We've just got back from Crich Tramway museum where we supplied a couple of children's rides and a games unit. Business was a bit slow but what a lovely venue. it's just like a smaller version of Beamish only with trams taking visitors for rides, well worth a day out.

I was in Ripon market place today to position 2 catering units, candy floss and continental coffee, the organisers seemed pleased with them so hopefully we can develop a working relationship. On the way home I stopped at a roadside cafe called the red Bus on the A64 York - Leeds road. I stop here regularly but never sit down, this time a newspaper was left open at a table so I set and read a story, as I finished it I looked up just in time to see a runaway car about to hit my table. I jumped sideways and watched as the car demolished the table and chairs I had been sitting at. Good job the story wasn't longer!!!

I've just finalised the two children in need events. They are being held at the Noah's Ark nurseries. One in the Yorkshire town of Dodworth the other at Barnsley.




Children In Need Event:
November 19th
,
at the Noah's Ark Nursery, Barnsley






Children In Need Event:
November 19th
,
at the Noah's Ark Nursery, Dodworth

I'm beginning to think that we should specialise in providing funfair attraction to support charity events. Weve just been asked to support a large funday at Ripon Racecourse on November 6th, its going to be advertised on local radio and all the local papers and the organisers hope to attract up-to 100 local charities so it could possibly be a big day.



Charity Funday:
November 6th

at the RaceCourse, Ripon North Yorks

One thing we can't beat is the weather. Yarm fair in North Yorkshire is one of our best events. Last year was an exceptionally good year for us, this year it never stopped raining on Saturday night, cutting our turnover by about 60 percent.
The safety record at Yarm is excellent, (like most funfairs, although the downmarket tabloids like to think differently). This year however there was one small incident. A member of staff on one of the adult rides (not ours I hasten to add), was cleaning a generator down when he inadvertantly touched the wire on a 12volt battery. The small and totally harmless tingle he felt so alarmed him he jumped backwards and promptly fell out of the vehicle he was working in. This wouldn't have been too bad, but someone had left a tyre on the ground right where he landed, he succeeded in falling over this and knocking himself out. Thankfully his pride was more injured than anything else and he was back in action that evening with a only a slight headache and a severely bruised ego.

It seems that the great british public dont have charity fatigue at all. No sooner have we finalised the event at Leigh, when we are contacted to provide supporting attractions to a couple of children in need events in the Yorkshire area. Most of our attractions are tied up on the day in question, but we work closely with a number of other operaters so they will have to be drafted in. Another surprise was a request from someone organising an event next September, this makes a change from the usual last minute panic requests we recieve and allows us to provide a better selection of attractions.

Just agreed to take a selection of rides to the Glossop bonfire. Held in Manor Park, Glossop, the event isn't being run by us, but a close friend that we work with regularly is in charge, money off vouchers will be added to our booklet on Monday

After the hectic Nottingham Goose Fair, I was looking forward to a Sunday off., bit of a pipe dream that as I realised I needed to collect a trailer from Mablethorpe on the East coast and fetch it back to our base at Upton. I've made this trip before and know that the last 20 mile are over roads little better than cycle tracks. Nearing Mablethorpe this time I passed a sign for The New Missions Tribe, now I know where I was going was remote, but the Tribe are a team of American missionaries who travel to remote lands to spread Christianity???

One of our specialities is providing Candy Floss and Toffee Apple units to various events. For some reason we have started recieving enquiries from people who want the products, but without the manned cart or stall that we usually provide. This has led us to set up an online shop on our CandyFlossCrazy.com website to offer people the service of buying candy floss, toffee apples and other fairground treats online.

We have now added iCal data to all of our coming events listings. At the right of each event is a calendar icon and the motif "iCal", clicking on either of these items will add all of the calendar information for that event to your Outlook or Icalendar system.

Just discovered MICROFORMATS, for those of you who like me are new to this blogging lark, it appears they provide a way of making details simultaneously machine and human readable!! I think what this means is I can for example display the details of an event onscreen which you can read, but you can also add this event to your calendar automatically using software such as Apple's iCal. I'm posting our new upcoming events in this format here.

Halloween Event: October 28-30,
at the Market Square, Ripon North Yorks




Torchlight Parade: October 29th,
at the Tramway Museum, Crich



Fireworks and FunfairNovember 3rd,
at the Cricket Club, Leigh nr Wigan



Fireworks and Funfair:November 4th,
at the Sports Pavilion, Wilberfoss



Fireworks and Funfair: November 5th ,
at the Redcar Racecourse



Christmas Lights: ,
at Biddulph Moor, Nr Leek

We've just been signed up for 2 new events. The first is a Halloween party at The Crich tramway museum near Matlock. Starting at 10 a.m. it continues into the early evening. The other is the switching on of the Christmas lights at Biddulph Moor near Leek, tickets have been added to our money off book.

Saturday September 24th saw a landmark in the annals of the Fairground Heritage Trust. The first turf of the site for the new Fairground Museum was cut before invited guests and visitors. Numerous fairground exhibits have formed part of the Dingles Steam Museums displays for a number of years, now hopefully they can be housed in their own purpose built building to ensure their long term survival as a part of our heritage and history.

We've been approached to supply a number of attractions for an event in Leigh near Wigan Lancs. for the 3rd of November starting at 5p.m. in the grounds of Leigh Cricket Club. The event aims to raise money for the WaterAid charity.

WaterAid is an international NGO dedicated exclusively to the provision of safe domestic water, sanitation and hygiene education to the world’s poorest people. WaterAid works by helping local organisations set up low cost, sustainable projects using appropriate technology that can be managed by the community itself.  WaterAid also seeks to influence the policies of other key organisations, such as governments, to secure and protect the right of poor people to safe, affordable water and sanitation services.

WaterAid currently works in both rural and urban areas, and has programmes in 15 countries in Africa and Asia. To date, WaterAid’s work has reached over 8.5 million people, helping to prevent deaths and the spread of disease, and dramatically improving the quality of people’s lives.

Here a few cost examples to give you an idea of what can be achieved:


£5 pays for an environmental health technician to visit five communities to promote
good hygiene practices in Zambia
£10 pays for enough cement for two ecological sanitation latrines in Zambia
£15 pays for the tools needed to construct a hand-dug well in Malawi
£50 pays for enough cement to protect a spring benefiting 300 people in Uganda
£100 pays for one handpump to serve 10 households in Nepal.
£210 pays for a shallow well handpump which will be used by 90 people in a rural
community in Malawi
£500 pays for the materials needed for a reservoir tank to serve 600 people in Madagascar
£1000 pays the complete costs of building a 15metre well, including a £500 Nira
handpump to benefit 500 people in Tanzania
£5000 pays to site and drill a borehole for 500 people in Ghana

For further information on WaterAid’s work please visit www.wateraid.org.uk

Just received a call out of the blue to supply a candy floss unit and a coffee unit for an event at Ripon city centre. The event will see an ice rink along with local bands and a Halloween party spread over three days (28-30 October). Putting the PDF file together with the insurances etc I realised that our hygiene certificates have all been left at our Middlesbrough office, great piece of forward planning that, especially as no one there can use email (being old and senile and all that). Looks like a trip up North is on the cards.

Anyway, money off vouchers for the event have been added to our booklet, feel free to download it anytime.

After succesfully attending the Wilberfoss summer gala with a small funfair, we are now following this up with a combined funfair/firework display at the same venue (the sports pavilion Wilberfoss near York). Starting at 5p.m. the event will see children's rides, games, candy floss and other attractions topped off with a firework display. Visitors to our website funfairgames.net can download money off vouchers for the funfairas well as obtaining directions and further details of the event.

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We intend to offer a commentary on the business of running a funfair operation in the North of England. Interspersed with this commentary will be a selection of money off vouchers for various events we are attending, along with other offers and information on funfairs in general.