A social evening to raise funds for Blooming Shotley Bridge is being held at 7.30pm on Monday 3rd October 2011, in Kings Restaurant, Front Street.
If you would like to support the event, a few tickets are still available from myself or committee members. The £5 cover charge includes a light supper, entertainment and quizzes. There will also be a raffle and tombola.
The Benfieldside Blackhill Bridgehill and Shotley Bridge Community Partnership are holding a Funday at The Spa on Bank Holiday Monday, from 1-5pm.
Look at the Poster about the event.
Further information and details of the free bus service is on the Partnership’s Facebook page.
The Village Trust will have an exhibition and a ‘Bring & Buy’ plant stall, to raise money for bedding plants and bulbs for the ‘Britain in Bloom’ tubs. If you have any surplus plants please bring them with you.
Yesterday, a Northumbria in Bloom judge, visited the village to assess the Trust’s entry in the RHS “It’s Your Neighbourhood” Awards Scheme.
With members of ‘The Bloomers’ committee he toured the village, within the boundary chosen for the Award. The assessment is based on community participation, environmental responsibility and gardening achievement.
He also helped assess the Trust’s own Front Garden Awards.
We have been notified that the Britain in Bloom judge will be visiting the village on the afternoon of Tuesday, 2nd August, to see what improvements have been made since the Trust entered the RHS “It’s Your Neighbourhood” award scheme last year.
The Trust has raised funds for the planting of 50 tubs and local businesses and residents have made a fine effort to make the village bloom. As well as gardening achievement, though, the assessment will include community participation and environmental responsibility.
Judging will also be undertaken for the Trust’s own Front Garden Awards.
The deadline for entries into the Trust’s “Nature and Green Spaces in Shotley Bridge” photo competition is being extended until the end of September.
The new initiative was launched on the 1st May to encourage people to create images which may be used to promote the village and support other activities such as Northumbria in Bloom.
Shotley Bridge Village Trust 