Dore Show categories 2025

Dore Show 2025

Dore Show 2025 will be held on the afternoon of Saturday 6th September in the Old School, Savage Lane and the Methodist Church Hall, High Street.

Here are the exhibition categories for the Show. More information about how to enter, the Show rules and the programme for the day will be pubished in the August edition of Dore to Door and on the DVS website.

Home Grown Vegetable and Fruit Section

  1. 6 pods of runner beans
  2. The longest runner bean
  3. 3 onions - each 200g or less
  4. 1 vegetable marrow
  5. 4 potatoes - one variety
  6. 4 beetroot
  7. 1 cucumber
  8. 5 tomatoes- one variety (not cherry tomatoes)
  9. 8 cherry tomatoes
  10. Plate of mixed fruit and/or veg, max 12”/30cm
  11. 4 dessert apples
  12. 4 cooking apples
  13. A plate of soft fruit, 1 variety
  14. A pumpkin or squash
  15. 3 courgettes

Home Grown Flower Section (supply your own container)

  1. A bunch of mixed herbs in a jam jar
  2. A vase of 5 dahlias - arranged to effect
  3. 5 cut home grown flowers - same variety
  4. 5 single roses (no buds)
  5. A foliage plant in a pot
  6. A flowering plant in a pot
  7. A vase of mixed flowers
  8. A vase of sweet peas

Domestic Section (Home-made)

  1. A carrot cake - any recipe
  2. A Victoria Sandwich - strawberry jam or lemon curd filling
  3. A lemon drizzle cake
  4. A chocolate cake
  5. 6 slices flapjack - any recipe
  6. 4 scones
  7. 6 ginger biscuits
  8. 4 chocolate brownies
  9. Fruit cake
  10. 1 pizza - homemade base, any topping
  11. A jar of chutney
  12. A jar of lemon curd
  13. A jar of fruit jam
  14. A jar of marmalade

 Wine Section

  1. A bottle of home made wine
  2. A bottle of home brewed beer

Junior Section Age 4-10 years

  1. Original Lego construction –solid base maximum 32 x 32cm - include a title for the model
  2. A Fruit and/or vegetable animal
  3. Decorated plant pot, no bigger than 4”/10cm
  4. A picture A4 size - any medium
  5. A decorated hardboiled egg
  6. 4 homemade Chocolate Krispies
  7. 4 home made decorated cupcakes

Textile and Handicraft Section

  1. An item of fabric clothing
  2. A handmade knitted item
  3. Any greetings card
  4. A Quilted item
  5. A crocheted item
  6. A tapestry or embroidered or cross stitched item using a kit or chart

Visual Arts Section

  1. A water colour painting
  2. An acrylic or oil painting
  3. A painting in any other medium or mixed media
  4. A monochrome drawing - any medium

Photography Section

  1. A black and white photograph
  2. A colour photograph- ‘Animals’
  3. A colour photograph- ‘Weather
  4. A colour photograph- ‘Sheffield’

Keith Shaw, Chairman, Dore Show Committee