St Michael and All Angels Church, Bedford Park

The 44th Bedford Park Festival - June 12-27 2010

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Commercial opportunities at this year's Festival

The Bedford Park Festival is Chiswick's biggest community event and one of the highlights of the local year. This year's Festival will run from June 12th and 13th (Green Days weekend, opposite Turnham Green tube station, including the Children's Fancy Dress Parade and Bedford Park's Got Talent contest) until Sunday June 27th, when the Festival has its grand finale, including the Festival Mass and lunch, the tour of Bedford Park Open Gardens, the Photographic Competition prizegiving and a concert at Rosalind Leney's studio.

Please make sure the dates are in your diary. Why not block out the whole fortnight from June 12th to 27th? It’s only once a year – and it’s the biggest arts and community event in the area.

If you'd like to help in any way, please contact: The Festival co-ordinator, Torin Douglas, at torindouglas@aol.com, or the Festival events director Michael Robinson at roddis@dircon.co.uk, or the Parish Office at 020 8994 1380, or any of those listed below about specific events.

Scroll down to find out how: you can get involved both now, and nearer the time;

How would you like to help?

1. Perform, create and take part:
- Singers wanted for the Festival Mass on June 27th. Rehearsals 9pm Tuesdays. Contact Jonathan Dods, St Michael's director of music: jondods@yahoo.com
- Producers for Festival events, including music and drama. Contact Michael Robinson: roddis@dircon.co.uk.
- Plus photographers for the Photographic Exhibition, and various talents for the ‘Bedford Park’s Got Talent’ contest, the children's fancy dress parade, and the junior 5-a-side football. See other pages for details.
- Gardens wanted for the Bedford Park Open Gardens on Sunday 27th. Contact Carol Douglas: caroldouglas111@aol.com.

2. Help run events and stalls:
- Green Days: help with the Craft Fair, music performances, refreshments, the beer tent, the barbecue, book stall, international food, plants, children's corner, 5-a-side football, skittles, champagne lottery, recycling and the heavy gang, who put it all up and take it down again. Contact Helen Simkin helen@may.be or see noticeboard in church for stall organisers’ details.
- Concerts and events: backstage and technical teams, to help with sound and lighting, film projection, moving pews and chairs, assembling the stage. Contact Michael Robinson: roddis@dircon.co.uk.
- Catering: cooking, preparing canapes, serving drinks/teas. Contact Jane Trigle: jane.lenton@virgin.net.
- Front of house: selling tickets, ushering, bar staff. Contact Jane Thomson: jthomson@waitrose.com.
- Publicity: writing releases, preparing and designing leaflets and posters, putting up posters and banners, contacting the media, updating the website. Contact: Torin Douglas torindouglas@aol.com
- Admin tasks: various roles, some needing computer skills. Contact Helen Simkin helen@may.be
- Win a Meal: Help wanted to sign up restaurants to donate a free meal for two. On Green Days - help on the stall in two-hour slots. Contact Monica Ricketts: monica.ricketts1@btinternet.com.

3. Gifts and goods wanted. Please start collecting:
- Children's Clothes Stall: Good quality clothes please, from birth to 10 - but NO shoes, underwear, skiwear, accessories, dirty or holey shoes. Contact Vicky Brooke at fbl.property@tesco.net.
- High Roller Tombola: new items for prizes, including unwanted new gifts: Bottles of wine and spirits; Bottles of olive oil and packaged, non-perishable foodstuff; Smart toiletries - soaps, perfume, candles; Wallets, purses, photo frames, scarves; New toys, books, CDs and DVD's; Tickets for theatres, concerts and sports events; Weekends at hotels or sport clubs. Contact Sally Haigh: sallyahaigh@yahoo.co.uk.
- Books: Second-hand books please. Contact Helen & Philip Wareham: warehamw4@hotmail.com.
- Bric-a-Brac: Contact Julie Duckworth: julieslyong@hotmail.com, or Sue Ouseley: ouseleyd@aol.com.
- Toys: Second-hand toys please. Contact Barbara Marchant: barbm13@btinternet.com.

4. Plant, bake and make marmalade:
- Cake stall. Nearer the day, please bake cakes or donate a jar of homemade marmalade. Contact Parish Office
- Plant stall. Now, please start growing plants to sell on the stall Contact Carol Douglas: caroldouglas111@aol.com.

5. Sponsorship and donations:
We get great support from local business - more than 150 firms helped us last year. Their names are listed, with links, on the Supporters page on our website.
If you have contacts, or would like to help us liaise with businesses, please contact torindouglas@aol.com.

What’s happening this year?
There’ll be the usual mix of one-off concerts, dramas and talks and all the favourites - the Bedford Park Summer Exhibition, poetry evening, Bedford Park Open Gardens, Bedford Park Walk, photographic exhibition, Festival Mass and Lunch, and Rosalind Leney’s concerts. The programme will be published in May.
       
On June 12th and 13th, our two-day Green Days fete, opposite St Michaels, will have stalls, fairground attractions, live music, craft fair, children's fancy dress competition and talent contest, with plenty of food and drink at the beer and refreshments tents and the barbecue. You can see more here:
       
Our pioneering Keep Green Days Green campaign ensures waste is recycled - so if you're actively green and would like to help with that, please let us know.