Paul Messenger for the Tennis Club collects his cheque for £100.

Colin Newman from the Bowls Club collects £100.

A cheque for £400 accepted by Wendy Ress on behalf of the library.

Colin Green accepts his cheque for £50

Elizabeth Crawley receiving £50 towards her planned ‘World Challenge to China’ .

At the Committee’s AGM on Thursday 12th November we were delighted to make some more donations to local good causes.

The Brownies received £50 towards their ongoing costs.

Water Orton War Memorial Project received £100 towards their target.

Colin Green, our village historian received £50.00 and gave a very concise outline of how he intends to spend the money, explaining he planned to use it towards laminating his extensive photo collection and towards another exhibition of at least another 120 old photographs. Colin also pledged a stall at the Carnival next year saying his stall this year went really well.

Paul Messenger from the Tennis Club received £100 towards two special school coaching projects and towards a new 21-year lease at the tennis club. He told us the club had recently spent £40,000 in particular on new floodlighting and the donation was accordingly gratefully received.

Water Orton Library Community Centre received £100 towards improved heating in the building’s toilets and kitchen.

The Bowls Club received £100 towards buying new sets of bowls for the club. He said the club had recently spent substantially on ground/green improvements and the donation was much needed and appreciated.

Elizabeth Crawley received £50 towards her planned ‘World Challenge to China’ to undertake community project work.

Once again, the Carnival Committee is very happy to be able to support local good causes this year.

2017 marks our celebration of 50 consecutive years with our Golden Carnival.

As you may know the Carnival dates back many years before this and there is actually some debate as to whether 1967 was in fact a Carnival or not so, as Tony Nash (the chairman at the time) decided to celebrate the ‘Silver Carnival’ back in 1992, we are following his lead and celebrating the Golden Carnival in 2017.

As part of our discussions at meetings last year we thought it would be great to try to track down as many past Carnival Queens as possible and invite them back as our guests, so we are asking for your help.

We should mention that we are aware that sadly not all of the last 50 years’ Queens will still be with us, but we felt it was an appropriate time to celebrate and remember all of our past Carnival Queens and we sincerely hope that this does not cause offence to anyone.

How you can help

If you, or someone you know, is a past Carnival Queen, please get in touch with us as we would like to identify and invite as many past Queens as possible to the Carnival. We are having a float and will be having sashes made, so if you are a past Queen, please take part and help us celebrate this special day.

You can contact us by email, by commenting below, or by contacting Mandi Collins on 07803 789706. Thanks in advance for your help.

A special thank-you to Colin Green, our village historian, for supplying details of the missing queens.

Past Carnival Queens

In keeping with the 50th celebrations, the theme for this year’s Carnival floats is ‘A golden moment in time’. This can be anything at all from the last 50 years.

You don’t have to be a member of a group or organisation to take part – you could just be a bunch or friends, or perhaps all live on particular street? It would be great to see some of the village’s streets competing with each other to really make this year special.

There’s no need to worry about supplying the lorry – The Carnival Committee will provide it for you along with everything you need to know.

Just take a look at these happy smiles and fabulous floats and outfits from 2017 when the theme was ‘The Sea’.

Why not get involved this year to showcase your creative flair along the procession route through Water Orton on Saturday 17th June? There’s even a money prize for 1st, 2nd and 3rd judged floats.

If you are interested then please e-mail this address or contact Mandi Collins on 07803 789706.

Our Carnival Queen for this year is Abbie Forbes who is 10 years old and currently attends Water Orton Primary School. Helping Abbie on the day are her two princesses Darcey Hodgins (age 6) and Ebony Shand (age 8), and her princes Dominic Barker (age 5) and Jack Patrick (age 4). Be sure to give them all a wave as they make their way around the village.