About Swish

This year SWISH are celebrating New Years Eve at Southery Village Hall and love you all to join us.
We're rockin it back to the 80's with a good old fashioned D.I.S.C.O!!!!
The plan is to bring in 2012 with a boogie and get the whole village out for as cheap as possible, so don't delay and get your tickets early to benefit from the bargain price of £5 per person (£10 on the door.)
Tickets are on sale now at Southery Hair Studio or by calling SWISH on our hotline 07983 162684
Under 16's are free, but they must be accompanied by a responsible adult.

Swish are pleased to offer a Christmas shopping trip to Norwich on Wednesday 30th November.
Tickets are priced at £4 a seat and the coach will leave Southery from the bus stop outside the old white bell at 9:30 am and return at approx 5:30pm.
We are aware that as it is a week day parents may have some problems with picking up their children from school, so we our pleased to offer an after school club for this day priced at £1 per child.
If you are interested please book your seats as soon as possible by calling 07983162684, parents can also book a place for their child/children on this number.

Eyes down at 7.30pm to join the Swish crew and guest bingo caller Spike for a chance to win some great prizes and have a little fun in the process. The evening will consist of 10 games, 2 half time flyers, Swish flyer, raffle & tombola. Refreshments will be served during a short break.
For tonight only over 60's can play the 10 games free of charge courtesy of Swish! Half time flyers will be charged as normal.
Free Swish flyer game to ALL bingo players for the chance to win tickets to our upcoming & increasingly popular events.
As always donations of prizes will be gratefully accepted. Please call Swish on 07983 162684 or contact a member of the team who will be happy to collect.
Proceeds going to Southery Brownies and Guides.
All welcome, hope to see you there.

Finally the beach theme day arrived and although British weather was as expected, a great day was had by all. The children loved the fairground rides, face painting, pony rides and all the other stalls. With the men flexing their muscles and the ladies, proving they were definitely a match, a very competitive Tug a War ensued. With lots of grunting and yelling the British Sugar team triumphed! Well done to all who entered. The children also had a go!
Then as the evening progressed lots of laughter came from the antics at the surf simulator and everyone danced to the fabulous "Martha's Wood".
Swish would like to thank Jolene Osler and Emma Fowler for the excellent painted faces, Chrissie Reeve and Tommy for great pony rides, Danny Nicholson, Dale Osler and Shane Reeve for all their help with setting up and packing away, Nicholsons machinery and the talented "Martha's Wood". We would also like to thank all who came and supported us, we hope you enjoyed it as much as we all did!

Following the success of last years Masquerade Ball, Swish decided to host The Glass Slipper Ball.
With an exciting line up of entertainment which included the duet Pride with their cover of all the popular tracks from the 60's to the current chart toppers and performing this year was the jaw dropping vocals of Robert Farrel. Leading us all late into the night was the dance floor filling sounds of KJ Entertainments, complete with their very own Dan the balloon man!!
Doors opened at 7.30pm with a champagne reception and canapés served by Southery's very own Nigel Bird
Our resident photographer Dave was on hand to take those memorable portrait pictures with a little makeshift studio in the corner.
Our thanks to everyone who came along and made it a special evening.

Pics from the ball are £5 each. Our thanks to Mr Bee for this special Swish price.

Make a note of the number of the pictures you would like (for example, the first picture number is 6869) and then email me on david@southery.com with your order.
NB: All photographs are reduced in quality due to space restraints of this web site.

Once again a great turnout of bingo players flocked through the doors. Our bingo caller, Spike shouted Kelly's eye, the Brighton line, two little ducks and many more whilst surprising all with a Norwich City commentary!
1 line, 2 lines and full house were played on all 10 games and both half time flyers.
A break at half time gave way to Charlene's home made cakes & refreshments. The raffle and tombola were popular and proved to be a success. Our free Swish flyer donated to all players was to win:
1L – 2 free hotdogs/burgers at the Swish Beach Theme Nite
2L – 2 free coach seats on the Swish Summer Coast Trip
FH – 2 free tickets to the Swish Glass Slipper Ball.
Thankyou to all that donated prizes and anyone who supported this event. An amount of £257.38 was raised. Proceeds will be going to St Mary's Church, The Methodist Church and Swish.

And they’re off……

Our first event of the year was race night, where we haf a great turn out whereby you could have a flutter, enjoy the atmosphere of an exciting time at the races - all no further than your local. There were 8 races, with options of betting on some or all of the races and the chance of winning a cash prize or you could choose to place a bet on a triple or dual forecast before the event. The top prize of £100.00 was won by John Clemments.

Swish would like to thank all those who supported Race night, a good time was had by one and all and a fantastic £436.00 was raised.

Thanks every one!

On the 7th and 8th of December Father Christmas visited the good children of southery.

He arrived with his elves and helpers on his tractor and trailer to deliver gifts to them, which were donated by Swish.

The smiles on their faces were a joy to see and warmed up the cold night air. A great start to the years festivities.

It finally arrived, after much excitement and nervousness our eight contestants finally got to show their talent, and what magnificent talent they all had!

The Beautiful Blondes, who were last years winners opened the show with style and then with a whole other routine danced fantastically. We had Nathan singing, and as the rehearsals continued, he got better and better. Girls Attitude, who entered for the second year, were great and even more professional than last time, their dance moves and timing were impeccable! Carla and Ashleigh made easy work of Under my Umbrella and sang beautifully and confidently. Sylvia and Rose, our ladies of the evening showed us their graceful Natural voices individually by performing Love Changes Everything and Yesterday Once More and Robbo's Rebels finished the show with Jodie and Lillie singing in harmony and Robbo accompanying them on guitar! Finally we had the winner Martin Rooney, who worked his magic on the uni cycle and again showed us his fantastic skills with the diablo, he made it look so easy and I know he worked really hard to get it perfect. A well deserved winner!

Well done to all of you who entered, we wouldn't have been able to do it without you and in SWISH's eyes, you were all winners! Thank you also to all the judges, Peter Smith, Spike Dewing, Nigel Bird and Claire Rooney! Thank you to Mick’s Plaice for the well received chips! Another big thank you to Emma and Jeff for their fantastic hosting skills, Dave for his photography and videoing, Hayley for keeping control of all the acts and making sure they were on stage at the right time, Kevin for being brilliant as DJ Kev Dog! And all the SWISH members who helped out behind the scenes! Well done for organising another great event!

First Prize: £100

A fantastic turnout of people arrived through the doors armed with bingo dobbers at the ready. Bingo caller Spike Dewing shouted all the favourite catchphrases with a few new ones thrown in for good luck!

The generous amount of donations received gave way to 1 line, 2 lines & a full house on all games including the two special half time flyers, a raffle and tombola.

A free Swish flyer was given to all players to win
1 line – 2 tickets for the Swish Xmas shopping trip to Peterborough
2 lines – 2 tickets for the Swish Has Southery got Talent 2nite
Full house – 2 tickets for the Swish May Ball

Home made cakes and biscuits accompanied tea, coffee and coke for refreshments at half time.

Many thanks to all who donated prizes and supported this event, a whopping £350.96 was raised for the Swish fund.

Yeeee-Haaaaa! The Wild Wild West came to Southery. Well, for the evening of the 4th September at least!

The evening featured;

• Childrens fancy dress disco from 5pm to 7pm hosted by our very own KBR Experience (that's Kevin to you and me)
• Disco until late
• Rodeo Bull - Try and stay on the bucking bronco - prize for the person who stays on the longest
• Beer Tent - Provided and run by the Old White Bell
• Bouncy Castle - (No proof is needed that Beer and Bouncy castles don't mix)
• Face Painting - For young and old alike
• BBQ - Feeling peckish, then enjoy a Wild West BBQ
• Free entrance

Here is a collection of the photo's taken from the evening as well as a few movie clips of people trying their hand on the Rodeo Bull.

Wild West Night Photo's	Wild West Movie 1
Wild West Movie 2	Wild West Movie 3
Wild West Movie 4	Wild West Movie 5
Wild West Movie 6	Wild West Movie 7
Click the movie's once to view or click twice to view in a new window within YouTube.

It was great to see fresh new faces on the evening and a fun time was had by all with many Southery residents and families coming along to have a good time.

The First Annual Swish Ball took place on a glorious warm evening on the the 3rd July 2010. It was a chance for all who came to really dress up for the evening and there was a fantastic turn out of dresses, hair do's and James Bond look-a-likes.

The band, Second Chance 01284 760043, provided us with a fantastic mix of old and new tunes to dance the evening away and all agreed they produced a great sound. The bands rest period was covered by MC D and the KBR Experience, a hastily formed duo (i.e.: me and Kev) who filled in with the disco rig borrowed from the Old White Bell when our other live perfomer let us down at the 11th hour.

The buffet provided by Nicola from the Old White Bell deserves a special mention, as everyone praised the fantastic spread.

Also praised was the way the village hall had been transformed. A lot of work from all the team members went in to making the look and the feel of the place a warm, friendly and pleasant place to be.

The Pictures from the event can be found by clicking on the masquerade mask picture to your left. A printed copy of a pic is available for £5 each, £3 of which will go into the Swish Fund. All images will come in a cardboard mounted frame with an 8x6inch display. Note down the image file name you would like and either email me or leave your order at the bar of the Old White Bell

On Thursday 29th April a group of infants and toddlers took part in a sponsored walk from Southery playgroup, to and around the playing field in aid of The Swish Foundation. The children and parents were invited to dress up in anything funny, we had some people arrive still wearing their pyjama’s, a tinkerbell, a police officer and even Woody from Toy Story turned up. All the children did very well and afterwards were invited back to the village hall for cakes and refreshments. A fun morning was had by all and the children managed to raise a fantastic £208.00.

This is a great start for the Swish Foundation. Very well done all of you!!!