Welcome to Alderney Week 2012

   4- 11 August

...and Alderney Week  2012 PLUS:   17-19 August

 

 

 

 

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Following our Alderney Week website design competition which closed on 31 January, we will soon be publishing our brand new look website.  We have had several fantastic entries and the choice will be a difficult one. The winner of the chosen design who will be awarded with an iPad2, will be announced at the end of this month when we will launch the new website.

Watch this space!

 

 

 

GET READY FOR ALDERNEY WEEK 2012:  4-11 August

and Alderney Week PLUS: 17-19 August

 

If you are in a party mood, make sure to head for the Channel Island of Alderney for Alderney Week, the island’s biggest annual carnival. If you’ve missed this year’s Alderney Week, make sure you block your 2012 diary from 4 to 19 August – and the theme for Alderney Week 2012 is

THE GAMES:  4 - 11 August

 

But Alderney Week 2012 doesn’t end on 11 August: the following weekend get ready for

                                                                                                ALDERNEY WEEK  PLUS

Friday 17 to Sunday 19 August inclusive

An action-packed weekend in the Alderney Week Marquee on The Butes

Friday 17 August: The Olympics Ball

Saturday 18 August: Star-Studded Rock the Rock Festival  

Sunday 19 August: Jazz in the Sun

 

For more details click here

 

 

So, what’s Alderney Week all about?

Imagine 8 days of non-stop fun and frolics with events, competitions and entertainment for everybody, whatever their age. Home-grown entertainment at its very best with over 120 events produced, staged and organised by the Alderney Week Team, with the help of many volunteers, musicians, thespians and event organisers - all making sure you and your family, whatever your ages, will have the most marvellous time on this little island in the middle of the English Channel.

 

Alderney Week’s Cavalcade Day, one of the big highlights, always takes place on the first Monday of August, and always concludes with the dramatic torchlight procession the following Saturday night. But there are many more highlights throughout the week which draw visitors from near and far to this little island on the rock. In fact, the island’s 2,400-strong population almost doubles during that week and you’re strongly advised to book your accommodation well ahead of time. Go to www.visitalderney.com

 

Since 1948 Alderney has been Alderney ’s – and indeed the Channel Islands’ – biggest annual carnival event. Alderney Week started well before the last war and, what was initially a village fayre, has since developed into a madcap extended week. The history of Alderney Week is fascinating and you can read all about it here

 

Every year, the Alderney Week Team comes up with a new theme and new events. The theme for 2011 was “Fantasy Islands” and for 2012 it’s “The Games”, of course.  The provisional programme of events will be published within the next few months on this website. For provisional information, click here

 

Meanwhile, you can find out what happened during Alderney Week 2011 here.

 

You can also view and download a wide selection of photographs on our Flickr page,  with still more photographs on   www.jakewoodnutt.co.uk  and you can watch fun video footage on  the Alderney Week YouTube site.

 

 

                                                                                                 

Meet Miss Alderney

Alderney Week simply cannot start without Miss Alderney and we’ve published a picture gallery of all Miss Alderneys – from 1948 to the present year here.

Miss Alderney 2011 is 20-year old Bonnie Flewitt. Her successor will be elected on Easter Saturday 7 April and you can read all about Miss Alderney here.

 

 

  

Bonnie Flewitt

 

Meet the Alderney Week Team

Alderney Week is organised by the Alderney Week Team who relies on the help and support of many volunteers. Every Alderney Week, we are determined to bring you plenty of sunshine and great entertainment. We are now working on the 2012 programme of events which will be published by the end of February.

So, forget all your troubles, the credit crunch etc... Leave your worries behind and join us here for Alderney Week 2012. You’re guaranteed to have a wonderful time! 

 

left to right BACK: Ronnie Cairnduff (Team Leader) and Treasurer Nigel Vooght.

Front: Alex Flewitt, Ilona Soane-Sands and Lee Flewitt

 

                                                                                                       

Become an Alderney Week Sponsor

As a non-profit making organisation, Alderney Week relies heavily on sponsors who are able to benefit from corporate exposure  and community PR and we are most grateful to everybody who supported Alderney Week last year with sponsorships and donations, despite the credit crunch. All supporters and sponsors are named on our Sponsors List.

 

If you would like to be acknowledged as a company or individual who cares for and contributes to Alderney’s unique lifestyle and its community, take the opportunity and get involved as a sponsor.

 

 

Thank you  for visiting the Official Alderney Week website.

See you back in Alderney in August!  

 

In the Channel Islands, Alderney is the place to be. Be there or be square!

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