Friends At Balfour

Our Christmas Fair is on Saturday 14th December (2-5pm) and is our biggest fundraiser… but it is only possible if we have help. There are many flexible slots to suit any type of weekend or evening commitments – from setting up on the Friday evening, or Saturday morning, to helping on a stall and helping us clear up on the Sunday morning…. It honestly takes a small army of volunteers!

As per usual tradition, we have allocated stalls to KS1 classes and need the rest of the school community to pull together to fill the other volunteer activities.

Please use the links below to sign up easily online.

Before the event
Christmas Tombola Donation Collection (Friday 29th November)
https://volunteersignup.org/EKBY7

Cake Donations and Forgotten Tombola (Friday 13th December)
https://volunteersignup.org/RDEQA

Mulled Wine Preparation (Friday 13th December)
https://volunteersignup.org/9DDK4

Roll Cutting (Friday 13th December)
https://volunteersignup.org/PJWAA

Evening Set up Friday (13th December from 5pm)
https://volunteersignup.org/YC9H9

Saturday morning Set Up (14th December from 9am)
https://volunteersignup.org/ELKQ7

After the event
Saturday Evening Clear up (14th December 5pm to 7pm)
https://volunteersignup.org/KEEED

Sunday morning Clear Up (15th December from 10am)
https://volunteersignup.org/H7WYJ

During the event
Christmas Marshals https://volunteersignup.org/JQHA7

Christmas FAB Desk https://volunteersignup.org/XMKC4

Christmas Bar https://volunteersignup.org/JYXA9

Christmas Face Painting https://volunteersignup.org/PATLH

Festive Glitter https://volunteersignup.org/4FQBK

Christmas Food Serving https://volunteersignup.org/DCH39

Candyfloss https://volunteersignup.org/99J74

Christmas Kids Tombola https://volunteersignup.org/QFFJF

Crafts – Badge Making https://volunteersignup.org/48LTY

Crafts – Christmas Eve Plates https://volunteersignup.org/HPD3F

Crafts – Christmas Tree decorations https://volunteersignup.org/93EMR

Crafts – Christmas Tree decorations https://volunteersignup.org/93EMR

Christmas Games Stall 1 https://volunteersignup.org/KWMWR

Christmas Games Stall 2 https://volunteersignup.org/PJELK

Cakes and Mince Pies https://volunteersignup.org/BPJ3P

The Grinch’s Cave https://volunteersignup.org/AQ73H

Santa’s Grotto https://volunteersignup.org/KAWCP

The sun shone for us at the Summer Fair on 6th July which certainly helped us all enjoy the afternoon’s activities to the max!

We want to say a massive thank you again to all the volunteers – over 150 of you – and to all our guests and anyone else who helped raise money towards the FAB fundraising.

Special thanks to Higgidy who provided products to sell on the Food stall.  Also to all our Raffle and Silent Auction donators.  If you own or work for a company who can donate a prize for future fairs, please let us know.

“No one can do everything, but everyone can do something”

Friends At Balfour’s Annual Summer Fair including: inflatables, inflatables and more inflatables …

This year we have a 70ft inflatable extreme obstacle course, a bungee run, a disco dome, gladiator duel, an inflatable slide and of course a good old fashioned bouncy castle… actually shaped like a castle!! 😉

Not mentioning… the ponies, great entertainment including Balfour’s Got Talent, various fair stalls, a great choice of food, candy floss
and a bar serving Pimms and much more…

Important dates to remember…

Friday 28th June: Tombola donations
Adult’s tombola (wine, chocolate, smellies, unwanted gifts) &
Kid’s tombola (new toys, books & games).

Friday 5th July: Cake & Finger Food donations
(bought or homemade)
Cuddly toys (clean old cuddly toys)

We need your help to run this massive event! If you can help in any way then please sign up to any of the tasks below– it’s really simple you just need to click the link, chose a slot, type your name and enter your email address.

Kids can help out with you on all the stalls except on the Bar, the Food and Candy Floss Stalls. Kids can also come along to help set up the fair in the morning or tidy away at the end… but usually they just run around the field like lunatics – but as long as they are happy and don’t get in the way we don’t mind!! 😉

Thank you

Year Group Tea Towels… here’s a first glance at the proofs for the tea towels!!!
Details will be out in book bags next week and they can be ordered from now online via

https://www.ticketor.com/friendsatbalfour/

A new event for FAB… A Saturday afternoon movie showing of The Greatest Showman… dress up, sing along and have lots of fun!

The film will be shown in the KS2 Sports Hall…. doors open at 3pm.

Refreshments will be available to purchase on the day.

Tickets costs £5.50 per person and there are only 150 available!
A child must be accompanied by a paying adult – so the minimum purchase is two tickets – and we are allowing up to 3 kids per adult.

Support the school’s fundraising and have some fun!

Tickets are available via https://www.ticketor.com/friendsatbalfour/tickets/movie-afternoon

FAB event dates for your diaries for the Summer Term

On Saturday 18th May Balfour will be participating in the Brighton Artists Open House festival. The school will be showcasing art created by our children across both sites. For more information on the festival, check out their website: https://aoh.org.uk

Later on in the Summer term on Saturday 6th July is our annual Summer Fair – a massive fundraiser for FAB. We have lots of exciting activities, stalls, food and drinks for the whole family to enjoy. These events can’t be held without the significant help of our school community, so if you can help in the run up, set up, during the event or clearing away, make a note in your diary and the online sign up links will be available soon.