Monday 14th June sees the return of Barton's British Red Cross Society's Annual Garden Party Evening from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm at the Old Vicarage, Church Lane. If wet the event will be held in St James Church

There will be a host of stalls including a plant stall, a cake stall, tombola, bric-a-brac and books as well as the usual raffle.

The organisers would like to thank the new owners  of the Old Vicarage, Mr & Mrs Hearn, for continuing a long village tradition of playing hosts to the Red Cross event in their garden. They would also like to thank those who have donated prizes to the raffle.

There is an entry fee of 50p which includes your cup of coffee.

Please contact Gill on 713874 for more information or if you have anything to donate towards the event.

Barton’s Open Gardens Festival is on Saturday and Sunday 19th & 20th June from 1.00 - 6.00pm. 

Entrance to the gardens is by programme which can be bought before the event in the post office or on the day from any of the gardens or in the FREE car park.  Cost is £3.50 per person children are free.  There are ice creams and teas available in some of the gardens.  The programme indicates what is happening in each garden.

There are 18 gardens open and this year some of the gardens will have demonstrations of country crafts such as dry stone walling, thatching, black smith, etc. Art exhibition in Church, Bells and music.

There is a Champagne Gala Evening at 7:30 pm on Friday 18th June to launch the Weekend Event. The Chicago Teddy Bear Jazz Band returns by popular demand. Tickets are £10 with free Champagne and nibbles in the interval. There is a presentation about where the money is going this year and what we did with it last year.  The charities supported will be The Donna Louise Trust, a Children's hospice, Shelter Boxes and the Toy Box charity which supports street children in Guatemala.  Come along and find out what they all do. There is a Grand Draw raffle which will be drawn on Presentation Evening.

The wheelbarrows which featured two years ago in the celebration of the 475 years that Barton Church has been serving the community will be on show again freshly planted for the weekend.

There is the Scarecrow Festival (which is in it's 12th year).  There are the usual 3 sections:- Households, Businesses and Children's Organisations which are judged on Saturday morning 19th June.  Entry forms from the Post Office.

There is the usual Teddy Bear extravaganza or Teddy Alton Towers in the churchyard. There is a new refinement to one of the rides which will make it more interactive than before.  Teddies will be issued with passports that will be stamped as they go on the rides, with five rides for £5.00 or individual rides are £1. Naturally, they will also get their stickers to say that they have been bold and brave as usual! Teddy Bears will be screened for security this year!

All the funds are being raised for the Help the Heroes, Burton Scanner, Children of Chernobyl and the St James Church Bell Appeal.