We are delighted that so many signature events are once again planned for the festival this year – plus new ones! This includes the Garage Sale Trail, the Scarecrow Festival, EatFeat street food or Greenspace Conservation Group’s September work party plus the Shefford Majorettes and the Womens Institute meeting. The Draft program can be seen [...]
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As we ramp up our efforts on this years festival – Sept 13 to 22nd – we would like to thank our sponsors – who greatly aid us in facilitating the work.
The Community Festival this year is calling all organisers in Shefford to ask – can you organise an event or activity? Have you ever said “I’d like to do ……” but couldn’t find it in Shefford? How about using the Community Festival as a base to get started? Have you recently moved into the town [...]
We are delighted to support the Shefford Community Hall which is a friendly village hall serving the local community as a base for classes, social events and health activities, also including such functions as children’s birthday parties and our local MP surgery. The Community Hall is located in the centre of town at the end [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
