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  I am really looking forward to our Festival in September to see the enthusiastic Shefford community get behind the program – we have some months yet – but even so that is not long to plan and execute a new activity. As we all know life is much changed after Covid and we are [...]

Fortunately, the weather was great last week for the annual Town Meeting where I had the opportunity to promote our Community Festival – also to look at the new playground and watch a Harris Hawk at work with his handler. Cake was also available – very nice!  

  We got off to a flying start this year and it is wonderful to see the level of involvement from our Shefford community –  many businesses have stepped up to engage with activities and sponsorship – plus we have a great range of activities in the program already. It seems like September 16th-25th is [...]

Tea, coffee and cake – or a bit of lunch in pleasant surroundings are popular pastimes for family and friends in the heart of Shefford and so we are delighted to welcome Rose’s at Duck Lane as sponsors of our festival this year. Last year the team at Rose’s created a special Festival milkshake – [...]

Shefford Marketing Agency (SMA) has recently grown out of The Industrial Marketing Agency (TIMA) which has sponsored and organised our Community Festival from its beginning.  The team at SMA are offering: – Websites – concept, execution and updates – Blogs – design, set up and creation of regular posts – Design of publicity materials – [...]

Local businesses are once again supporting the community in a way that enables us to grow and thrive – so we are delighted to welcome AS Pro Sports – “Your Local Sports Specialist” as our latest sponsor.  They explain here how they serve Shefford: “AS Pro Sports has the largest darts, pool and vape shop in [...]

Hi everybody. I hope you have seen that we are urging people to think ahead for their 2022 Community Festival activities – now we have obtained some sponsorship from local businesses we are able to increase the promotion for the Festival overall. It will allow us to put out a further leaflet in July – [...]

Things are moving early this year for our festival with last year’s business sponsors staying on board for 2022 – what a great sign of positive belief in our community.  Already many other local businesses have expressed interest and we are able to offer different packages to suit small or large business budgets – in [...]

  I have been actively planning for this year’s festival by leafletting and discussing new sponsor deals around town.  This is a two-pronged approach – I am trying to encourage everybody to get involved by running their own event or local promotion which we can put into the festival program – and on the other [...]