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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.  

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

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.

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

Nine year old Letchworth resident, Cassidy Crossan, was the winner of our 'Name the Reindeer' competition on Saturday 10th December.

Cassidy's prize which included a toy Reindeer and the adoption of another Reindeer from The Reindeer Centre, Kent, called 'Cracker' named the baby 'Snowy' after her Mother, Snowball and her silvery white colouring.

On Thursday December 1st over 50 business owners and operators from Letchworth Garden City attended a business forum held by the Letchworth Town Centre partnership.

The forum was held to outline the results from a recent business survey held in the town and to seek ways for businesses to work together to improve trade in the Garden City.

Letchworth Town Centre Partnership have teamed up with the Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation to once again bring you FREE car parking this Christmas in Letchworth Garden City.

LGCHF have very kindly offered use of the car park at The Spirella Building free of charge to town centre shoppers every weekend from Saturday 26th November until Saturday 24th December. The Spirella Building is just a 2 minute walk from the town centre.

The lights are going up around the town centre and we’re counting down the days to Saturday 26th November for the Christmas Light Switch On.

Stocking up on festive gifts and treats will be easier than ever in Letchworth Town Centre this year as the town welcomes the opening of a crop of fantastic new shops.

Herts Highways have released the first draft of the new Urban Transport Plan (UTP) for Letchworth & Baldock. This plan sets out the priorities for work by Herts Highways in these two towns over the next five years (2012-2017) and their key aims. The documents which can be found by clicking here are over 200 pages long and so we have decided to summarise them.

Saturday 30th July saw three talented buskers strumming their stuff in Letchworth Garden City Town Centre. Visitors and shoppers enjoyed more than three hours of acoustic melodies, cover songs and original material from Pete Guy, Scott Mendez and Paige Martin, who had been invited to play in the Arcade by the Letchworth Town Centre Partnership. Shoppers stopped and showed their appreciation by dropping coins in the hat, or breaking out in spontaneous applause.

This week the Town Centre Partnership was invited to attend the grandly titled Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation Design Symposium. The Symposium was called to seek opinions on the future of the Garden City and provide possible ways to improve the consumer offer in the town. Upon receiving the invite I have to admit to being clueless as to the nature of a symposium. So, utilising the power of the internet the decision was made to undertake some research. Interestingly a symposium is described on Wikipedia as a drinking party.

The proud winners of a recent design a Letchworth stamp competition today each received their framed set of smiler stamps from Postal Pursuits owner, Thomas Humfrey.

The competition, organised by Postal Pursuits and the Letchworth Town Centre Partnership, asked youngsters back in April to create a stamp design on the theme of ‘Britannia’ as part of the town’s celebrations for St George’s Day, Easter and the Royal Wedding.

There seems no end to the bad news that emanates out of the financial sector. House prices set to take another decade to reach their pre-crash levels, salaries rising much lower than inflation and disposable income sparse. It all adds fuel to our fears of a further collapse as our country teeters on the brink.

I was invited this week to the Letchworth Arts and Leisure Group coffee morning to discuss the changing face of the High Street. Joining me was a representative from the Heritage Foundation and a group of wonderfully passionate and enthusiastic members from the LALG collective. The LALG will be 25 years old next year and their membership has swelled from an initial fifty households to over 1500 and shows no sign of abating. In fact just last weekend the LALG signed up nine new members at the ‘Who Do You Think You Are, Letchworth’ weekend, hosted by The Arts Centre.

Last weekend saw the Letchworth Festival draw to a close. Two weeks of activities were rounded off with a successful Day of Dance, held on Saturday in Leys Square, and the Proms in the Park on the Sunday.

A 24hr break in the  rain came just in time for thousands of fun-seekers to make their way into Letchworth to enjoy the Street Fest. A torrential hail storm on Friday evening cleared the air and Saturday morning heralded glorious sunshine to ensure that all the performers and public got to witness a wonderful day in the Garden City.

With Eastcheap and Leys Avenue closed to traffic the crowds got uninterrupted freedom of the town centre as well over 100 performers entertained the. crowds across nine sites.