| # | Name | Comments |
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| 101 | Anonymous | |
| 102 | john kieran | My understanding was that the Festival was to become bi-annual, which I would accept, albeit reluctantly. However, to cancel it appears perverse and I am at a loss to understand the logic behind the decision. |
| 103 | Anonymous | Please bring back the Food Festival! The great thing about the Festival is that it helped to raise the profile of Emsworth and brought the community together. Also, it was free unlike other food festivals... |
| 104 | Anonymous | Emsworth food festival brings people together in this small community that is this town, also it brings lots of people from surrounding areas encouraging visitors to come to Emsworth where there is otherwise no big or popular enough events organised, therefore increasing revenue and promoting local businesses. |
| 105 | Naomi Breese |
| 106 | Michael Taylor | The food festival has been a great event, and has contributed greatly to giving Emsworth a real identity and sense of community. The benefits were much more than just financial, and any inconvenience was tiny compared to the advantages. The food festival gave Emsworth a real buzz in a way that the Sunday markets will never achieve, and it will be greatly missed unless the organisers see sense and reinstate it. |
| 107 | jason neill | |
| 108 | Anonymous | Although the event has become somewhat a victim of its own success, there must be ways to improve crowd control through ticketed / wristband access and incentives for public transport etc, please bring the original EFF back!! |
| 109 | Simon | |
| 110 | Anonymous | |
| 111 | Anonymous | |
| 112 | James Blake | |
| 113 | doug.knight | The Food festival has definately put Emsworth on the map & got better over the years. it would be complete madness to scrap something worthwhile tha brings in visitors & revenue.
Doug Knight |
| 114 | Anonymous |
| 115 | P C Lamb | The ONE weekend of the year that everyone seems genuinely cheerfull.
Food, music, pubs and all the good stuff, and yet some still find a cause to moan and rant on about the negative side of the event. If this Is this the only thing that these pople have to worry about, once a year, maybe they should take one step back, get a grip of themselves and try and enjoy it!!
Thats my thoughts!! Keep up the good work!! Cheers!! |
| 116 | Georgina-Kate Adams |
| 117 | christopher | bring back the food festival it was really good and great to see so many people having fun no matter what the weather |
| 118 | rachel roberts | |
| 119 | Anna Gibson | |
| 120 | Anonymous | The enjoyment of tens of thousands is more important than the inconvenience of a few |
| 121 | Daniel Parham | |
| 122 | Craig Watson | I live right in the middle of Emsworth above the CoOp and love the food festival. Please Please bring it back!!! |
| 123 | Alix Whitty | I love the food festival in Emsworth and looked forward to it very much in September time. I hope it will come back! |
| 124 | kelly coe | |
| 125 | Diana Whitty | I have really missed the Food Festival this year. I am a resident of a nearby village and used to thoroughly enjoy going to Emsworth for the Food Festival. Surely it must bring income to Enwsworth as a whole - it introduces the visitor to a delightful place that otherwise might be overlooked. |
| 126 | Lauren Hatt | I live right in the middle of Emsworth town (above the Co-op) and have really missed the Food Festival this year. Please bring this enjoyable event back. |
| 127 | Noel Lifton | no comment, just bring back the food festival!!! |
| 128 | Anonymous | Why do people seem set on ripping the heart and soul out of our towns and villages, just look at what they have done to the Chichester Butter Market. |
| 129 | Jamie Merrett |
| 130 | Sonia Poynton | I believe the festival should return to Emsworth for all the reasons mentioned above. |
| 131 | Gareth Colwell | The food festival was brilliant - to scrap it completely is crazy! |
| 132 | Sara-Jane Stevens | I have only just moved to the area and am so surprised with what has happened to and surrounding the Food Festival. Emsworth would thrive with the festival, all that extra business, those visitors, that money! |
| 133 | Jane Mason | |
| 134 | Tanya Staite | Since moving into Emsworth 6 years ago, we have wholly supported and attended the food festivals. We feel that this event has brought the community together and has done nothing but good for the community and all the people that have visited them. It seems there has been another agenda at work, which we believe is not for the good of the Emsworth community at large, as we feel that the committee should be working for the whole community and not just a few small minded people and businesses. After all, there are another 51 weekends for them to have Emsworth to themselves. Is it not best for Emsworth to share what a lovely village we have with the rest of the country, rather than keeping it to ourselves. With a decision of such magnitude to the village and with feelings running so high on both sides, why was the decision not brought out into the open. It appears that even people who always attend community meetings were kept in the dark, until the ink was already dry on the execution warrent of the Emsworth Food Festival. |
| 135 | Doug Peters | |
| 136 | Michelle harper | The food festival was a great event and formed a real focus for Emsworth at the end of the summer. I attended the event on two years running with my family who all agree it is an event for all age groups.
I am a property owner in Emsworth and do not think that the minor disruption as a result of the event was suuficent grounds to warrent it being cancelled.It is a sad loss for the town. |
| 137 | Anonymous | /what a great day out. We travel to Emsworth from Sunbury on Thames to enjoy the atmosphere |
| 138 | Nigel Miller |
| 139 | laura bryant |
| 140 | Anonymous | |