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 to hear from anyone who would like to help with the organisation, sponsorship or assist in any other way.
We’d like to leave you with the words of our 2009 Carnival Queen, Jenny Moorcroft:
It is just amazing what people have done this year. This has got to be the best one yet!
Best wishes from everyone at Newbury Carnival – we look forward to seeing you again next time.
The winner of our Carnival photo competition is local resident and amateur photographerRichard 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 Berkshire Mencap.
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 enjoy lots of photos from this year’s Carnival.
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 you haven’t seen the excellent video at the Newbury Today web site, click here to view it.
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 far will be included in the competition.
We will add selected photos from those which you submit to an online gallery which will be displayed on the website shortly.
… 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 the last few weeks. I am sure you had fun planning and preparing your entries and I sincerely hope you all enjoyed yesterday as much as we did.
If you were part of the events in the park - a big thank you to you, also. This year was our biggest Carnival Fete ever.
And if you were amongst the many thousands in the crowd, thank you for coming and I hope you had a really great time.
I would also like to say a massive thank you to all of our sponsors and supporters – we couldn’t have done it without you. In particular, I want to mention The Greenham Common Trust and The Berkshire Community Foundation, both of whom made significant financial contributions at a time that allowed us to plan ahead with the confidence and surety that we could afford to stage the event.
To everyone, whatever your part in the day, it has been great pleasure to share the experience of Newbury Carnival 2009 with you.
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 you click on the panel below you’ll be taken to our online album where you can view photos individually.
These were taken by one of the Carnival Team rather than our official photographer, David Hatfull of Diem Photography. (David just needs to sort out the photos from a wedding he attended on Saturday before he can do ours. So it may be later this week before we have a complete set of pictures for you – please keep looking!)
