The Great Cake Competition!

The Friends of St Ann's Well Gardens are thrilled and excited to announce The Great Cake Competition to be held at The Spring Festival on Saturday 21st May.

We are honoured to be welcoming the Brighton & Hove WI who are hosting this glorious event.

There are 3 categories to enter.

All categories will be judged on 3 things: Appearance, Texture & Taste and will be awarded marks out of 10 by our panel of judges.

The Traditional Victoria Sponge

Here is the link to the Victoria Sponge recipe you must use: http://www.thewi.org.uk/viewNews.aspx?id=13815

The Cake must be round and only contain raspberry jam.

Freestyle

Are you cupcake crazy or muffin mad? Then this is the category for you!

Bake anything you like! As big or as small as you like! Let your imagination run wild.

Under 12's

Do you have budding baker in your kitchen? Then this is their time to shine!

There will be goody bags for all entrants in this category.

All submissions to be registered in the WI Marquee on the Main Green before midday on Saturday 21st May 2011.

Please name any cake plates

No professional cooks and caterers may enter the competition

All cakes will be sold after the judging in aid of the WI Charity Fun in Action

Judging will begin at 3.30pm and winners announced at 5pm

You may enter as many categories as you wish

Our Judges

We are privileged to welcome Marguerite Patten CBE as our Head Judge. She is a world renowned cake maker and is widely respected as the very first celebrity chef.

She will be joined by a guest panel of judges who will select 3 winners for each category.

We hope you will join in this great competition and make it a day to remember!

Get baking!

The Friends of St Ann's Well Gardens

BRUNSWICK TOWN ART FAIR

The Friends of Brunswick Square & Terrace

present the first annual

BRUNSWICK TOWN ART FAIR

DATE: Sunday 3 July, 2011

VENUE: Brunswick Square Gardens

SPACE RESERVATION: £15

Cheques should be made payable to Friends of Brunswick Square & Terrace and mailed to Peter Sofroniou, 45 Brunswick Square, Hove, BN3 1EE.

Payments must be received by Monday 6 June.

SETUP TIME: From 08.00

EXHIBITION OPEN: 10.00 – 18.00

Site must be vacated by 19.00

Please bring your own trestle table and/or gazebo. Marquees or large tents are not permitted.

Vehicles are not permitted in the gardens. Vehicles may stop in the Square to unload and then metered parking is available at the southern end on each side of the Square and along the Seafront.

MARKETING

The organisers will be distributing leaflets throughout Brighton and Hove and promoting the event through The Argus and other local publications. We can make leaflets available if you would like copies and we can also supply you with an email logo for you to email your contacts.

Event sponsored by Gerard Maye Legal

For further information please contact Peter Sofroniou on 07947 801023

psofroniou@hotmail.com

Please help - donations for flowers needed!

Dear Resident

Do you enjoy the bright flowering polo baskets on the lamp-posts each summer?

If so, please will you make a donation to help pay for these? They are NOT funded by the Council, but by donations from individual residents or traders or organisations. This year, we will not even receive one 'free one' from the Council.

Each polo basket costs £135 and includes watering and maintenance from June to September. The firm, Windowflowers, is contracted by Brighton and Hove City in Bloom to provide them, so that we cannot shop around, or do them ourselves.

We do hope you will be able to help. If every householder in the 125 houses gave £5 we would have enough money. Otherwise, there will be some blank lamp-posts.

Please give either cash, or a cheque made payable to Lansdowne Area Residents' Association and put it through the letter box of no. 41 or 23 Lansdowne Place. Receipts will be provided.

Lansdowne Place will be part of the competition for South and South East in Bloom for which Brunswick Town in Bloom is being entered. Last year we won a Silver Gilt, and now we are aiming for a GOLD. Last year, too, we won the City Community Cup for all our activities, and eight winners came from Brunswick Town.

Let's see if we can get enough money!

Best wishes,
Trish Gaskell-Watkins, Chair, and Juliette Hunting, Committee member

NEWS!

REQUEST FOR HELP

We shall be entering the City in Bloom competitions again, for best urban area, and will be part of the national competition, Brunswick Town in Bloom entry ( when we seek a Gold Award).

We shall start the cleaning, and tidying, and planting process in Lansdowne Place and Street, this Sunday - tidying round the trees, and checking for pavements, and broken bikes and notices., etc.

We hope you will be able to join us. Bring gardening gloves - and a small fork/trowel if you have one. We shall shortly be launching an appeal for funds for buying POLO BASKETS.

p.s. Estate agents who have failed to remove their boards under the new legislation have been fined over £1000, so all that work paid off.

Cornerstone Centre's Community Market is here!

Cornerstone Centre's Community Market is here!

Happy and Peaceful New Year to everyone!!