What to do now the 2011 Fair is over

Thank you for making 2011 the biggest and best Mill Road Winter Fair yet. There are four simple ways for you to help right now, even though this year's Fair is over, to help ensure that the Fair will happen again on the first Saturday in December in 2012 - and one last small thing you can do all year:

• Come along to the 2012 Mill Road Winter Fair AGM at 7pm on Thursday 22 March at Mill Road Baptist Church.
• Send us your feedback and comments so that next year's Fair is even better.
• Make a donation to help make up our 2011 budget deficit. 
• Send us any photos you took at the Fair for our 2011 Photo Gallery. Audio and video too.
• Visit Mill Road again and buy almost anything you could need in our wonderful independent shops.

Feedback and comments

We value your opinion! What did you enjoy most about the Fair? Is there something we could have done better? Share your views via this website so we can keep improving and also to support our funding applications for next year's Fair. Click on the left for an easy form to fill out.

Make a donation

It was brilliant to have the whole of Mill Road closed for this year's Fair but unfortunately this did cost a considerable amount. We love it that no-one has to pay to come to the Fair, that performers contribute their talent for free and that local stallholders don't have to pay an enormous amount to be able to take part. This all helps maintain the feeling of the Fair as a local community event and keep things sustainable. And we are truly grateful to our major sponsors and for the great co-operation and support from County and City councils. But, in the current economic climate, grant-funding is harder to come by and, although we are relieved to be able to say that the 2011 Fair just about broke even, we do have funding challenges.  So please make a donation be it large or small. Click on the left for details of where to send your money.

Send us your photos

As well as providing a record of the day, photos are a vital way for us to promote the Fair. Photos are essential for the website, and to back up grant applications to potential funders, particularly for people who haven't actually been to the Fair yet. And the Photo Gallery is the most popular page on the website during the rest of the year. We like colour photos best and in landscape orientation rather than portrait. Don't worry about exact sizes. We will crop them if necessary. Click on the left for more details about how and where to send photos.

Visit Mill Road

Those of us who live on, or just off, Mill Road are lucky to be able to pop into our local shops everyday.  If you live a bit further away do make the effort to come back to Mill Road to make use of our local shops and businesses. Mill Road shops offer an incredible range of goods and services and you will find shopkeepers just as friendly and helpful on any day of the year. Even though the special offers for the Fair won't be available any more, you can look at the Shops category in the Events listings to remind yourself of which shops are where and how you might make use of what they offer.