Welcome to the Newbury Carnival website!

Following the Carnival Team’s final meeting earlier this week, Newbury Carnival 2009 is now officially over.  

We won’t be posting any more news to this website until the autumn, but you can still contact us by emailing to newburycarnival@gmail.com.  We welcome your comments and suggestions for the future – and don’t forget that we’re always interested [...]

The winner of our Carnival photo competition is local resident and amateur photographer Richard Markham.  Many congratulations to him and thanks again to all who took part.   Here is the winning photograph, which we’re sure you will agree is delightful.

Richard is kindly donating his prize money to the Carnival’s nominated charity for 2009, West [...]

Thanks to the Newbury Weekly News (for judging), we have a winner for this year’s Carnival photo competition. It was very difficult to choose between so many wonderful entries. We hope to let you have the details soon.

Thank you to everyone who sent in entries for the Carnival photo competition. The competition is now closed and the judges are working through hundreds of wonderful pictures to find a winner. Thank you to Sainsbury’s for sponsoring this competition. We hope to announce the winner shortly. Meanwhile, please scroll down to [...]

Here are just some of the entries we’ve received so far for our Newbury Carnival 2009 photo competition.  The prize is £100 and entries must be received by midnight on Thursday 16th July.  Please scroll down to view more photos including those taken by our official photographer for 2009, David Hatfull.

Here are Newbury Carnival 2009 official photographer David Hatfull’s photos from last Sunday.  Aren’t they great?

We’ve been receiving lots of photos for our photo competition (see below) and will be setting up a separate page to display them – please check back on Wednesday evening to see them along with some video.

Also, if [...]

We’ve already received some wonderful photographs taken at yesterday’s Carnival – so we thought we would award a prize for the best.

We’re offering £100 for the best picture taken at Newbury Carnival 2009.

Please send your entries to enter.newburycarnival@gmail.com.  Entries must be received by Thursday 16th July.  All the photos that have been sent in so [...]

… to everyone who helped make yesterday so special.

Wow, what a fantastic day! All of the entries in this year’s Carnival Parade were stunning – I wish you could have all won something! Thank you for making such an effort. I know you will all have your tales to tell from [...]

Here is our first batch of photos from yesterday.  We’ll be posting more photos and some video online later so please do check back.  We have already received some photos via email and if you have any you would like to send us we’d love to see them.  Please email them to newburycarnival@googlemail.com

Note that if [...]

John Rankin School's "Shrek went to the carnival"

Congratulations to the following winners of this year’s Carnival Parade:

Best Business Entry – Newbury Town Council: Once upon a time … we were all kids

Best Community Entry – West Berkshire Minority Ethnic Forum: Once upon a time … in a land far away

Best Individual Entry – Peter [...]