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28.07.08. - 40 Years of
Carnival!!!
For those who do not know this year
the 40th Anniversary of the Dawlish Carnival Committee and Dawlish
Carnival Week. To celebrate we have asked you to them all your
entries around the number 40. Secondly this year's event is being
opened by Zoe Loram who was one of the original people responsible
for getting us up and running. She may not be a big A List celebrity
but without her we would not be here today!
Lastly we are holding a big party on
the Lawn on Friday 15th August. Bring your own food and drinks
and
01.07.08
PRESS RELEASE: South Devon Airshow Takes off at Full
Throttle thanks to sponsor
One of the largest events in the South West
today launched its first taster of what to expect this summer and
showed that they truly are pulling out all stops this year to put on
something special for Dawlish Carnival's 40th year. The organisers
announced that this year’s Dawlish Carnival Airshow will take
place on Thursday 14th August and its headliners will again include
the RAF “Red Arrows” Aerobatics Team, the truly nostalgic Battle
of Britain Memorial Flight, this year with the Lancaster Bomber
making an appearance, and the ground shaking and extremely nimble
RAF Typhoon jet fighter. In this, the RAF’s 90th year, they have
again showed their continuing support for South Devon by featuring
their most famous display teams at Dawlish. More additions to the
line up are to be released over the forthcoming weeks.
The most welcome news comes, however, from the announcement of a
major sponsorship deal with International Dance Supplies. Based in
Newton Abbot but having its early days in Dawlish, IDS is the UK’s
largest wholesale dancewear supplier servicing dance teachers and
dance shops around the world with quality dancewear and is this year
celebrating their 30th anniversary and they are proud to be a named
sponsor of this year’s Dawlish Carnival Airshow. The staff and
directors of IDS have been keen spectators of the event for many
years and so decided to show their appreciation for this volunteer
run event with their sponsorship. Anne Walker, Managing Director
stated “As an expanding business employing over 60 people in the
local area I am delighted to be able to support the local community
with our sponsorship of this exciting event.”
16/06/08 - Crowning rescheduled to
take place at Dawlish Warren on 9th August
After discussing the various options about where to crown this
year's carnival royalty the committee have decided to carry out the
Ceremony on the Green in Dawlish Warren on the first day of carnival
week (Sat 9th August) just before the evening' live entertainment
and following Fireworks display is set to take place. The Queen,
Princess and Attendant will be crowned by Mark Price who will
perform late that evening to get the party under way. The
entertainment starts on the Warren from midday with details being
released soon.
02/06/08 -
Bad Weather again puts pay to Crowning
For the second year running the unsettled weather over the Bank
holiday weekend ensured that the committee had to cancel the
Crowning event again. According to Sod's Law of course only 5 hours
later the skies cleared leaving a glorious afternoon. Dawlish Rotary
Club went ahead with their Ball and Duck Races after originally
planning to postpone them due to the heavy rainfall the day
previous. The committee will now meet to discuss where to crown the
Carnival Royalty this year.
18/05/08 -
Crowning event to be held in conjunction with Dawlish Round Table
This year in order to make a better day for the residents and visitors
to Dawlish we have joined forces with Dawlish Round Table to put on
our Crowning Day event. The Round Table, who usually hold there
event on the Monday following the crowning, hold a day of
fundraising activities for their Chairman's Charity. Since working
together we could share the costs of the entertainment and events we
provide it meant that both organisations could raise more for their
respective causes. The extended event will begin at 11am with a
brass band, a display by the Red Sparrows, performance by Mark Price
who will also this year crown our Royalty, the Rotary's Business
Ball and Duck Race amongst many other arena and side stall events.
The day will finish at around 5pm. We look forward to seeing all
those that are able to make it.
10/05/08 -
The 2008 Junior Carnival Idol search has been launched
Following the success of last year's Junior Carnival Idol the
committee is this year again going ahead with the singing
competition for young people. Today the official launch was
accompanied by the dates of the auditions that this year extend to
Chudleigh and Bovey Tracey.
he finalists will be
chosen in Mid June as a closed semi final after which they will
perform as a group across the district leading up to the Grand final
being held at the Shaftesbury Theatre on Monday 18th August. During
the lead they will of course be working hard to learn, rehearse and
perfect their performance ready for the judges and audience at the
final. More details can be found the Idol section of this website at
www.dawlishcarnival.co.uk/idol.
28/04/08 -
Pub Challenge Date Moved
Due to Dawlish Town Council having an ice rink on the Lawn
during the first May Bank Holiday we have decided to move the date
of our annual Pub Challenge to Saturday 24th May to avoid a clash of
dates. This years pub challenge has 6 pubs and 12 teams
participating. Teams from the Brunswick Arms, South Devon Inn, White
Hart, Lansdowne, Railway Inn and Ferret & Radiator will play
various fun games at each pub against the other teams working their
way around the circuit whilst ALL in fancy dress. During this
they will will also be collecting money from the public and together
with the money from fines paid by each team that looses a game this
will be split between the Carnival and this year's chosen charity
AIMS, a group to support disabled children in Dawlish.
25/03/08 -
Easter
Bonnet Extravaganza
On the 23rd March We again held our East Bonnet Event which
despite the wind attracted a variety of entries both decorative and
humourous and form the young and old.
The event was judged will be Kathy Luxton and her
partner Andy Uglow, from the Herald Express. They were accompanied by our
favourite Lady Mayor Cllr Rosalind Prowse, who's now infamous around
the town for her hats, so much so, that she now sports the nickname
'HATS'. We thank all our entrants and judges who help make the day
enjoyable despite the short heavy downpours of rain right at the
end.
07/03/08 -
.Royalty
for 2008 announced.
Following our annual youth disco today our judges from
Ashyeburton Carnival Club selected this year's Dawlish Carnival
Royalty. Towards the end of the disco put on by the committee and
held in the Seasiders Club on Sandy Lane, Dawlish the results
were announced as follows:
Dawlish
Carnival Queen Jennifer
Rayment
Dawlish Carnival Princess Lauren
Anthony
Dawlish Carnival Attendant Ailish Field
21/02/08 - Family Disco /
Royalty selection date announced - The fun of carnival starts in
March this year when we will hold a family disco at Seasiders
(formerly Dawlish Town FC's clubhouse) in Sandy Lane, Dawlish on
Friday 7th March. The event will also incorporate the selection of
the carnival royalty for this year. The age limits are Attendant: 9
- 11 yrs Princess: 12 - 13 yrs and Queen: 14 yrs +. All entrants
must have either written parental consent or a completed entry form
available from many places in Dawlish.
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21/05/08 -
South Devon Carnivals to unite against Devon County
Council imposed charges for good causes
The Basics
| SDCA Emergency Meeting | What
can you do?
Earlier in the year the 20 carnival
committees and clubs in South Devon became aware of
changes in the process of closing roads for their various
processions. Devon County Council has now taken
responsibility for administering Road Closure Orders away
from district councils and decided to impose a fee of up
to £160 for each road closure applied for by any
organisation. Whilst this seems perfectly understandable
for commercial companies to pay for closing our roads, any
charity or non-for-profit organisation is now also bound
by these fees. Under the previous rules there was no
charge whatsoever for closing a road.
Events that attract over
5,000 people (which includes every carnival procession)
will have to pay the full £160 per closure. Dawlish would
have to stump up just under £500 to cover the procession,
Pram Race and closure following the end of our Airshow.
For the past 4 months each carnival has been given a
different version of who would pay and what they would pay
by DCC, the police and the district councils. Not one
person until a recently released statement by DCC had had
any idea of what exactly was happening.
The South Devon Carnival Association
(SDCA) has also learnt that Somerset and Dorset Councils
are imposing no charge whatsoever for any
charitable or community event. Torbay Council is also
joining Devon's ranks by imposing charges.
As a
result the SDCA is holding an emergency meeting on 2nd
June to be attended by each of the 20 committees. We will
vote en-bloc whether or not to refuse to pay these fees,
which as charitable organisations most can not afford to
pay. If Devon County Council insists on this unfair TAX on
CHARITABLE events then this could possibly mean that there
would be NO carnival processions at all in South Devon.
If this course of action is
taken ONLY processions would be affected by
the protest, all remaining events would still continue as
normal. But for most carnival committees the procession is
a vital source of income to help cover event costs and from
which money is donated to various local good causes within
each community.
HOW
YOU CAN HELP
Thankfully we live in a
democracy and the council is there to serve us.
Below is a list of Councilors and Council Officials you
can email and ask why they are attempting to kill the
community by imposing charges on not-for-profit and
charitable organisations. They are are accountable to us,
the taxpayers, and to the communities they are bound to
serve.
Executive Chairman for Devon CC: brian.greenslade@devon.gov.uk
Executive Member: Communities /
Teignbridge Highways: brian.berman@devon.gov.uk
Chairman of Devon CC: brenda.taylor@devon.gov.uk
County Councilor for Dawlish: john.clatworthy@devon.gov.uk
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