Events
CHADAHS 62nd Annual Show 2011
The 62nd Annual Show for the Central Hornsey and District Allotments and
Horticultural Society will be on
Saturday September 10th 2011
, at the Moravian Church Hall in Priory Road, N8, on the corner of Redston
Road, close to the lower entrance to Alexandra Palace (buses 144, W3 and W7).
The Show is one of the largest in London and more popular than ever! Planning
is in full swing, but you can be sure it will be a very special event!
As always, along with exhibits of vegetables, fruit and flowers, arts and
crafts and
the children's art competition, there will be plenty for visitors to enjoy at
stalls selling plants, vegetables, flowers, honey, hand-made cards and
delicious teas with home-made cakes - not to mention the ever-popular Tombola
and Raffle. Visitors will be also able to test their wit and knowledge in the
Gardening Quizzes for children and adults, the Caption Competition and Guess
the Weight of the Cake. At the end of the Show, you can bid for many of the
exhibits in the Grand Auction.
The Show will start at 2 pm, with prizes presented by the Mayor at 3.30pm.
Entrance will be by donation, or free to CHADAHS members and children aged 14
years and
under.
There will be competition classes for novices and seasoned gardeners as well as
for children. Online entry and printable entry forms are available below, and
paper forms from the Shepherds Hill and Alexandra Palace Allotments trading
sheds. Completed entry forms should reach the Show Secretaries by 10 am
Thursday 8th September. Any enquiries concerning the show should be sent to:
show (AT) chadahs.org.uk
Schedule and entry forms for 2011
These are available in 3 formats:
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Online entry form
The online entry form is easy for you to complete, you don't have to
post or deliver it, and you receive an immediate confirmation of your entries
and entry fees. You could even make your entries from
your plot if you have a phone that can access the internet!
Click here for Online Entry Form
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Entry form as a PDF document
The schedule and entry form are available here in PDF format to view or print.
This is identical to the paper version, and gives a little more information
than could be put into the online form.
Click here for Entry Form to view or print (PDF)
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Entry form on paper
Paper copies (identical to the PDF version) are available from your Trading
Shed.
Past Show photogalleries
Click here for
photos from previous shows
Shepherds Hill Annual Plant Sale on Sunday 22nd May
The Shepherds Hill allotments site organises a very popular annual plant sale
on a Sunday afternoon in Spring. Always lots of good stuff, at good prices, and
ready to go in the ground.
The sale raises around £800, much of which is given to local charities.
So, every reason to attend!
The Plant Sale starts at 2pm. Refreshments including teas and home-made cakes
etc available.
If you could help with plants, refreshments or any other aspect, please get in
touch by emailing mail@chadahs.org.uk or phone 020 8348 2710 or 07870 157 703.
CHADAHS Annual Outing
Our annual Summer trips by coach are to places of interest to gardeners.
However, don't feel you have to be an expert gardener to enjoy them. We're a
friendly bunch, and when the route permits, our trips very often include a
visit to the seaside for tea, a paddle or even a swim.
Previous visits have included (Summer 2010) the National Fruit Collection at
Brogdale in
Kent for their Cherry and Strawberry Festival. Before returning home, we
visited Whitstable for paddling and seafood!
In Summer 2009, we visited RHS Hyde Hall, with our
coastal 'fix' after the garden to Maldon. In Summer 2008, our trip
was to the Cambridge University Botanic Gardens -
click here
for details in case you would like to visit yourself by train (Cambridge
Station is very close to the Gardens). Our Summer trip in 2007 was to Wisley to
see (among everything else) the new world size glass-house opened just two
weeks earlier and its exhibits.
