The Summer Fair 2014 was a great success and even the sun stayed with us all day.
A huge crowd from the community and beyond turned out to enjoy a bustling day of events including the extraordinary children’s games very generously organised by and sponsored by the Oval Montessori Nursery School.
Elsewhere in the Park you could have played crazy golf, been coached by members of Chelsea FC’s training staff, slide down a giant inflatable slide, sung to Popstarz Karaoke or just listened to the inspiring young musicians of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra. Donkeys delighted many young jockeys and many went for a spin in the giant tea cups.
An amazing display of plants propagated by the talented team of Tessa and Anne, who maintain the bed by the Fentiman Road/Stanley Close entrance, were supplemented by plants donated by New Covent Garden Market on the FOVP’s Plant Stall and gave an enticing welcome to the avenue of stalls of local businesses and community groups.
Delicious food from Mumbai Delight and jerk chicken from Camlo’s Place tempted taste buds and Paolo had a never ending queue for ice cream from his vintage ice cream van.
Our four legged friends competed for the cutest puppy, handsomest boy, prettiest girl amongst other classes and the Seth Taylor cup was presented in memory of our founding Summer Fair organised Seth Taylor who sadly died earlier this year.
We are very grateful to Winkworth in particular who are the main sponsor of the fair and did copious amounts of copying of posters and flyers. We were delighted that the Kennington Oval Vauxhall Forum were at the fair and very generously sponsored some of the rides. We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to the enthusiastic team of helpers who put up and took down gazebos and moved tables and chairs and who manned the rides in the afternoon. A great deal of legwork went into putting up posters around the neighbourhood. The Fair literally could not have happened without the tables and chairs kindly lent by St Anne and All Saints and of course their cups of tea for the volunteers during the fair