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A Call to Action: Volunteer with Scalby Fair

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Scalby Fair needs volunteers to help make our Fair Week from Friday 13 June to Sunday 22 June 2025. the best one yet.

We need people to help us with stewarding, stall construction/removal and general tasks. You can help throughout the day or for limited time periods.

Why not help this community enterprise, run by members of the community for the enjoyment of all, raising money for good causes.

We are a cheerful, outgoing team that would welcome new members.

Please complete the form below to volunteer your help.

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Advance Notice for Scalby Fair Stallholders 2025!

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Starting in May, we hope to include brief pieces promoting the stalls on this website. One ( landscape orientation) picture and a short written background about your stall would be perfect for inclusion, should you wish to raise extra awareness for your stall. Please email marionsheppard@mac.com with the details.
Also it would be great if you linked with our Facebook @scalbyfair and Instagram @scalbyfair25 accounts to promote the fair to your followers.

Let’s spread the word! Scalby Fair 21st June 2025.

The theme for the fair this year is SUPER HEROES and there will be prizes for the best dressed stall.

Scalby Fair Photography Competition 2025

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Our photography competition was introduced two years ago and the judges have been delighted by the beautiful pictures that have been entered since then. This year the theme for the competition is :

Scalby and Scarborough in Rain and Shine.

Free to enter for all photographers, young and old. Mobile phone photos are welcome.

Multiple cash prizes and the Cathcart-Anderson Challenge Trophy for the overall winner.

£50 and trophy first prize, £25 second prize, £15 third prize, £25 for the best youth entry (under 16 years of age), and £25 prize for the best Scalby themed photograph.

Send your photo as an email attachment to photocomp@scalbyfair.org.uk. The email subject header should be ‘Scalby Fair Photo Competition’. File attachment should be in JPEG format of 5MB to 15MB in landscape orientation. Please include your name, phone number, email address, your age if less than 16 years of age on 19th May 2025, the name of your photograph and where your photograph was taken. You can enter up to two photos (colour or black and white), but only one per email please. 

All entries to be submitted by 9.00am on Monday, 19th May 2025. 

All winning photographs will be exhibited and prizes presented on Scalby Fair day, Saturday 21st June 2025.

Don’t forget to read the rules. The judges would not like to disqualify any of your great pictures.

Rules 2025Download

Come and Hear Some Great Stories!

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Monday 24th February at 7pm in the Nag’s Head

An Evening by the Fireside With Geoff and Jean Dove.

Scalby Fair is so lucky to have on its committee Geoff Dove one of its founding members in 1977. In that time he and his wife Jean have gathered a fund of anecdotes about the fair and its characters. Why not join us to hear their stories both funny and about the more serious side of planning and running such a popular local event? They are both great story tellers and know so much about Newby and Scalby in general and Scalby Fair in particular. There is no charge for this enjoyable event.

A GREAT YEAR! A BRIGHT FUTURE!

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REMEMBER ALL THIS? SCALBY WALK AND SCALBY FAIR 2024.

At the recent Scalby Fair AGM attendees were told of a superb year. Scalby Walk had been well supported despite an appalling weather forecast. Young, old and a goat enjoyed a vigorous walk and refreshment in the four pubs enroute. Scalby Fair was blessed with good weather and was one of the most successful ever. The Fair was extended over a bigger area, this enabled the inclusion of food stalls and a second entertainment stage. Most importantly there was a great atmosphere which all attendees enjoyed. Together with the other traditional activities of Fair week and the successful new Ceilidh the Fair was able to donate over £5,000 to good causes, another record.

During the year, using funds granted by YCBID, the Fair was able to refurbish stalls and renew other infrastructure. For example the simple purchase of a trolley reduced substantially setup time and effort.

In the coming year the Fair will look to build on this success with new initiatives. The new Chair, Nigel Sheppard, hoped that we could expand the number of volunteers and make the Fair more inclusive. To this end a new drop-in session will be held at which anybody can come and have a conversation about the Fair’s activities over a friendly drink. The first of these is proposed for Friday 15 November at 6pm in the Nag’s Head. We were so pleased to welcome some new members to the committee and look forward to sharing new ideas and fresh perspectives. Also – hopefully – having lots of fun in this community based venture.

In addition to the Chair, Bree Tarrant-Ives (Vice Chair), Peter Calow (Secretary), and John Armistead (Treasurer) were elected for the coming year. We look forward to Scalby Walk on Monday 21 April 2025 and Scalby Fair on Saturday 21 June 2025.

Watch this page for news, updates and suggestions over the coming year.