Woodseats Community Festival

Woodseats Community Festival

Sunday 15th July 2012

welcome!

Woodseats Festival is an annual celebration of all that the community of Woodseats has to offer. The festival in 2011 was a week long series of events with the Annual Woodseats Parade on Sunday 10th July 2011.

News

  • Next Meeting

    Published: Sunday, 1 April 2012

    The next meeting of the festival is on Tuesday 17th April at 730pm at Woodseats Methodist Church Hall on Holmhirst Rd. All welcome to attend to observe or join in suggestions for this years festival. Volunteers and helpers always wanted and welcome.

  • Woodseats Festival 2012 Needs You

    Published: Monday, 12 December 2011

    A Chair and Vice Chair, as well as general helpers are needed. These are great chances to be involved in running a community festival and build your skills and CV at the same time!

  • 2012 Annual General Meeting

    Published: Monday, 28 November 2011

    Woodseats Festival AGM

    Monday 12th December 7.30pm,
    The Abbey Pub

    All Welcome!

    Come along and get involved in your local community festival Volunteers for 2012 needed!

  • A Fantastic Festival

    Published: Monday, 11 July 2011

    A Fantastic Festival! Well done and thank you to everyone who helped make it a great community celebration :)

  • Woodseats Festival is now on flickr

    Published: Wednesday, 6 July 2011

    Please share your photos with The Woodseats Festival on flickr. Take a look at our Photography Competition for ways you can get involved if you fancy developing your professional photographer career or just keen to share the results of your hobby.

  • Last minute funding bids succeeds!

    Published: Sunday, 3 July 2011

    Many thanks to Sheffield City Council South Community Assembly for a grant of £500 and Sainsburys Archer Road branch for their kind donation of £350

  • Festival Poster

    Published: Sunday, 26 June 2011

    Yippee! The Festival poster for 2011 has been printed. Let us know where you see one. Contact us if you'd like a poster to display.

  • Supporters Meeting 29th June

    Published: Sunday, 26 June 2011

    The next meeting of the supporters is on Wednesday 26th June, 7.30pm at Woodseats Methodist Church. It would be great to see as many people as possible. If you are interested in helping please come along. This is the last meeting before the festival.

  • Annual General Meeting

    Published: Thursday, 26 August 2010

    The Woodseats Festival AGM will be held on Monday 15th November 2010, 7.30pm at Woodseats Methodist Church. Please come along to support your local community festival and add your activities, ideas and suggestions for the festival in 2011.

what's on?

Woodseats Festival 2012 needs you

The next meeting of the festival is on Tuesday 17th April at 730pm at Woodseats Methodist Church Hall on Holmhirst Rd. All welcome to attend to observe or join in suggestions for this years festival. Volunteers and helpers always wanted and welcome. Please contact us for more details; email on info@woodseatsfestival.org.uk or phone Angela on 0798 4175753

The theme for this years festival is "the Olympics in Woodseats". The annual childrens art competition to design the programme cover and posters will be in May. It is also hoped Woodseats Musical Theatre Company will be performing another free concert on Sat 14th July at the Woodseats Methodist Church. Any suggestions for activities and events welcome. If you are hosting an event the weekend of 14th and 15th July in Woodseats and want free publicity for it, please email us details to put in the programme.

Woodseats Festival gets even bigger and better each year! For the 2012 events there are some great opportunities for more volunteers. A Chair and Vice Chair, as well as general helpers are needed. These are great chances to be involved in running a community festival and build your skills and CV at the same time!

The 2011 Festival was FANTASTIC! Events included Woof-seats, Craft Fair, Woodseats Quiz and The Family Funday, The Grand Community Parade. As the next festival approaches, we'll keep you up to date with all the important information as events are confirmed.

join in!

Want to get involved?

Woodseats Festival Needs Volunteers

The Woodseats Festival is organised by a group of volunteers from the local community and welcomes anyone who wants to get involved or offer their support. See meeting dates, or contact the festival group directly.

competitions

2011 festival competitions. Take a peek on the competitions page

  • Children's Art Competition 2011

    Thank you for to those who entered The Woodseats Festival Children's Art Competition. Well done to all who took part! The judging has now taken place. The results are as follows: 5-8 years 1stThomas Parkin…

  • Festival Photography Competition 2011

    Fancy developing your professional photographer career or just keen to share the results of your hobby? We need good quality pics for the website and publicity. We cannot pay a fortune, but the best group…