Shirley Lions Club

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Shirley Carnival took place on Saturday 7th July 2018 when over 2,000 people turned up to browse among the many stalls and enjoy the programme of entertainment on a Beach Party theme.    

The Carnival was officially opened by local celebrity Malcolm Stent. Having declared the carnival open he then toured round all the stalls and the arena with our new President, Lion Andrea Lees chatting to all the stallholders and performers.

The programme of entertainment for the afternoon commenced with a rousing musical performance from the Trinidad & Tobago Merryweather Steel Band. The entertainment continued with performances from the Animated Dance Company, the Shirley Gospel Choir, a surfboard competition and a limbo dancing competition.

The very young were not forgotten as they enjoyed the fairground rides and Punch & Judy played out to lots of "Behind You" and "Oh yes he is - Oh no he isn't"  

Now in its second year, the judging of the School's Gardening competition which we have been running in conjunction with Notcutts Garden Centre took place. Jackie Barker from Notcutts presented £100 vouchers to the two winning schools which were Monkspath Infants School in the Infants section and St Patricks School in the Year 4 + section. More information and photos for this can be seen on the Youth page of our website.

The net amount raised from the event after all costs is likely to be around £3,000 and  we should like to place on record our thanks to our main sponsors: The Window Centre, 102 Marshall Lake Road, Shirley, Midhire Van Rental, Drayton Road, Shirley and ASDA superstores, Parkgate, Shirley who covered most of the expenses incurred in putting this event on. If you can help with next year's Carnival by providing sponsorship please contact us on 0845 833 9547 or via the "contact us" page on this website.

Next year's Carnival takes place on Saturday 13th July 2019 and if you would like a stall details will appear here in the New Year 2019

Some photos from Carnival 2018