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Somersham Carnival AGM 2021


Look forward to Carnival 2021 and help create an event to beat all lockdowns! Get involved with Ideas and Action

What’s On The Agenda?

1. Welcome – intros & ice breaker

2. Report from the Chair

3. Report from the TimeBank

4. Report from the Treasurer

5. Thank you and Dissolution of the 2020 Committee

6. Election of the 2021 Committee 

7. Then a BREATHER BREAK

8. Ideas for how to have an inclusive and friendly COVID Compliant Carnival

9. Theme – ideas and voting

10. Capture great theme based ideas

11. Any Other Business

12. Set Dates of next 3 meetings.

What Date And Time Is The Meeting?

The AGM is on Monday 28th September at 7:30pm.

How Do I Attend The Meeting?

You can attend the meeting in the comfort of your own home as we will be using Zoom.

How Do I Get Zoom?

To Request the Zoom Link- Direct Message us on Facebook: @SomershamCarnival or Email: Theresa on v4tia@aol.com Or direct dial in on +44 203 481 5240 United Kingdom (you may be charged).

We thank you for your endless support in this difficult year under the most difficult circumstances. Together we can make 2021 the best Carnival ever!

We hope to see you on Monday 28th September at 7:30pm.

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Somersham Carnival 2020 – Decorate Your Bin


Sadly due to the pandemic, all of this year carnival events have been cancelled.

However please join us from your doorstep on Saturday 13th June and decorate your wheelie bin. Choose a scene from your favourite musical for everyone to enjoy!

Remember to stay safe and keep to social distancing rules.

Join Us For 2021

If you would like to join the team who are going to make 2021 the best carnival ever, or you’ve got some ideas to share, then please come along to our AGM on Monday 28th September at Rose and Crown at 7:30pm.

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Uniforms on Parade!


Following the nominations and voting on the carnival theme at the AGM in September, we’re looking forward to seeing a great variety of uniforms in Somersham Carnival Week (8-16th June) and on Carnival Day 15th June 2019.  We”ll be looking out for girls and boys dressed up in costumes from all the emergency services and armed forces past and present, and some of the less obvious careers for astronauts, scientists, jockeys, builders, chefs – there will be plenty of opportunity for role play and creative thinking – so get in touch and share your ideas for events and entertainments for the whole week!

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Your Move! Create a Picture for the Carnival Programme Cover


Somersham Carnival is inviting all primary school age children who live or attend school in Somersham and Pidley to design a picture to feature on the front cover of the Carnival Programme, distributed to over 2,000 homes.

Carnival Week is Friday 16th to 25th June 2017 (Carnival Day is on Saturday 24th June) and the theme this year is “Board Games” and so we are asking for a picture of your idea for a board game or people having fun playing a board game.

To enter the competition – please prepare your picture inside the box provided on the entry form (you can download one from our Downloads page or use any sheet of A4 plain white paper) and fill in your details in the spaces below it. Please also tell us the name of the board game being played – whether it’s a ‘real’ board game or one you’ve thought up and yet to be made…

Use up as much space as the box allows but please keep within the lines. You can create your picture in any way you like – pencils, crayons, paint, or a combination. Do use colour and try to make your scene bright but please don’t include any words or title in the design (we will add them later). Your picture should be your own creation and not a copy of an existing picture.

Return your design to your school office after Half Term or deliver it to 21 Parkhall Road. The closing Date is Friday 24th Feb 2017.  Somersham Carnival Committee will judge all the entries and will notify the winner by the end of March.

Funded by the Community, For the Community


Press Release –Monday 9th November 2015

Funded by the Community, For the Community

Somersham celebrated the unveiling of the new Community Defibrillator installed on the front of Tesco Express on the High Street on Sunday. The project was a joint venture by Somersham Football Club and Somersham / Pidley Community First Responders, due to growing recognition of their life-saving value in rural areas.  The Football Club had been looking into the purchase of a Defibrillator machine to support the growing Youth and Senior clubs and also to allow it to be available for the wider community 24/7.  Coach Ali McCormick explained “Due to the location of the club on the outskirts of the village, it was agreed that a more centralised location would benefit everyone.  With the kind permission of Tesco, the heated cabinet housing the machine was installed on the front of their shop”. 

To purchase the machine, a request was put to the Somersham Carnival Committee for a donation to this project.  The Carnival committee collect funds and donations from the village during the entire Carnival week – from kid’s 5-a-side football, dog show, treasure hunt and bingo, to bucket collections during the parade.  All profits go to a fund that the committee distribute to groups and charities around the area.  The generous people of Somersham donated the majority of funds (£1250) towards the purchase of both the cabinet and machine.  Wendy and David Brown of Fenton, raised the remaining balance with an ART Open Studies Event.

“After much planning, fundraising and vision – Somersham now has a village defibrillator which any of us could find ourselves using in an emergency to save a life in the future” Theresa Baird, Somersham Carnival Committee.

Access to the Defibrillator will be given to anyone who rings for an Ambulance and the operator decides the use of the machine is required. Defibrillators are easy to use with verbal instruction clearly given when opening the case using the code.  First Responder Austen White says “Your action could save a life – you will improve the chances of survival of a patient in cardiac arrest from 5% (with CPR only) to 50% by using a defibrillator and the defibrillator will only function if it determines a need”.

PPP First Aid will be running a free resuscitation and “Use of Defibrillator” confidence course at the beginning of December at Somersham Town Football Club – dates and time slots will be advertised in the village and on the PPP Facebook site www.facebook.com/pppfirstaid.

 

 

 

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