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Brass, Big Band & Broadway Tunes Draw Crowds at 2018 Prescot Festival

The Prescot Festival is celebrating another successful year, with 1,600 through the doors for 10 days of arts and music.

To mark 100 years since the end of World War One, the festival aimed to secure 100 singers for a performance of Fauré’s celebrated Requiem—but over 120 performers from across the North West turned out for the occasion, making it the biggest ‘Come & Sing’ choir in the festival’s 13-year history.

Audiences were treated to an array of different genres and art forms, from poetry to painting, and from brass bands to big bands.

As well as Prescot debut acts such as Wingates Band, the programme saw the return of several festival favourites, including Swingshift Big Band, Haydock Male Voice Choir and Wirral-based musical theatre company BOST.

A blisteringly hot Sunday 24 June saw thousands in the town for the Prescot Carnival before the festival closed in the evening with a Proms-style finale featuring the Maghull Wind Orchestra, who turned 40 this year.

“Thank-you to everyone whose efforts made our fourteenth annual festival such a success,” said founder and artistic director Dr Robert Howard. “It’s only made possible because of the joyous and generous community spirit shown by our volunteers, performers, sponsors and audiences.”

The team are already busily preparing for next year’s festival, as well as events later this year, including a WWI remembrance concert on Friday 9 November, with special guests Parr Band.

Click the link to read the thank you letter from Willowbrook Hospice following a donation of £1000 given by Cllr Jennifer Chadwick – The Mayor of Prescot 2017/18.

Willowbrook Hospice thank you letter

The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation received a donation of £1000 from the Mayor of Prescot for 2017/18 – Cllr Jennifer Chadwick.

Please find below the recognition certificate we have received.

Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation – fundraising certificate

Image courtesy of www.stevesamosaphotography.com

Sunday 24^th June truly was a day for breaking records, in the six years since Prescot Carnival was re-established this years was by far the best attended. So much so that you would barely have known we were competing with a record breaking World Cup performance from the England football team.

A bit of shake up to the programme saw the introduction of death-defying 30 ft zip line, awesome climbing wall, Neos touch pad and cannon ball tent to the bottom field. Whilst the top field retained the ever popular array of inflatables, rodeo bull and bungie runner, new additions included 8 ft Zorbs and Zoo2U animal display.

All of the activities and attractions above were provided completely free of charge with the exception of the zip wire which was heavily subsidised by the Town Council with visitors paying around 30% of the normal cost.

Other attractions on the day included a wide variety of trader, community and information stalls, all of whom commented on the success of the event. In a new addition to the Carnival the Friends of KGV Brown’s Field and Carr Lane were on hand to provide tea and coffee and a beat the goalie stall. The proceeds from which will be reinvested in the park for the benefit of others in the future. The main arena saw performances from Knowsley Music & Performing Arts Service Street Band, who coincidently provided a cracking sound track to the Mayor’s Parade earlier on, the theme to Rocky always being a crowd pleaser. Other performances came from Prescot’s Got Talent Winner Charlotte Codack, Freshco Crew Breakdancing and Shine Gospel Choir.

One of the Town Council’s main aims is to help foster a sense of community within the Town. We hope by retaining the tradition of providing an annual Carnival that we in some way meet this goal. Prescot is one of the last town’s in the local area to retain this type of event, particularly on such a scale and perhaps the only one to offer so many free activities, we really hope by doing this we can provide everybody in the town with the opportunity to attend the event and enjoy a good family day out at the Prescot Carnival.

Town Council letter of appreciation

Please click the link to see the list of winners from the Mayor of Prescot’s Raffle at Prescot Carnival on Sunday.

Mayor of Prescot’s Charity Raffle Winners

PRESCOT CARNIVAL
THIS SUNDAY
12.00PM – 4.00PM
BROWNS FIELD, WOOD LANE

Come along for a fun day with lot’s of FREE activities to try.

Don’t forget to visit the Prescot Town Council stall for information on the Town Council, room hire, Love Prescot and to enter the Mayor of Prescot’s Charity Raffle. Some of the prizes on offer include:

Knowsley Safari Park – Family Entrance Ticket
M. Rays – full afternoon tea for two people
The Bard Micropub – £20 drinks voucher
MATE Productions – Treasure Island Family ticket
Poco Coffee Shop – Afternoon tea for three people
Station Coffee House – Afternoon tea for two people x 2 prizes
Tesco Prescot – biscuits, toys and various other items

Please note there will be no onsite parking.

Confirmation of the dates of the period for the exercise of public rights

Having read Mr Goodman’s article, it is undeniable that Prescot is hurting from the effects of the Central Government austerity policy as are many other areas. This Government’s austerity policy has led to some of the less palatable local policies such as the proposed sale of green spaces.

Prescot Town Council has worked hard with local residents to develop and propose an alternative plan that would retain the Town’s greenspaces. The loss of such a free public amenity is an extremely important issue and we hope that our alternatives are given consideration by Knowsley Council in any fourth-coming decisions regarding this subject.

It is however our opinion that Mr Goodman’s article has overlooked the many positive aspects of our town’s development and regeneration, such as the addition of the new Shakespeare North theatre which is a considerable investment and has already started to reinvigorate the Town. There is a positive feel in Prescot with new investment in other local amenities such as a Restaurant, Hotel, micro pub, new Fire and Police Station and public realm improvements which will complement our existing infrastructure.

For the record Prescot still has a Library and Museum in Prescot in a centrally located venue.

Prescot Town Council has recently worked with a host of partners including, Knowsley Council, to relaunch the ‘Love Prescot’ website which will showcase all that is great about our town, and we expect to launch this at the Annual Prescot Carnival on 24th June 2018.

Cllr Stephen Pimblett – Leader of Prescot Town Council