Woolhampton is a rural village in the heart of West Berkshire, England, UK.
Every year we hold an Annual Show for locals, the show is held at the Woolhampton Village Hall, Woolhampton, West Berkshire.
The categories are:
VEGETABLES (Classes 1-10 must be same variety)
FRUIT
FLOWERS All plant material must be grown by exhibitor unless stated otherwise
COOKERY
PHOTOGRAPHY (Max. size 7″ x 5″ unmounted)
ART AND HOBBYCRAFT
CHILDREN’S
POTATO GROWING
TALLEST SUNFLOWER
on the day of the show there are also other competitions and a raffle.
In order to participate you need to grow or make items as per that years schedule, specifically:
- work out which categories you wish to enter this might need to take place weeks or more prior to the show (plants take months to grow, photography classes might need you to take photographs during the year )
- have your entry form printed, completed and submitted to the Woolhampton Corner shop, Monthly market, Committee member, or Old Millstones by the submission date shown on the Entry Form.
- make or grow the things that you want to enter, sometimes the weather is against us and you can always remove an item that didn’t grow or work out on the day
Submission Deadline: (note you can enter late submissions but there may be a small charge )
On the Day
The village hall opens for entrants to bring their entries and set them out from 9:30am to 11:45am at which point all the public must leave the hall.
The potato tubs should be taken to the area near the allotments between 9 and 11am.
The hall is closed and the judges go around doing their thing.
At 14:00 the hall re-opens for everyone; entrants and visitors to come and look at how everyone has done, buy a tea or coffee (cash is needed ) a chat with friends and neighbours and buy a raffle ticket (cash is needed ). Note that entries should not be removed from the hall tables before 15:15.
There are a number of trophies… These are announced around 15:00.
- Arthur Dollin Trophy – for best exhibit in vegetable section (except 16 or 17)
- Brian Chick Cup – for best entry on board – class 16
- Christine Raban Cup – for best floral exhibit
- Jenny Franklin Cup – for best rose exhibit
- LPC Shield – for best entry in cookery section
- tallest sunflower – mug not a cup!
The raffle is held around 15:30.
Sometimes cakes or entries are sold off too at the end at the discretion of the entrant.
All Forms for this years annual show can be downloaded from this page or picked up from the Woolhampton monthly markets in June, July and August, they will also be available via Facebook groups Love Woolhampton and Woolhampton Village.:
Next show Date is: 9th August 2025
Limerick 2025:
Complete the following limerick:
“The Lionesses made us proud”
Hand in your limerick entries on the day.
Files: 2025 show files now available below.
Rules and Guidance For Exhibitors for 2025:
Entry Form for 2025:
Schedule for 2025:
Recipe for the bake to the recipe category:
The Categories of Classes
Cookery
From cakes to tarts, pies to pastries, jams and chutneys various classes are available for you to try your hand at. See this years schedule for the the current years classes.
Children’s categories
Every year, usually 8 classes for children are created. 2 in Age 4 and under, 3 in ages 5-8, and 3 for ages 9 and over.
See this years schedule for the classes.
Fruit and Vegetable
Most Fruit and vegetable classes are the same each year but check this years schedule for the actual classes.
If you find you want to be more rigorous with your presentation then there are some tips in the Tips for showing Vegetables Blog post.
Potato Growing Competition
Every year in February villagers agree to enter the potato growing competition and receive 3 seed tubors for a small fee to chit and plant in a portable container. On the morning of the show entrants bring their tubs for extraction of the potatoes for weighing by authorised personnel. Entrants take their entries away at the end of the show.
Flowers and Flower arranging
Most Flower classes remain the same each year but the flower arranging classes do change, see this years schedule for the class specifics, note the size of arrangements also changes.
Photographic Competition
New classes are identified every year to see if we can excite and or challenge you. See this years schedule for the subject classes. Check for size constraints in the Rules for Exhibitors document.
Art and Hobby craft
New classes are defined every year, see the schedule for this years classes.
Tallest Sunflower
Grow a sunflower from seed of your own choice or check in with the show committee to see if a spare seed or seedling is available. Even if you don’t end up with the tallest plant you will have something that the bees love! The tallest sunflower can be grown in your garden, we will use social media to reach out to all participants in the two weeks prior to the show to see whose sunflower is reaching dizzying heights. Members of the show committee will be round to measure the plants from ground level to the top of the plant.
Limerick 2025
Complete the following limerick:
“to be announced…..“
Hand in your entries on the day.
The limerick competition and other competitions take place on the day of the show.
A limericks first line is defined every year and announced , see above for this years. One creates the rest of the limerick and posts it on a noticeboard in the hall on the day. Notice some of the judges are sticklers for the rules of what is a limerick!
A jar of sweets is created and the number of sweets it contains has to be guessed. The winner thats closest receives the jar!
From the blog
Woolhampton Annual Show 