There will be no Saturday meeting in March for the Broadgreen Community Plan, however on Saturday the 29th of March, 10 am to 12 noon, there will be a final celebration to mark the end of the Streets for Living project. A parade through the four streets will be followed by a marching display by the Britannia Majorettes. Then at 11 am in the main hall there will be a band concert by the Great Western Youth Brass Band who will be joined by a singing group from the Swindon Youth Service. Refreshments will be available and all Broadgreen residents are welcome.
On Saturday 26 April we will once again be putting on a Cohesion event at the Broadgreen Centre. Having obtained some of the funding for this from the Wiltshire and Swindon Community Foundation, to which we are extremely grateful, we were hoping that the rest would come from SBC’s Grassroots grant, especially as the first priority for eligibility was for Community Festivals: ‘The Council wishes to fund projects or activities that fund festivals in local neighbourhoods or that celebrate the diversity of local communities of interest & identity’.
Unfortunately despite ticking the boxes and putting on such a successful event last year, bringing together as it did, many different diverse areas of the community in an afternoon of fun, food and sports, the powers that be decided that as there were more applications than funding available, organisations which had not previously received any sort funding from the council should take priority, so we were deemed to be one of 5 applications out of 35 to be unsuccessful. However, we will not be beaten that easily and private donations have assisted in the funding of this years event.
Our monthly residents meeting is held in the lounge at the Broadgreen Centre on the second Wednesday of every
