We have begun our search for a carnival princess and Miss Chard for carnival 2013.
Entrants for princess competition will be aged 6-11yrs and Miss Chard 12 yrs plus with no upper age limit!
A minimum of £250 will have to be raised to enter .
Prizes for each of the winners include , prom dress,hair styling, beauty treatments. , photo shoot and jewellery .
If interested please contact Shirley Chant 01460 66614 or email Andrew.chant672@btinternet .com for more details.
Feb – John White and Dave Orchard;
Mar - V Oliver and Rob Still.
April - Sharon Fox and John Daley!
We held our presentation Coffee Morning on Saturday 23rd February. Our main beneficiaries (RNLI and Headway Somerset) came, along with the 11 groups who benefited from the towns Jubilee celebrations (Chard Museum, Chard Concert Brass, Eclipse CC, Chard 3rd Rainbows, 2nd Chard Boys Brigade, Zem CC, Chard Street Pastors, Forefront, The Watch Project, Chard Christmas Lights, Care for Casualties)
The cheques totaled £2900 – and here they all are, waiting to be presented!
Don’t forget – we have the Children’s Carnival on Saturday. Judging starts at 10:30 at Manor Court School, and the procession leaves at 12noon. Its not too late to enter! Entries forms are available from the Chard and Ilminster News or from Sues Flowers Ltd Chard
July – 1st – Sarah Morse, 2nd – Philip Burch.
August – 1st – Haymaker Skittle Team, 2nd – Neil Cline
September – 1st – Stephen Atherton, 2nd – Joan Oliver
Sunday 30th September 2012
The annual Chard & District Carnival Committee’s Road Run for British Motorcycles (and others at the organiser’s discretion) will be held on Sunday 30th September in aid of Carnival funds, which are distributed to local charitable organisations, principally Headway & RNLI this year. There will be a cream tea at the end of the Run.
Motorcycles will meet Chard, from 9.30 a.m. (Kelly Leigh Premises by Co-op, Fore Street, Chard) with a run of approximately 80 miles beginning at 11.00 a.m. A pub lunch stop is planned where meals can be purchased.
Several trophies will be awarded at the end of the Run, including one for the machine chosen by all entrants.
Entry form:
Carnival Motorcycle runform 2012 (PDF)
100 Club:
Results of the draws so far:
February: 1st – Judy Horner, 2nd – Ian Gibson
March: 1st – Jayne Lucas, 2nd – Neil Cline
April: 1st – Chris Jones, 2nd – Pete Philbrick
May: 1st – Emma Bale, 2nd – Sheila Eastwood
June: 1st – Mr and Mrs Spurway, 2nd – Eric Stone
This years collection for Chard Carnival was £3091. This is approximately £550 down on last year. We were hoping for a good collection this year, so we are slightly disappointed – we even managed to raise more the year the carnival was abandoned!
The money raised is donated to local charities (with St Margaret’s Hospice this years main beneficiary). We fundraise throughout the year to cover our costs so that we can give more to charity, although this has been hard this year. I fear this year that, despite all the committees efforts, we won’t be able to give as much to charity as we would like.
Its not too late to donate money, however. If anyone wishes to donate, they can do so at Sues Flowers in Boden Street, or at Chard Garden Centre in Cuttisfords Door. Sues Flowers are donating £1 from every delivery this week to carnival funds.
The results from this years procession are available to download here (PDF): results 2011
