Once again we were delighted to participate in the Christmas Tree Festival at St Michael and All Angels Church – it is always lovely to see the efforts of the various community-focused groups from children to businesses. There were some wonderful and innovative trees – our own effort was greatly facilitated again by the nice [...]
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The weather was a bit damp but the day was almost bright! Once again there was an impressive display of remembrancers at the War Memorial on Sunday and we were pleased to join in this ceremony.
It is always nice that Shefford Bowls Club holds its annual ‘Finals’ Weekend event during the Community Festival – this year it was on the weekend of the 23rd and 24th September – members had been competing all year in numerous Club competitions which cumulated in 4 sessions to establish the trophy winners. Many spectators [...]
Each year Shefford enjoys a double act of Garage Sale Trail plus Scarecrow Festival over the same weekend as part of the Community Festival – and each year Lesley Whiteman ( who organises the Garage Sale Trail alongside Country Properties ) collects the stall fees and donates them to the Christmas Lights committee as a [...]
This was a very successful evening where we demonstrated our routines from last season, played majorette themed team building games and they all got a chance to learn some skills using a baton. This evening resulted in 8 completing the session and 6 new starters signing up and joining the troupe, with varying mixtures of [...]
For the fourth year, Shefford held its annual scarecrow festival last month and once again produced some fantastic creative displays, giving enormous fun and enjoyment to the community and its visitors as well as those creating the scarecrows Started in 2020 as a nice safe way to get people out during covid-19, the Shefford Scarecrow [...]
What a brilliant Scarecrow Festival again this year – I think the pictures speak for themselves :
Wellbeing walks were on our program for Tuesday and Thursday and were very popular as Jan Stephens explained:- “It was lovely to see so many of you! And we were honoured to have joining us Mayor Ken, Mary from Good Neighbours and Mike, the organiser of the Well Being Walks in Bedfordshire”.
Report from Erica Bowler at the Baptist Church We’ve just celebrated Harvest during the Community Festival weekend, with our own litter-picking scarecrows, a “Rubbish” Coffee Morning on Saturday and Messy Harvest Festival on Sunday. At the Coffee morning we had food, fun and friendship on the theme of looking after this world. Kids made “rubbish” [...]
The Shefford Craft Fair was a great success, with a steady stream of visitors all night and the STMA bar busier than ever! Every stallholder that I spoke to said they’d had a good night. If you want to find out about the upcoming Winter and Christmas Craft Fairs,go to www.riverdreamevents.co.uk
