Forest schools share in fairy doors fundraising

Organisers Floral Forest will share the proceeds with Forest Primary School and Le Rondin.

People could choose between a 40-minute walk and one of an hour. The cost was £10 per family or £5 per adult.

Ian and Claire Main and children, Nia and Zachary, and Nia’s friend, Isabella Webb-Stanley, were among those taking part.

‘I thought it was really nice and it was good to get out and about with the family,’ said Mrs Main.

Friends Jill Nicholls and Carol Besnard also walked the route. ‘This is a nice walk and there will be tea and [fairy] cakes at the end when we’ve finished,’ said Mrs Nichols.

Pupils from both schools –about 30 from Le Rondin and almost 100 from Forest – took part in a competition to paint fairy doors, which were displayed on the routes. Four winners were chosen from each school – Arabella Thomson, Martha Le Prevost, Evelyn Prigent and Gabby Sharp from the Forest, and Nicole le Blond, Riley Clarke, Toby Lee and Ryan Inder from Le Rondin. Arabella and Martha are in Year 2 while the rest are in Year 6.

Floral Forest event co-ordinator Jenny Falla said she got the idea from a trail of fairy doors she had seen in Norfolk. When group member Sarah Plumley’s son sent her some fairy doors to colour in, organising such an event seemed liked a calling.

‘We wanted to do something like the scarecrows in Torteval and the open gardens in St Peter’s,’ said Mrs Falla.

Forest will represent the Bailiwick in the 2022 RHS Britain in Bloom competition in August.

‘This gave us a chance to tick some of the boxes as one of the main things is to work with the community including the two excellent schools we have in the parish,’ said Mrs Falla.

‘Our main aim though is to enhance the parish and competing is secondary to that.’