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Mortimer Fun Day Back for 2025

After a seven-year hiatus, the ever-popular Mortimer Fun Day will return on Saturday 05 July.

The event will be held on Mortimer Fairground and will be hosted by Mortimer Village Partnership (MVP) and Mortimer Music Live (MML).

For those new to the village, this event has been a beloved tradition for over a decade. During the day, entrance will be free of charge to all. Any help you can give in running this event would be really appreciated, follow this link:

Image of a dinosaur for the Mortimer Funday activities

You can expect exciting arena acts including a walkabout dinosaur and a thrilling parkour demonstration (see below) alongside local dance, singing and acrobatic groups.

Classic summer fete activities including coconut shies and welly-wanging will also be happening! Local clubs and societies will be running these activities, giving them a chance to fundraise while connecting with the wider community. And, of course, no Fun Day would be complete without a Beer Tent, offering local beers and a selection of refreshing summer drinks.

@pedal V Parkour' arena act to perform at Mortimer Fun Day 2025

The schedule of arena events for the afternoon will be roughly as follows:

12.00 EDCDance (Mortimer school children)

12.30 Bezerkaz Circus

13.00 All Stars Theatre Academy

13.30 Dino invasion

14.00 Pedal Power v Parkour + BMX

14.45 Stagecoach Burghfield Common

15.20 3-7 year old Fancy dress parade with prizes ('Heroes & Everyday Heroes')

15.30 Dinosaur Invasion

15.55 Raffle Draw

16.00 Pedal Power v Parkour + BMX

16.40 Ta Da's

In the evening, the fun continues with a special ticketed music event brought to the village by MML.

MVP Affiliates Networking Fair Success

MVP were very pleased to have representatives of 26 affiliated organisation come to the Affiliates Networking Fair yesterday, Saturday 10th November 2018. St. John's Hall was packed with displays of what the groups do. Doug Overett, MVP's vice-chairman, explained that the purpose of the morning was help affiliates get the best out of MVP and their membership. This included making good use of all the avenues MVP provides to get in touch and keep in touch with the public (especially younger people they may not be in touch with) but also by making sure they talk to other groups and look for ways of helping each other.

Many of the ways in which MVP can help come from the new MVP website. Doug and John Hannawin, the website's designer, explained the features that have been built in which make communicating with the public very much easier. In particular Doug encouraged those present who don't use Twitter (the vast majority) to sign up for a Twitter account and just follow @VillageMortimer. They would then receive the automatic daily tweets from the calendar telling them of everything happening in the village that day with reminder an hour before each event. John also explained how a dedicated page can be provided on the website for those organisations who do not have their own website and how the MVP site is able to host other websites.

In between the short presentations lots of very animated conversations happened between all the different group representatives - it was a very lively and productive meeting. Several groups reported successful outcomes from their cross-group chats, for example Burghfield Camera Club is going to do some publicity shots for Bel Canto.

Whether you were at the meeting or not please feel free to access the short presentation notes.