Welcome to the Marehay Village Show 2009 website, Ripley, Derbyshire

Following the success of last year's show, Marehay Show 2009 is all set to take place on Saturday 5th September at three venues around the village; The Miners Welfare on Derby Road, Marehay Chapel on Warmwells Lane and The Kestrel at the top of Upper Marehay Road. Our ambitions last year to hold the show on Marehay Recreation Ground have been dampened, literally, by the ground's drainage problem. We are now campaigning to get this improved so that Marehay villagers have a ground they can make good use of all year round, and hopefully in the future we can use this as the venue for the annual show.

Last year we raised £1000 for charity - £500 was donated to Breast Cancer Care and £500 to the local Marehay Chapel. This year we are splitting proceeds three ways - to the British Heart Foundation’s local appeal ‘The Heart of Derby’, local hospice Maple Leaf House for those with Alzheimer’s and dementia, and to start a fund to help develop improvements to Marehay Recreation Ground – something which all Marehay villagers can then benefit from in years to come. All of these were suggested at the AGM open meeting earlier this year.

This year we have a new competition schedule with new classes as well the old favourites. We had an incredible number of entries last year which far exceeded our expectations, especially as last year’s show was the first of its kind for over 30 years. Thank you to everyone who supported the show last September and please support us again this year. If you didn’t enter a class in 2008, do take a look at the new schedule, you never know, something might just take your fancy! All entries are very welcome, great and small, however, a high level of last minute show entries last year caused great problems for the stewards and we ask that if possible you get your entry forms in before the 30th August deadline. Entries on the day will only be allowed if space permits.

Marehay Show 2008