The 2025 Scarecrow Festival was held in the village on September 26th, 27th and 28th. It made proceeds of £18,920.
There were 123 scarecrows registered which were in the Trail Guide and were on three different routes.
After the Festival the Chairman of the Steering Committee issued the following message.
A message from the Chairman of the Steering Committee
We have seen Pattingham at its best over the Scarecrow weekend and whether you have been part of the organising committee, helping with the many months of planning and publicising the event, whether you made the car park available to us (many thanks to the Evans family!), whether you helped to man it, decorated the Church, sold raffle tickets or helped to supervise the various activities, provided sponsorship or donations, you deserve our untold thanks because your contribution has been inestimable.
I do though want to reserve special thanks to all those who created and displayed the Scarecrows. Every one has been a joy to behold, whilst you should all be proud of the level of creativity and ingenuity on display. Bear in mind that without the Scarecrows we have no Festival and therefore, on behalf of everyone involved in the Festival, I want to offer our massive and sincere thanks to you for making the weekend so memorable.
Finally, it is my delight to confirm the financial outcome of the Festival. Together, we have achieved a profit of £18,920, all of which will go to worthwhile causes in our Village. This surely represents a wonderful outcome and, once again, I want to thank everyone for their amazing contribution to this total.
Philip Sims
Festival Chairman
The following article appeared in the December 2025 Parish News magazine
How the cash raised by the wonderful scarecrows was distributed
This year’s Scarecrow Festival proved to be a great success and attracted several thousand visitors to our village over the last weekend of September.
So many people rose to the challenge of making scarecrows such that we had123 wonderful specimens on view.
We had five different food options available on the Pigot Car Park as well as Charlie’s Cafe in the Village Hall. Our pubs provided pop-up bars while The Lychgate Cafe served the usual full range of fare.
The Church was open to hundreds of visitors, many taking the opportunity to ring the Church bell as they passed through. This all added to a truly vibrant atmosphere with fun being had by all generations across the entire village. Friday and Saturday were chilly days but the sun shone on Sunday and this brought record numbers of visitors.
Ultimately £19,005 was raised to support various village organisations and projects.
This money is to be divided between:
- The Village Hall £4,500
- St Chad’s School £3,500
- St Chad’s Allotments £3,500
- Christmas Lights for the Village £2,500
- St Chad’s Church £5,005
- Total £19,005
Philip Sims, festival chairman
Photographs of all the registered scarecrows can be seen on the Scarecrow Festival website.
An article which appeared in the October 2025 Parish News magazine can be seen below.
Further details can be found on the Scarecrow Festival website.
Scarecrows everywhere – and even Trump got in on the act
Scarecrows everywhere – and even Trump got in on the act
Pattingham residents again turned up trumps on Scarecrow Festival weekend.
There were 123 entries for the three trails, there were thousands of visitors to the village over the three days-and even the weather stayed fine, if a little cloudy and cool at times – but beautiful at others …
Blue skies and sunshine drew big crowds out into our lovely village
Sunday proved to be a beautiful early autumn day – and such is the reputation of the Pattingham Scarecrow Festival that crowds of people flocked to the village to see this year’s – and they were not disappointed.
Even the approaches to the village had their attractions, as the Evans family’s castle, on the Rudge Road, above, the Roberts’ family’s rabbit at the bottom of The Clive and Joan Burton’s cheeky effort on the Westbeech Road showed.
(taken from the article which appeared in the October 2025 Parish News magazine.) Photography by Mike Moss
More details about the Scarecrow Festival and photographs of all the scarecrows can be found on the Scarecrow Festival website.