The Battle of Nantwich is sponsored by:
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The Co-Operative Membership |
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Nantwich Town Council |
With special acknowledgements to: |
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Joseph Heler Cheese |
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Chatwins - confectioners of distinction |
...and last but by no means least
Holly 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. Business sponsors and advertisers are always welcome!
The current Holly Holy Day Society members are Keith Cafferty (Chairman), Shaun Cafferty (Vice Chairman) Cllr Graham Fenton (Secretary/Treasurer), Kate Dobson (Nantwich Museum), Michael-John Parkin, and Peter Saunders. Within the Society, the Sealed Knot is represented by Colin Bissett and Jez Harper., and Rotary by Neil Brown 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 (Crewe and Nantwich Weaver) 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 programme advertisers there simply would not be the funds to stage the event in the first place., so very many thanks to all the local businesses who support us., especially our main sponsor in 2012 The Co-operative Membership. Nantwich Town Council are invariably supportive and the events and tourism folk at Cheshire East also provide invaluable help as do Nantwich Museum, while Chatwins and Joseph Heeler help us feed the troops. Cheshire Police and the Emergency Services are also hugely co-operative
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 they include John Brough, Brine Leas and Malbank Schools, Nantwich Players, X-academy, Funky Choir, Acton Nomads RUFC, Mo Waddington and Forlorn Hope, Nantwich Market, Rev. Peter Chantry and St. Mary's, Battlefield Trust, Nantwich Historical Society, Mark Wilcox our website man, The Boot and Shoe, The Oddfellows Arms, All our volunteer stewards and on the day helpers, David Williams and the Gables catering team, Nantwich Bookshop, Gareth Roberts and the Sea Cadets., and the always helpful staff of our patron Edward Timpson, MP.
Thank you to all our programme advertisers whose generous support helps fund this event: Ben Rafferty, Michael Schofield, Rob Stone, Mike Farr, Steven Burgin, Alex Russell, Shaun Cafferty, John Leach, Helen Gould, Roger Hollingsworth, Andrew Tyrer, Andrew, Graham Fenton, Judith Allman, Louise Bastow, Michael-John Parkin, Steve Lawson, Mike Doherty, Karen Hamdy, Jim Woodise, Gemma Heath, Christine Tressider, Richard Potter
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