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Here are this year’s competition entry guidelines – lots of creative categories to choose from!
Guidelines
• Entry is open to all
• One entry only per class
• All entry forms must reach the Fete Secretary before 9 am on the Wednesday prior to the Fete date. No telephone entries will be accepted.
• The marquee will be open for staging between 10 and 11am. The judge’s decision is final on the relative merits of exhibits.
• Exhibits must not be removed from the marquee until 3pm, after the prizes have been presented.
• The Fete Committee will not be responsible for the loss or damage to an exhibitor’s property for any reason, nor for any injury or loss to persons attending.
• Entry fee per class – £1 adults, 50p children
Children’s Section: cash prizes
1st Prize = £1.50 | 2nd Prize = £1 | 3rd Prize = 75p
Judges:
Vegetables & Fruit – Peter Creek
Flowers – Sue Hughes
Bakery – Pam Blackburn
Handicrafts – Sandy Dawson
Children’s section (Younger) – Margaret Creek
Children’s section (Older) – Georgina Hodgson
Photography – David Hill
Eggs – Charlie Farrar
Children’s Decorated Bikes – Mike Browning and Carole Wilkins
Committee:
Chair – Amy Kay/Judy Hirst
Secretary – John Midgley
Treasure – Joseph Walshaw-Scott
Fete Secretary – Bev Haspell/Fran Hanson
Fete Committee:
Amy Kay, Judy Hirst, John Midgley, Joe Walshaw-Scott, Bev Haspell, Sarah Rogan, James Tiffany, Charlotte Fox, Sarah Tebb, Mick Hirst
Categories/Exhibits for the Fete 2024
Fruit and vegetables
FV1. 1 homegrown vegetable (like beetroot, courgette, cucumber etc.)
FV2. 1 item homegrown fruit (or small bowl of small fruit)
FV3. 3 pods of homegrown peas or beans
FV4. Fruit or vegetable oddity
FV5. Homemade bottled fruit gin
FV6. Jar of homemade jam or preserve
Flowers
F7. Vase of homegrown roses
F8. Homegrown plant in a pot
F9. Jam jar/vase of homegrown annual sweet peas
F10. Homegrown flower arrangement in an unusual container
F11. Vase of annual and perennial flowers
F12. Wedding buttonhole
Baking
B13. Homemade cake made with vegetable eg. courgette / carrot / beetroot etc
B14. Men only – 4 homemade biscuits
B15. Handmade fruit or savoury loaf, to include tea loaf & banana bread
B16. Homemade cake made in an oven or in an air fryer!
B17. 4 homemade pieces of traybake
Handicrafts (all items must be newly made this year)
H18. Homemade greetings card (not computer generated)
H19. An A4 painting – any medium (mounted but not framed)
H20. Homemade item of needlework (anything using needles i.e. quilting, embroidery, cross stitch, knitting etc)
H21. Item of woodcraft
H22. Homemade toy – suggestion knitted Trauma Teddy (pattern available) Can be donated to local ambulance stations or Women’s refuge centre
Children’s Section (7 and under)
C23. Model made from Duplo or Lego (can be made from a set)
C24. Any item made at school or pre-school
C25. Make Fairtrade logo out of recycled materials
C26. 3 decorated buns (with Olympic theme)
C27. Grass creature (any shape)
C28. Homegrown nasturtium plant
Children’s Section (8 – 14)
C29. Model made from Lego (can be made from a set)
C30. Item containing Fairtrade logo made from recycled material
C31. Olympic themed collage, made from recycled material
C32. 3 decorated buns (with Olympic theme)
C33. Homegrown dwarf sunflower grown in pot
C34. 4 pieces of homemade traybake
Photography (not bigger than 7” x 5” or 18 cm x 13 cm)
P35. Embsay/Eastby life, could be people, tractors/farm vehicles etc
P36. Photo with caption
P37. Photo depicting sporting life
Eggs
E38. Prettiest bowl of non-matching eggs
E39. Biggest yolk
** Children’s decorated bikes to be judged on the day **
Top tip …
Remember to circle the categories you’ve entered, it’s easy to forget
Entry Forms
Entry forms are available at the Paper Shop, the Elm Tree Inn, the Cavendish Arms, the hairdressers and the Village Hall. You can also download one by clicking the link below.
Categories: All, Art & Culture, Events, Sport, Village Life
