Quiz Night 2024
Saturday 27th January

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:

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 daffodils

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.

The Crown Roundabout has been renovated by Hambrooks

For two days at the beginning of October two gardeners worked hard to weed, prune, replant and generally tidy the Crown Roundabout. We took a series of photos to show their progress
To find out more and to see the photographs, please CLICK HERE
We are very grateful to Hambrooks for all their hard work.

Front Garden Competition 2023

With new categories our revised floral competition was a huge success.
For a full gallery of winning entries PLEASE CLICK HERE

Children’s Hanging Baskets

Red Lion Street, a pedestian street between the car park and the High Street, now contains 20 hanging baskets planted by local groups of children within Bishop’s Waltham. A list of which group planted each of the baskets can be found in our noticeboard in Red Lion Street.
These baskets are part of our annual competition and were judged on 14th July.
Many of the baskets looked very new when they were hung on 27th May.

1st Prize went to BW Junior School Gardening Club on bracket 7. The judges really liked the broad beans planted in the display.

Rainbows say thank you to Bishop’s Waltham in Bloom

Rainbows are part of the Girl Guide movement.  They are aged between 4 and 7 years of age. From Rainbows the girls move to Brownies, then  Guides and finally Rangers.  Each term they have a theme to think about.
Here in Bishop’s Waltham we have one Rainbow group and they meet on Wednesday evening from5.30 until 6.30.  There are 18 girls in the group and there is waiting list of girls waiting to join.

During the Spring term Rainbows thought about people in the community who help them. They talked about people in Bishop’s Waltham like the firemen and the first responders who care for them in emergencies, the charity shops who sell things to help other people and BW in Bloom who make the environment they live in so pretty.  They then decided which group was the most important to them.

There is a skill element to their learning and they chose to make a card to say Thank You to the group they thought most important, Bishop’s Waltham in Bloom.

We were really honoured to receive the huge A1 size card they made for us.  Here are photographs of the 4 pages of the cards.

Thank you Rainbows for appreciating the flowers around your village.

Please press an image to enlarge and see what the children have written

Hidden Gardens 2022

Thank you to everyone who supported our Hidden Garden event on Sunday 11th July. We are pleased to announce that we raised almost £4,500 towards our running costs for the last year

A special thank you to The Sweet Corner in the High Street and Best Wishes in Brook Street for selling our garden guides ahead of time. The guide gave a brief description of each garden, with a photograph. There were maps to show where each garden is located and each garden was given a What3word location.
Refreshments were served at 5 different locations, thank you to everyone who helped us raise this substantial amount.

For a gallery of all gardens please CLICK HERE