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A short while ago I was wondering what more the festival could do for Shefford this year and this bit of fun came to mind – let’s give away 100 cupcakes! Fortunately, the festival has friends who are willing to support such flights of fancy – friends like Livinglife who agreed to include the voucher [...]

Things are definitely hotting up for our festival in September – just seven weeks away – we have a new Craft Fair and now the Scarecrow Festival is calling for entrants. Always a favourite, we are expecting to see many excellent scarecrows pulled out from lofts and sheds – plus we would love to see [...]

We are delighted to see that following her successes with the Garage Sale Trail – Lesley Whiteman has launched a new Craft Fair for this year’s festival – taking place at the STMA Lesley is calling for stall holders at what promises to be a lively and interesting event for all the community. Afterall who [...]

One of our signature events is calling for registrations – have a stall in your drive/garden and sell off whatever you’ve got – this always popular Garage Sale Trail also offers the opportunity to walk around Shefford and get to know lots of people while buying stuff. I love it because I also get to [...]

  The kids playground at the centre of Shefford has always been a good place for mums and dads to take young kids – positioned adjacent to Palmoli Square it is on a very popular route and convenient to Morrisons, library, industrial/retail  estate, Church, dance school and high street. Following its recent refurbishment, it seems [...]

Shefford town centre – the memorial and market square on a lovely sunny day – a nice place to see the world go on with its business, from a bench or a cafe – it is a busy place with all our estate agents, takeaways and hair/beauty establishments – also of course the library, church [...]

Set back from the road this nonetheless impressive Methodist Church may be easily missed – but is well known to the wider community for the range of dance classes and other events held there.  What would we do without these community-oriented venues?

You are never far from an eatery when in town – here’s a couple of them for starters – and for dessert!

A short walk out from the Post Office we come to a bridge, which seems to be home to our local ducks – a flock of variable size depending on how many ducklings survive I suppose. Some of them even end up in local gardens – they hoovered up all our goldfish one year!