Abba Night at 2015 Crosspool Festival
2015 Summer Fayre is on Saturday 4 July
Don’t miss the Crosspool Summer Fayre on Saturday 4 July, one of the many events taking place as part of this year’s Crosspool Festival.
Last chance to enter Crosspool Festival photography competition
This weekend is the last chance for under 18s to enter this year’s Crosspool Festival photography competition.
The title for the photo is: Things that give me joy! We are looking for a winning photo that tells a story to the viewer and that really captures the essence of joy.
The first prize is £25, a memento of your win and a framed copy of your winning photo. Runners up will each receive a framed copy of their photo.
All entries will be displayed during the festival. You can vote for your favourite on this website during Festival week, 26-5 July.
- The closing date for entries is 31 May 2015.
- Entries need to be emailed as a jpg to crosspoolfestivalphotos@gmail.com
- One entry per person
- You need to include your name and surname, contact home phone number, age and school/group with your entry
For any further info, please email Lindsey Beagles: crosspoolfestivalphotos@gmail.com
Crosspool Festival 2015 programme announced
In it you’ll find many of the well-loved elements of festivals from previous years plus a few new things including:
- the blessing of the Magna Carta-themed well dressing on Friday evening
- Open Gardens on Saturday 27 June
- the street market on Sunday 28 June
- a picnic with Crosspool alpacas
- Sheffield Folk Chorale for a concert on Thursday 2 July
- a pub quiz
- a talk on a climbing/mountaineering theme
- Crosspool chocolate factory family film show with crafts
- Crosspool history walk
- a photography competition for 11-18s
- an Abba evening
- a scarecrow competition
- the Summer Fayre on the Coldwell Lane field on Saturday 4 July
The festival takes place Friday 26 June to Sunday 5 July.
Tickets for this year’s events are on sale from Crosspool Pet Shop on Sandygate Road.
The prize winning programme cover designs are by Lily Holt, Lydgate Infant School [front] and Polly Hill, Lydgate Junior School [back]. These and other entries can be seen in Cocker & Carr Estate Agents, Sandygate Road. We’d like to thank all the talented artists from both schools who entered.
Get involved
Full details of each event are in the programme. As well as attending events, there are plenty of ways you can get involved:
- If you would like to help create the well dressing, please contact Pat Lintott on 0114 268 1161.
- If you would like a stall at the street market contact Chris Bachelor on 0114 266 7842.
- If you’d like to help with/book a stall at the Summer Fayre contact Steve Reynolds on 266 3473 or Ian Hague on 0114 230 7265.
- For other enquiries or offers of help contact me, Revd Frances Eccleston on 0114 267 0006.
Scarecrow competition at Crosspool Festival
A message from Rachel Suddrick, Sally Parkinson, Beckie Howe and Paula Stacy:
Dear families,
We would like to invite you to join in with the Crosspool Festival scarecrow competition.
The theme for the festival is ‘joy and happiness’ so we would like you as a family to make a scarecrow that represents something that makes your family happy and brings you joy. This might be a book or film character or a scarecrow playing a sport or taking part in a hobby.
All scarecrows need to be displayed on or in the front of your home, visible from the road. This might be in a window, a front garden or even on your door! You can make them as big or as small as you like!
They should be in place by 10am on Saturday 27 June and should remain in place throughout the festival. Each entry will be judged by local sculpture Noel Lockley at some point during the festival. Winners will be announced on Saturday 4Â July at the festival Fayre.
If you would like to enter, please collect an entry form from Lounge@Crosspool and return it along with £3 by 12 June. All profits will be going to the two Lydgate Schools.
We hope you have great fun making your scarecrows together as a family and will enjoy spotting scarecrows around Crosspool during the festival week.
A list of roads on which we expect scarecrows to be displayed will be available to collect from Lounge@Crosspool from Saturday 27 July. If you have any further questions please call in at Lounge.
1st prize: Family pass to Magna
2nd prize: Tea and cake voucher for Lounge@Crosspool
3rd prize: Family craft tub
Local and city charities to benefit from festival donations
The two charities that will receive a share of any money made from this year’s Crosspool Festival are Care in Crosspool and Roundabout.
Care in Crosspool provides a befriending service for the elderly, organising regular visits to someone living on their own.
Roundabout is a local Sheffield youth housing charity providing shelter, support and life skills to young people.
Last year, £500 was raised for Parents’ Association of Children with Tumours and Leukaemia and £500 was raised for community facility CDYST.
In 2013, £1,300 was shared between Weston Park Cancer Information and Support Centre and the 36th Sheffield Scout Group based on Benty Lane.
Wanted: your nominations for a cause for Crosspool Festival to support – deadline Tuesday 5 May
The Crosspool Festival committee and Crosspool Forum are looking for ideas for which local causes should benefit from any money made from our annual community festival.
Last year, £500 was raised for Parents’ Association of Children with Tumours and Leukaemia and £500 was raised for community facility CDYST.
In 2013, £1,300 was shared between Weston Park Cancer Information and Support Centre and the 36th Sheffield Scout Group based on Benty Lane.
If you have suggestions a local charity or community group that could benefit from funds raised from this year’s festival, please fill in the form below. The Crosspool Forum committee will go through the suggestions and make a decision on who should benefit from money raised.
Please make your nominations over the weekend, as the deadline is Tuesday 5 May.
Young people invited to enter Crosspool Festival photography competition
The Crosspool Festival committee is inviting any young person who is 18 and under to take part in this year’s Crosspool Festival photography competition.
The title for the photo is: Things that give me joy! We are looking for a winning photo that tells a story to the viewer and that really captures the essence of joy.
The first prize is £25, a memento of your win and a framed copy of your winning photo. Runners up will each receive a framed copy of their photo.
All entries will be displayed during the festival. You can vote for your favourite on this website during Festival week, 26-5 July.
- The closing date for entries is 31 May 2015.
- Entries need to be emailed as a jpg to crosspoolfestivalphotos@gmail.com
- One entry per person
- You need to include your name and surname, contact home phone number, age and school/group with your entry
For any further info, please email Lindsey Beagles: crosspoolfestivalphotos@gmail.com
Crosspool Festival update: get involved!
The dates for the 2015 Crosspool Festival are Friday 26 June to Sunday 5 July.
Here’s the latest from the Crosspool Festival Committee:
We hope to repeat many of the well-loved elements of festivals from previous years, plus a few new things! We will begin as usual with the blessing of the Magna Carta-themed well dressing on Friday evening, and Open Gardens on Saturday 27 June.
Plans for the street market on Sunday 28 June are well in hand. We are delighted to welcome the Sheffield Folk Chorale for a concert on Thursday 2 July.
Illustrated talks/book signing events have always proved popular and we have plans for a talk on a climbing/mountaineering theme as well as something on the Sheffield Blitz.
New for this year will be a family film show with crafts, and a photography competition for 11-18s. Rumours are afoot of a possible Abba evening , and other ideas are still being tossed around…and of course the Summer Fayre on the Coldwell Lane field will be the usual fixture on Saturday 4 July.
We’re grateful to the uniformed groups, local pubs and businesses and everyone else who have indicated their support – what makes the Crosspool Festival special is its genuinely local feel.
- If you would like to help create the well dressing, please contact Pat Lintott on 0114 268 1161.
- If you would like a stall at the street market contact Chris Bachelor on 0114 266 7842.
- If you’d like to help with/book a stall at the Summer Fayre contact Steve Reynolds on 266 3473 or Ian Hague on 0114 230 7265.
- For other enquiries or offers of help contact me, Revd Frances Eccleston on 0114 267 0006.
Items wanted for Crosspool Summer Fayre
Do you have any unwanted prizes, gifts or bric-a-brac that might be suitable for the Crosspool Forum Summer Fayre bric-a-brac stall? For example glasses, small toys, jewellery, vases etc.
If so, please get in touch on g.m.drinkwater@btinternet.com. We can collect if necessary, or they can be dropped off locally.
The annual Summer Fayre will take place on Saturday 4 July. It’s part of the Crosspool Festival, which this year runs Friday 26 June to Sunday 5 July.
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