Shiver me timbers! The Plumstead Make Merry is set to take to the high seas with a nautical themed parade that will open this year’s festival.
Local children and their parents are invited to take part in the parade by dressing up as pirates and sailors and dancing a jig to a sea shanty in front of the Bandstand. They will then join a parade around the festival site before prizes are awarded for the best costumes. So c’mon my hearties, make sure you start your summer at the Plumstead Make Merry!
Today marks exactly one month until the 39th Plumstead Make Merry!
Over the next few weeks we’ll be providing you with regular updates about all the great music, activities, food and stalls that you can expect to see at this year’s festival. We will also give you details on the many ways you can be a part of the Make Merry in 2014.
We’re still adding new parts to the festival as you keep coming up with brilliant ideas for how to make the Make Merry even better, and we’ll have exciting news about two of these new features very soon!
There’s also still time to enter our competition to design the front cover of our festival programme, which will be handed out to everyone at the festival. If you’re a budding artist head over to our activities page and download the competition form.
So, for the very latest Plumstead Make Merry news be sure to follow us on Twitter and Facebook, and put a big red circle around Saturday 7th June in your diary so you remember exactly when to join us on Plumstead Common to MAKE MERRY!
We can’t wait to see you all there.
Entries will be judged by the Plumstead Make Merry Committee who will be looking for originality and the design that best encapsulates the festival.
The chosen design will be used on the cover of this year’s programme and the winner will receive a framed copy, which will be presented at the festival.
The deadline for submissions is 4th May 2014.
For an entry form and to find out more, please visit the Resources section of the website.
The Plumstead Make Merry, Greenwich’s longest running festival, is looking for stallholders to participate at this year’s event on Saturday 7th June 2014.
Each year, the festival hosts between 60-80 stalls, which are a mixture of local community groups, charities, individual vendors and commercial businesses.
With last year’s Plumstead Make Merry attracting over 6,000 people, this is a fantastic opportunity for local businesses to get involved in a vibrant, community event. The fees for a number of stall categories have also been reduced to encourage more local businesses to sign up.
The deadline for stallholder applications is Friday 16th May 2014.
To find out more, visit the Run a stall section of our website or email stalls@plumsteadmakemerry.co.uk.
The date for the 2014 festival is Saturday 7th June.
Plans are underway for a festival filled with stalls, activities and fantastic music and dance performances.
If you, or someone you know, would like to take part either as a performer, stall holder, volunteer, or maybe you have another proposal for us? Then please drop us an email at plumsteadmakemerry@yahoo.co.uk
The Plumstead Make Merry Association’s Annual General Meeting will take place on Monday 9th September, with a prompt start of 7pm.
It will be held at the Glyndon Community Centre in Plumstead.
Please RSVP if you would like to attend. We would love to see anyone that wants to become a committee member, or simply wants to take on an active role. All are welcome, whether you have event experience or not.
The full address and location details are as follows:
Glyndon Community Centre
75 Raglan Road
London, SE18 7LB.
AGENDA FOR THE AGM
1: Welcome/Introductions & Apologies
2: Minutes of the last meeting held on 9th July 2013
3: Feedback from the 2013 festival, including comments and suggestions
4: Statement of Accounts 2013
5: Chair’s Report
6: Election of Elected Positions
– Chair
– Vice-Chair
– Treasurer
– Secretary
7: Proposed Date for 2014 PMM
8: Areas of Responsibility for the 2014 PMM
9: A.O.B
10: Date and location of next meeting.
This Saturday (9th February) we will have a stall at the Plumstead Community Market.
The market is open to the public from 11am to 3pm at St. Marks and St. Margaret’s Church Hall.
Come along and say ‘hello’. 🙂
Details can be found at www.plumsteadcommunitymarket.wordpress.com
We will have a stall at the Plumstead Community Christmas Market in St. Mark’s Church Hall (Old Mill Road) on Saturday 8th December 2012.
The market will be open between 10am and 2pm.
Come along and say ‘hello!’
Further information can be found on their website at http://plumsteadcommunitymarket.wordpress.com/
We will have a stall at the Plumstead Community Market in St. Mark’s Church Hall (Old Mill Road) on Saturday 29th September.
The market will be open between 10am and 2pm. Come along and say ‘hello!’
Further information can be found on their website at http://plumsteadcommunitymarket.wordpress.com/
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