A Gallery of Hope and Joy – the 2021 Farnham Flower Festival

Artists

Alison Ridgeon
Annette Wallace
Aspen Salisbury

Aspen Salisbury is a young artist who specialises in wildlife-inspired art and can be found on Instagram @byaspencrafts

Dawn Harcourt
Karina Fraser

Karina Fraser is a synesthetic artist who uses the neurological experience of synaesthesia, the cross wiring of senses, to explore and create abstract art. She can be found in her studio at St George’s Church and at www.karinafraser.com

Knitchings

Knitchings is a head of creative arts, a knitter, artist, ‘interior freewheeler’, owner of the world’s most patient and obliging cat – Gladys – and has a large (43k) following on Instagram where she can be found @knitchings

Linda Daruvala

Linda Daruvala is an author and artist.

Penny Fleet

Penny Fleet is a mixed media artist, based near Odiham, who creates paintings, cards and collages on canvas, wood and paper using a combination of acrylic paints, inks, hand-decorated collage papers, thread, fabric and text. She can be found at www.pennyfleet.co.uk

Sorrell Price
Susie Lidstone

Susie Lidstone is a watercolour artist well known for her paintings of flowers and buildings especially around Farnham. She can be found at http://susielidstone.com/

Businesses

Castle Vets

Castle Vets is a veterinary practice based in Hale and Farnborough. www.castlevetsltd.co.uk

Farnham Mill

Farnham Mill is a nursing and dementia specialist care home based in north Farnham. farnhammillnursinghome.co.uk

Florescence

Florescence is an award-winning florist based in St Mark’s Church, and the sponsors of the Farnham Flower Festival. florescence.org

Heavens Kitchen

Heavens Kitchen is an independent Mediterranean steak house In Hale Road, Farnham, open for both sit-down and take-away meals. www.heavens-kitchen.uk

Mind Your Bonce

Mind your Bonce is a milliner based in Hale, making retro and modern hats and headwear. www.facebook.com/MindYourBonce

Nibbs Gin

Nibbs is a small family business based in Surrey, producing small batch artisan gin in two flavours – elderflower gin, using freshly picked elderflower from the Surrey and Sussex countryside, and a ‘Surrey Hops’ gin using Farnham hops as a botanical. www.nibbsspirits.co.uk

The Rural Life Centre

The Rural Life Centre in Tilford is a living museum which collects, conserves and displays the history and culture of village life in the countryside. rural-life.org.uk

Squires

Squires is a garden centre in Badshot Lea, part of a family-owned horticultural business across Surrey, Sussex, Middlesex, West London and Berkshire. www.squiresgardencentres.co.uk

Usborne Books

Usborne sells books for children, often via local agents. To order any Usborne books, contact judywilliams61@hotmail.com

Faith organisations

Ahmadiyya Muslim Women’s Assocation, Farnham

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Women’s Association, Farnham, is a socially active branch of Lajna, an auxiliary organisation of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. lajna.org.uk

Badshot Lea and Hale
The Bahá’í Faith

Bahá’ís believe the crucial need facing humanity is to find a unifying vision of the future of society and of the nature and purpose of life. www.bahai.org

The Spire Church, Farnham

The Spire Church is a newly formed church created through a partnership between Farnham United Reformed Church and Farnham Methodist Church. spirechurchfarnham.org.uk

Individuals

Angela Hall
The Buckle Family
Carolyn and Gerry Weston
The Church Cat
Flowers? What is the point if I can’t eat them?
Diana Thomas
Gillian Geraghty
Gillian Hyman
Judy Dudley
Margie Powell
Maxine Everitt
Melissa Salisbury
Melvin Little
Pamela Marsham
Wendy Edwards
Sobriety – an arrangement celebrating a year of sobriety achieved during lockdown of by a recovering alcoholic, remembering both the hope of recovery from addiction through seeking help and trusting the God of our understanding and the joys of sobriety.

Local Groups

Alder Valley Brass

Alder Valley Brass is a brass band based in Farnham, and a small group of its members played at the recent St George’s Day Service at St John’s.  It is a traditional brass band of 25 brass players plus percussion and also perform in smaller ensembles from time to time, and it is celebrating its 60th birthday. www.aldervalleybrass.org.uk

Farnham Assist

Farnham ASSIST is a local charity supporting older people. farnham-assist.org.uk

Hale Carnival Committee

Hale Carnival Committee is a group of people who organise the Hale Carnival and fundraise during the year. Sadly the carnival had to be cancelled this year because of Covid but it will be back! www.halecarnival.co.uk

Hale WI

Hale WI is a lively group which, out of lockdown, meets at the Hale Institute on the second Wednesday of the month at 1.45pm. https://surrey.thewi.org.uk/find-wi/hale

Little Bees

Little Bees Toddler Group is back at St George’s. For further information contact Maxine Everitt maxine.everitt@badshotleaandhale.org

Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice Therapies Through Nature

Among the therapies offered by Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice in Farnham therapy through nature, where the sessions are designed to support participants to live well through access to nature, horticulture and the garden, offering the benefits of ‘the great outdoors’ indoors. www.pth.org.uk

Places of Education

Badshot Lea Village Infant School

Badshot Lea Village Infant School is a small school in the heart of Badshot Lea. www.badshot-lea.surrey.sch.uk

Farnham Heath End School

Farnham Heath End School is one of two secondary schools in north Farnham and is on the Weybourne/Heath End/Hale border. www.fhes.org.uk

Hale Academy

Hale Academy is a nursery and primary school in Upper Hale. www.hale.kite.academy

Post19

Post19 is a leading Life Skills and Support centre for young adults with learning difficulties. www.post19.com

William Cobbett Primary School
Year 4
Year 6
Individual entries

William Cobbett Primary School is based in Weybourne, north Farnham. www.william-cobbett.surrey.sch.uk

Farnham Flower Festival 2021

Enjoy the online Farnham Flower Festival in this YouTube video:

Thank you to everyone who sent in this amazing selection of pictures for our annual flower festival, and to our poets too.

Gallery of pictures

You can see the gallery of flowers and art here.

Poems of hope and joy

To read the poems, click here.

How to arrange flowers

This year our festival has been sponsored by Florescence, an award-winning florist based at St Mark’s Church in Upper Hale. If you look at wonderful floral arrangements and think ‘I wish I could do that’, Elise from Florescence has made a video here to give you some tips. The finished arrangement can be seen in St Mark’s during our 11am Sunday service.

Thank you

Thank you to all who took part and to all of you for viewing this flower festival online. Our church flower arrangers have also placed beautiful displays in church which you can see at our Sunday services – 9.30am at St John’s, Hale; 10am at St George’s, Badshot Lea; and 11am at St Mark’s, Upper Hale.

The Covid pandemic has had an effect on our finances and the parish is more dependent than ever on donations. Please do give to support our work in the community. You can donate by clicking on the button below. Thank you.

Christian Aid Week

As it is Christian Aid week 9-15th May. The Franham Clergy have joined together to create an online Christian Aid Week Service:

We cannot collect door to door for Christian Aid so here is the clickable link for online giving for Christian Aid Week 2021:

https://giving.tapsimple.org/online/christian-aid/christian-aid-week-2021-bf4b3

Sunday Services – 9th May

Below are the Sunday services, first, here are the notices:

Notices

Giving

Please Give to our Ministry

This church relies on donations to provide care and support to everyone in this community. Now more than ever, please consider giving generously to support our mission and ministry by clicking the button above. Thank you for your support.

Online Flower Festival

We are running our annual flower festival – online again this year, but there will be some displays in the churches on Sunday 15th May. The theme is Messages of Hope and Joy and we invite you to send us pictures and/or videos of flowers, flower arrangements, floral art, anything which expresses hope and joy. Please be as creative as you like and have fun! Send them to Alan revd.alan@badshotleaandhale.org

Ascension Day

The Ascension Day Service at St John’s is on 13 May 7:30pm – 8:00pm. All welcome. The online service will be screened on Facebook at 10:00am and is available on the Parish Web Site from 9:00am. A link can be found here: https://badshotleaandhale.org/online-services/ or here: https://badshotleaandhale.org/2021/05/13/ascension-service-13th-may/

Services

Morning Services
Evening Service

Sunday Services – 2nd May

Below are the Sunday services, first, here are the notices:

Notices

Giving

Please Give to our Ministry

This church relies on donations to provide care and support to everyone in this community. Now more than ever, please consider giving generously to support our mission and ministry by clicking the button above. Thank you for your support.

Sponsored Cycle Ride

Paul Eggleton is raising money for the church by undertaking a virtual cycle ride from John O’Groats to Land’s End, but without leaving his house. He will be cycling 20km a day on his exercise bike and tracking his virtual progress south over the next 10 weeks. You can sponsor him on his Just Giving page. All the money raised will be divided between the church to help repair St John’s tower, and Alzheimer’s Society. Please sponsor him here: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/paul-eggleton-1?utm_id=60&utm_term=w2EdG8JgJ

Online Flower Festival

We are running our annual flower festival – online again this year, but there will be some displays in the churches on Sunday 15th May. The theme is Messages of Hope and Joy and we invite you to send us pictures and/or videos of flowers, flower arrangements, floral art, anything which expresses hope and joy. Please be as creative as you like and have fun! Send them to Alan revd.alan@badshotleaandhale.org

Services

Morning Services
Evening Service

The May magazine is here

Our May magazine is out now, a bumper edition this month with information about the elections for Surrey County Council members and the Surrey Police and Crime Commissioner. Please read their statements and please vote; if we don’t bother to have a say we can hardly complain about the people who are elected.

There is information too about events going on this month including our Farnham Flower Festival (online again, of course) which is being sponsored by our favourite florist Florescence, and plans for the fete in July. Please get involved in both. There is news about new rooms to hire, an article on grief, information about taking part in Christian Aid Week and much more, plus, of course, lots of great adverts with services, offers and classes.

Download it here:

Serving the Villages North of Farnham: Badshot Lea, Hale, Heath End & Weybourne