Wow!! what an amazing day, Thank you to everyone that helped Friends of Florence Park put on this brilliant day and to all of you that came down and enjoyed yourselves! Thank you!!!
Tea tent Pony rides Dog show Morris car show Nick Cope. . . . .and . . .
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If you would like to be a part of celebrations we would love any input and offers of help please email us.
We will be needing help on the day and in the run up to it.
WE STILL NEED VOLUNTEERS FOR THE DAY AND IN THE RUN UP SO PLEASE DO GET IN TOUCH TO VOLUNTEER AN HOUR OF YOUR TIME!!
- Food : Donnington Doorstep, Persian Mama's Kitchen and StrEAT will all be along to serve up amazing food.
- Friends of Florence Park will be helping to add to the fabulous 1930's Park Fete feel with a tea tent (cakes, teas and savouries) And a 1930s cake competition - time to dig out your 1930's recipes to challenge your cooking skills.
- Children's tent: face painter, balloon blower, music, games, Punch and Judy all helped along by the wonderful Donnington Doorstep staff.
- History tent with photographic and audio displays of the last 80 years of Florence Park and the estate and our remarkable collection of 80 Stories for 80 years ( The history group meet on the first Monday of every month at the community centre - and occasion Saturday at the cafe for story gathering)
- Music Star Tent: With live Music from local bands The Russian Cowboys, Band of Hope,
- Pitt Rivers Museum : coming along with a tent of free activities and an artefacts table
- Demonstrations of the Park's offerings: Bowls, Aunt Sally, Cricket, Football, sports
- Community area to show-case local offerings such as T'ai Chi, Yoga, Environmental talks, Arts and crafts.
- Sports demonstration field: Oxford City Council are very kindly putting on a whole field of sports to try out.
- Area for nursing mums and under 3's a provided by the Florence Park Children's Centre
- Baking competition : Do you fancy making a 1930s inspired cake for the baking competition? Bring it down for judging by a head chef from Trinity college at 12.am. All the cakes will then be sold as part of Friends of Florence Park's tea tent to raise money for future events.
- City Farm - They will be planting 5 fabulous new apples trees in the park - go along and help plant
- Incredible Edibles : Find out all about the planting they are doing throughout Oxford and help plant up some veggie goodies from 1-3 pm .
- And a raffle with some AMAZING prizes.
If you would like to be a part of celebrations we would love any input and offers of help please email us.
We will be needing help on the day and in the run up to it.
WE STILL NEED VOLUNTEERS FOR THE DAY AND IN THE RUN UP SO PLEASE DO GET IN TOUCH TO VOLUNTEER AN HOUR OF YOUR TIME!!
We would like to say a huge 'Thank you' to our sponsors who have enabled us to put this festival on.