Come and have a brilliant night whilst raising funds for the club!
Following the success of last year’s event, come and jig about at the second Frome Fling!
Last year, Black Canon members displayed amazing skillz: strength, stamina, rhythm, balance and, in some cases, an interesting tartan dress-sense. Bring your mates and fill a table! Bring your long-suffering partner as a thank you for all that time you’ve been spending away biking!
Balmoral Catering will be serving up their delicious curry supper again, with a glass of wine waiting for you on arrival.
Ceilidh (pronounced kay-lee) dancing is a relaxed, informal version of Scottish country dancing. Sarah, the fiddler, will explain each dance, so everyone can join in. VJ Ultra will be adding his amazing visuals to the mix again.
Tickets are limited, so snap up early. IMPORTANT: ADD YOUR NAME TO THE THREAD ON THE FORUM TO JOIN A CLUB TABLE!
Check out the film Andrew made of last year’s event:
Each year the BCC helps to set up and pack away at this event held close to the Allotment, at Manor Farm, Corsley. Last year a few of us were lucky enough to attend the event too, and ate as much game stew as we possibly could whilst watching the play sat in the grounds of the Elizabethan manor. The evening is organised by local volunteers who do so to raise money for local charities and community organisations. So far the BCC has benefited from money towards ride Leader training, the BCC shelter and the Longleat MTB Feasibility study.So, please put the 18th and 19th June in your diaries and come along to help out, there’ll be more info on the Forum soon, but all you need to know is that they gave us all cups of tea and lush bacon butties as we worked last year…
Frome Recreation and Open Grounds Supporters (FROGS) have got through the first stage for a £50,000 grant to improve Welshmill park and the bid includes a bike track, natural play features, woodland trails, etc, but there is a lot to do before the deadline in September.
We are running a Consultation event on Saturday 21st May, because we need to hear people’s views, and also gather evidence to include in our bid.
Please come along! Bring your bikes! No hard work involved. I will put up a gazebo and be organising a few bike games involving balloons, water pistols and tightropes. The idea is to attract people to Welshmill and sample their views about what they would like to see in the space.
All help will be very welcome, so why not pop by? Fill in a questionaire! Help with the activities! Talk to people about the loveliness of biking in general and bike tracks in Frome in particular!
As I hope everyone knows the first weekend of every month sees our Dig Day. For March’s dig day (next weekend) we’re having a bit of a shuffle both in days and content:
Saturday 5th March: Day Day Away
On the Saturday it is planned that we assist Corsley Village with the installation of a pump track on their recreation ground – details to follow.
It would be great to see lots of people there helping out, both because they have helped us in the past especially through funding, and because it will be a good fun place to ride, especially for the kids of the village who will hopefully be our future members!
Sunday 6th March: Standard Dig Day
More of a standard dig day, with the focus being on expanding and improving the Dinner ’til Dusk course ahead of the event on March 27th, although it would also be brilliant if we could get ALL the downhill tracks looking groomed and perfect ahead of the summer – then every Dig Day from now on will be free to build new features, new courses and development The Allotment generally.
This will start at 09:00 and will finish when we’re done, or when it gets dark – remember food, drink, ideas and rakes.
Thanks entirely to the hard work and paper cutting skills of Andy Grace we’re very pleased to announce the first BCC 1 in 100 Lottery.
It’s pretty simple really, there’s 100 tickets, each costs £10, and once sold they’ll all be put into a “hat” then three winners will be selected at random.
First prize is £500 cash.
Second Prize is £50 Kushi Clothing vouchers.
Third Prize is £40 Batchelors Cycles service voucher.
So there’ll be some very happy winners, and best of all the club will raise £500 towards trail building activities, beans.
We’ll me making the draw at the AGM on 27th March so get yourself a book of tickets and get selling. There’ll also be a prize for the most tickets sold!
Please buy one of these awesome BCC calendars, they feature loads of great riding photos of club members and every penny goes towards helping to fund trail development activities in Longleat forest.
Have a browse through it below, then click on this link to go and place an order….it’s only £5!!!
The first ever Frome Fling went down a treat with tickets sold out and over 240 people crammed into the Cheese & Grain for an evening of lush food, great music and ceilidh dancing (oh…and a couple of drinks).
With so many people to feed (and a broken rice heater) the Balmoral Catering Co did a great job making sure that no-one went hungry. VJ Ultra did a great job too, complementing the Ceilidh with a visual treat of tartan and MTB riding to keep all the riders happy.
The evening was an excuse for a party but also an opportunity to raise some funds for the Black Canon Collective, and our chosen charity re-cycle who provide refurbished bikes to people in africa. The following people/organisations made donations to the raffle…
Sainsburys – Chocolates Homebase – Crackers Marks and Spencers – Christmas cake Millers – Voucher Longleat – One adult pass to the grounds Colin Nisbet – Bottle of malt whisky Abernathy’s – 6 x £5 vouchers Simply Pearls – Necklace Herbs on the Hill – Soap collection Amica – Body wash & lotion AVC – £45 bike service, and a £15 voucher Halfords – £10 voucher Marjory Hatvany – Bicycle horn, basket & some groceries. Black Canon Collective – 2 x BCC T shirts Cobble Wobble – 2010 Cobble Wobble Ltd edition poster and T shirt
…which sold out a book of 1000 tickets (at £1 for strip of 5 tickets) raising £200 for re-cycle!
Thanks to Colin Nisbet (the brother of organiser Marjory Hatvany) who did the “MC” stuff for the evening, he looked very nice in his full dress kilt but I heard that he had it on back to front all evening!
Also, thanks to Marjory’s niece Lindsey and Colin’s wife Hilary Nisbet who did loads of the flower arranging. Poor Lindsey had torn ligaments on Thurs by standing on a hockey ball and was stuck with crutches and sitting down all night – poor girl.
The Little Biggar Band were without a doubt the highlight of the evening, having travelled down especially to treat us all to their authentic Ceilidh music. Most of the band drove back up to Scotland on Sunday morning and beat the snow, but Linda (the bass player) didn’t get home until Monday night; Edinburgh airport was closed on Sunday, so she ended up hiring a car and having to drive up and through a blizzard on Monday!!
Big thanks to Rachael Campbell Smith for designing the poster, to Poppy Waterhouse and Leah Hamilton who sold raffle tickets, to Live2ride and the Cheese & grain for selling tickets and to all those who helped set up and pack away.
Most of all though a massive thank you to marjory Hatvany who lovingly organised the whole thing and did a brilliant job!
Thanks finally to everyone who came and took part, with the first event being such a success we’re keen to hold the Frome Fling every year so look out for details of the 2011 event around November time…
Make sure you have bought your tickets by noon on Wednesday 24th if you want to have the supper included! It’s going to be a great night!!! [Click on the poster to go to the online shop so that you can buy tickets].
What’s a Ceilidh? well first of all you don’t say it like that, it’s “Kay-Lay”…there, that’s it.
Right, well it’s like barn-dancing, just better. It brings everyone together (any age) to have brilliant fun and best of all there are no dancing skill required – just enthusiasm! I’ve managed to get The Little Biggar Band to play / call which is really exciting – they’re amazing musicians from my home-town in Scotland, so it’s a great chance to enjoy authentic, traditional Scottish ceilidh music at its best, complete with jigs and the reels. Oh, and there’s even delicious hot supper included in the ticket-price to provide you with all the energy you could need [only if tickets have been purchased before 12:00 noon, 24/11/2010].
The evening has been organised as an excuse for a party but also to raise some money for the club so that we can get closer to building those lovely single-track trails we all dream of at our allotment in Longleat.
Aside from dancing, wearing tartan and drinking Iron-Bru we’ll also be holding a raffle in aid of Re-cycle; a charity which collects secondhand bicycles and ships them to Africa. Their partners distribute bikes and teach riders the skills to repair and maintain them as affordable transport. The bikes also help health/AIDS workers reach remote villages and even provide an ambulance service in remote Namibia – it’s a wonderful cause.
The venue capacity is between 300-400 and tickets have been selling fast so buy yours now to avoid disappointment and guarantee a plate of supper (just click on the image to be taken to the shop). Oh and the event is open to everyone, so bring your nan!
