An unqualified success – that is the general verdict on the ongoing Artstart5 project, with two more Letchworth Garden City primary schools ‘signing up’ to join the existing 11, for phase two.
Around 700 visitors 'got involved' last weekend, when they attended the second North Hertfordshire Volunteers Fair – a two-day event held at two venues in the world's first Garden City.
As part of the forthcoming national 'Big Draw' initiative, where people all over the country will be encouraged to draw, First Garden City Heritage Museum, Norton Way South, Letchworth Garden City, is running its own 'Big Draw' exhibition from October 1 until October 27, adding their contribution to the host of planned nationwide events.
North Hertfordshire's Voluntary Sector Fair is back after two years, bringing to light many new and different voluntary opportunities. A total of 68 organisations will be exhibiting at this Heritage Foundation event, sponsored by North Herts CVS and North Hertfordshire College, on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 October at two nearby venues – the Plinston and the Goldsmith Centre – both on Broadway, Letchworth Garden City.
Passionate Letchworthians who enjoy photography could win £1,000 in prizes in our photographic competition, ‘Picture This’. To celebrate the launch of this competition, hundreds of free disposable cameras were given away in The Wynd on Saturday 28 July.
Scott Hughes, 12, from Chicksands, is a real Harry Potter boffin and answered all the questions correctly in a recent competition in the world’s first Garden City, based on the latest Hogwarts books and films.
Over 100 years ago, the founding father of the Garden City Movement, Ebenezer Howard, bravely challenged the intolerable living and social conditions that existed in certain parts of Britain at that time and became the catalyst for bringing about monumental change to improve the quality of lives for millions of people in the UK and subsequently throughout many countries.
On behalf of Alan Scouller, Chairman of the Heritage Foundation and myself, can I thank the 230 plus people who attended the annual Garden City Meeting in the Spirella Ballroom on 9th May.
So, Letchworth Garden City Council is launching an investigation into “Landlord’s Consent” controls the Foundation exercises and the way they are applied. The Council does so at a time when many communities, nationwide, who do not have the benefit of Schemes of Management, or Covenants in leases, fear the Government’s inclination to reduce planning restrictions by allowing more “permitted development”.
Echoes of an international house building design competition in the early 1900’s, which captured the imagination of the whole country, will once again reverberate around the world’s first Garden City.
