Daffodil weekend is on

28/29 March 2020

This e mail aims to give you all the information you need for the weekend. You may want to scan down to get to the bits that may be relevant to you. A copy of this will also be on display outside the shop for future reference

As you are probably aware this event raises a lot of money for good causes both inside and outside of the Parish and is also a great way to meet new people, make friends and “give back” in general. It is one of the things that brings us together and makes Thriplow so special

The event is a huge effort for the village - from people running the car parks, serving teas, tidying up through to the land owners letting us use their fields. We already have 77 coaches booked in and over 200 stall applications. So a huge thanks in advance!

Media Contact

Daffodil Weekend attracts national media attention. If you are contacted by the media please forward them on to Paul Earnshaw or Kerstin Rivett admin@PROTECTED. Also please assure them we will have daffodils (they always want to run a story that we have no daffodils). In Thriplow now we have over half a million with 117 varieties from super earlies to ultra lates so are guaranteed they will be in flower). Moreover we have planted a further 15,000 this year on the village triangles and all the way to Fowlmere

Open gardens

Why not open your garden? This tradition dates back to the very first Daffodil Weekend and is very popular with the visitors. Your garden does not need to be a “show garden” our visitors are interested in seeing how other gardens are laid out etc. If you would like to open your garden please e mail admin@PROTECTED ideally by 25th January, so we can include you in the programme.

Volunteers: Tearooms and baking

The signing-up sheet for the Tearooms will be in the Village Shop from Saturday 1^st February. Do sign-up as soon as you can to ensure you get the time you want.

Daffodil Weekend is the perfect excuse to get baking! And if you love to bake cakes, then please consider donating some for our visitors to enjoy over the Weekend; all types of cakes welcome including coffee, fruitcake, Victoria sponge and gluten free ones too.

Cakes can be delivered to the Village Hall (meeting room) on Friday 27th March between 3 and 6pm, as well as the mornings - Saturday/Sunday (28^th/29th) from 8am. Please label your plates and trays so they can be returned. Paper plates will be available if you would rather not leave your own plate behind. Please remember to label your cake too - a good way to do this is to create a ‘flag’ out of a cocktail stick and sticky label.

Our tea room venues are:

· Cricket Pavilion

· Village Hall

· School (contact the school directly for the rota office@PROTECTED)

We do hope you can spare a couple of hours or so to help in the tearooms over the Weekend.

• The Tearoom Trio – Gill McDonnell, Mandy Thornton, Diana Ramsay and Jude Mannion
• Phone: 01763 208059 (Gill)
• Email: daffodiltearooms@PROTECTED

Volunteers: Team Sandwich

Making our own sandwiches has proved to be a big success. A huge amount of fun was had in making them. If you fancy being part of ‘team sandwich’ then give us a shout. An hour and a half at most is all you need to commit to on either the Friday or Saturday evening usually from about 5pm. Please contact Katie Hilton by email – wildwoodbss@PROTECTED if you would like to help make sandwiches.

Volunteers: Car parking, bus parking, transport

For many visitors the first impression that they get of Thriplow is when they arrive at the car parks and coach parks. We are very grateful to all the people who take time out of their day and so enthusiastically help with parking and welcoming visitors to our village. If you are able to help, please contact Fergus Ramsay fergus510@PROTECTED as soon as possible. Volunteers are only needed for relatively short periods of time and it is a fun way to contribute to the weekend. The village is regularly praised on the warm welcome visitors receive.

Volunteers: Tidying the village after the event

An important job that takes place at the end of the day is the village tidy up. This typically involves checking that the car parks are clear (of both people and rubbish) and clearing up any straw that has been used. If you are able to help with this please also email daffodilweekend1@PROTECTED.The more helpers we have the quicker everyone can get to the pub!

We are conscious that in the past the village has taken a while to recover after Daffodil Weekend so we will be protecting delicate verges and entrances with a combination of matting and wood chippings ahead of the event

Volunteers: Children’s Thriplow

Volunteers are also needed to run some of the Children’s games for a couple of hours. No money taking or prize giving involved, as we use tokens, so relatively easy and good fun. Please contact Morag Clifford morag.clifford@PROTECTED

 

Charity and hobby stalls on driveways

 

The Daffodil Weekend event offers Thriplow residents the opportunity to have their own stall ‘at home’ to raise money for particular charitable causes. There is no charge for stalls that are raising funds purely for charity. The Committee would be interested to know how much money you make so we can add it to the grand total raised by Daffodil Weekend. Please get in touch by emailing daffodilweekend1@PROTECTED

 

However, where the resident is trying to make money from goods of any kind, we ask for a goodwill contribution of £25. Cheques, made payable to Thriplow Daffodil Weekend, can be left in the Daffodil Weekend postbox in the Village Shop before the 21^st March 2020.

 

Stalls ‘at home’ applications can be submitted online www.thriplowdaffodils.org.uk/stalls-at-home-application-form/ and this form covers both hobby stalls and charity stalls. Application forms are also available in the Village Shop for those who do not have access to the internet.

 

Please note: if you have a stall ‘at home’, an offer to help with main Daffodil Weekend duties (e.g. car parking or tearooms) would be appreciated.

It is not acceptable to invite commercial traders to set up business on a Thriplow residents driveway and whilst we cannot control what happens on private driveways, we have a duty to protect our event as a whole and the charities that we raise money for.

Daffodil planting

We have continued the planting programme with new plantings on the triangles (these have been companion planted with bee friendly wild flowers) and further mass plantings along Fowlmere road and in selected places around the village. As a result we now have over 119 different varieties of daffodils within the village. We are absolutely guaranteed that some will be in flower whatever the weather – please emphasise this if contacted by the media!

Programmes for entry to the village

These will be distributed to the village approximately a week before the event. Please note these programmes are to allow residents and helpers free access to the village during the road closures. If you are a helper from outside the village we will provide you with a programme. If you have friends or relatives visiting especially for the weekend, we would be grateful if they made a contribution to the charity weekend by buying their programme as a normal visitor or by helping and thus qualifying for a free entry programme

Safety meeting

The health and safety and radio briefing for Team Leaders and location contacts (church, cricket pitch etc) will take place on Wednesday 25^th March at 8pm in the Village Hall

External Charity

This is being finalised

Contacting Daffodil Weekend

We are keen to hear your views and suggestions about Daffodil Weekend. You can do this in a number of ways – you can e mail us on daffodilweekend1@PROTECTED , you can contact us through the website http://thriplowdaffodils.org.uk or by using the Daffodil Weekend postbox in the Village Shop. You can also speak directly to a member of the committee:

 

• Admin Gill McDonnell
• Attractions Mary Lindgren
• Coaches Sabrina Melvin
• Tearooms Mandy Thornton / Diana Ramsay / Gill McDonnell / Jude Mannion
• Chairman Paul Earnshaw
• Children’s Thriplow Morag Clifford / Kelly Austin / Stephanie Dodds
• Event Radios Mark Brogan
• Country Thriplow Anna Jermain / Kelly Austin / Stephanie Dodds
• Finance Lisa Maltpress
• Infrastructure Clare Ansell / Greg Hilton
• Stalls Laura Hunt / Sarah Deacon
• Publicity and website Kerstin Rivett
• Safety Caroline Harris
• Signs Andrew Parsons
• Taste of Thriplow Alastair Gray
• Transport Fergus Ramsay
• Village Image Neil Rowland Hall
• Music Dan Murton

 

Thanks in advance for your continuing support!

 

Best wishes

 

Daffodil Committee

 

 

Daffodils planted in the village

 

Actaea	Hillstar	Ron Peter
Albatross	Horace	Rose of May
Amabilis	Ice Follies	Sailboat
Apotheose	Intrigue	Seagull
Arctic Gold	Itzim	Segovia
Artic Gold	Jersey Star	Sir Watkin
Baby Boomer	Jetfire	Snowboard
Baby Moon	June Allyson	Stainless
Barii Conspicuus	Kate Heath	Stint
Barrett Browning	King Alfred	Sulphur Phoenix
Bell Song	Leedsii	Sun Disc
Blazing starlet	Lemon beauty	Tahiti
Blushing lady	Little Gem	Tamara
Bridal Crown	Lobularis	Tete a tete
Bulbiconium	Loveday	Tete de luxe
Canaliculatus	Lucifer	Thalia
Carbineer	Madame Speaker	Thriplow Gold
Carlton	Martinette	Tresamble
Cheerfulness	Medway Gold	Trevithian
China Gold	Meldrum Welsh Warrier	Unsurpassable
Cornish Chuckle	Minnow	Van Sion
Cornish King	Mount Hood	White Lady
Decoy red	Mrs Langtry	White Lion
Delnasaugh	Narcissus Papyraceus Ziva	White Marvel
Dutch Master	Narcissus pseudo narcissus	Winston Churchill
Elka	Pacific Coast	WP Milner
February Gold	Peeping Tom	Yellow Cheerfulness
Felindre	Pencrebar	Salome
Finland	Pipit	Banallan
Firebrand	Professor Einstein	St Peter
Geranium	Pueblo	Karenza
Glen Clova	Quail	White Cheer
Golden Anniversary	Queen Anne’s Jonquil	Yellow cheer
Golden Bells	Queen Annes Jonquil	St Kev
Golden Cheer	Recurvus	Pastel gem
Golden Ducat	Replete	Tibet
Golden Durat	Replete improved	Avalanche
Great Leap	Rio	Sunny girlfriend
Hawera	Rip van Winkle	Falconet
Henry Irving	Romance