Wondering what to do with all those fancy dress outfits your kids have acquired? Bring them along to the Bellingdon and Asheridge Traditional Village Fete and enter your kids into our annual fancy dress competition!
Its free to enter and judging will be at approximately 3:15pm. There’s loads of other stuff for the kids to do as well – bouncy castle, fairground rides, pocket money stalls, kids games and toys as well as the kids’ tug-o-war!
And here is the approximate schedule for the fun dog show!
Ring 1
1:15 Most Handsome Dog
1:30 Best Veteran (7 years and over)
1:45 Best Rescue
2:15 Most Appealing Eyes
2:45 Dog The Judge Would Like To Take Home
3:00 Chilterns Dog Rescue Society Show Championship (for 1st and 2nd in each class)
Ring 2
1:15 Prettiest Bitch
1:30 Perkiest Puppy (3-12 months)
2:00 Best Trick
2:30 Waggiest Tail
We’re super excited to be bringing you a packed programme on Saturday.
Approximate timings (we’ll post dog show classes and timings separately):
12.30 Fête opens
1:10 Fun dog show
3:15 Kids’ fancy dress competition
3:30 Tug-of-War competition Children, Women over 16, Men over 16
4:30 Raffle winners drawn
5:00 Close
Each year many local businesses support our village fête either through advertising in our programme, sponsoring classes in the dog show or running stalls during the fête itself.
This year our advertisers are: Asprey Harris; Priests Ford; Citytalk Communications; Tring Brewery; Yerrell Flooring; Sainsbury’s Chesham; Caan Thomas Jewellery; S M Motors; Wheelhouse Vets; Old Amersham Cycle Workshop; Hollies Services; HG Matthews Brickworks; DL Hawkes; County Interior Design; The Village Nursery, Bellingdon; Little Bears Preschool; Magnet Kitchens; Wendover Heights Vets; Snobs of Amersham; Docwra Property Management and Clarks of Amersham.
Please do consider using these local businesses that provide services and employment for our communities.
Our dedicated band of fete volunteers will be going door to door between now and Sunday ready to collect your lovely donations: bottles, raffle and tombola prizes, good condition books, toys and board games, bric-a-brac and old crockery for the china smash. Also plants for the Hort Soc stall.
We’ll also give deliver a free event programme to each house as well as giving you the opportunity to purchase raffle tickets. Prizes this year include Rugby tickets, a case of wine, vouchers and many others.
If you’re out we can collect black bags marked “Fête” from your doorstep. Alternatively our friendly door knockers will leave a card so you can call them to come at a more convenient time. We’ll also be at the hall on Sunday afternoon if you prefer to drop off.
To donate, help out or find out more about the fête, please contact fete@bellingdon.com. To join the doorknock as a volunteer or to arrange a specific collection time, please phone Emma on 07971 218970.
If you’re keen to donate a cake 
🍰🍰🍰, please bring it on the morning of the fete to the hall kitchen.