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Diamond Jubilee Celebrations Steering Committee
Goring and Streatley's Diamond Jubilee Celebrations
2nd to 5th June 2012
February Update
As those of you who are already involved will know, for some months now, many local volunteers have been busy planning what will be Goring and Streatley’s biggest community celebrations, certainly in living memory.
Now we are in 2012, Olympics and Jubilee year, the media are starting to show an interest in how local communities are planning to celebrate the Jubilee. Our plans were picked up by BBC Radio Oxford in January, along with those of Abingdon and Banbury’s. The presenter, Phil Gayle on his Breakfast Show, particularly wanted to hear about our idea for the ‘Longest Street party in England’, spanning two counties.
The big news this month is that our application to close both Goring and Streatley High Streets, including the bridge, has been approved, in principle. We are now addressing the safety and emergency issues.
So, between Red Cross Road and Streatley traffic lights (1.0 km), we can have one long and continuous street party, joining our villages across two counties! Each of the 8 main Jubilee events on 3rd and 4th June are being organised by different local groups and each month there will be a brief update by the lead organiser. Please click on the links below for additional and up to date information.
Also, if anyone would like to attend the next Jubilee Planning Meeting to hear more, it is being held at 7.30pm on Wednesday 29 February in the Canterbury Room.
General
Communities, large and small, throughout the UK and the Commonwealth are planning their celebrations to mark 60 years of the Queen’s reign. Goring & Streatley are planning two whole days of special events to celebrate this once-in-a-life-time occasion! Please put the 2 dates in your diary now so you don’t miss it.
Encouragement and planning of celebratory events is being co-ordinated by Buckingham Palace, with local support by the County Lord Lieutenants. Here, it is Deputy Lieutenant Paul Bradstock OBE, a Goring resident, who has initiated our local planning process. A Steering & Support Committee was assembled in 2011, with representatives from both Goring and Streatley involved. Our 8 free community events will take place on 3 & 4 June 2012 (the middle 2 days of the extended 4-day national holiday). To see or download the Programme, please click here.
Many of you will remember the success of our local celebrations for the Queens’s Silver Jubilee in 1977, culminating in the spectacular “Flaming E II R” being lit on Streatley Hill and the wonderful locally made film of the whole day shown recently on BBC TV - and which is now in the BBC’s national film archive. Our 1977 film was considered by the BBC as one of the best records of local celebrations in the country and we hope to do the same in 2012. Film makers and editors please apply!
Of course, many people, clubs & societies may be planning their own individual activities and street parties to mark the occasion. If you are, please consider the alternative of joining the main, central Street Party which will be held in Goring & Streatley’s High Streets – and along the river bridge. We hope to make this the ‘longest street party in England’, so please support it by joining this memorable and potentially historic event!
See the overall Jubilee Programme of Events. For for details of the individual events and who to contact for getting involved or helping, please click on the links below:
As you can imagine, we have many volunteers who are helping organising these events and various other support groups have been busy planning for our celebrations since 2011. We could always do with more help as the time gets nearer. There are also specific people and skills we need and this current list is shown below. If you would like to help in any way, please contact me for further details.
Marshals - to help keep people safe during the events. No particular experience necessary, just a sense of responsibility and some common sense. More on Marshals.
Fundraisers and Sponsors – As every event we are planning is free to enter, the funds are needed to hire special equipment and buy certain items. All need to be generated by fundraising in one way or another. Business sponsors and personal donations will obviously be most welcome and will be recorded (if wanted) in the Souvenir Brochure and Programme which will be published before June. More on Sponsors.
People with lorries & ladders – We will need some help moving large objects around (flag poles and fencing etc) and putting up street decorations.
Handymen & women – There will be a number of practical jobs need doing (eg setting up things and putting up temporary fences and signs etc).
Finally, Her Majesty The Queen has also suggested that the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee could act as a trigger for communities to kick start a special local Jubilee project which would bring lasting benefits for the community. Ideas might range from the planting of new woodland to support for a local youth charity or any other suitable good cause.
Paul Bradstock would be particularly pleased to receive any suggestions for a project at this stage and he may be contacted:
Telephone: (01491) 873201
Emailed: deputy.lieutenant@goring-on-thames.co.uk
We look forward to seeing you there!
Kind regards,
Ron Bridle
Coordinator, Diamond Jubilee Celebrations Steering Committee
(01491) 875283
07789 871 620
diamond.jubilee@goring-on-thames.co.uk
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