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There will be a short formal start to present the annual accounts, review last year’s activities, plans for this year and election for the committee. New members are always welcome so do come along and ask about what is involved. This year’s speaker is Judith Large from Shepreth Hedgehog Hospital who will speak about their work and how we can encourage hedgehogs in our gardens. Drinks and nibbles will be served so do come along.
This is always a great village event, plants in abundance, plus the WI serving refreshments, a produce stall and a tombola. Not to be missed!
This bi-annual event is always popular, it’s good to have a mix of big, medium and small gardens on show. If you are thinking of opening your garden please contact FGA Chair Steve Tongish on steve.tongish [at] hotmail.com for more details. All profits go to charity. Refreshments will be served at St Laurence’s Church.
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The FGA is delighted to have donated £1500 to Foxton Parish Council towards the cost of some new trees in the recently renovated children’s playground.
“The Parish Council would like to once again thank the FGA for their kind contribution towards the playground trees which are now planted and looking wonderful in the Foxton playground. Your contribution along with a biodiversity grant from the district council funded most of the cost of these trees. We look forward to watching these trees grow and flourish.”
-Annabel Wright, Foxton Parish Clerk
2024 Village Show
Once again we were fortunate with the weather for our annual show on Saturday, September 7th. it was so good to see the many entries in the different classes, fruit, vegetables, flowers, photos, craft, produce etc. We have some very talented people in the village! It was especially pleasing to see so many entries in the Junior Foxton section this year, a delight to see their inventiveness and ingenuity. The “cafe” was kept very busy, all the tables both inside and outside seemed full and there were displays of some village clubs and activities. Many thanks to all who entered, attended and helped in any way with this lovely village “do”. Additional coverage of the show, including photos of the event, can be found here. See you all next year, Sept. 13th.
The 2024 Foxton Village Show was held on Saturday 7th September 2024. The committee would like to thank everyone who volunteered, attended, exhibited, entered, adjudicated or contributed in any way to this wonderful village event. A list of prize winners has been posted here and a full report from FGA Chair Steve Tongish will be posted here soon.
Please see below for from some photographs from the day courtesy of André Neves and committee members Steve Tongish and Rebecca Rajendra. André also supported the show in his capacity as judge for the photography section and you can see more of André’s wonderful photography on his website.
If you would like any photos removed, please let us know.
We look forward to seeing you all again in 2025!
The 2024 Foxton Village Show is this Saturday 7th September in the Village Hall from 2-4pm. It’s not too late to submit your entry forms. They are due on Thursday the 5th at 7pm and can be dropped off at several locations around the village.
Whether or not you have entered do come along in the afternoon from 2pm to view the entries, enter the raffle, or enjoy some tea and cake. We look forward to seeing you at this wonderful village event.
Copies of this year’s programme and entry form are here:
2024 Village Show
This year’s Village Show will be on Saturday 7th September 2024 at 2pm. Every house in the village has now received a copy of the show schedule, so do try and enter, even if only one item! Whether or not you have entered do come along in the afternoon, view the entries, join the raffle, swap or buy some books, have a drink and cake, meet up with old friends, make new ones and have a great time at this very enjoyable village event.
If you haven’t entered before, don’t worry, bring your entries to the hall between 9 – 11, where members of the committee will be only too happy to help.
2024 Village Show
This year’s Village Show will be on Saturday 7th September 2024. Every house in the village will receive a copy of the show schedule in early August. We do hope as many of you as possible will enter (even if only 1 item!) and come along on the day from 2pm in the afternoon to see the exhibits, have some refreshments, enter the raffle, watch the prize giving, bring along books for the stall and enjoy a “catch up” with friends and neighbours. We have been blessed in recent years with glorious weather for the show so fingers crossed that we are lucky again in 2024. The show is a lovely celebration of life in our village so do come and support the show.
2024 Best Kept Front Garden Competition
Once again, Peter Jackson from Scotsdales very kindly came along to do the final judging for this year’s competition. Many congratulations to the following (and to all who won best in area!):
The winner will be presented with the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Cup at the Village Show in September.
2024 Best Kept Front Garden Competition, judging on Thursday, 6th June 2024
Peter Jackson (from Scotsdales) has very kindly agreed to judge the competition again. As usual, committee members will do the preliminary area judging beforehand. The Foxton resident with best kept front garden will be awarded the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Cup at the Village Show in September.
Foxton Village Show
The categories for the Photos and Craft categories at the Village Show to be held on Saturday, September 7th 2024, are as follows:
Photos:
Craft, and an example of:
Every house will receive a copy of the show schedule in August but here are the entries for the following classes.
Cup holders from last year’s show are asked to return them for engraving to IAN CONSTABLE 11 Illingworth Way tel 871508 (ian.constable1@ntlworld.com) as soon as possible and certainly by the end of July. Please do this sooner rather than later as Ian has a lot of cups to collect and arrange for engraving!
And thank you everyone who came along to the AGM and Plant Sale and Swap. Short reports featuring photos from the events are available via the links.
Join us for this popular event which will be held this Saturday 11th May 2024 from 10am-12pm at the Village Hall!
Bring your spare plants and go home with new plants for your garden. The WI will be serving Tea and Cakes and hosting a tombola and produce stand.
Download a copy of the poster here.