Over 350 people enjoyed this year’s Open Gardens Day held in aid of Wimborne in Bloom on 19 June. A total of 19 gardens were open with tea available and also at some venues there were plant stalls.
Patrons of Victoria Education Centre for Disabled Young People, Lord & Lady Shaftesbury, attended an intimate charity dinner last week in aid of the school’s Canopy Appeal.
One of the world’s most experienced cheese graders, whose nose has been valued at £5m, is to be the keynote speaker at this year’s Dorset County Show Country Land and Business Association (CLA) breakfast briefing.
Some of the original volunteers who helped save the miniature buildings of Wimborne Model Town 25 years ago and move them to their existing King Street location, gathered for a special celebration tea. Friends, visitors and current volunteers enjoyed a silver celebration evening, with a barbecue, music from the Skittle Alley Strummers and the illumination of the model town as dusk approached.
Brownies have replaced ballot papers at the Bournemouth Food & Drink Festival where voters are being encouraged to vote – with cake.
A creative eight-year-old Haymoor Junior School pupil has her eyes on the prize after winning a competition to design a pair of glasses.
Congratulations to Martin Baum and his wife Lizzy from Verwood, whose beach hut has been selected in the top 10 to become Beach Hut of the Year 2016.
Despite having around 40 members, popular local band Gugge 2000 is in need of more members.
Come and enjoy a drop-in family workshop making up simple poems and stories inspired by Roman objects provided by the Priest’s House Museum & Garden. There will also be the opportunity to get hands on with paper making using a papyrus technique of weaving and pressing plant materials.
A popular vintage music and dance festival that takes place in Southbourne, Bournemouth is returning on Friday 1 July until Sunday 3rd July.