Our wonderful town crier, Brian Sylvester, is a very active member of the Newbury Carnival team.

Click on the play button below to hear him talking to Newbury Sound’s Stuart McGinley about this year’s event.

Brian Sylvester and Stuart McGinley

While you’re here, be sure to visit our newly updated Carnival Fete and Fair page for details of what’s planned for Northcroft Park this year.

So, with just over 8 weeks to go, things are certainly hotting up in the Newbury Carnival Control Centre.  For security reasons public access is, of course, strictly controlled but you can get a feel for what goes on in the bunker, deep under Greenham Common, here.

We’re grateful to Waitrose in Newbury for selecting the Carnival to be a beneficiary of their Customer Matters scheme once again.  In case you don’t know about the scheme, each customer is given a ‘token’ (a small green counter) at the checkout, to post into 1 of 3 containers.  Each container is allocated to a local, voluntary organisation.  Waitrose then makes a donation to each of the 3 organisations represented by the containers, according to the number of tokens collected.

Newbury Carnival will be one of the organisations throughout May.  So if you are shopping in Waitrose, be sure to collect your token at the checkout and use it to support Carnival 2011.  Many thanks to all.