Kingswood Village Association

22/03/2026

Don’t forget the Spring Fair today in the Village Hall. Lots of traders, refreshments, face painting and a plant stall. Open now until 3.30pm.

21/01/2026

Please don’t forget that the deadline for returns for Gadabout on 7 Feb is this Friday, 23 Jan. Don’t worry if you’ve mislaid the form we posted through your door, you can either download a new one from our website, www.thekva.co.uk, or email us at [email protected] and we’ll get a new one to you.
A great, fun event for established villagers or those new to our great community.

20/01/2026

KVA brings you a Spring Craft Fair crammed full of quality artisan hand crafted products, from local makers. Come and join us in the Village Hall 11 - 3.30 on Sunday 22nd March 2026.

16/12/2025

Saturday 7 February 2026 sees the return of “Gadabout” (recently known as Come Dine With Me) for an evening of fun, food and a drink or two. Save the date now and then look out after Christmas for flyers through your door to book your place.

02/12/2025

KVA are very pleased to, once again, provide the Village Christmas Tree. Huge thanks to Rob Bateman and Rio Pools for collecting, erecting and decorating the tree for us all to enjoy.

10/11/2025

08/09/2025

Thank you for the fantastic turn out at the produce and handicraft show on Saturday. 💕🌸🎨🧶🍅🍰🍞
107 people entered exhibits, plus Kingswood primary school and playgroup entries. The displays in the hall were top class.
Well done Kingswood 🎉
Please see below for section winners.

07/09/2025

More lost property from Showday yesterday. Please comment if you’d like to claim any of it.

06/09/2025

KINGSWOOD - thank you, thank you for turning out in your hundreds. What an amazing show. The Team have just about finished clearing down, and are heading for a well earned drink, but we have a few items of lost property:

Yellow Polaroid with glasses case (glasses inside)
A single ear ring
A child's hooded top
An sect house purchased from Ken's stall and not picked up at the end by a man in a green top!

If you know the owners of any of these, please ask them to call Sally (KVA Sec) on 07982 249009. Thanks again.

03/09/2025

The trophies for Produce & Handicraft are ready for you all….
Entries to be received by the end of the day tomorrow (Thursday 4th), forms available from The Spar or on-line. Details for submission is on the form.
Food & Drink section is looking particularly low, please get your entries in.

02/09/2025

The weather looks to be favourable this Saturday for us to welcome back some of our favourite stallholders: Just Liquorice; DH Crafts;David at The Print Shed; Kate's Crochet; Mutt Leigh; PhotoPups; Serenity Holistic Therapy;Evie Spry; Make & Mend; and Jemima Shaw; as well as some great fundraising stalls run by Local Kingswood Groups.

29/08/2025

Produce and Handicraft Show
🌹🍏🍅🍰🎨🧅🌸🧵🧶📸🥬🥒🍐🍞

HINTS AND TIPS FOR EXHIBITORS:

We are often asked what the judges are looking for when they are deciding which exhibits deserve to be placed above another. We are not the experts but we can give you some hints that may help…

General tips to all classes:
the judges will be checking that any requirements on the schedule are met, for example if it specifies a size, amount or restriction.
Display: Judge will look at your presentation. White plate can be paper (preferred for fruit & veg) but for food items something more appropriate.

Flowers
The judge will look for any blemishes on leaves, flowers and foliage on your home-grown exhibits. With any arrangements, flowers can be bought or grown.

Fruit & Vegetables
Onions: Uniform size & shape for all entered/roots trimmed off/tied with raffia or thin string/display on sand or on a plain plate.
Runner Beans: Uniform size and shape for all entered/leave short stalk on/no protruding seeds/judge may break to ‘get a snap’/display on white plate or paper doily
Courgettes: No flower/uniform size and shape/display on white plate or paper doily.
Tomatoes: Uniform size & shape/leave Kalex on/ripe but not soft.
Collection (on tray): Selection of both fruit & veg, you can show us anything grown from your garden, be it something mentioned in the other classes and/or anything different/unusual. Judged on presentation, quality and varieties. Uniformity still required for same types of fruit and veg.
Fruit: Uniform size and shape and no blemishes/leave short stalk/display on white plate or paper doily.
Herbs: the more the merrier! (different varieties)

Wine/Liqueur: Clear bottles/clearly labelled with flavor and include date/year of making.

Baking: All entries in section C will be tasted by our judges so will be cut/opened/sampled. Presentation is important and is on display for the public so we may cover with cling film so it can be seen if you bring it in a container.

Photographs: mounted on card (not framed) as we display on boards with pins. No larger than A4.