The newly-formed Carnival Committee will be hosting a Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Event on Friday 3rd of June instead of the traditional Carnival this year.

The event will take place in the Carnival field between 1pm and 5pm.

We are hoping to bring you plenty of stalls, attractions, including children’s games & activities, dance show, dog show, fire engine, tug of war, food and drink; in fact everything needed to help the village to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in style!

We will give more information as these are confirmed, so please check back here to keep updated.

BOOK A STALL

If you would like to book a stall at the event, you can find out all you need to know here and download the forms and make payment here.

PROGRAMME ADVERTISING

If you would like to advertise in our Platinum Jubilee Event programme, please contact us here.

VOLUNTEERS

As this will be our first larger event as a new (but small) team we are really hoping for quite a few volunteers from the village to enable us to make it a success, both in the run up to the event and on the day. If you would like to help, please get in touch here.

It is with regret that we have again had to cancel Water Orton Carnival for 2021.

Our usual date for the Carnival is the third Saturday in June which falls on the 19th this year, two days before Boris (hopefully) lifts restrictions on outdoor events on 21st.

However, we had discussed and were planning a ‘Family Fun Day’ later in July as an alternative, but having looked into it we are unable to get insurance cover for this event, so regrettably we can’t go ahead with this either.

With no form of public liability insurance in place and much uncertainty about what restrictions might still be in place, we had a Zoom meeting earlier this week and all agreed that we didn’t want to jeopardise any future carnivals should any problems arise during these difficult and still uncertain times.

On a positive note, you will have seen that our Scarecrow Competition is going ahead once again. We had a great response to this last year and it certainly helped to brighten up the village, so please take part if you can.

Writing last year’s similar post we could never have predicted that we would still be under lockdown restrictions 12 months later, but there does seem to be a light at the end of the tunnel, so again, we look forward to happier times and future Carnivals and in the meantime, stay well and stay safe.

The Carnival Committee.

It is with regret that we have decided to cancel Water Orton Carnival for 2020.

This will probably come as no surprise with the current situation with the Coronavirus (COVID 19).

Usually at this stage plans are well underway for the Carnival in June, with many stalls booked, attractions agreed, applications made to the council for road closures etc, but there is so much uncertainty at the moment that we feel that this is impossible.

Arranging for a later date is also impracticable as no new date can be set at the moment and attractions such as the fair and arena events are booked up throughout the year, so we have made the decision that the Carnival will not take place in 2020.

This is particularly sad as the outgoing members had committed to stay for this year’s event and we have fortunately recruited quite a few new people to ensure that the carnival continues into 2021 and beyond.

We look forward to brighter, happier days and in the meantime we hope you all stay well, stay safe and if possible, stay indoors.

The Carnival Committee.