Today is the Day of the Summer Show

The Show Committee look forward to welcoming you today. Those submitting entries need to come along and stage entries between 9.00am and 10.45am, after that time the judges will be making their decisions, the Show then opens at 2.30pm. £1 entrance fee (free admission for under sixteens). Prizegiving takes place at 3.30pm.

There will be a raffle and plenty of teas, coffees and cake, so we look forward to seeing you later.

Today we will also be taking advanced reservations for the Harvest Supper Quiz Night to be held on Saturday 28th September in the Village Hall. A glass of Prosecco on arrival, a three course meal, quiz and raffle, bring your own drinks. We have been able to keep to the same price as last year at £25 a head. So whether you need a seat(s) or a table of eight, please make a reservation today by speaking to a Committee Member, entry forms will be available today at the show.

Summer Show entry forms needed by 8pm Wednesday night!

Hello to all our members and supporters

Our first entry forms have already been received and we are hoping that you will be poring over the schedule and deciding how many classes to enter in this year’s Summer Show!

The schedule setting out all the class details is available online and copies are also available at the Village Post Office/Shop. https://lgvpa.org/vpa-events/vpa-summer-show/

There are three ways to enter:-
1. Preferred – Submit your entry online directly from the online entry form.
2. or email a scan or photo of the entry form to VPA-show@LGVPA.org
3. or fill in a paper copy of the entry form and deliver it with your entry fee to Phil Bunting, 9 Cromer Close (07505 248940) or Alastair Greene 1, Pond Lane (843667)

However you do it, please help to make a great show by entering as many classes as you can. Entries can be staged Friday night (6.30pm to 7.30pm), or on the morning of the show, Saturday from 9am to 10.45am.

There are Vegetables and Miscellaneous sections, some fun Children’s classes, challenging Floral Art themes, plenty of tempting Cookery & Preserves classes, and we would love to see some of your wonderful flowers.
If you have any questions about any aspect of the show please speak to anyone on the Committee.
We look forward to welcoming you on the day, show starts at 2.30pm, Saturday 24th August, there will tea, coffee and cake available, a raffle and then prize giving will be at 3.30pm.

3 weeks until the Summer Show (Sat. Aug 24th)

Hello to all our members and supporters

We are hoping that you will all be poring over the entry forms and deciding how many classes to enter in this year’s Summer Show.

The schedule setting out all the class details is now available online and copies are also available at the Village Post Office/Shop. https://lgvpa.org/vpa-events/vpa-summer-show/

There are three ways to enter:-
1. Preferred – Submit your entry online directly from the online entry form.
2. or email a scan or photo of the entry form to VPA-show@LGVPA.org
3. or fill in a paper copy of the entry form and deliver it with your entry fee to Phil Bunting, 9 Cromer Close (07505 248940) or Alastair Greene 1, Pond Lane (843667)

However you do it, please help to make a great show by entering as many classes as you can. Entries can be staged Friday night (6.30pm to 7.30pm), or on the morning of the show, Saturday from 9am to 10.45am.

There are Vegetables and Miscellaneous sections, some fun Children’s classes, challenging Floral Art themes, plenty of tempting Cookery & Preserves classes, and we would love to see some of your wonderful flowers.
If you have any questions about any aspect of the show please speak to anyone on the Committee.
We look forward to welcoming you on the day, show starts at 2.30pm, Saturday 24th August, there will tea, coffee and cake available, a raffle and then prize giving will be at 3.30pm.

It’s Show time!

VPA Summer Show
Saturday 24 August 2024 @ 2:30pm

Little Gaddesden Village Hall

The main schedule will be out soon but we do have the Children’s classes now, (see below), so we thought we should publish it now so that people can plan ahead.

DIVISION F – CHILDREN
Judge: Linda Buchanan-Barrow
Entries should be a young person’s own work with adult supervision only where necessary. No kits are to be used in constructing the exhibits. Help may be given with the use of the oven, hob, sharp scissors etc.

Under 6 Years Old

  1. Design a flower or tree. Cut out materials eg. card, tissue for the stalk or leaves. Paint the flowers with corks, potatoes or bottle tops.
  2. Create a garden in a seed tray.
  3. Make an under the water scene with paints and collage.

    6 to 10 Years Old Inclusive
  4. Design a safety poster STOP SPEEDING THROUGH OUR VILLAGE.
    Remember to be bold so that it can easily be seen. Max size A3.
  5. Make 3 cup cakes and decorate them to make a summer theme.
  6. Build and decorate a pirate’s treasurer box filled with treasure.

    11 to 16 Years Old Inclusive
  7. Make 3 cup cakes and decorate them to make a summer theme.
  8. Design a safety poster STOP SPEEDING THROUGH OUR VILLAGE.
    Remember to be bold so that it can easily be seen. Max size A3
  9. Create your own lollipop or ice cream. Make it 3D and make it fun!

VPA Plant sale today

Just a reminder about the plant sale today at the Village Hall car park starting at 10am.

If you have plants to donate please bring them to the hall between 8-9am. We are happy to receive any plant donations, whether they be fruit or vegetable seedlings or border plants, annuals or perennials. Dig them up and bring them along!

Please label the plants with their names if possible! Otherwise we will do our best to identify them!

We look forward to seeing you there

VPA Plant Sale

Just a reminder about the plant sale on Sunday May 19th at the Village Hall car park starting at 10am.

If you have plants to donate please bring them to the Village hall between 8-9am on the day or leave in advance with Kate at Christmas House (on the left on the road out towards Ringshall, Ring 07973 830081).

Please label the plants with their names if possible!

We look forward to seeing you there

VPA AGM This Wednesday night 6.30pm, Thomas Field Hall.

Hi All

Confirmation that the doors at the Thomas Field Hall, next to the Church at Little Gaddesden, open at 6.30pm for wine and nibbles and we will start the AGM at 7.00pm. Our talk is by Kate Stuart-Smith who will present on the gardens at Serge Hill, Bedmond and her work as Joint County Organiser for the National Gardens Scheme (NGS). Tea and Coffee will be available after the talk.

The agenda and AGM details and minutes from last year are all in the attachment.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Two dates for your diary, AGM and Plant Sale

We are delighted to welcome Kate Stuart-Smith to our AGM on Wednesday 24th April, to give us a talk about the lovely garden at Serge Hill, Bedmond, Hertfordshire and the work of the National Garden Scheme. (NGS)

Serge Hill Project.

Some of our members will be familiar with the garden being so close to us at Bedmond. Kate is always busy in the garden or in helping to arrange open gardens under the National Gardens Scheme, as she is a joint County Organiser.

The AGM will be at the Thomas Field Hall next to Little Gaddesden Church. Doors open at 6.30pm and wine and cheese will be served, we plan a fairly short section on VPA matters and will then move on to Kate’s presentation, c. 30 mins and time for questions, after which tea and coffee will be available.

We look forward to seeing you. If you would like to find more information on Kate please click on the link below.

Kate Stuart-Smith and the creation of her effortlessly romantic English country garden – Country Life

Don’t forget our PLANT SALE on Sunday May 19th at 10am at the Village Hall car park. We would welcome donations of plants so:-

With seedlings ‘Please sow an extra tray for the VPA’

Have you too many of something, or need to create some space for something new, if so split up the plants or pot up the spares and bring them along on the day (or before if you cannot make the day itself). Plant donations can be left with Kate Filippidis at Christmas House, (left hand side as you head along the road towards Ringshall, or at the VPA store. More details on the arrangements for donations will be provided in the week before the sale. Please label up your plant donations so people know which plants/seedlings they are.

Thanks very much in anticipation!

Kate Stuart-Smith is our speaker at the AGM on Wed. 24th April

We are delighted to welcome Kate Stuart-Smith to our AGM this year, to give us a talk about the lovely garden at Serge Hill, Bedmond, Hertfordshire and the work of the National Garden Scheme. (NGS)

Serge Hill Project.

Some of our members will be familiar with the garden being so close to us at Bedmond. Kate is always busy in the garden or in helping to arrange open gardens under the National Gardens Scheme, as she is a joint County Organiser.

The AGM will be at the Thomas Field Hall next to Little Gaddesden Church. Doors open at 6.30pm and wine and cheese will be served, we plan a fairly short section on VPA matters and will then move on to Kate’s presentation, c. 30 mins and time for questions, after which tea and coffee will be available.

We look forward to seeing you. If you would like to find more information on Kate please click on the link below.

Kate Stuart-Smith and the creation of her effortlessly romantic English country garden – Country Life