This week, volunteers of the Hale Village Carnival Committee held one of their regular monthly meetings, upstairs, in the meetings room at the Childe Of Hale Public House. Below we have a breif account and the contents of the meeting.

The meeting was chaired by Mrs C Gallagher and Mr M Sutton, around 12 to 15 other volunteer members were present at the meeting.

Hale Village Carnival will take place in Hale Village Park, on Saturday 9th June 2012, from 12 noon.

There will also be the Carnival Coffee Shop in the village hall, during the afternoon.

Cheshire Police were in attendance at the meeting too, and discussed various requirments for public safety and the number of Police/PCSO's that may be required, or can be provided on the day of the carnival!

Further security will be onsite for 24 hours, this will be provided by a long established professional security company from Halton!

A Carnival Programme Cover and Poster design competition will take place for the two schools - Hale and Hale Bank.. The Freemen of Hale will provide the prizes for the schools competition.

Hale Village Carnival will be giving the children of Hale School a Special Edition Jubilee Mug each. Around 200 Jubilee mugs will be made!

Hale C E School will be taking part in the carnival, from singing to taking part in games in the main arena.

The Heskeths/Hale Park Estates/Smiths Gore, have been approached to possibly attend and/or to take part in this years Hale Village Carnival.

There will be the traditional parade/procession around the village.

The Rose Queen, Page Boy and Rose Buds nominations must be in by 31/03/12. There will be two Page Boys and three Rose Buds only - due to carraige weight and passenger numbers the horse drawn carraige can legally accept/pull. That means only 6 passengers will be able to travel in the main Rose Queen carraige, no late entries or additional passengers will be accepted!

The main theme of the carnival is Knights Templar. There will be a medieval re-enactment organisation present at the carnival. They will be performing in the main arena and they will also have a small en-campment with tents, displays and artifacts for visitors to interact with

The main carnival field will be on the right handside as normal, it will contain the fairground, stalls, food refreshments, donkey rides, horse and trap rides, childrens face painter/entertainer and much more.

This side of the field will also house the main showground - arena and stage for live demonstrations - performances. Seating will be provided around the arena along with the licensed Bar area again which will have a more varied selection of beverages this year, due to it's success last year.

The left handside of the park will house another vintage vehicle rally/display. Due to it's success last year, around 60 vintage vehicles are being sort to attend, including vintage buses.

This side of the park also, will be home to the Birds of Prey display.

Heather Charles, the Hale Heritage Champion has organised the making of several large Lancahsire Red Rose emblems, these will be on display either at the park gates/entrance or around the carnival field on the day. Due to it's success last year, she has also organised the Birds Of Prey display to attend - the same as last year. Depending with space on the field, this will also be on the left handside, infront of the vintage vehicles.

Applications for stall-holders and vendors will be going out or will be available soon, for those who wish to have a stall. There is a limit again, on the number of "Tombola" stalls, this is limited at two!

To enable the carnival to take part/function each year, there will be the usual tariff/admittance on the gate, and a raffle with prizes donated from local village and regional businesses. Along with various Grants and Good - Will Donations, this contributes to the year on year management of the carnival, to pay for rides, entertainers, H&S/Insurance, Security and other accessories.

Further attractions are being sort or are currently under negotiation to attend.

We envisage a further update of carnival news will happen, in the next couple of months.