Hundreds turn out for annual scarecrow trail

Hundreds of children and adults joined the scarecrow trail in half term throughout Binfield. With more than 50 scarecrows to find, maps could be bought for £3 each from Daphne’s Coffee Shop, the Foxes’ Den Community Café and Binfield Village Stores. All money raised will go to The Church Care Project.

The entire trail could have taken around two-and-a-half hours if all scarecrows were located. Some of this year’s creations included Harry Potter, Mr Potato Head, Blippi and lots with a Halloween theme.

The Binfield ARC (All Saints’ Repair and Care) Project was launched in 2016 to raise funds for the repairs of All Saints’ church, after a survey revealed the need to urgently address them. With the amazing support of the community, the first two phases of the project have been hugely successful and much of the urgent repair work has been carried out. However, there is still more work to be done. With the collapse of the ceiling at St. Mark’s in 2020, significant maintenance needing to be carried out at the cemetery and this on top of the remaining repairs at All Saints’ which were delayed by the COVID pandemic, it became clear that the fundraising needed a wider remit to be able to support all of the spaces.

The Church Care Project has therefore been created to raise funds to achieve this.

So far this year work carried out with Church Care funds (along with residual ARC funds) has included: l extensive tree work at St. Mark’s, as identified as urgent in a site sur-