Sadly, our Community Festival was cancelled this year – apparently because of a misunderstanding about the actual nature of a virtual festival in this context and its implication with regard Covid security – nonetheless it was considered there was no option other than cancellation. Fortunately, thoughtful heads prevailed and all that has been cleared up [...]
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Following conversations with interested parties regarding Covid 19 guidelines we have reluctantly decided to cancel the 2020 Community Festival. While we ourselves do not organise any events or activities it has been suggested that we should not promote other peoples events either – on the off chance that they may not meet the guidelines – [...]
As we approach our Festival period it is clear that some events can readily be managed whereas others may not. This depends on Covid guidelines as they change and if you are running an event you should be sure you comply with the latest regulations. Likewise if you are thinking of attending a listed event [...]
Interestingly it seems that there are a few Festival activities that we may be able to run in September – like the Garage Sale Trail – which I see is already being publicised by Country Properties and online by the organiser Lesley Whiteman, on similar lines I have recently been notified of a Scarecrow Festival [...]
At time of writing with all the numbers going down the government have recently brought the Covid alert level down to level 3 and we have just heard that they have brought the guideline for social distancing down to “one metre plus” with pubs, hotels etc allowed to open. Along with this there is talk [...]
In light of the present Covid situation, with non essential shops opening today and hotels, pubs etc foreseen as able to open from July 4th I am preparing a very provisional program for Shefford Newsline August issue – on the basis of: “possible events in the case that we are able to go ahead, do [...]
Hi everybody – we are seeing some gradual lifting of Covid restrictions – and looking at other countries who are slightly ahead of us it looks quite possible that we may be able to run a “new normal” – socially distanced festival in September. As you may remember Shefford Newsline is a major communication channel [...]
Clearly the whole situation of public events is up in the air at the moment so the likely occurrence of our September Festival is in doubt – although if all goes well then it could be a “welcome back to normality” celebration – we shall see. As organisers we would welcome news of any planned [...]
After last year’s Festival the main suggestion we had was to put more street decoration in town, so that when driving/walking through it would be obvious the the festival is taking place. We thought this was a really good idea so we reached out to Shefford Town Council who agreed to look into placing banners [...]
Participation We are headed towards our third Shefford Community Festival this September 19 – 27 – it is very encouraging (and an indication of the increasing popularity of the festival) that we already have a couple of activities planned for the afternoon of Friday 18 as lead-in events – so the more the merrier. [...]
