Hidden Gardens 2024

Sunday 7th July 11.00 – 5.00

We have 12 private gardens opening for everyone to visit for one day only from 11.00 until 5.00.
The gardens are in a variety of locations within Bishop’s Waltham
3 of the gardens have not opened before and we have the allotments opening too.
Refreshments will be avaible at 6 of the gardens and plants may be on sale too.

A full list of the gardens opening will be found in our Garden Guide, price £6.00 per person, which will be on sale towards the end of May. These can be purchased from The Sweet Corner, High Street or Best Wishes, Brook Street in advance or Red Lion Street on the day.
The guide also contains maps of where each of the gardens are situated. If you buy your guide in advance you can plan your walking, cycling and/or driving routes around the town.

Front Garden Competition

This event will be run again in 2024 with the same categories as last year. The closing date for entries will be 30th June 2024, with judging on Friday 12th July.
There are 7 different categories, 5 for private gardens and 2 for commercial premises.
Private premises
A         Best hanging basket
B         Best display
C         Best front garden
D*       Most florally attractive street
E*        Most florally attractive part street (min. 3 properties)
*  If there are insufficient entries for classes D & E, they will be combined.
Commercial premises
F          Best hanging basket
G         Best display

Wht not get together with your neighbours to enter category E or maybe category D. Please CLICK HERE to see the list of 2023 winners and photographs of all the winning gardens.

2 Weatherall Close
Alice Cottage, Upper Basingwell Street
19 Southfield Close

Sponsor a hanging basket or a planter

Would you like to sponsor a hanging basket or a planter to brighten the centre of Bishop’s Waltham through the summer and into the autumn?
Baskets are £55 and planter £70.

Contact us via the contacts page of our website Contact Us

Quiz Night 2024
Saturday 27th January

Quizzers working on the anagrams of famous people of British stars of TV, Stage and Screen, before the quiz got underway.

A huge thank you to everyone who attended the Quiz Evening on Saturday. We had 27 teams taking part, the most we have ever catered for.
There were rounds on Songs from the 60s, All Lost Souls – recognising photos of people who had died in 2023, Books, Cryptic European Cities, Cockney Rhyming Slang and the anagrams for people to work on throughout the evening.
The top three teams were:

Durley Ditherers with the Quiz Master (and our chairman rear right)

For more photos and the full score sheet PLEASE CLICK HERE

We raised a total of £1450 towards our running costs for the year ahead.
The raffle made £400, so thank you for your generosity.

Beavers plant daffodil bulbs

On Sunday 3rd December boys and girls from all Beaver colonies gathered at the green on Victoria Road. Each one brought a trowel and a parent, some siblings came too. Within an hour over 100 daffodil bulbs had been planted in the grass towards the top of the slope. The bulbs were ones that we had dug out from two very overcrowded troughs near Costa.
Scout leaders provided hot chocolate and biscuits at the end. Just as we finished it began to rain.


As we were using “recycled” bulbs and as we planted them so late in the year they may not be too successful, but we will keep our fingers crossed.
A few daffodils did flower and we hope for a bigger show next spring.