Winchelsea Book Fair 2010 and 2012
The 2012 Book Fair will be held in the New Hall, Winchlesea, on the Friday and Saturday of the August Bank Holiday weekend, Aug 24th/25th from 10:00am each day.
A large team of volunteers from Winchelsea organised a completely new charity fund-raising event in 2010 - The Winchelsea Book Fair - over £5000 was raised entirely through the sale of second hand books. The event was held in aid of three charities: the League of Friends of Rye Memorial Care Centre (Rye Hospital), with smaller donations to two Winchelsea charities, the Friends of the Ancient Monuments & Museum (FOAM) and St Thomas' Church.
The committee who organized the 2010 event (John Priestley, Chris Fairman, Mike de Smith and Howard Norton) would like to say "thank you, thank you so much !!" to everyone who helped well beyond our wildest expectations by: donating books, sorting books, providing facilities, promoting the event, moving all the boxes and tables around before, during and after the event, setting up and clearing up, opening and closing the event, and of course, selling the books over the two days themselves. In total there are more than 40, including:
David Page, John & Bren Dunk, Chris de Smith, Jo Turner, Cam & Peta Cameron-Clarke, Robert & Sheila Holland, Martin & Jean Owen, John & Annie Spencer, Roger & Tina Neaves, Sue and Tony Moore, Deborah & John Rodley, Stuart Raine, Carol Scoynes, Tony Davis, Tony Jasper, Denny Nicol, Heather Little, John Senior, Sarah Philo, Richard Feast, Judith Hogg, Patricia Dawes, Tessa Potts, Ann Coxon, Frances Catt, Anne Simpson, Frank Noah, June & Denis Hyson, Jean Floyd, Catherine Manning, Penny & John Evans, Molly Saunders, Mike & Jo Melvin, Peter & Theresa McMullin, John & Anna Freeman, Geoffroy Millais, Sue Chetwood, Graham Alexander, and Ian Kerr, plus of course our key supporters (providing facilities and/or large donations of books): Canon Howard Cocks, Mary Westhead, Eric Bourne, Martyn Stubbs, Timothy O’Sullivan, Joyce O’Farrell, Canon Charles Walker, and Sarah Jempson - we hope we haven’t missed anyone!
Books remaining unsold at the end of the event are destined for other charities who will further benefit from the generosity and hard work put in. These include:
League of Friends of Rye Memorial Care Centre (St John Ambulance event); MacMillan Nurses; Oxfam Books; St Peter's Church in St Leonards (Bohemia Book Fayre, for St Michael's Hospice and Pulse charities); Book Donors (specialist book charity in Selkirk); Rye Museum; Local fund-raising events (Sue and Tony Moore); Salvation Army, and more ...
email: info@winchelsea.com
