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100 Club Winners, May 2021

21/6/2021

The first lucky winners in the May draw of the 100 Club are announced.

First Prize No. 9 Whitbread £44.00
Second Prize No. 43 Hancock £22.00
Third Prize No. 17 Mott £11.00

It is not too late to join the 100 Club in time for the June draw – click HERE for details. It costs just £5 per month or £55 for the remainder of the first year.

Remember the more members the higher the prizes!

For more news on what's happening at the Museum, don't forget to 'like' our Facebook page, administered by volunteer Ken Woods. He'd love to chat there with you.

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Museum Open Days

22/5/2021

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We are delighted to announce the museum will be open to visitors on May 30th and 31st, from 12.00 to 16.00.

We will also be open on the following dates in June:
Sunday 6th and Monday 7th
Sunday 13th and Monday 14th
Sunday 20th and Monday 21st
Sunday 27th and Monday 28th.

The museum trustees and volunteers have worked hard to install the required extra procedures due to Covid regulations, and as a result we have been awarded Visit England's 'Good to Go'.

Please come and see us, wearing a face covering (unless medically exempt)!

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An invitation to join our 100 Club.

16/3/2021

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Prickwillow Engine Museum are delighted to announce the new 100 Club, a great opportunity to support the museum whilst having a bit of a flutter!
Monthly cash prizes of up to £100 and annual bonus prizes of up to £420 (subject to terms and conditions). Please read the rules (downloadable below).

Join before the 1st May for the first draw on 25th May 2021 by completing the application form (downloadable below). For further details please CONTACT US.

If you would like to support the Museum to prepare for opening with additional safety measures in place, but do not want to join the 100 Club you can still donate HERE.

We plan to open at the end of May, and hope to celebrate the 100th Birthday of the Vickers Petter Engine with a weekend of events in July – please watch this space! Current rules will not let us hold any events before this date.

Thank you for your continued support – we really appreciate it.

Application form
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100 Club rules
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Events 2021

24/12/2020

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It is with heavy hearts that it has been decided that we will not be holding the traditional Prickwillow Ploughing Festival in the foreseeable future in its current form.
The trustees of the Museum, together with the Clarke family, whose support of the Museum continues to be appreciated, have reluctantly taken the decision due to spiralling costs of organising and running the event, together with the increasing strain on the farm activities.
Things have been exacerbated in recent years by the inclement weather. This was particularly the case in 2019 when the wet weather and consequential deterioration in ground conditions caused cancellation of field activities and a severe drop in visitor numbers, and as a result in income. Bizarrely, it has been recognised that we were fortunate that the 2020 event was cancelled due to Covid, as the weather on the planned Festival dates could have led to a considerable loss, a risk which we are unable to sustain as the Museum always has to operate on very tight margins.
We would like to thank exhibitors, visitors, and volunteers for their support over the last 10 years. Since 2010, including donations, a remarkable £27,000 has been donated to Cancer Research UK, ring fenced for oesophageal cancer, in memory of Nigel Clarke.
The Museum is looking to organise an alternative smaller scale event the end of September.

Events 2001
We hope to welcome you at the planned events at the Museum in 2021. A few dates are pencilled in but please keep a watch on our website www.prickwillowmuseum.com for further day and evening event announcements when the regulations are clearer.
Tractor Run – April 25th
Bike Day – May 16th
Car Day – June 13th
Vickers Petter 100th Birthday weekend celebrations July 3rd/4th
We are hoping to resurrect our first sixties event in August and plan a further event the end of September.
You can still support the Museum, as it strives to improve its exhibits and put in place Covid-secure practices ready for re-opening in the Spring, at our GoFundMe page link on our website or at https://gf.me/u/x3tij6 A big thank you to all those who have donated to date, it really helps.

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Art Competition

28/10/2020

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During lockdown, we invited primary schools who usually visit the Museum for workshops, to take part in an art competition to draw and/or colour a picture of one of our engines.
We were really encouraged to receive entries from Denver V.C. Primary School pupils (aged 6) and thank them for their interest.
A local artist judged the entries, and images of the entries from the prize winners are shown. It was a hard job to choose the winners and all the children were congratulated and received a Museum pen. All the pictures will be on display at the Museum when we open again, hopefully in April 2021.

If any individual primary aged children would like to send in a drawing to display at the Museum's exhibition, please draw and colour one of our engines featured on the website, and send to the Museum no later than the end of February 2021. There will be a prize of an art set for the best of these pictures, judged by the local artist. Please include the name, age, and contact details on the back of the entry, along with an adult’s signature confirming it is the child’s own, unaided work.

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