Frome Carnival takes place on a Saturday towards the end of September. The Carnival Association is divided into three groups; the Carnival Committee, the Charities Committee and the Trustees of the Association. There are different members in each group. Although some members serve on both of the first two groups. The Carnival Committee is involved in actually arranging a carnival and raising money for charity. They organise the choosing of the adults’ and children’s Carnival Queens, the Miss Teenager and Carnival Gran. They arrange the printing and distribution of Carnival entry forms and the sorting of those entries into groups with marshals; they prepare the programme, supported by local advertising, and arrange other entertainments during the week. The committee also deal with advertising in the local press or radio, prepare the park site for the children’s parade and arrange the decoration of the children’s and adults’ Carnival Queen floats; write endless letters, including those for marshals and judges from other carnivals and arrange to look after them and feed them between the two parades. And then, the day after the Carnival — count all those coins!!

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