AWBS Holiday and Craft Fayre

Applications have now closed for our 2012 event. Thank you to everyone for your interest.

For those invitees who have yet to post their contract,  it is available here:  click here for the Word version and click here for the PDF version.

Please note, expressions of interest are no longer accepted.

American Women of Berkshire and Surrey

2011 Holiday Craft and Gift Fayre

£11,631 will be distributed nex month (May, 2012)  to Berkshire and Surrey charities.

The Fayre in the Local Press

Ascot Matters - story on the Fayre opening, our record attendance  and some of our fabulous vendors and charities.

Photo and story on the Fayre from the Bracknell News Friday 28 October.

Ascot Matters - photo and story week beginning 24 October.

Reading Post - Thursday 29 September

• the London 2012 Olympics licensee Bombki with handmade glass ornaments
• Plate Tableware Contemporary & stylish kitchenware & tabletop gifts, recently voted a favourite favourite shop of shopping Buy and Beyond (The Definitive Online Buyers' Directory) and identified by Elle Décor magazine as a 'Hot Shop'
  
• GOLFMISSION offering a simple, on-course training aid recently voted Product of the Year - Best Training Aid 2011 by Golf-Europe, a panel of European PGAs
• SilverTribe Delivering the best of everything local: Striving to deliver your favourite local restaurant's food to your door within an hour
• Alison van der Lande with luxurious, classic and colourful bags just shown at the annual BCC Fashion Show at Grosvenor House
• Britain Clockcase Ltd and its hand crafted clocks & barometers from Birmingham's world famous Jewellery Quarter
• Pete Gilbert, one the top fifty UK artists over the age of 50 showing contemporary oil landscapes of the New Forest & the Dorset Coast
• Auberge du Chocolat, recent winners of Great Taste Awards for their Pistachio & Cardamon Chocolate and Dark Chocolate House Bar
  
• I Love Toys and its kids' red retro racing car just listed in Cool Mum Hunting's (Grudging) Christmas Top Ten
• the Annabel Chaffer Gift Collection that captures the best of English heritage, elegance, style and luxury with hand crafted English luxury gifts, and serving members of Royal Families around the world
• Dupenny with exquisite wallpaper, beautiful home wares and fine ceramics fresh from their first international trade show, The International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York City
• Terra Rossa with their 3 new 2011 Great Taste Awards for Nougat, Lemon Infused Oil and Basil Infused Oil.
• six artists and designers from the Surrey Guild of Craftsmen (Jenefer Ham, glass artist; Carolyn Wallis Handweaver, Elizabeth Campbell Jewellery, Frank Higgins from Kaleidoscope Studio, Sharon Williams hat maker from Embellished Accessories, and Susan Holton Knitwear)

and old favourites including:

• Melanie Frobisher Photo Art with Photo art images of the Windsor Great Park
• Hand Carved British Wooden Soldiers from Colonial Soldier
• Emmajane Baskets with French style shopping baskets
• The Designers Choice showing Architectural & Iconic Wooden Miniature decorations
• Apple Juice bringing Hand made, gifts for women & children including oilcloth bags, appliquéd t-shirts, cushions

Our fabulous decorations were supplied Cardinal Christmas Decorating.

100% of the Fayre's profits and a % of your purchases go to charities within Berkshire and Surrey.

Since 2004, some £86,324 has been distributed to  a range of charities across Berkshire and Surrey including AGE Concern Spelthorne, Assisting Berkshire Children (ABC) to read , East Berkshire and South Bucks Women's Aid, Guide Dogs for the Blind, Mothers4Mothers, Paul Bevan Hospice (now merged into Thames Hospicecare), Quest Riding for the Disabled, Sebastian's Action Trust , White Lodge, The Family Contact Centre Camberley and District and Windsor Ascot Maidenhead District Sports Association for the Disabled (WAMSAD).