Calling all young designers, artists, crafters, bakers and gardeners! This year you can enter 42 categories to win rosettes, cups and prizes. Entry is free, although we hope you will donate your goodies for the auction or produce stall.
This year in the classes that are open to all we have beans, berries, plums, honey, Coronation Quiche and the largest diameter sunflower, as well as our usual classes.
The children’s entries are divided into Pre-School, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2.
An ideas sheet for these classes will be available to download shortly. It will also be available soon in Coln Stores, along with paper bags and pegs to turn into monster puppets and superheroes!
Downloads
Details of classes are on the inside pages of the Programme, available to download here.
The entry form is here:
Top tips for a winning potato crop for the Walter Raleigh Challenge are here:
Deadlines
- Entry forms should be emailed to colnfunday@gmail.com or dropped off at Coln Stores by 5pm Thursday 31st August at the latest, the earlier the better. If you are not sure that everything you hope to enter will be at its best on the morning of the show, tick all the classes you are hoping to enter.
- Show entries must be delivered to Mill House gardens between 9am and 10.45 am Saturday 2nd September as judging commences at 11am.
Forms and entries received after these deadlines cannot be accepted.
Rosettes, silverware and prizes
As always, points mean prizes and for the very best entries, a chance to take home a silver cup engraved with your name.
There will be red, blue and yellow Coln St Aldwyns Fete and Produce Show 1st, 2nd and 3rd place rosettes as usual.
The judges take the winning entries for each class (i.e. 1st place rosette winners) and select the winners of each of the seven groups of entries (A-G). These winners take away the cups for each age category for the youngsters and the Rose Cup, Flower Cup (St Aldywns Cup), Vegetable Cup, and Home-made Produce Cup. The heaviest crop of potatoes wins the Walter Raleigh Challenge, now with a second trophy for the under-12s.
The cup winners go forward for Best in Show to win Jean’s Cup (Groups A, B and C) in memory of Jean Sinton who ran the Coln Stores and Post Office for many years, or the Boucher Cup (Groups D, E and F).
The Family Shield is awarded to the family that wins the most points across all categories. The 3rd place rosette is worth one point, the 2nd place rosette wins you two points and a 1st place rosette is worth three points. More entries means a chance of more points. Previous families that took the Show by storm were the Calvert, Vestey and Ward families.
Good luck everyone!
Coln St Aldwyns Children's Fete & CHEQS Produce Show 
