The 2019 Plumstead Make Merry festival will take place on Saturday 8th June, from 12 noon to 6pm, on Plumstead Common (London, SE18).

You can find the Facebook event page for it at:

https://www.facebook.com/events/520796928409229/

 

If you would like to be part of the team that organises the Plumstead Make Merry festival, then come along to the AGM on Friday 7th September. Details on our Facebook event page at

https://www.facebook.com/events/240859566573947/

Each year at the Plumstead Make Merry we encourage our stall-holders to take part in our Best Dressed Stall Competition.

This year, The Mayor of Greenwich, Councillor Christine May, visited the stalls at the festival and judged that Lauren’s Looms should be the winner this year.

It was then made official when Lauren was presented with an engraved glass award on The Bandstand.

Thank you to all of our stall-holders for making such a wonderful effort on the day.

Photographs by Sarah Harper and Jagdip Kang, AWPS. 

You can find photographs of the 2018 festival on our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/PlumsteadMakeMerry/

We are pleased to be able to share these fantastic photographs by Sonia Maloney of the 2018 Fruit & Vegetable Sculpting competition that was run by Art Plumstead at this year’s Plumstead Make Merry festival.

The theme for this year was ‘A Plumstead Memory’, and there were some amazing sculptures brought along to our Information Tent on the day.

The winners were:

1st place:  ‘Plumstead Rocks’ by Joseph and Sofia.

2nd place: ‘The Slade Pond’ by Maggie.

3rd place: ‘The Lost Cat’ by Ruth.

 

You can find more photographs of this year’s festival on our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/PlumsteadMakeMerry/

The photographs of the 2018 Plumstead Make Merry festival, taken by our official photographers from the Aperture Woolwich Photographic Society, can be found on our Facebook page at:

https://www.facebook.com/PlumsteadMakeMerry/

More photographs of the festival will be posted on our Facebook page soon too.

 

We would like to say a huge THANK YOU to you all.

We’d like to thank everyone that volunteered their time as a steward or helper, we couldn’t do this event without you.

Thanks to all of our performers who gave their time and talents for free, our stall holders, and our workshop providers.

We’d like to thank those that have helped in the funding of the 2018 festival:

• Beaumont Gibbs Estate Agents
• The Community Arts Fund from the Royal Borough of Greenwich
• Skipton Building Society
• Aviva Community Fund
• Tesco Bags of Help

We would also like to thank the following stores for their contributions towards the refreshments in the Acoustic Cafe and volunteer steward lunches:

• Sainsbury’s Superstore, Abbey Wood
• Tesco Express, Woolwich
• The Links Cooperative Store, Plumstead
• Crimson Rose Florists, Plumstead (for donating the flowers in our Acoustic Cafe)

Special thanks also to Richard McDonald for our fantastic letterprint design and for selling his unique keepsake posters of it.

A massive thanks to our official photographers, members of the Aperture Woolwich Photographic Society.

We’d also like to thank:

• Greenwich Weekender who have been our media partner this year
• Friends of Plumstead Common
• Greenwich Rugby Football Club
• Art Plumstead
• Community Links Ltd for the infrastructure
• Music Room Solutions Ltd for the sound equipment
• Trojan Press Ltd for our printing
• Amherst Enterprises for the radio sets
• TS Designs for printing our banners
• John Reid and the fun fair
• Plumstead Fire Brigade
• Under 1 Roof and the fantastic organisations that ran sessions in that area
• Football Revolution
• Inflat-a-bros
• Emmanuel The Magnificent & His Acrobats
• Greenwich Morris Men
• Royal Greenwich Heritage Trust
• David Hall
• Bill Marney
• The Mayor of the Royal Borough of Greenwich, Councillor Christine May
• The Metropolitan Police
• The following Departments of the Royal Borough of Greenwich – Parks & Recreation, Waste Services and members of the Entertainment License Safety Advisory Group.

We’d like to thank the local residents for their understanding and patience of this festival being staged.

And finally, we would like to thank you all for coming along. Your support makes all the hard work worthwhile. We hope that you had a great day celebrating your community. Plumstead is an amazing place to live, and we hope that if you took anything away from the festival, it’s that when we come together as a community we are awesome!

Be good to each other, from the organising committee:

• Angelo di Carlo
• Sarah Harper
• Deborah O’Boyle
• Ebru Ogun
• John Rastall
• And, Doug Harper, your compere on The Bandstand.

Hope to see you in 2019!

We are pleased to announce that Plumstead Chamber Choir will be running two workshops called Sing Folk.

These will give you an opportunity to join members of the Choir and have fun learning, and performing, folk songs from the British Isles. Come along to one or both of two workshops and then join in a short performance.

The workshops will be held on Wednesday 6th June from 7.30 to 9.00pm, and on Saturday 9th June from 1.30 to 3.15pm, both will take place in at St Mark with St Margaret’s Church, Old Mill Road, SE18 1QE. There is no charge for taking part.

A 15-minute performance in the Acoustic Cafe will start at the festival on 9th June at 3.35pm.

Anyone who enjoys singing will be very welcome to take part in these workshops. No other skill needed!

You can find details of what else will be happening at the Plumstead Make Merry festival at https://plumsteadmakemerry.co.uk/2018-2/

Are you one of our stall-holders at the Plumstead Make Merry on Saturday 9th June?

Then cast your eyes over this beauty of an award that could be yours…

The Mayor of Greenwich, Cllr. Christine May, will be judging the stalls on the day of the festival and the lucky recipient will be handed this wonderful engraved glass trophy for them to show off to all and sundry.

So, get those stalls looking gorgeous, you never know, you could be the winner.

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On 25 May 2018, Data Protection law will change.  We are in the process of sending emails to those in our contacts list asking them to ACT NOW if they would like to be kept directly informed about Plumstead Make Merry events and activities.

These contacts have, in the past, provided us with personal data either as a participant at our events, as a supporter or volunteer, or by responding to a survey or providing other feedback about our activities. Sometimes we use this data to keep people up to date with information about our events and activities.

Under the new law (General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR), we are required to seek permission to hold personal data so that we can continue to send updates on Plumstead Make Merry events and activities in future.  We can assure you that we will not sell or share any personal data with anyone else.  Those we have been, or are in, contact with have the right to ask to see what personal information we hold about them and they are free to change their mind, at any time, and ask us to delete or amend that information by emailing us at info@plumsteadmakemerry.co.uk

What we intend to do:

1. As we are in the process or organising this year’s event on 9^th June, we will assume that anyone participating in the event, in any capacity, will wish us to retain their personal information. Unless informed otherwise, this we will do.
2. As we have a “two year rule” regarding performers, we will also retain personal information regarding participants at our event in 2017. Unless informed otherwise, this we will do.
3. Personal information pertaining to anyone else will be deleted. Unless informed otherwise, this we will do.

We are asking people to please reply* by 23 May if you would prefer us to delete or retain your personal information contrary to our intentions.  If we do not hear from you by midnight on 23 May, we will assume your agreement to our our intentions, as outlined in points 1 to 3 above.  Please also tell us, at anytime, should you change your mind, require an amendment or would like to view the data we hold.

*Let us know, at info@plumsteadmakemerry.co.uk by including “Delete” or “Retain” in the subject box.  For amendments, include “Amend” in the subject box and provide clear details.

Thank you.