The Great Lee St Fete 

Dear CNPS families,

 We need your connections. The Fete team are seeking all food and alcohol hook-ups. Do you know someone who can help us get us a good deal? A fruit and veg purveyor? A secret beer supplier? Or a hot bread dealer?

In all seriousness, we are on the hunt for raw ingredients to get our amazing food stalls up and running.  The more we can get for a good price (or donated), the more money we can make for the school. Sourcing alcohol and food is a time consuming process and we would love any connections you can give us. In return we will give the business a credit on the stall, a nice plug on our social media and the school newsletter. 

Food Stalls for Fete day are: Devonshire Tea, Crepes, Curry, Balkan Bites, BBQ, Japanese, Falafel and Lobster Rolls. Yummo! 

Are you someone who can't help at the Fete but would like to contribute? We are looking for families who would like to donate towards the purchase of two new marquees/tents. This donation will live on beyond the Fete as the marquees will be used for sports carnivals, election BBQs and other events. We estimate each marquee may be around $700. This is a very cool thing to donate towards and will relieve you of any further Fete day support! 

Next week..... we call for stall volunteers. Thanks for your time, it's all coming together and we know it's going to be a fantastic day for all. 

You can start to bringing your donations in from Monday 27th February.

Silent Auction

The Silent Auction is one of the big money earners so please think about how you can contribute. Do you have an unwanted Christmas present? A service or product from your business? Rental of a holiday home for the weekend? Or perhaps you can buy something new to donate. Let's all help make the auction a huge fundraising success. All donations whatever size are welcome! 

If you would like to donate please email CNPS.silentauction@gmail.com or alternatively telephone Bess 0408 563 331 or Raylyn 0423 713 158 and we can assist. 

We are also looking for any additional helpers to assist us in approaching and collecting donations. 

 We are grateful for any support we can receive! 

Kids Zone

We would love fresh, unused teddies and chocolate bars and blocks of any size!

These will be for the Chocolate Coin Toss Game and prizes. We would also like to borrow a small trailer for the day. If you can help with this, please call me on 0402 907 371

Thanks!

Claire

Mystery Wine Bottle Stall

A call out to our generous school community for donations to the Mystery Wine Bottles stall at the upcoming Lee Street Fete 2023. Please drop off bottles of white, red, non-alcoholic or sparkling wine, gourmet olive oil and fancy specialist non alcoholic mixers to the office anytime.  We ask that all bottles are valued above $15 

Please contact Denise Atallah (0417303400) or Eli Atallah (0412915211) if you would prefer an alternative to dropping bottles at the office.

Cheers! The Mystery Wine Bottles Team

Coffee Mugs

We will be having a coffee cart but would like to keep it as sustainable as possible and use reusable cups. If you have any unwanted coffee cups, mugs or keep cups please keep them and bring them in from the 27th Februaury. 

Thanks!

Save your unwanted items for the Fete’s Clothing and Book Stalls!

If you find yourself wanting to take the opportunity to do a clean out of unwanted items, please set aside any suitable items for our second-hand fete stalls, including clothes and books. We run these stalls on 100% donations, so we would be grateful for any suitable items (in good condition!) that you would like to donate. 

Items that we will be looking for include:

• Clothing – babies, kids, and adults
• Shoes
• Accessories­ – jewellery, handbags, hats, scarves, belts etc.
• Kids’ pyjamas and (new) swimwear 
• ‘Dress­-ups’  
• Books
• CDs
• DVDs
• Vinyl records

We will be accepting donations from 27th Feb.

Thanks for your support!

Louisa & Isabel

M: 0401 812 586 / M: 0408 268 641

Craft Stall

Putting the word out that need some crafty donations for our Craft stall.

We love all things handmade by our community - school kids, parents, aunties, uncles, grandies, friends and friends of friends!

Not sure what to make?  Here are some crafty ideas to inspire you:

We will be collecting crafty contributions anytime from now. Just drop off to the office.

Contact: Tiffany Carter 0401080656

Jams and Preserves

We are now taking donations for the Fete – remember to sterilise your jars (https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/how-sterilise-jars) and list the ingredients.   We will label the jars for the Fete, so listing on paper is fine.  Drop donations off at the office and I will collect them.

The jam and preserves stall sells out of everything, so the more donations the better!  Don’t just think jams, it could be anything in a jar including chutneys, cordials, spice rubs, spiced nuts, salad dressings and lemon butter, etc. 

I will be posting simple recipes and stay tuned for some group jam making sessions.

Chilli oil recipe 

Takes 10 minutes

Roughly chop up knob ginger

Crush 6 cardamom pods

Roughly chop 1 whole red onion 

Roughly chop 4 x Spring onions

6 star anise

10 bay leaves

1L oil vegetable oil

Pour oil into saucepan and add dry aromatics for  2 mins; (star anise, cardamom and bay leaves)

Add Wet aromatics ( ginger, onion, spring onion) 5 minutes

Bring to gentle boil

Add 2 cups chilli flakes to big bowl.  Strain oil and aromatics into chilli flakes

Bottle into jars

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It is also the perfect time to hold on to empty jars (with lids), and bring them into school for others to collect and fill.  We have a box waiting for you now, it's in front of the office window (just under the ledge).  Small to medium sized jars are best.

If you have excess fruit from your trees, please let me know and I will put it to good use.

 Questions? Contact Sian - sian.fitzpatrick@bigpond.com

Toys

A friendly reminder to hold onto any unwanted or outgrown toys!

Thanks,

Angela

Plants

We need your help!! We are planning for a beautiful lush plant stall at the Fete this year and need…lots of plants! If you, or someone you know, is able to cultivate some clippings or seedlings between now and March, please get your green thumbs into action.

We’d love any type of greenery:

Indoor plants

Outdoor plants

Natives

Flowers

Edibles (herbs etc)

Other items we could also use include:

Plant/gardening books to donate

Unused empty decorative pots

Unopened packets of seeds

Worm tea from worm farms (or jars to collect worm tea)

White clothes rack/hanger for hanging pots

Plant stands 

Rattan chairs/table to borrow for the stall

If you happen to be a crafty type, as well as a green thumb, why not try to whip up a few macrame hangers to go with your beautiful pot plants. 

Thanks in advance for your green help!

Requests for volunteers (for stalls, set up and pack up etc) will be posted soon. If you can’t do a key role, have a think  where you might like to volunteer on the day or in the lead up. 

The Lee St Fete needs all hands on deck!