This year the Fayre celebrated its Silver Jubilee and CRY was chosen as the charity to be supported. The Banstead May Fayre started in 1985 as a small village Fayre which is a wonderful English tradition. It has grown into a large parade and annual fundraiser.
The event is organised by the Banstead Village May Queen Group who are parents of children who live in Banstead or have strong connections with Banstead. There were stalls for all the family to enjoy including: face painting, tombola, raffles, Pimms and a beer tent.
This year’s Silver Anniversary May Queen was Jessica Halide Diges (above) and the The Mayor and the Lady Mayoress opened the Fayre.
CRY had a stall at the Fayre and a number of CRY staff and supporters joined in the main parade wearing CRY heart costumes. CRY supporter Julie Mills also gave a talk about CRY.
CRY would like to thank all of our volunteers that helped to raise so much awareness of CRY on the day.
The people that volunteered were CRY staff Val Gurney and Suzanne Dallas; and the CRY supporters Mark and Marcia Hearne, Rob and Clem Ahearn and Julie Mills. Thank you so much for all your hard work.
Val Gurney of CRY had the following thoughts on the day:
“We are glad to say it was a dry (and mostly sunny) day and very enjoyable. Suzanne and I arrived early to put our new gazebo up which was very heavy, so of course we had men running to our aid!! (Well, one!!). As you can see from the photos (below) it looked great.
Volunteers came to help us on the day – which we are very grateful for – and we all joined in the parade up and down Banstead High Street in our heart costumes.
This was great fun and hundreds of people waved us all on. The turn out at the May Queen was really good and we had many enquiries about what we do at CRY. I am sure everyone raised a lot of money for CRY and I would like to thank Jessica Diges (The May Queen) and the organising committee for selecting CRY as the chosen charity.”
The Banstead May Fayre raised £6200 for CRY
