WELCOME TO BIRDINGBURY

Birdingbury welcomes you once again to enjoy our two-day Country Festival which first took place in 1991. Since then we've raised about £64,000 for charities; last year we shared out about £7,500 between Practical Action (an organisation that helps people in underdeveloped countries), our own St. Leonard's Church, and our Village Amenities Fund. This year's profits will be distributed in a similar way but this time the 'outside' charity will be Warwickshire Air Ambulance. Incidentally, it is Birdingbury villagers (at their annual meeting) - who decide which organisations should be the benificiaries of our efforts.

The village’s history goes back a long way: it’s first written record is an entry in the 1086 Domesday Book. Since then it has seen many changes and is now a thriving community with the energy and enthusiasm to support many local activities including our recently-improved, well-equipped Recreation Field and, of course, this Festival. Last year well over a third of villagers worked in some way for the Festival and a similar number are involved this year. We would like to thank them and the many individuals, clubs and other organisations from beyond the village who come to help make the event so successful.

In the village we have the Birdingbury Club and Birbury Room (both occupying the site of the old school with the latter acting as a cafe during the Festival) and St. Leonard’s Church. We hope you have time to visit them.

You’ll find a wide variety of stalls, refreshments, craftwork, music and children’s entertainments, as well as our regular displays and parades of steam engines, vintage cars, tractors, military and commercial vehicles and motor bikes. Over the two days there will be displays of falcons, rare breeds, country pursuits, abseiling and much, much more.

Enjoy your time with us and don’t forget that all our profits will go to good causes, so spend, spend, spend!! We in the Birdingbury Festival Committee have been working over the last year to ensure that this year’s event will be the best ever! Have a lovely time but have a safe time too, so please take care of yourself and each other by following the advice given out on notices and in announcements.

 

Alison Chappell,, Brendan Hirst, John Marshall, Pauline Meade, Barbara, Bob and Xenia Munro, Alex Rigler and Leslie Turner

 

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