Hello Over! I’m sure you have seen us advertise on Facebook and posters around the village. We are a small group and we need your help in raising funds for the carnival next year! The harsh reality is that if we cannot get enough raised then the carnival next year may not be able to happen as rising costs across all sectors is making the carnival more expensive to put on every time. Our current fundraising event is a ‘Music Bingo’ night on the 18th October at 7PM at Over Community Centre. Tickets are only £10 and that gets you into the event and all the main games, we will…

What a wonderful event the lights were last night! We just want to thank every single person that came out to not only support us, Over Community Festivals, but supporting all the stall holders. We would like to thank all the stall holders for coming to our event, Santa, Elsa and Sprinkles the elf for helping making the event even more fun for the children and the food vendors, who by the way were selling some truely amazing food! Coming to events like this are not only good for the community but it helps local businesses and helps to raise funds so that we can continue to put the lights…

The Over Community Festivals Committee would like to thank the following individuals and organisations, without whose help and support the event wouldn’t happen, as well as all the volunteers over the weekend who helped to set up the event, take it down and clear up afterwards. We hope you all enjoyed the event, which was a real celebration of the talented and generous people of Over! Please give a big round of applause to: Over Parish Council for their supportOver Community Centre for hosting our meetingsOver Methodist Church for allowing us to sell programmes & raffle tickets at the coffee morningOver News for promoting the eventOver Primary School for their…

Thank you to everyone who helped to make the carnival such a success and supported the event in any way. More thank yous to follow over the next few days. We appreciate all the positive feedback we’ve received, hearing how much you all enjoyed it. What a celebration of the great village of Over.

Over Carnival 13th July 2024 overvillagecarnival@gmail.com Less than a week to the Over Carnival! The committee is getting excited now. New this year: we are going to be selling reusable branded pint glasses at the Carnival at the bars and also at the Control Tent – in order to try and reduce the amount of single use plastic at the event. These are £2 each and can be returned to us at the end of the night when you can get your money back but we hope that some people would like to keep them for other occasions. Please note that because we are running this as a deposit system…

Over Carnival 13th July 2024overvillagecarnival@gmail.com Carnival Programmes and Raffle tickets will be on Sale:Saturday 29th June 8 until 12, outside the shop.Saturday 6th July 10 until 12 at the Methodist, book, coffee and cake cafe.Please do come and see us. The Over Carnival Team would like your help, please:Friday 12th July. We will be in the Green from 8am. We could do with as many volunteers as possible to help with putting up fencing and marquees. If you can help, we would be so pleased to see you.Programme, door to door. Can you help selling programmes and raffle tickets where you live? Please make contact. Let’s see if we can…

The Over Community Festivals committee has been working hard to create a fun-packed day on the village green on Saturday 13 July.  We are delighted to be celebrating local talent this year and are hugely grateful to everyone involved and all the incredibly generous local businesses and individuals who are sponsoring the event or sharing their expertise.  We are saving a few surprises till the day but here are some of the highlights you can look forward toFrom 1pm: the “Over Olympics – Sport Around the World” Grand Fancy Dress Parade on the green with fabulous prizes to be won. Please get involved – as a group or a family. More details to follow.Food &…

Over Community Festivals end of year round up This year…. It’s been a busy year for our group of volunteers. We were thrilled to bring you the ‘Over Lights switch on’ which saw an huge amount of the village turn out to enjoy the event. We would like to again thank our sponsors and everyone who helped make the event as successful as it was: AB Construction Cambs and PJB Build Ltd for sponsoring the tree.Regent Construction Cambridge Ltd for the fencing around the tree.Ralph Design Limited for all design work.Ponders Travel for sponsoring the hamper raffle.Happy Hens Childcare for sponsoring the sweet giveaway.Chris Day, Graham Fenn, Colin Ambrose and…