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Over £6,700 was awarded to local causes through our grant funding this month. Here’s our round-up of the people we are supporting…

David Smith, a member of the British Bobsleigh Team and Letchworth resident, has been boosted by £1,000 towards his £5,000 2011/ 12 training programme. David hopes to compete for Team GB at the 2011 World Championships and the 2014 Winter Olympics.

19 Letchworth-based groups shared £3,188 towards Christmas lunches to be enjoyed by 802 people this December.

A collection of photographs by an unknown photographer, which have recently been rediscovered and restored, are to be showcased by First Garden City Heritage Museum in their new exhibition, ‘The Edwardian Photographer’.  

The photographs, named ‘The Brunt Album’, have never been displayed or published anywhere before. The collection, which spans 1904 – 1909, has been carefully restored following a grant from the Association of Independent Museums.

The Letchworth branch of the Citizens Advice Bureau has recently been boosted by a £28,000 grant from Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation.

The grant will enable the Bureau to maintain its welfare benefit and money advice work for clients from its Leys Avenue premises for the next 12 months. In the last year alone, the Bureau secured benefit entitlements of over £150,000 and supported 1,000 people to help plan and reduce their debts.

Pop along to Plinston over the Christmas break and see the Garden City’s longest established Christmas Pantomime, presented by St Paul's Amateur Dramatics Society.

With nine performances between Monday 27 December and Saturday 1 January, this traditional tale about poor Cinderella and her quest to meet the Prince is guaranteed to spread some festive cheer!

Tickets cost just £9.50 or £8.50 concessions (tiered seating); £8.50 or £7.50 concessions (seating on flat).

A talk about ‘Garden City Cottage Exhibitions’ attracted over 120 guests to The Spirella Ballroom on Thursday, October 22.

Organised by Letchworth’s Exhibition Cottages Group and supported by Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation, the event was attended by cottage owners, academics, local architects, builders and interested town residents.

Join in the Halloween fun as two Letchworth Garden City attractions get spooky… Be horrified with special screenings of the all time ‘scare classic’ ‘The Exorcist’, playing at Broadway Cinema, Eastcheap on Friday 29 and Saturday 30 October.

With Linda Blair’s head ‘set to spin’, the cinema suitably decorated and the staff dressed to scare this is the ideal way to be thrilled and frightened this Halloween.

For junior ghost hunters and the monster squad there’s ‘Monster House’ (PG) showing on Saturday and Sunday morning’s Kids Club at 10:30am – tickets just £1.

Serenity Day Spa, formerly found at 6-9 The Gallery, has moved to new premises at 63 Station Road.

Come and experience the beauty salon with a difference. All the regular beauty treatments plus a spa experience, at affordable prices and at a convenient in-town location.

Opening Times
Monday 10am – 7pm
Tuesday 9:30am – 9pm
Wednesday 9:30am – 7:30pm
Thursday 9:30am – 9pm
Friday 9:30am – 7pm
Saturday 9am – 6pm

To make an appointment, telephone 01462 686999

Howard Cottage Housing Association has just received a £35,000 grant from Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation to fund a Home Support worker for the elderly in the world’s first Garden City.

The scheme primarily helps people in the Garden City living in owner occupied  or privately rented properties to maintain independence in their homes, by providing safety checks, gardening, bathroom adaptations – a wide range of practical help and also advice on benefits, all forms of ‘paperwork’ etc.