clair Wood and whole FOOI team, Sherralyn Rainey, Claire Wilson, Stephanie Grefsheim, Matt Grefsheim (aka Judge B. Arking), Karen Ranger (aka Judge Miss G. Ruff), Margaret Fenn-Nielson and Adrian Neale.
We have posted a few photos from the event. If you have any more, please email them to us at <content@stmargarets.london](mailto:a href=”/assets/images/2005/autfair05_street.jpg”>
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The St Margarets Autumn Fair, held in Crown Road on Saturday, 17th September, was a big success. Hundreds, perhaps a thousand, people came out to enjoy a day of live music, food, drink, clowns, art, a fun fair and more.
A big thank you to all those who helped put on the day’s event. Some major thanks goes to:
- St Margarets Tavern and Oisin Rodgers who sponsored the band, The All Beats
- The Rugby Football Union, who generously supported the event
- Simon Chapman of Cutters
- The St Margarets Traders Association
- Paul O’Rielly, local resident and business owner provided the stage (at great cost)
- Kim Hare of Nigel Hare Joinery
- Karen Pengelly
.. and Ann Murray, Clair Wood and whole FOOI team, Sherralyn Rainey, Claire Wilson, Stephanie Grefsheim, Matt Grefsheim (aka Judge B. Arking), Karen Ranger (aka Judge Miss G. Ruff), Margaret Fenn-Nielson and Adrian Neale.
We have posted a few photos from the event. If you have any more, please email them to us at <content@stmargarets.london), or drop them by Cutters.
“What a fabulous afternoon of music, food and stalls. These community events add so much to the local area and thanks are due to everyone involved. But for me the highlight was the dog show - I do hope that bubble-catching Sadie won the prize for Cleverest Dog! I am now looking forward to the December Event for lights, music and Christmas Shopping.”
Councillor Denise Carr
About the Event
“The St Margarets Traders Association was very pleased with how the local community came out to help us put on such a wonderful event and hope for the same kind of response for the St Margarets Christmas Fair, whose planning will be starting soon. The whole thing really came together because a lot of people did a little bit of work. It was great to see.”
Simon Chapman from the St Margarets Traders Association
The event came together very quickly with only three formal meetings, a few emails and some individual’s modest effort. If you are interested in helping with the Christmas Event you can email us at volunteer@stmargarets.london or, again, speak to Simon at Cutters .
8 Things You Didn’t Know About the Event
- A crew of workers turned up at 9am to tear up a portion of Crown Road and were sent away
- The St Margarets Tavern sponsored the band, The All Beats as well as coordinating the stage with Paul O’Rielly
- The RFU sponsored a large portion of the event
- This was the first time the Council has provided free road closure (we now are allowed two a year for community events)
- The fire truck was supposed to be at the fair at 10am, but was busy with calls all morning
- 25 dogs entered the Dog Show and the no show, Patch was a stuffed animal whose owner needed a nap and missed the show
- The RSPCA stall was setup and run by a local school girl (go Emily!)
- The Harley Davidson ‘ride’ was provided at the last moment by a local resident who wanted to help the Shooting Star charity and let the neighbourhood kids, who keep asking for a ride, have one.
- Kim Hare coordinated the Dog Show and all the craft stalls
Comments
This was a great day. Well done to the organisers.
Jane Pettersson on 2005-09-20 16:33:55 +0000Fantastic! well done. Makes me realise I live in a village, not a metropolis. My son loved the carousels and I loved Zoran's chorizo 'burgers'.
Tom Newsom-Davis on 2005-09-22 20:48:23 +0000Hiya
This is CJ the harley owner. It wasn't just kids you know!!! Everyone sat on it from the elderly to mums with babies in arms. Thanks everyone. We raised £43.09.
CJ Jenkins on 2005-09-23 15:26:11 +0000Thanks to everyone who bought clothes from our Nearly New clothes stall. We raised £106 for The National Childrens Homes Charity. Thanks also to all the kind people who donated clothes.
Truuske Wright on 2005-09-24 09:13:11 +0000A great athmosphere indeed, thanks to the few organisers! A lovely day and I look forward to visiting the December event.
Xavier on 2005-09-25 19:23:17 +0000Thank you so much to everyone who bought or donated at my Breakthrough Breast Cancer stall. I raised £200 which went towards the £1500 I raised for the charity. I completed the 60km walk last weekend and altogether everyone raised £5.1 million for Breakthrough Breast Cancer!
Ellie on 2005-09-30 18:48:44 +0000Looking at those pictures makes me WANT to live in ST Margarets
Xandria on 2005-10-08 23:37:05 +0000It was a great event and we raised awareness and £120 for the Saturday morning football, new balls anyone ?
Robin on 2005-10-13 17:15:15 +0000Add a comment