Looking forward to seeing you at the following events: Easter Bonnet Parade – Sunday 8th April May Day Fete – Sunday 6th May May Day Duck Race – Monday 7th May Diamond Jubilee Torchlight Procession – Monday 4th June Thanksgiving Day Civil War Re-enactment – Saturday 16th June Regatta and Carnival Week – 4th – [...]
Are you a keen and budding volunteer? We’ve on the lookout for people to help with the Lyme Regis Carnival events in 2012… What’s involved? Carnival Week is very busy, long, action packed 10 days in August. The early team starts setting up from around 07:30, daytime events generally start around 10:00 through until 17:00 [...]
Some diary dates for 2012 – Fireworks 2012 Lyme Regis Carnival Week 2012
The fifth Lyme Regis Christmas Tree Festival was held in the Lyme Regis Baptist Church from Tuesday 13th to Saturday 17th December. Local organisations decorated a Christmas Tree to reflect their organisation. The Festival was open between 10.30 – 18.00 each day with an extension until 20.00 on Friday (This coincided with the ‘Late Night [...]
The Lyme Regis Regatta and Carnival Committee are pleased to announce that they have been able to donate £10,200 to 38 local good causes. We believe that this is the largest sum we have been able to donate in any one year. The following good causes are being given donations: Christmas Lights Coastguard Father Christmas [...]
Looking forward to seeing you at the following events:
Easter Bonnet Parade – Sunday 8th April
May Day Fete – Sunday 6th May
May Day Duck Race – Monday 7th May
Diamond Jubilee Torchlight Procession – Monday 4th June
Thanksgiving Day Civil War Re-enactment – Saturday 16th June
Regatta and Carnival Week – 4th – 12th August
Candles on the Cobb – Sunday 26th August
Bonfire Night – Saturday November 3rd
Christmas Tree Festival – 18th – 22nd December
Are you a keen and budding volunteer?
We’ve on the lookout for people to help with the Lyme Regis Carnival events in 2012…
What’s involved? Carnival Week is very busy, long, action packed 10 days in August. The early team starts setting up from around 07:30, daytime events generally start around 10:00 through until 17:00 then evening events from 19:00 until 21-22:00. Needless to say, you can’t do it all, it’s quite ok to choose a bit here and there.
You can help or run, one or more events to suit what time you can give. Have a look at last years event reports and timetable for some inspiration!
Got an idea for an event? We’d be pleased to hear from you – send us an email from this website
Have you experience with running large/public events or want to get involved in running things a bit more? There’s always a spare chair at our committee meetings…
Marketing and publicity – we update our website and social media around 400 times a year, if you’d like to contribute articles for the site, have experience managing social media, web promotion or have the skills to author web apps, IOS and Android apps, please do get in touch.
One last thing, its all voluntary – we don’t employ anyone because every spare penny we raise goes towards our local good causes
Thank you and we look forward to hearing from you - send us an email from this website
The Lyme Regis Christmas Tree Festival 2011
The fifth Lyme Regis Christmas Tree Festival was held in the Lyme Regis Baptist Church from Tuesday 13th to Saturday 17th December. Local organisations decorated a Christmas Tree to reflect their organisation. The Festival was open between 10.30 – 18.00 each day with an extension until 20.00 on Friday (This coincided with the ‘Late Night in Lyme’ shopping events). Saturday opening hours were 10.30 until 14.00. There were 26 decorated trees.
Come and see this festive sight in the special atmosphere of the Lyme Regis Baptist Church. Directions to the Baptist Church
The Lyme Regis Regatta and Carnival Committee are pleased to announce that they have been able to donate £10,200 to 38 local good causes. We believe that this is the largest sum we have been able to donate in any one year.
The following good causes are being given donations:
Chairman of the Regatta and Carnival Committee, Teresa Evemy, said,
“We have had a very successful year organising six events as well as the eighty events during Regatta and Carnival Week. We have been able to respond to requests from local good causes and have been able to include several new ones this year.
We have now been able to donate locally over £60,000 in the last ten years.
My committee and I have worked hard to minimise the costs of our events and have tried to make them accessible to as many people as possible.
Once again we are indebted to local businesses who so have supported us and to the many people from Lyme who have helped us with events and collections. We are already enthusiastically planning next year’s events but sadly our committee numbers are dwindling – there are only six of us left – and we really could do with some help next year. If you can help please contact secretary Alan Vian.”
After a successful year the Regatta and Carnival Committee are inviting local good causes to make requests for donations. Interested organisations should detail how they would spend any money donated to them. Requests should be made before November 30th.
UPDATE: The donation requests have now been processed. We expect to announce the beneficiary organisations on the website and local press on 14/12/11 – the announcement is here
Thanks to everyone who helped make this event such a success. We estimate that there was a crowd of over 7000 people watching a great firework display facilitated by Euphoria. Seeing the moon through the firework display over the expanse of Lyme Bay added to the magic of the evening. The bonfire, constructed with the help of the Lyme Regis Town Council Staff, the Football Club, the Harbourmaster and other volunteers, soon blazed away under a cloudless night sky. It was lit by the Mayor of Lyme Regis, Councillor Sally Holman accompanied by the Mayoress and four councillors. It is great to have so much support from our councillors! Thanks to Lyme Regis Pre-School Guy Fawkes sat astride the bonfire (thanks Travis Perkins & View from Lyme for the many pallets delivered to us) – it was a terrific Guy! The bonfire burnt until the small hours and when we arrived to clear it up at 08.00 there were only ashes remaining. Thanks to the Gig Club and other loyal volunteers the beach was cleared by 09.00.
Thank you too, to the thirty collectors (a record number) who collected over £2000 which covered the costs of the evening and to those of you who generously made a donation.
There was a great atmosphere in Lyme Regis on Saturday. People came from many towns and villages within a thirty mile radius. As one visitor said, ” we always come to Lyme for the fireworks and the bonfire on the beach – there is nowhere else like it for the atmosphere and the organisation.” We also met people who had chosen to have a short break staying in Lyme Regis especially because it was bonfire night.
We enjoyed reading comments from the online community on Twitter (@lymecarnival) and the pictures posted on Facebook (lyme regis). Thanks for posting them.
Bonfire night next year will be on Saturday November 3rd 2012 – book the date because it will be another great night in Lyme.
A date for your diary…
Lyme Regis Regatta & Carnival Week returns 4th-12th August 2012
We hope that you will join us for fun and events for all the family
If you’d also like to join us for fireworks, there are plenty of opportunities in 2012! Fireworks 2012
