Once again we will exhibit our tree at the St Michaels festival with a tree kindly donated by Three Kings Christmas Trees Our theme this year is Community Values – we have noted a few but invite visitors to add their own on a paper banner so we can adopt them for next year!
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As was remarked to me on Sunday “this is one of the few times Shefford comes together” – along with others we would like to see more community events in the centre of town and to an extent we have played a small part in encouraging this to happen. Unfortunately we have a restricted area [...]
With the 2024 Festival in our minds we are reflecting on the part played by our sponsors, without whom we could not run the festival, which has in turn sparked so many spin offs in new local activities. We presently have two types of sponsor – the ones who pay and the ones who contribute [...]
That’s right – it’s not too early to plan for September 2025 – in fact it is the ideal time to brain storm for ideas – with Shefford growing fast all the time and so many new families looking for local activities – the Community Festival is the ideal place to look. The form of [...]
The Shefford Community Festival went really well this year and seems to have found its place in our local calendar – I have already been asked when it will run next year, so after due consultation I have set dates for Friday Sept 12 to Sunday 21st – so the same week as this year. [...]
After a very wet start to the day the rain paused at around 10.00 am so most of us could put out our garage sale gazebos and goods. The scarecrows of course had been out since the day before but seemed to survive the soaking very well. There were many stalls and scarecrows – with [...]
At 8.30 am on Sunday morning as I write this it has been raining continuously since the hail storm at 2.30 pm yesterday – so 18 hours and still going. The weather forecast shows “thundery showers and a gentle breeze” so we are wondering about getting our gazebo out for the Garage Sale Trail. Our [...]
Saturday arrived with the Art Exhibition at the Community Hall which, as usual, was a fascinating mix of local talents including a cute little duck picture which we purchased. The coffee and cakes were great too! It was also [...]
The day started off with a meeting of the Self Help Art Group at the STMA where a cheerful group of artists squared up to the task of imitating one Vincent van Gogh with a vase of sunflowers. See their work here: The evening was exciting in town for the much loved EatFeast street food [...]
Shefford Amateur Radio Society SADARS had an interesting welcome evening with many people at the Community Hall to extend their knowledge of making world wide connections via radio using speech, morse code, digital codes and even TV images. Elsewhere at the Brewery Tap – Nicola Burr was talking about the [...]
