Ros, Brian and Sylvia attending our stand ©FNRC Ros, Brian and Sylvia attending our stand

Success at Newbury Volunteer Fair

FNRC wins top award at 2015 Fair

Over the years Newbury Volunteer Fair has provided us with high quality Friends: Paul Thompson (our webmaster); Brian Snook (our record transcriber) and Judith Bunting (who played Mum in the recent tragedy) were all dragged in from their visit to the Corn Exchange.

When Brian Sylvester turned over his calendar this year he was surprised to note that the fair was going to be on the next Saturday! So a few stalwarts jumped into action, mostly the usual suspects, except this year we asked Isabel Carmona to help us with the display. Isabel is the artist who has exhibited in the Chapel for the last two Open Studios event.

The theme was West End Musicals and we chose Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat mainly because we could lay our hands on some Arabic/Egyptian costumes! So on Saturday morning Brian Sylvester, Ros Clow and Sylvia Sellwood turned up, dressed up and spent the morning chatting to everyone who passed by! This included the three judges who asked questions about why we were dressed so strangely and what kind of volunteers we were looking for.

It all paid off! About 12.30pm we were announced as the winners of the display entries and Brian received a cheque from the Newbury Weekly News for £100. Amazing!