A community talent contest called ‘Letchworth’s Got Talent’ has been unveiled in the world’s first Garden City, to search for the town’s next big star.
Are you the next big thing from Letchworth Garden City?
Calling all musicians, dancers, singers, magicians, performers, comedians, dramatists, as well as any other unique talented individuals or groups, the deadline for entries is Friday 16 April.
Entry costs just £5 for soloists or £10 for groups of two or more.
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.
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.
16 of the Foundation’s 30 Governors are elected by the people of, and organisations operating in, Letchworth Garden City.
Six are elected every five years through a postal ballot of electors. One is appointed by the County Council and another by the District Council.
Eight are directly elected by Letchworth Garden City clubs, charities and organisations. At the present time, there are over 130 such organisations ‘registered’ with the Foundation for this purpose.
Find out about a whole host of regular activities and events taking place in Letchworth Garden City.
The latest edition of 'Spotlight' is available now from the Tourist Information Centre and is being delivered to 14,250 homes in Letchworth Garden City.
Published quarterly by the Foundation, Spotlight features details of regular weekly, fortnightly and monthly clubs, societies and support groups plus a wide variety of community events.
The former Fermark premises at 646 Blackhorse Road are to be partly demolished, with the remainder being refurbished to create a 6,000 sq ft industrial unit and yard area for FGH Controls Ltd.
Work is anticipated to finish in April 2010. FGH Controls Ltd will occupy the premises on a new nine year lease, in addition their existing headquarters at Blackhorse Road.
The Heritage Foundation has contributed £250,000 to the project and is pleased to support a local company as it goes from strength to strength.
Stuart Kenny, Director General of Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation, opened the ‘Wings of Hope’ Fun Day at Fearnhill School, Letchworth Garden City, on Saturday, January 30.
The North Herts & District Citizens Advice Bureau, Letchworth Garden City Salvation Army, Relate and ‘Voice of the Homeless’ are just four organisations that have recently received grant aid from Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation.
Do you have fond memories of your education in the world’s first Garden City? and memories such as dusty blackboards, grazed knees, jumpers for goalposts and Double Science , the 11 plus, O-Levels, A-Levels and everything in-between?
If so, the First Garden City Heritage Museum would like to hear from you, ahead of its next exhibition, “School Days,” which highlights all aspects of education and opens in March.
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.
Over 450 Garden City school pupils are expected to perform next month in an annual showcase of their musical and dance talents.
