2012

Letchworth Garden City Town Centre is set to become a food lover's paradise as the town prepares for the forthcoming Food and Garden Festival.

Taking place on the weekend of the 19th and 20th May the town centre will become home to almost 60 stallholders selling locally reared meat, home baked cakes and cookies, homemade preserves, speciality cheeses, oils, spicy condiments and sauces, cider and beer as well as local fruit and vegetables.

Congratulations to our lucky winners of our recent Easter competitions, Michael Paddon and Louise Green.

In a double prize giving youngster Michael Paddon, aged 10 from Letchworth, collected his huge jar of sweets from Town Centre Manger Lee Boswell after providing the closest guess in our 'Guess the number of sweets in a jar' competition. Check out how close Michael got below. 

On Saturday 7th April we said goodbye to one of the best loved shops on our high street, Blunts Bakery, which is due to turn off it’s ovens for the very last time. Maurice & June have ran the shop in The Arcade for an amazing 54 years. Maurice had worked there even longer.

Saturday 7th April saw the town centre's Leys Square come alive with music, craft stalls, face painting, and mini fun fair rides. The talented Mr Speaker and the Right Honourable Gentlemen braved the less than Spring like conditions to knock out a great live set of motown and funky classics to keep shoppers entertained while our favourite face painters Face to Face were kept busy creating fantastical fairies, multi coloured tigers and other colourful creations for eager children.

Last week the winner of our festive themed colouring competition enjoyed a hands on amazing wild animal encounter courtesy of Ventura Events and the Letchworth Town Centre Partnership.

Lucky Sapphire Eversley scooped the prize for her and her classmates at Wilbury School, Letchworth after coming first in a Christmas colouring competition organised between Ventura Events and the Letchworth Town Centre Partnership as part of the Town Centre’s Christmas events schedule back in December.

Letchworth Garden City Town Centre Partnership recently submitted an application to the Department of Communities and Local Government as part of the Portas Pilots programme. If successful, Letchworth would be one of just twelve towns awarded a grant of up to £100,000 to help rejuvinate their high streets.

Letchworth's application was backed by the following people or organisations:

Yes! You could win this amazing jar of sweets just by correctly guessing how many sweets it contains.

You can enter online by visting our facebook page by clicking here

Or you can enter by attending our Easter fun day in Letchworth Town Centre on 7th April 2012.

Closing date for entries is 7th April 2012 at 4pm. Only one entry per person.

If you’re a photography pro, keen amateur, or student with a keen eye for a great image, love taking high quality pictures of people and events, and want to get involved in the local community then we would love to hear from you.

It’s time to ready, steady, cook as the Letchworth Town Centre Partnership brings back the Letchworth Food  Festival for 2012 and this time we're going green fingered too with the addition of a garden theme.

After a year’s hiatus this popular event returns to Letchworth Town Centre on May 19th and 20th offering up a tasty selection of market stall holders, cookery demonstrations, food concessions and free entertainment for all the family.

If you had £100,000 to make a difference to a town centre what would you do? This is the question being posed to high streets up and down the country by the Department for Communities and Local Government who have announced a £1 million fund for ‘Town Teams’ to run a number of high street pilots. Applications are now being sought to find 12 towns of varying size, demographics and geography to run these, as yet, un-set pilots.

Congratulations to Becky Worbey from Arlesey who scooped the prize bundle in our Win a Valentine's Day to remember prize draw. Student Becky was overwhelmed to have won.

'I spotted the entry form and decided to give it a go. Its the first time I've ever won a competition and it really made my morning finding out that I'd won', said Becky.

In January we shortlisted five shops in recognition of their outstanding customer service. Thank you to everyone who took the time to vote online and via Facebook.  

Do you have what it takes to become the Face of Love Letchworth? This year we've teamed up with the lovely people at The Salon and local photographers Szpak Photography to join forces to find a face of both The Salon and Love Letchworth.

Love is in the air this month and we're feeling particularly generous.

Back to sweep you off your feet this February 14th is our fantastic Win a Valentine's Day to remember prize draw. With a bundle of romantically themed prizes up for grabs in our simple, free to enter draw it doesn't matter if you're love struck or love lost as we're on hand to make you feel extra special.

One lucky winner will walk off into the sunset with this lovely lot:

A hair and beauty make over courtesy of The Salon

NHDC recently hosted a Business ratepayers meeting to clarify to local businesses its income and expenditure expectations for the forthcoming fiscal year. Below are the key points:

Launched last year and driven by Jenny Jones and her band of ‘Green House Angel’ volunteers, the Green House Community Market offers a wide variety of services for the local community. Occupying a large, multi-purpose all-weather trading space in Station Road, the Green House offers a wide range of community focused events, themed trading days, and an on site tea shop.

This competition is now closed. Results will be published online soon.

Five town centre shops have been shortlisted for their outstanding customer service. We want you to decide who offers a five star welcome to their customers, provides friendly and expert advice, and goes that extra mile to make shopping in Letchworth Town Centre a positive experience.

2012 promises to be an amazing year of events and activities in Letchworth Garden City. Here's just a taster of what we've got planned over the coming months. 

January, February & March

Rumours that Thomas Cook in Letchworth Garden City is closing are untrue. A statement from the company aims to address any concerns by members of the public. The statement reads: