Jo officially opened Chelsfield Village Fair on Saturday 9 July.  In a brief opening statement, he thanked the organisers who had "all put in months of tireless effort to bring together a fantastic array of contributions from Chelsfield."  He said that "today's success is testament to the strong sense of community that we see here in Chelsfield.  In particular, I am particularly proud of the contribution to charity – Cancer Research UK and I-Care Day Centre Trust Ltd -  that will result from the all the hard work leading up to today's fair". 

Following the event, the Chairman of Chelsfield Village Fair said that Chelsfield Village Fair 2011 was "almost certainly the best attended Fair we have put on (in excess of 4,000 people attending a Fair in a village with 45 houses in it!) and we would especially like to thank Jo for personally helping us with a few bureaucratic problems we had at the end of last week. The man's a star!"

To see more photos of Jo at the Fair and around Orpington click here