One of the volunteer Refreshments tent teams in 2024 (Click to zoom in)
If you would like to volunteer to help with the Festival in any way, or have other enquiries, please contact: Nicola Chater, Festival Administrator.
The team in the Beer Tent, sponsored by Andrew Nunn & Associates (Click to zoom in)
Please watch here for updated information.
Cakes for the Cake Stall on Saturday June 7th.
Please bring your home-baking and preserves on the day. One day only. More help is also needed on the stall. Please email Anne Mower if you can offer either.
The popular hats, bags and scarves stall is in need of fresh stock!
Hats, designer dresses, belts, ties, scarves, gloves and bags. Any good quality items. Please bring donations to St Michael's or St Peter's Southfield Road from Sunday 18th May. Costume jewellery and designer items also welcome! Please contact Pamela Bickley.
Win A Meal Raffle
Encourage your favourite local restaurants to donate a meal for two in our Win A Meal Raffle. Read more here. Download a donation form. Please contact Nigel Buxton.
High Roller Tombola
Items worth £10 or more. Items should be new or unused and non-perishable. eg. bottles of wine (still or sparkling) or non-alcoholic drinks; jars of preserves or similar; new/unused accessories such as scarves/ jewellery; food items such as biscuits or chocolates; new/unused toys; new/unused decorative items such as a picture frame or vases; upmarket toiletries; or gift vouchers for shops. Download a High Roller Tombola donation form. Please contact Hugh Johnson or Mira Tzekova.
Bric-a-Brac Stall
Bring items to the Parish Office during opening hours, nearer Green Days weekend - watch for updated information. Please contact Mel Howells.
Books wanted for Green Days!
Please drop them off at St Peter’s Southfield Road on Friday May 30th or Monday June 2nd between 9.30am and 12.30pm. Or contact Philip Wareham.
Toys Stall
Donations of good quality children's toys and games needed. Please contact Anna Benson in the Parish Office.
Home-grown plants for the Plants Stall
We should love to sell more home-grown plants - they look great on the stall and make more money for our charities than the ones we buy (even at cost price!). Please bring them to the stall on Saturday morning by 10am please (one day only!). More information from Marjolein van Kampen
The Pancake Stall
... is looking for enthusiastic pancake makers, assistants and order takers. We're very busy (last year we made 496 pancakes) so need volunteers who are up for joining the chaos! Don't be put off if catering isn't normally your thing. Full training provided, but if it is your first time on a French crepe maker, I arrange this outside the stall opening times. Please get in touch with Victoria Wareham 🙂.
Green Days stalls volunteers
We also need more people who can volunteer a few hours of their time over the weekend to help on the various church stalls. Please contact Jane McCabe.
We raise money for our charities, including St Michael & All Angels, which organises the Festival. To find out how your firm can be involved as a sponsor, or by donating goods or services, or how we can promote each other on social media, click here: Commercial opportunities or email Torin Douglas. See High Roller Tombola and Win a Meal above.
Bedford Park Summer Exhibition - all local artists are welcome to enter - see details and entry form
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Sing in the Festival Mass Choir
This year we are singing Beethoven's Mass in C. If you've sung it before it's a good opportunity to do a couple of rehearsals and sing it again! If it's new to you, there are rehearsals on Tuesdays evenings at 8pm from mid May to get you up to speed. We have a dress rehearsal on Friday 20th June and sing at the service on the morning of Sunday 22nd June with full orchestra led by David Juritz. Please email Jonathan Dods for further details.
Bedford Park Open Gardens - would you like to open your garden?
The Open Gardens are one of the Festival's most enjoyable occasions, both for the gardeners and those who walk round them. Each year, we showcase up to a dozen gardens on the final afternoon of the Festival - this year on Sunday 22 June from 2pm to 6pm.
There’s a new team of organisers this year and they are looking for a variety of gardens — from traditional to contemporary, large and small, formal and relaxed. Taking part is easy, good fun and a great way of getting to know local people, raising money for charity and contributing to our community. The visitors really appreciate the generosity of the gardeners and enjoy meeting them — and they are not looking for perfection!
Even if you can’t open your own garden, do you have friends or neighbours who would like to do so — or to find out more? Please email Marjolein van Kampen, who will be delighted to tell you more.
