Our AGM will be held at The Globe Inn, High Street, North Petherton, TA6 6NQ on Sunday 5th January at 6pm

Toppers membership involves:

• Fundraising: (Bingo, Festivals, Fetes, Marshalling, Party’s, Bar Hire) are just some of the fundraising events we carry out. Every member is expected to take part in as many of the fundraising events throughout the year as possible. Fundraising is vital because without this the club would not have the funds to build the cart.

• Creative & Skilled Personnel: (Engineers, Carpenters, Electricians, Painter & Decorators, Handyman, Artists, Audio & Visual etc.) Building a carnival cart requires so many different tradesmen/hands on people throughout the process. Spraying, soldering, testing bulbs and LEDs, fibre glassing, welding, painting, electrics, woodwork, the list just goes on. It all starts from creative ideas and drawings, then as a team working out whether it is something that we can build using the resources we have, to then building the cart. Fully qualified personnel aren’t mandatory as we can teach people new skills but a good practical mind goes a long way!

• Textile Designers: Everybody on the carnival cart (even the driver) has a full costume and accessories custom made to fit yearly for the theme of the cart. If you have the eye for design and love to sew and make clothes/costumes then this is perfect for you.

• Makeup | Hair: Every person requires there makeup and hair to be done before every procession. After the theme of the cart has been decided we require a team of people to come up with makeup and hair designs. This year we had Skeleton/Voodoo faces and everyone had handmade dreadlocks sewn into their top hats!

• Little Helpers: With there being so many different aspects of the club there is always things for people of all ages to do and get involved. The shed can get extremely busy at times so someone being able to just push a brush around, throw scrap wood on the fire or maybe make a drink or 2 goes a long way!

Toppers have this year celebrated its 25th anniversary! We’re still going strong and continuously evolving whilst coming up with great new innovative ideas!

To become a member please come along to our AGM and sign up. This will be held at The Globe Inn, High Street, North Petherton, TA6 6NQ on Sunday 5th January at 6pm.

Come and join our Toppers family and be a part of something great this 2020!