Thank You and The Winners are…

Despite the arrival of the ‘much needed’ rain and the closure of the road over the bridge, we had a hugely successful weekend at the Nicholls Hall in Lydford. We’re delighted to tell you that we raised a combined £827.35 from our event. This amount includes nearly £100 raised by the scarecrow trail.

Of course it takes a whole village to make a successful event, so we have a large number of people to thank. Firstly a huge thank you to all the volunteers who worked so hard serving, cooking and baking delicious cream teas, breakfast butties and drinks. Our thanks also go to the artists who exhibited their work and stewarded the art exhibition, Ian Vanstone for taking part with his stall and to those involved in planning and set up and those who helped with the scarecrow workshop earlier in the month.

We are also hugely appreciative of the large number of people who visited the hall to enjoy our edible offerings and browse the art. The event would have been nothing without you and it was wonderful to see so many of you there.

And last, but definitely not least, to the Scarecrow Trail. We were absolutely blown away by the imagination, creativity and work done by those who entered. We had over 30 scarecrows appear in the village, which created a fabulous atmosphere, a lot of smiles and some confusion amongst the tourists. Thank you to all of you who made them, every scarecrow makes the trail ever better.

We’d also like to say thank you to everyone who braved the weather to follow the trail and vote for their favourites. Almost everyone’s scarecrow garnered at least one vote and in the end it was a close run contest. But who were the winners?

First place went to the wonderful Twitts made by the Butler family. They were a fabulous creation with so much attention to detail and who doesn’t love a man with a manky fried egg stuck in his twiggy beard? As their prize the Butlers will be enjoying Sunday Lunch for two at the Castle Inn, but they haven’t told me if the Twits will be joining them.

In contrast to the Twits, our second place winner was the beautiful Ariel, The Little Mermaid, created by Sarah Foster. A truly beautiful scarecrow, particularly loved for her sparkliness by many of the little girls following the trail. Sarah will soon be enjoying the voucher she has won for the Dartmoor Inn.

The children’s prize was won by the delightful The Long John Silver scarecrow complete with parrot on his shoulder and a chest of gold.

And finally thank you to The Castle Inn and The Dartmoor Inn for generously donating the scarecrow competition prizes.

With thanks and best wishes from The Nicholls Hall Team