We are delighted to welcome Bathroom Vogue once again as a Festival sponsor for 2025 – Bathroom Vogue are yet another local business supporting their community in a way that enables us to promote the festival – now in it’s eighth year! They are a family-run business who have been helping Shefford create it’s bathrooms since [...]
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We are delighted the team at Lemon Plaice have chosen once again to sponsor the Festival for 2025. Lemon Plaice at the top of the High Street is a landmark traditional fish and chip shop that has been proud to be feeding the good people of Shefford for the last 20 years.
I’d like to give a shout out for our Shefford Community Hall which has recently had a great make over with installation of a new heating and air conditioning system plus a new audio visual system with hearing loop. The hall has a long history of serving the community and has a social centred ethos [...]
Opening Ceremony in the High Street Scarecrow festival all around town Garage Sale Trail all around town Ramble walk from Lemon Plaice Millenium Green work party Shefford Majorettes taster evening Well being walk from the Library Art Exhibition at the Community Hall Sloop Groggy Dogs sea shanty group at the STMA Eat Feast street food [...]
We are moving on with the program for this September and I am delighted to announce that we already have four of our signature events booked in: Community Market on Saturday 13th Sept Garage Sale Trail Sunday 14th Sept Scarecrow Festival Fri, Sat, Sunday 12/13/14 Sept Art Exhibition @ Community Hall Sat/Sunday 20/21 Sept
We are delighted to announce that local companies John R Ford and Country Properties will again sponsor the Shefford Community Festival for 2025. Both companies have been established in the Shefford community for many years and were among the first to lend financial support to the festival. While for the [...]
For the past seven years we have varied our dates between the third and fourth weeks in September to work in with other local events and organisational constraints – so for 2025 we have chosen to run the Festival between Friday 12th and Sunday 21st September. We hope that works OK for everybody and that [...]
We had a great response to our interactive tree this year when we asked people to contribute their ideas for Community Values – it was a popular format as several other trees used the same idea – so when we collected the values we had quite a few These were : Togetherness, Caring, Support, Love, [...]
The Shefford Festival is based on the energy and ideas of the Shefford community, so now we are planning for the 2025 festival and looking for new ideas – Shefford lost its pram race many years ago, then the parade went and more recently Revs and Rhythms, so we are looking for new things to [...]
This year we have an interactive tree at the St Michaels festival where visitors are invited to post their own banners with personal thoughts of positive community values we are aware of or would like to see in Shefford. Do come and share – simply write your values on blank paper banners and place on [...]
