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2024 Scarecrow winners
May 18, 2024
Thanks to everyone who voted for the Best Scarecrow Award at the 2024 Urchfont Scarecrow Festival, and congratulations to this year's winners.
56 fantastic entries were created by residents of the parish - each one themed around icons of the silver screen. Visitors to the festival were asked to write the number of their favourite scarecrow on their entry forms and these were counted over the last week. Thank you to everyone who made scarecrows, helping making the festival a hugely popular weekend for thousands of visitors and raise thousands for local charities and organisations.
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This year's top three favourite scarecrows, as voted by the public, are:
The prize draw was held at Urchfont Primary on Friday 9th May, where four pupils randomly chose the winners for each category during their school assembly.
Date announced for the 2026 Urchfont Scarecrow Festival
Urchfont Scarecrow Festival 2025 trail answers
Urchfont Scarecrow Festival Charity initially committed to supporting Opendoors in 2024 with a donation of £2,000. We are thrilled to extend this partnership into 2025.
There will be a USFC public meeting for Urchfont Parish residents on Tuesday 28 January 2025.
Do you have an Urchfont Parish community project that would benefit from Scarecrow Festival funding?
We are now inviting Urchfont residents to apply to become a scarecrow maker for the 2025 festival.
The Festival community newsletter will help keep Urchfont Parish residents informed about Festival business throughout the year.
Urchfont Scarecrow Festival Charity committee presented Devizes Opendoors with a £2,000 donation.
We were warmly welcomed by Wiltshire Air Ambulance to present this year's festival donation — a mighty £6,663.43.