Dear Village of the Year winner,  

Very many thanks for making Sunday’s presentations go successfully, I thought the atmosphere was very happy and relaxed (as well as being a tad on the warm side!) I do hope you all enjoyed the competition experience as much as I did.  

As requested by several people, please find attached the judges notes I read out on the day, which gives you an indication of what impressed the judges in each category.  

If you want to raise any specific points from this please feel free to email me or phone for a chat. I will be happy to help.  

I hope you have decided where to display your successes and here’s to many more in the future for your village!  

Kind regards,  

Katy Calvert
Assistant Field Officer / Social Inclusion Worker
Community Council for Somerset

REPORT ON THE CALOR VILLAGE OF THE YEAR COMPETITION 2006

The venue was the West Monkton village hall and the date was Sunday 2nd July 2006. There was great excitement amongst the six Somerset finalists in the Calor Village of the Year Competition,  Westbury-sub-Mendip being one the selected villages.  After a delicious cream tea,  tension mounted as Katy Calvert from the Community Council  for Somerset enthused about the high standard  of presentations from each of the six finalists in the competition. She introduced Malcolm Beecham from the Marketing division of Calor who distributed the awards.  Westbury-sub-Mendip swept the board with three awards:-

Best Environmental Village in Somerset, 2006
Best Medium-sized Village in Somerset, 2006
Best overall Somerset Village, 2006

This represents a huge achievement for our village and  Sue Caola deserves a big round of applause as she prepares to take us into the next round of this National Competition. Progress reports will be posted on the village web site and in the PEW

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