The Villainous Masterplan comes together!

The Villainous Masterplan comes together on June 11 -12th!

Another year has flown by and the 2011 Scarecrow Festival is nearly here. I sometimes get asked why we put so much effort into the Scarecrow Weekend and what it's all about.


For me there are three things driving me on:

1. To continue a great community event where we can all meet up in a really friendly atmosphere

2. To promote an event that encourages people to visit our village (and envy us!)

3. To generate cash (from outside of the village if possible) for local projects, charities and causes

This is truly a team effort and we have a great team that works throughout the year preparing for the “big weekend”, with an army of volunteers and builders that make the weekend work. We hope that everyone in the village can be part of the event, here's how you can join up:

Building: registration closed on May 13th and we reached our maximum limit of 90 scarecrows! If your not building this year, how about next year?

Volunteering: join the ever growing army of burger flippers, tea-tenters, Pimms pourers, marquee erectors and car-parkers.

Bake a cake: a signature of our weekend is the marvellous array of cakes which are donated on the weekend from all corners of the village and generate a significant portion of the funds we can raise. All donations welcome

So what's happening this year?

6th - 10th June – Site preparation (Bunting, Signs, Marquee, etc) – Help needed!

10th June – Swing & Jazz with the BJ Band, with the lovely acoustics of St.Peter's church

11th / 12th June - The Scarecrow trail:

Requesting funds: last year we were able to help the Playing Fields Assoc., the village school, the Church and the Chapel, the Tennis Club, Greathouse, Helping Hands and the Chippenham Air Cadets. If you are involved in a local charity or community club or need funding for a project that will benefit others please get in touch as soon as possible (preferably via the website).
If you want to be involved, make a scarecrow, bake a cake, come to the concert or ceilidh, request funding or have any other questions or suggestions please;
• visit our webpage at www.scarecrows.biz
• or call Steve & Liz on 01249-750466
• or email kingtonlangley@scarecrows.biz

Thank you for the wonderful support and encouragement, I look forward to seeing you and your Scarecrows on 11-12 June

Steve Howe - “Chair of Scare”

 

Will villainous scarecrows really take over our village?

By Stephanie Briggs

With the quota now full to bursting – a record number of 90 scarecrows have been pledged for build – the question is, can we pull it off?  I for one merrily attended the scarecrow workshop where I actually built a proper scarecrow [without using a melon for a head and a bamboo stick for a body].  I built a carpet-headed ersatz human and carried it proudly back home where it’s now nestling in the corner of the garage.  All well and good?  Not really.  Problem is, it’s not a bit scary.  OK, let me correct that statement, I’ve dropped one cup of tea and bounced a plant pot off my foot when walking into the garage on account of “the fat man in the corner with extremely small feet” taking me by surprise.  But stick him on the green come the day, and he’ll look better placed with a bag of Werthers Originals than he will with a blood soaked razor.

I could of course hide him around the village so that he scares people with his unexpected presence?  But that’ll scupper the planning.  I could stick a mask over his kind face but now I’ve gone to the trouble of making a proper scarecrow I’m reluctant.  I’m hoping that come creation day/finishing touches weekend I’ll get an evil glint in my eye and I’ll turn that kind old man into a human-eating machine that’ll rival any scary film.  I can hope for that, and I will, I’ll hope ever-so hard.

I know I’m not the only one with this problem.  And I know that there are some that haven’t even started creating a monstrous being: registration being a hard enough feat to remember in itself [yep, I’m with you on that one], BUT with only a few days until 11th-12th June you need to get a wriggle on. 

Will we get that proud-feeling again, you know, the one that lots of people felt when watching the Royal Wedding?  Knowing that when we island-dwellers really try we can do a very good job of stuff.  When Kington Langley tries it can pull off an excellent Scarecrow weekend [I had that proud feeling last year] but then last year we didn’t have the job of making everything look scary.  I know if inspiration doesn’t strike then my scarecrow will run the risk of being mistaken for Father Christmas but Father Christmas wielding a knife?  I guess I’ll be halfway there …

Scarecrow weekend: 11th & 12th June 2011.  Spread the word!!!!! 

Visit us on Facebook [Kington Langley Scarecrow Festival]

Visit us on: http://sites.google.com/site/scarecrowsite/

Cakes cakes cakes cakes for Scarecrows Festival

Cakes cakes cakes CAKES more cakes cakes little cakes BIG CAKES BIGGEST cake small cakes cakes with cream cakes with jam and cream CHOCOLATE CAKES marble cakes scones cakes MADEIRA CAKES fruit cakes sponge cakes lemon cakes coffee and walnut cakes round cakes SQUARE CAKES misshapen cakes log cakes sprinkled cakes angel cakes bakewell tarts banana cakes battenbergs black forest cakes BUTTERFLY CAKES carrot cakes cheesecakes CUP CAKES fairy cakes wedding cakes Eccles cakes gingerbread pineapple upside-down cakes Pontefract cakes spice cakes swiss roll cakes WELSH CAKES  

We would love your cakes CAKES cakes cakes and more cakes for the Refreshment Tent during the Scarecrow Festival.  If you can make one or more cakes cakes cakes cakes please register with Steve (Cake Man) Duffill on 750301 or email steve@theduffills.com.  Would you please plan to drop them off at the tent after 9.30 am on either 11^th or 12^th June.  

A BIG THANK YOU TO ALL YOU CAKE MAKERS.

On the Saturday afternoon of the Scarecrow Weekend

Union Chapel Will once again be selling their

 World famous Cream Teas

From 2.00 to 5.00pm  

Come along and sit in the shade of the Chapel or on one of our tables out in the sunshine

 Mr Clown will be with us once again helping to serve you

Kington Langley's own radio station is back!

 For one weekend only KLs very own scarecrow radio will be broadcasting event details and announcements.

We need your help to reach our visitors... throughout the scarecrow weekend please log on to www.scarecrows.biz click on the radio scarecrow logo and put a speaker near a window.

We need as many speakers as possible to ensure maximum impact and to help our visitors keep in touch with scarecrow events.

You can even chat online to our very own DJ and dedicate songs.

If you need help. have a query or want to have a go as a DJ then call Simon on 758266

Please also take a look at the dedicated website on Scarecrows at www.scarecrows.biz 

Please click on the navigation button below to see the Scarecrow Galleries from previous years

Page updated on 03/06/2011