On the day:

The Village Fete Jubilee celebrated with:

Rob Ryan and the Ryantown team presents… Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a Match
It’s a heat wave and naturally Love is in the Air.  Everybody needs somebody…but WHO?! Come and join the Ryantown team and help us find the answer to this question that has puzzled humanity since the dawn of time itself. There will be prizes and lots of romance related fun!
http://rob-ryan.blogspot.com/

Garudio Studiage presents …The Economic Meltdown Office Challenge
Welcome to the boardroom of the Investment Bank of Garudio Studiage.  Like many financial institutions we don’t understand numbers, but we do love words. Take a seat opposite your competitor for the most miserable spelling challenge of your career. Our glamorous manager will spin the wheel of misfortune to reveal the economic buzzword you have to spell... It’s a race against time, but will you be taking home a Garudio Studiage paycheque, or your P45?
Garudio Studiage is a Peckham-based creative collective set up by Chris Ratcliffe, Laura Cave, Anna Walsh and Hannah Havana. 
garudiostudiage.com

Bompas & Parr present… Operation (Live)
Live action version of the classic board game Operation. Real patients, real forceps, fake blood!  Scrub up and enter the operating theatre. Seize the forceps and plunge your arm elbow deep into a live patient’s chest cavity. Pull out the first organ you can find to see if you are a winner.  Amazing prizes from inside someone else’s body!
Bompas & Parr designs spectacular food experiences on an architectural scale and makes jelly.
Jellymongers.co.uk

Max Alexander & Isabel Vince present …Catch-a-Sheep While you Sleep
Be our sheep catcher in the night! You climb into bed and begin to count the sheep. How many can you catch before you fall asleep? This surreal cosy bed covered in hand knitted blankets and cushions will send you into a deep slumber full of nonsensical ovine dreams. When you awake a beautiful handmade prize will await you, but only if you have been victorious in your quest!
Max Alexander and Isabel Vince met whilst studying sculpture at Camberwell in 2004 and were united through their love of wool. 
maxsworld.co.uk  isabelvince.com

It’s Nice That present…Pork Snatchings
‘Pork Snatchings’ is a tongue-in-cheek game to allow you to release your pent-up credit crunch anxieties.  Don the banker’s gloves, start the timer and see how much money you can stuff into your piggy bank in the time frame. The contestant crowned the thriftiest will win a (not quite) life changing amount of change.
It’s Nice That was founded in April 2007 and is dedicated to staying on the cutting edge of global creative work with its online archive. 
itsnicethat.com

Mark, Katy, Zoom & Ace present …CRAZY CASHPOINT!
Our cash point’s gone crazy! It’s giving out bundles of cash and other random goodies! Sign up for a credit card at the Bureau de Crazy Bank, and try your luck. See one of our friendly new account managers for details.
Your home maybe at risk if you don’t keep up repayments on a Crazy Bank credit agreement. 
Another family fete stall from Mark, Katy, Zoom and Ace. Mark is a 3D 
Designer – markgarside.com. Katy is a children’s author – 
katelennard.com. Zoom is a producer – youtube.com/zoomrockmantv and 
Ace is 5

Steve Price, Matthew Grey & Megan Riera present…Balbo Bogey  Blitz
BBB (Balbo Bogey Blitz) Squadron. ‘Blitz – slang term meaning a large formation of enemy aircraft’. Help us make our very own large formation of (paper) aircraft. Design, decorate and try to fly and land your very own (paper) airplane over our runway and on to our   target. Points, as always, mean prizes. Entry is £1 for one paper airplane or £2 for three planes.
BBB are Wing Commander Steve Price, Squadron Leader Matthew Grey and Flight Lieutenant Megan Riera.

Johnson Banks present…Stationary Supplies
This year we’ve put the post-box in storage and we’re selling stationery supplies. We haven’t thrown away a single colour run-out for two years because we’re turning them into bespoke, customisable sketchbooks. They might include old great ideas, old bad ideas, dodgy sketches, irate faxes from plumbers, you name it. We’re not too sure how they’ll look, but they’ll be fun (and cheap).
Johnson Banks is meant to be a proper design consultancy. Trouble is we spend just as much time helping out charities or designing stamps and posters.
johnsonbanks.co.uk

Here’s One I Made Earlier present…Best in Show
Test your dog training potential in our Crufts endorsed time trial. Pick out your pooch from our selection of remote control pedigrees and navigate it round an agility course of ramps and tunnels to see who comes out top dog!
Here’s One I made Earlier are illustrators Jenny Bull and Sarah Fotheringham, and product designer Demelza Hill.
jennybull.co.uk sarahfotheringham.co.uk demelzahill.com

Tatty Devine present…Fish for Victory
Fish for victory with Tatty Devine! Come fishin’ for the chance to win a goldfish ring designed especially for the Village Fete, or a plunge into our lucky dip fish bowl. Just hook a fish from the pool, and see what you can catch!
Tatty Devine is quite possibly the most inventive and exciting fashion accessory label in Britain today.
tattydevine.com

Robert Archard & Donna Wilson present…Cake and Make
Donna Wilson and Robert Archard are hosting Cake and Make! Selling a host of traditional treats, but not as you would expect, our goodies will consist of handmade ceramic and knitted cakes in many shapes, sizes and different guises – all especially made for the V&A Village fete. You can join in too by decorating your own cupcake storage pot with felt bits and sparkles which can be taken home.  Robert Archard is a product and furniture designer based in London. 
robertarchard.com
Donna Wilson is a Textile and product designer who keeps her designs handmade and UK based.
donnawilson.com

Lady Luck Rules OK present…Rock ‘n’ Roll Tiddlywinks
Bop over to the Lady Luck Rules OK stand for a frenzied game of Rock’n’Roll Tiddlywinks.  Once we’ve pressed play on the Rock’n’Roll Radio you have the length of a Ramones track to throw your ‘winks through a series of targets cut from a pair of GIANT kittens.  Take aim to win a super cute necklace which has been specially designed for the Village Fete! Gabba Gabba Meow!
Lady Luck Rules OK is a rollercoaster ride of fun rocker jewellery designed, produced and lovingly handmade in East London. 
ladyluckrulesok.com

Cupboard Under the Stairs present… Exquisite Cadaver
Come and play Exquisite Cadaver, a giant Surrealist version of the parlour game picture consequences.  Select four body parts from sections of mermaids, strongmen, jesters, Russian dolls and even white rabbits. When the character is assembled participants can pop their own faces through a hole in the head board and have the image printed on a postcard to take away.
Lucy and Miriam are two artists with a shared love of yarns, unusual characters, bits and bobs and unlikely places.

ico Design present…Crash! Spam! Wallop!
In wartime Britain, times are tough. Rationing is in full effect and only tins of Spam line the shelves of our grocer’s shop. But to you, a rascally ruffian, such regimented arrangements simply mean mischief. Armed with your trusty catapult, fruity missiles and a plan to wreak havoc, the tins are your target; so fire away! Each toppling tin creates a cacophony, but how many will you tumble before the final siren sounds?
It’s no secret that ico Design have a particular penchant for devising innovative and engaging uses for interactive technology, so the V&A Village Fete is a big date in our diary. icodesign.co.uk

Mike & Jon present…The Morgan Watson wheel of (mis)fortune
Roll up Roll up...It’s the Morgan Watson wheel of misfortune, where you spin and you do as your told to! Land on black and get painted red...(oh yes you will)...You have nothing to loose apart from your dignity and most of your cash/clothes. She’s a cruel but un-fair mistress the wheel she is...Roll up Roll up!

Shoot the Stylist present…WannaBee
Wanna bee? Wanna be a bee? To draw attention to our beloved honeybee being on the brink of extinction, Brit Leissler aka Shoot the Stylist! gives visitors the chance to wear fancy bee-pants & kaleidoscope glasses and take on the role of a honeybee. By collecting pollen and defeating enemies you can help our little honey making friends to survive. There are honey jars to be won, filled with seeds of bee attracting flowers for guerilla gardening. Bzzzz! 
shootthestylist.wordpress.com

Inventory Studio & Eat Sleep Work and Play present…STIFF UPPER LIP
A. To face misfortune bravely and resolutely.
B. To suppress the display of any emotion.
Hold your nerve and a pencil between on your upper lip, whilst a conveyor belt of amusing images are flashed past your eyes. The longer you suppress laughter the higher you‘ll rank on our ‘Stiff Upper Lip’ scale.
InventoryStudio was founded in January 2008 by Robert Boon & David Lane.
inventorystudio.co.uk

Thoughtful Practice presents…Memento
Nadine and Davina pay homage to ten years of the V&A Village Fete by offering fete-goers an opportunity to publicly mark their loss of the fete by creating one-off memento jewellery from their strands of hair. Nadine and Davina not only reference a long history of memorial jewellery, which the V&A itself has a significant collection of, but also note that it is the public who make the fete and therefore it is appropriate to capture a piece of them as a souvenir.
Thoughtful Practice are artist Davina Drummond and designer Nadine Jarvis; a thinking and a doing practice.
davinadrummond.co.uk 
nadinejarvis.com

Propwork present…Face Off
This year Propwork will be giving visitors to the fete the opportunity to mix and match their own faces like never before. Our stall comprises of a series of mirrors featuring strategically placed omissions. What would you look like with your friends eyes, or how would your mum look with your dad’s mouth? Now is your chance to find out! Peer through our mirrors and enjoy this unique facial features free-for-all.
Propwork are Gregor Timlin, Tony Mullin & Marc Owens, who studied together on the RCA’s Design Products course in 2008.
propwork.com

Alex Bettler presents…SAVE banners / EAT protests
What could be a better time to protest? Come and create your own banner! Use our latest letterpress technology and create random slogans that will change the world! SAVE me / EAT my banner!
Alexandre Bettler’s work uses everyday interactions between people, workshops, book design and baking bread around the globe!
aalex.info

Not Actual Size present…Penny Ponzi
Put all this credit crunch twaddle aside, and prepare to make some real money. The Penny Ponzi is one investment plan designed to keep paying out – but only for the patient. We offer 20% interest every 60 mins, maximum investment is £1. Investors who pay-in £1 will receive a time stamped certificate of deposit. Return an hour later they can claim £1.20. Come back two hours later and they can claim £1.44 etc.  But keep a careful eye on your investments – life in a ponzi scheme moves fast and a run on the bank could mean new investors lose everything. But don’t worry – you won’t go home empty handed – even losers will pocket a Penny Ponzi Victim badge.
Not Actual Size is a niche brand comms agency whose clients include Ray-Ban, Nike and BMW.
notactualsize.co.uk

Fibre present…TypeCASE Tiddlywinks
Fibre’s typographers have devised a fiendish use for their old furniture – TypeCASE Tiddlywinks. For just ten new pence you can have five pops in this game of skill and judgement*. Aim your wink at the Upper Case for a chance to win the star prize, or at the Lower Case for a tasty treat. *Let’s face it, it’s random.
Fibre is a graphic design practice based in London’s Borough and New York’s mountains. fibredesign.co.uk

Digit present…Beat the Banker
Pick up your bowler hat and umbrella and play the Digit Stock Exchange. It’s a giant steady-hand game. If you can get through without crashing the stock market, you get to give the banker what for in the stocks. You can even cash in and win (chocolate) money! 
Are you a top trader or will you need bailing out? Complete the course fastest and top the stock market; now who’d like a big bonus?
Digit is an interactive communications agency based in Spitalfields. 
digitlondon.com

Michael Jack & Simon Jones present…Pull a few strings to get to the top
The object of the game is to manoeuvre a disk held in a cradle attached to strings up a sloping board.  Avoid the hazards along to way to reach the top as quickly as possible.For 1, 2 or 4 players. Race other opponents or against the clock.
Michael draws on his years of architectural experience, and Simon his wood workshop hobby skills to construct another seemingly simple challenge for the fete.
michael-jack.com simon-jones.info

Thomas.matthews presents…Britain’s Sock Talent
We’re hosting a talent contest in which socks go toe-to-toe to win over the public. Make a celebrity look-a-like puppet and show us your talent on our ‘Guess Who?’ stage. The puppet voted the best will win a contract and the chance of global fame!
thomas.matthews is a communications design agency established in 1997 by partners Sophie Thomas and Kristine Matthews.
thomasmatthews.com

Carl Clerkin presents…Pie, Mash and Jellied Eel – Chas’n’Dave’s Lucky Wheel
It’s a right old pearly kings and queens cockney knees up. Spin Chas’n’Dave’s lucky wheel for a good old east end prizes all day long, win or lose Guv, Bob’s your uncle, how’s your Father, Get off me Sister!
Creative Cockneys Kieron Baroutchi, Billy Boakes, Danny Clarke,  Carl Clerkin, Cavan Clerkin (out of Eastenders) Gitta Gschwendtner,  Rosie Irvine Mcnosey Baroutchi team up for this years special jubilee  extravaganza with live singing dancing and spoon playing plus a guest  appearances from Barbara Windsor (out of Eastenders).
carlclerkin.co.uk

Poke present…Quick Draw
For this year’s fete we’re headed to the Wild West, with our Quick Draw Saloon. Two cowboys or cowgirls will duke it out with marker pens to find out who’s the fastest, most fearsome wrist in our one- horse town.
POKE is a creative company that specializes in digital things. We’re really pleased to be involved with the Village Fete again this year, and are looking forward to seeing what everyone else comes up with. 
pokelondon.com

Happily Ever After present…Everyday Etiquette
Help Happily Ever After make the world a better place.  Tell us your social failing: pushing on the tube before letting others off, foul language in front of small children, leaving litter or any other number of daily trespasses. Ease your conscience by creative confession- draw, write or design your flaw and post it into our HEA box. For your troubles you will receive a little something to help you remember your Ps and Qs in the future.
happily-ever-after.co.uk

Michael Marriot A.K.A DJ Barry
The ‘resident’ Village Fete Disc Jockey.
michaelmarriott.com

Scarlet Projects Tombola
Once again, the Tombola is brought to you by Scarlet Projects with Bethany Koby and Sacha Leong of Collaborators Guide. This year, we are Digging For Victory with a special Tombola dedicated to nature and all things that grow in the ground. Gone are the chupa chups of old, replaced with seeds to allow green fingers to grow your own  plants, but in amongst the wonderful plants and trees you can win, we’ve kept a few choice designer goodies from some of our most favourite designers. Our star prizes this year are £1000’s worth of  the classic 606 Universal Shelving System designed by Dieter Rams, donated by Vitsoe, and the De La Warr Pavillion chair by Barber Osgerby for Established and Sons, donated by Coexistence. 
We would like to thank the very generous Rocket Gardens for sponsoring this unique Tombola and providing all of the plants and greenery.
rocketgardens.co.uk

Scarlet Projects is a creative consultancy that has done lots of amazing projects, including the creation of Village Fete at the V & A.
Collaborators Guide, founded by Bethany Koby, Sacha Leong and Selwa Sweidan, is a collective of interdisciplinary artists, designers,  illustrators, writers, stylists, thinkers, technologists, friends, and patrons brought together to create socially engaging and participatory situations that highlight curiosity in the spaces and contexts we are currently in. Our size and compositions is flexible, our medium is varied, and our location is everywhere.