Young families from the village flocked to Alex Johnson’s Hallowe’en Disco Party with even the smallest babies in a fabulous array of spectacular costumes.

Children were treated to an entrance corridor hung with shredded fabrics & lit by ghostly images. The Village Hall Foyer was transformed into a Witches’ Lair with lighted cauldron & an invitation to “Enter if you Dare”. They loved it!

Once inside the Hall the theme, entirely designed by Alex continued & was enhanced by Colin Gornall’s wonderful array of lighting effects.

As promised, Hallowe’en Hot Dogs, Spooky Squash & Creepy Cakes went down a treat and we thank Harry and Caroline Landless, Louise, Hannah & Grace Chadwick and Lyn Johnson for their generous input as well as all those who baked & donated prizes for the raffle.

Judging of the Fancy Dress was literally a nightmare – even with 9 fabulous prizes to award. They ALL deserved prizes! Thank you Andy Thiele and Festival Queen Roisin for judging. Of course Alex had provided a host of spot prizes and there is no doubt everyone left the party full of praise for his efforts.

As many will know, Alex is our youngest Festival Committee Member at just 18 yrs – the future is in exciting hands and we picked up messages that there are more young people keen to come on board.

May we invite them to come along to the Festival AGM in The Grapes Inn, 7.30pm on Tuesday 15th November.

Masses of support and our best array ever of fabulous goods to buy made 
Saturday's Festival Fund Raiser a record breaker. We raised in excess of 
£1300!

Thanks go to the whole community for putting us well on track to fund 
next year's Festival.

Next event: Alex Johnson's "Spooktacular Family Fancy Dress Party" 
Friday 28th October, 5.30pm in Goosnargh Village Hall.

Seasonal fun & games, Hot Dogs, Raffle - please bring your own beer, 
wine etc.
Donations of prizes for the Raffle & small cakes most welcome!

Festival Queen 2017 Selection Day Announcement

The very talented Musical Theatre Students from Preston's College will 
be with us once more for our "Concert for a Queen". During the interval, 
Festival Queen 2016 Roisin will select her successor, so please make a note 
of this very important date in your diaries.

Selection Day Concert

Sunday Afternoon 29th January 2017

Now that the busiest month in the Festival Calendar is behind us the Committee would like to thank New Queen Roisin and her Princesses for representing our community so wonderfully. Special thanks also go to Beth Hodgson and her Mum, Karen for stepping up at very short notice to represent us at Barton with such enthusiasm.

Tables for the Celebration Ball are flying – we’re almost sold out! The fund raising focus is a target of £1200 to replace our sadly worn out stock of chairs.

Thank you everyone who is buying a ticket for setting us on our way, we’re all looking forward to a fabulous evening on September 24th.

Can you help? We would be very grateful for donations of Raffle Prizes to make our raffle table look really exciting!

Hello Everyone!

Brilliant to let you know we have just booked out table 8 to Caroline Landless & tables 9 and 10 to Holden & friends!!!

We couldn’t have asked for a better day weather wise for the parade it was brilliant. We pipers were a touch hot though ha ha didn’t stop us enjoying the day though. I even had a go on the Penny farthing whilst waiting to go back up…. always wanted to try it never envisaged I’d do it in a Kilt though!!

— Secretary of the Bolton Caledonia Pipe Band