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Welcome to our new Blog!

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Hello and welcome to our brand new blog!

For those of you that may not know what this means, it’s basically a place whereby we can keep you posted with the news and information on the Doddington Village Sports and Carnival, based in Doddington, Cambridgeshire, UK.  We still have our website (www.doddingtoncarnival.co.uk), and we will keep adding information on what is happening for the carnival and sports day on there, but this is to try to give you more of an insider’s angle on it all.

Because the Doddington Village Sports and Carnival is so great, and attended by so many, it’s easy to forget that the small team that run it are doing so in their spare time.  Lots of fundraising events, planning, discussions and so-on, everything takes a year to plan for the next!

We’re hoping to give you a glimpse of what goes on within the committee, as well as share some of the successes that we’ve had out of it.

So, be sure to check back regularly, and we’ll try to keep the information (and photos!) flowing.

See you soon,

The Doddington Village Sports and Carnival Team.

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