The Stradsett Hall Garden Show 2009

The Stradsett Hall Garden Show 2009 is pleased to be associated with a wide range of organisations, companies, sponsors and our local community.  For more details on our partners, please follow the links below:

Our Partner Charities:

The Norfolk Hospice, Tapping House 

The Norfolk Hospice, Tapping House cares for over 200 people every month of the year at the hospice and in people’s homes. Our aim is to ensure that our patients, and those close to them, can live life to the full and experience peace, respect and dignity to the very end of life.

East Anglian Air Ambulance

On average the EAAA are called to four incidents a day, life threatening situations such as road traffic accidents, incidents involving people in inaccessible places, cardiac arrests. Because of the advanced skills, drugs and equipment found on board, and being able to access places impossible for a land ambulance, the EAAA can make the difference.

 National Osteoporosis Society 

 The National Osteoporosis Society is the only UK-wide charity dedicated to improving the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of those with and at risk of osteoporosis. The Society receives no government funding so relies upon the generous donations of supporters. These funds enable the charity to run an Osteoporosis Helpline, lobby and campaign for better provisions for those affected by osteoporosis, fund research projects and continue with its developing education programme. For more information call 01761 471771 or email info@nos.org.uk.

 

The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund

The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund provides financial and practical assistance to anyone who is serving, or has ever served in the RAF, and their partners and dependants too. It offers grants, care and mobility services to individuals, as well as funding large-scale projects such as RAF childcare.

Army Benevolent Fund

For over sixty years the Army Benevolent Fund (ABF) has worked tirelessly to provide support to serving soldiers, former soldiers and their families in times of need.  The people we support include those with disabilities or mental illness, people experiencing homelessness or unemployment, and older people.

Norfolk Scouts

The Scout Association provides adventurous activities and personal development opportunities for 400,000 young people aged 6-25.  For full details on Norfolk Scouts, their activities and how you are able to help the Association, please use the link above. 

 

CLA Charitable Trust

The CLA Charitable Trust was founded by CLA members in 1980 to help disabled people in England and Wales.   The Charitable Trust achieves its objectives through grants and advice to those who wish to provide such facilities.

Norfolk Federation of Women's Institute

We are delighted to have 180 WIs in our Norfolk Federation with over 6,000 members.  Several WIs have fewer than ten members and the largest has 97, so the range is diverse.  The first Institutes were set up in 1918, and the Federation in 1919.  The office is housed in a Georgian building in the middle of Norwich where we have been since 1954.

 

Rotary Club of Downham Market

The Rotary Club of Downham Market are supporting the Stradsett Garden Show 2009 along with many other Rotarians from the Rotary District 1080.

 

 

True's Yard Fisherfolk Museum

True's Yard is all that remains of King's Lynn's old fishing community, the North End, which existed for hundreds of years, and which was finally demolished in the clearances of the 1930’s and the 1960’s.  A visit to True'sYard today, which is dedicated to preserving the memory of those people, still conveys much of that feeling of gritty endurance against the odds.A visit to True'sYard today, which is dedicated to preserving the memory of those people, still conveys much of that feeling of gritty endurance against the odds.

St Marys Church, Stradsett

The outline of this delightful Church in the Park is typical of a country Church 700 years ago, with its square unbuttressed West tower, and continuous walls for nave and chancel.  There is no chancel arch, but there are both North and South doors for the nave, and a Priest's door.  These are all features of the Early English period.

Other Associated Organisations

The Band of the Parachute Regiment - We are delighted that the Band of the Parachute Regiment will be Beating the Retreat at the Gala Evening.  For more details on the band, please visit their website.

Hilgay Silver Band - Hilgay Silver Band was founded in 1896. Originally formed by farmers and land workers from the village and surrounding areas. The band has improved over the years and has become one of Norfolk's premier bands.The Silver Band competes each year at the East Anglian Spring Festival and at the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain, reaching the National Finals at Wembley Conference Centre as well as the Symphony Hall in Birmingham.

King's Lynn Town Band - Musical Director: Steve Ingham.  There have been brass bands in King's Lynn since the 1830s. From the 1880s until the present day about twenty bands have existed at various times in the town.  King's Lynn Town Band was formed in 1894. Originally a brass-and-reed band, it became a brass band by 1903. Reputedly it won its first band contest within a few months of its formation. In the 1930s the band engaged a professional music coach, and it was soon winning prizes at the national brass band contests held at the Crystal Palace in London. The band became the Champion Brass Band of East Anglia for the first time in 1954, and won the title several times over the following decades.It has appeared on radio and television, and makes regular visits to King's Lynn's twin town of Emmerich-am-Rhein in Germany.   We are delighted that the King's Lynn Town Band will be performing at the Stradsett Hall Garden Show on Saturday 4 July between 2pm - 4pm.

The Salvation Army’s Anglia Youth Band comprises around 30 musicians aged from 14 to 30 years of age, drawn from the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. Every year the band gives a number of concerts throughout East Anglia and further afield, and toured the Czech Republic several years ago. Bandmaster Paul Winterbourne is no stranger to keeping crowds happy, since he is also the Bandmaster of Sheringham Salvation Army band he is used to playing to the summer crowds on the sea front there.

Information Britain - Visit -  http://www.information-britain.co.uk

The Country Fair Office - details and information on Holkham Country Fair and Chatsworth Country Fair - www.countryfairoffice.co.uk

It is with regret that the Fakenham Town Band have withdrawn from the Stradsett Hall Garden Show.

Our Sponsors

Details on our sponsors, trade stands and other associated companies can be found on our approriate webpages: Our Sponsors - Our Trade Exhibitors

Associated Garden Shows

West Woodhay House Garden Show, Newbury - 11th & 12th June 2011

Details on this forthcoming Garden Show can be found at: www.westwoodhaygardenshow.co.uk

Abbots Ripton Hall Garden Show - June 25th - 27th 2010

Details on this forthcoming Garden Show can be found at: www.abbotsriptonhall.co.uk