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 [...]
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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 [...]
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!
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 [...]
