PAST EVENTS

Having been postponed from June 2020, we were delighted that our Open Gardens event took place this year. We had a beautiful sunny day, showing off our lovely gardens at their very best.  The village was thronged with a record number of visitors, all enjoying the rare opportunity to get out and about.  For the village, it was truly memorable after such a difficult year with Covid 19. For many of us, it was the first opportunity to meet friends and neighbours for over a year.

The day was such a success that we even ran out of cake, tickets and programmes!

Our takings were just over £3000 - an amazing result and it will help us make a significant donation to the church clock appeal.

As our Chair, Emma Stopford said:

'On behalf of The Friends of All Saints Grayswood I would like to thank you for your part in the fantastic Grayswood Open Gardens 2021.  Your collective help and contributions, whether it was opening your beautiful gardens,  helping to direct visitors in the gardens, sharing your beautiful classic cars, baking cakes, nurturing and preparing plants and helping set up and man the stalls made it such a success.   I know a huge amount of time and effort went into making it a perfect day.  I am sure that everyone would like to thank Pauline Lamb and Janet Dallas for organising us all and making sure the event ran smoothly. Many others were helping behind the scenes and it isn’t possible to thank everyone individually, but it truly was a team effort!

It was wonderful to see so many visitors from the village and as far afield as London on such a sunny day .  We sold 391 tickets and there were many children too so we must have had well over 400 people enjoying a tour of the gardens, indulging in home made cakes and choosing plants to take home as a memento of the day. '

We look forward to our next Open Gardens event in 2023. In the meantime, please enjoy these gorgeous photos of the day, taken by Roberta Summerfield.