The Battle of Nantwich
Event Sponsors
The Co-Operative Membership
Cheshire East Council
Nantwich Town Council
Chatwins - confectioners of distinction
Alvaston Hall Hotel
Residence bar and restaurant
Acknowledgements
Joseph Heler
Joseph Heler Cheese web siteHolly Holy Day celebrations survive each year mainly through the efforts of The Holly Holy Day Society, a small non-profit group of people working with Sealed Knot and Rotary to raise the funds and organise the event itself- no small feat as you will appreciate. Help is required throughout the year (we usually have a planning meeting once a month), and of course on the day itself where we need every pair of hands we can get! If you have enjoyed today's Holly Holy Day and would like to do your bit to see it continue, please consider either bringing your skills to the Society at the monthly meetings or registering as a 'January volunteer' - someone willing to help with the small essential jobs in the build up to the event and with the Holly Holy Day activities themselves. For more information, email us from the website or leave your details with Nantwich Town Council so we can contact you.
The current Holly Holy Day Society members are Shaun Cafferty (Chairman), Cllr Graham Fenton (Secretary/Treasurer), Cllr Keith Cafferty, Toby Banfield, Allison Kirk, Michael-John Parkin, and Simone Cafferty. Within the Society, the Sealed Knot is represented by Colin Bissett and Jez Harper and Rotary by Peter Saunders, Mark Schofield and Roger Badman. All of these individuals have given up considerable amounts of their personal time without reward to ensure that the local Nantwich community continues to have a Holly Holy Day to enjoy and to bring us all together, and they should be thanked for their efforts.
Rotary and the Sealed Knot are helpful at every turn - much more than simply turning up and performing on the day, and without the sponsors and advertisers there simply would not be the funds to stage the event in the first place. Cheshire East and Nantwich Town Council are invariably supportive. Events like this also have other more unsung heroes; citizens and business people who have just contributed what they could through some kind or generous act or a helping hand along the way. Inevitably we can hardly name them all, but at the time of going to press they included John Brough, Brine Leas and Malbank Schools, Nantwich Players, X-academy, Mo Waddington and Forlorn Hope, Nantwich Market, Rev. Peter Chantry and St. Mary's, Battlefield Trust, Mark Wilcox, Malbank Hotel, The Boot and Shoe, The Oddfellows, Natraj Indian Restaurant, Agricultural Machinery, Melvyn Reynolds, Poole's Carriages, Kevin Atkins and all our volunteer stewards, Joseph Heler, Chatwins, Kallkwik, Barbara Cafferty and her Kitchen Team, Nantwich Bookshop, the Museum, Mark Worrall for designing and putting this programme together AND THE HORSE SUPPLIERS.
