A crew of hardy volunteers turned up at Fakenham Market Square at 10 this morning, in inclement weather, for Kickstart Fakenham’s second Tidy Up day. Fewer attendees than in the summer (were the gale force winds last night to blame?) but lots of rubbish collected none the less.

First prize for strangest item bagged was awarded to Sean Mears’ wasp nest. Largest bag bagged was by Dave Grahame (who doesn’t even live in the county!!!). A useful and fun morning’s work by all.

Thanks to Stephen Jacklin of Kickstart for arranging everything - from bringing the pickers & high-viz jackets to filling in everybody’s favourite bit of paperwork, The Risk Assessment.

Fakenham sarà godendo il gusto del Mediterraneo a 2O Venerdì e Sabato 21 novembre, quando il mercato italiano arriva in città. “Italia in Piazza”, promette un sacco di specialità regionali, comprese pizze, pasta, formaggi, carne e pane.

I thought that’d make you look! Sorry if that’s an ‘iffy’ attempt at Italian, but what I was trying to say was…

Tomorrow sees the annual Firework Display at Fakenham Racecourse. The Chamber of Trade will be running the show, aided as always by the presenters of North Norfolk Radio. Gates will open at 5.00pm for the funfair and the main display will be at 6.30pm. Tickets on the gate are £5 per person (walking) and £15 per car (max 5 persons).

Kickstart Fakenham are organizing an Autumn Tidy Up on Saturday 14th November. Meet up at 10am in the Market Square, where you’ll get your litter-pickers and possibly some natty fluorescent tabards! We attended the last one which was a good fun couple of hours. Bring some friends and have a laugh whilst doing some useful clearing up. Maybe this time we’ll have a side-bet on who collects the weirdest bit of junk!

The next Kickstart Fakenham meeting has been set for Thursday October 22nd at 7pm in the Wensum Lodge, Fakenham. There is an open invitation for anybody to come along and see what’s being done for the town by the group and make suggestions & contributions.

The basic agenda (subject to change) is as follows:
Committee announcements and prospective changes.
Formation of Carnival Committee/other Carnival Business.
Forthcoming events including Autumn Tidy Up and Christmas Lights event.
KSF Website & Logo.
Top of the Shops.
Any other business.

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Welcome to the new Fakenham.org.uk blog – an unofficial site for the Fakenham area. This will be developed over the coming weeks to reflect the new content being created for the new ‘official’ Fakenham site being written by the Kickstart Fakenham group.

This site will eventually replace FakenhamWeb, which has been the only town ‘community’ site for many years – since 1999 in fact! Content from FakenhamWeb will be transferred and included here for archival purposes where appropriate.