The historic Plough Public House was the starting place for the Carrier’ in Charles ‘Barkis Dickens novel Copperfield’. The pub is very much a part of the community and ‘David regularly hosts Community events including most recently a band and barbeque for evening of the Queen’s Diamond JubileeThe forecourt is always well maintained and in the past has been awash with colour. The forecourt of the Plough Inn in the summer of 2009 (July). Fundraising Apart from some generous donations we have been heavily dependent on various fundraising events to finance our efforts to date. The most successful financially was the Gardens’ which raised a total of £986. ‘Open Held on a fine Saturday in July people from far and wide came and enjoyed the twelve very different gardens. Most of the gardens had extra attractions including tea and cakes, books and a barbeque. This will be repeated on Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th of July 2012. During the winter we hosted the Eastern Arts live theatre group in the Village Hall and raised £145. We have also had a chocolate demonstration by one of our group, and a quiz night raising £244 in total. In 2011 the local Woman’s Institute kindly organised a Coffee morning and Spring Fayre and raised over £340 for us. Blundeston in Bloom 2012
The historic Plough Public House was the starting place for ‘Barkis the Carrier’ in Charles Dickens novel ‘David Copperfield’. The pub is very much a part of the community and regularly hosts Community events including most recently a band and barbeque for evening of the Queen’s Diamond JubileeThe forecourt is always well maintained and in the past has been awash with colour. The forecourt of the Plough Inn in the summer of 2009 (July). Fundraising Apart from some generous donations we have been heavily dependent on various fundraising events to finance our efforts to date. The most successful financially was the ‘Open Gardens’ which raised a total of £986. Held on a fine Saturday in July people from far and wide came and enjoyed the twelve very different gardens. Most of the gardens had extra attractions including tea and cakes, books and a barbeque. This will be repeated on Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th of July 2012. During the winter we hosted the Eastern Arts live theatre group in the Village Hall and raised £145. We have also had a chocolate demonstration by one of our group, and a quiz night raising £244 in total. In 2011 the local Woman’s Institute kindly organised a Coffee morning and Spring Fayre and raised over £340 for us. Blundeston in Bloom 2012
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