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 on the High Street – and we reached out in turn to the Shefford Lights Committee for advice and help re positioning of larger banners, like the one we previously had on Shefford House.
I am delighted that the Lights Committee responded completely positively and we are now working with them to place banners in the centre of town where they are used to hanging Christmas lights. Our plan is to place large banners on the three main routes into the centre of town so they will be obvious to anybody heading in from Ampthill, Hitchin or Bedford directions before they enter the High Street itself where we hope they will see decoration by the Council.
So far I have been in discussion with seven private and business owners and have been so well received , it was amazing the community spirit they expressed – all were entirely welcoming of the suggestion that we hang a banner on their building – all verbally agreed and one signed a permission straight away so I now have just to tie up the admin with the others.
