By Monica Jones and Nycki Day
Following the fantastic jubilee event on Orchard Meadow in June, Nycki Day wrote to the Queen. Nycki is Joint District Commissioner for Sunbury Girlguiding and along with Isobel Parr (the other District Commissioner for Sunbury) had attended the committee meet-ings for the event , and ran a craft and infor-mation stall on the day Sunbury Village WI came up with the idea for a ‘Gratitude Tree’ – where people could write their thanks to Her Majesty and then tie them on the big tree in the meadow. But the WI were unable to run it as they were really busy running the cake competition. So they asked Sunbury Girlguiding if they could do it instead. At the end of the event all the notes were removed from the tree and Nycki chose a selection of them, mounted them onto headed paper and attached a letter to Her Majesty, using the art-work for the event on headed paper which included Daphne Clements’ painting of the Queen waving from Windsor castle. This was sent to the Buckingham Palace. Nycki got a reply back on 1st Septem-ber. The letter is written by a lady in waiting and dated 25th August 2022. It comes from Balmoral Castle. It was common knowledge that Her Majesty looked at all the correspond-ence she received, albeit a quick glance. “We were so incredibly lucky to get a reply back, especially given the Queens ailing health.“ said Nycki. This is something that the people of Sunbury can be extremely proud of. They made that event special, and that is something that the Queen recognised and appreciated.