planning

Just a mini blog..plans are going well for this years Fairy Fair. This one is shaping up to be extra special, we'll have visits from our favourite fairyland characters as well as some new special events..also, it's our 10th birthday party!!

More info soon, in the meantime , you can sign up to our mailing list by simply emailing newsletter@fairylandtrust.org

Birds, Birds, Birds

Winged things in all forms are very close to our hearts and at this time of year we urge you to please feed the birds! Cold weather is back and birds die if they can't get enough to eat. Our friends at the BTO (http://www.bto.org) tell us that after the cold winter last year, there were 27 percent fewer robins - so one in four robins must have died. What do robins and most other birds like ... ?

The Fairies particularly recommend Lard. It gives them lots of energy.  That's Lard with anything tasty you can put into it - like a bit of bird seed or nuts or crumbs from cake or bread, or bits of fruit, raisins, sultanas and so on. 


Then squish it into lumps about the size of a tennis ball and put it somewhere the birds can find it but where dogs can't !  Wedging it in a bush, or up a tree or squishing it flat on your bird table so it doesn't roll off, are all good.

We wish you a happy festive midwinter season, and hope you'll remember the birds.

Thanks for all your support in 2010

Fairyland Trust

P.S. All paying Supporters today received their lovely mid-winter colour newsletter with a guide on how to make a Magic Wand, an interview with our Wandmaker and advice from the Trolls, plus a progress report on all our work this past season. Paying Supporters keep us going and without them the Fairyland Trust would simply
cease to exist. If you can afford 3 pounds a month and would like to join please email fran@fairylandtrust.org. Remember all new supporters receive one of special kits for free.

Save our Forests

So, one of the things we wanted to highlight to you this week is the “Save our Forests” Campaign.

The government is getting ready for a huge sell-off of our national forests to private firms. This could mean ancient woodlands are chopped down and destroyed.

But they need to push new laws through Parliament before these plans can go ahead. That means we have time to stop them.

The campaign to “save our forests” is growing fast! with 83,000 people signing the petition. Hundreds of people have downloaded posters and leaflets from the save our forests action centre to sound the alarm.

Tens of thousands of people have  told our friends about the campaign. Now groups are springing up across the country to fight the forest sell off.

More info and the petition can be found here - do get involved and stop our forests being sold off!

http://www.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/save-our-forests#petition

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas

The nights are long and dark and Fairyland Trust workshops have wound down for the year, although the office remains busy and even though its almost 6 months away now is still a busy time.

So, we are two meetings in and are beginning to flesh out the bones of the main fair. This year will be our 10th birthday So you can expect to see some old favourites as well as some new activities and surprises... there's a lot of work to do yet but we will keep you posted.

Following our Halloween event we are now getting everything back into stores for the winter, giving them a good tidy and where needed, we clean, we fix and we mend. 

Some of you may only know us for out main fairs, but our workshops also head all over the country, so whether we are organising our workshops for other events or hosting our own events we're taking bookings, dealing with contracts, arranging volunteers, packing the van, setting up and running the workshops, promoting them, fixing mending and making, fund-raising - that is just the tip of the iceberg. All of this takes a lot of work, there is never a real quiet time for us, there is ALWAYS something to do.

Over the next week or so our volunteers can be found at at both the Downham Market light switch on (28th 10-5pm) and at Wells Christmas tide on 4th December raising some much much needed funds....we hope to see you there!

Below you will find a copy of our most recent supporters update. If you would like to join our mailing list, you can do so simply by emailing newsletter@fairylandtrust.org

Back soon

Update 26.11.10

Snow!...it can only mean one thing, yep its just 29 days until Christmas and with that in mind we wanted to give you, our lovely Fairyland supporters the first chance to take advantage of our special Christmas offer.

From today until the end of December we are have a Christmas sale on our official Fairyland Merchandise. Why not take a look at our online shop and pick up some of our innovative workshop kits...they make the perfect stocking filler. Or, why not get your hands on one of our Limited Edition Cooking for Trolls aprons – perfect for wearing whilst cooking Christmas lunch this year!

For the next few weeks, or whilst stocks last, all items marked £7.50 will be just £5.00, £10.00 kits are reduced to £7.50 and CIT Aprons just £7.50 To visit the store and take advantage of the exclusive offer, simply click here http://bit.ly/eXvnaF *

Or, for an alternative gift this Christmas, why not give the gift of Fairyland and join our supporter’s scheme. For just £36 a year our supporters scheme helps up continue the charities work, you also receive a quarterly illustrated newsletter, a FREE workshop kit and priority booking for events. 

Supporting the Fairyland Trust makes a magical difference to us and the work we do, to join, simply click the following link, complete the supporters form, send it back to us and we’ll do the rest http://bit.ly/dnON34

Now for the slushy bit, on a final note for the year we’d like to say a huge thank you for continuing to support us and our work. We receive no government funding so support from people such as yourself means a great deal.

Have a wonderful Christmas; we’ll see you in the New Year with more details of our 2011 events....Don’t forget to leave a little something under the tree for the fairies and a little something out for the birds.

Abbie