Today is 10th September 2010 | Login

Swindon Community Features and Community News

The coming of the railway

1833: GWR appoints Brunel, genius in the making

Railway historian Steve Wakefield continues his series on the 175 years of the GWR and looks at the reasons why the railway was built. In the 1820s the Port of Liverpool was becoming a busy gateway t...

Boxing event raises £1,700 for SMASH

Stormin' Norman fights his corner

A boxing night to raise funds for The SMASH Youth project was a great success and thanks to many donations over £1,700 has been raised. Norman Butler undertook several months of physical and te...

23 April - St George’s Day Spring Clean. Are you up for it?

Help to make your neighbourhood a tidier place

The Keep Britain Tidy campaign is calling for people across the land to spruce up their communities on Friday 23 April and Swindon Council is willing to help groups of residents and community organisa...

Nova Hreod and Isambard Extended School Services

Offering new social outlets, childcare, clubs, activities and more - in the local community.

Lottery success to honour Swindon's 'forgotten' poet

November festival planned to celebrate Hammerman Alfred Williams

A society dedicated to celebrating the life and works of a ‘forgotten’ local author has been given a Lottery boost. The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) have awarded £35,000 to the Alfre...

Learn how to create a website using Dreamweaver

FREE Website creation course commencing 10 May

Do you have a knowledge of word processing? Would you like to learn how to create websites using Macromedia Dreamweaver and the basics of HTML? Then book a space on our ‘Website Creation’...

International Image Collections visit Westonbirt

International Garden Photographer of the Year and Global Gardeners Exhibitions, April-May 2010

Westonbirt - the National Arboretum, which is managed by the Forestry Commission, will host two important collections of plant and tree images throughout April and May. The International Gard...

Let Us Auction It

It's simple! 1. You drop it off. 2. We sell in on eBay for you. 3. We send you a cheque. Turn your treasures into cash and let us sell your unwanted items on eBay for you.

Digital TV switchover - get help on 7 & 8 April

If you live in West Swindon, don’t lose your channels

Do you get your TV via an aerial and receive BBC Points West? Then your TV signal is most likely coming from the Mendip transmitter and the information here applies to you. If you receiv...

Swindon business quick off the blocks for 2010

Regus sees a 75% increase in enquiries from new entrepreneurs

Over the last month, Regus, the leading global provider of innovative workspace solutions, has seen a massive rise in flexible office space enquiries in Swindon. The 75% rise is significantly...

It's Easter! And the Roves Farm Bunny has returned

The fun continues until 18 April

Easter Fun has started at Roves Farm, near Highworth and the Easter Bunny is back by popular demand. He's putting in appearances around the Farm every day, much to the delight of everyone. See his ant...

Rain Wind Sun

Make the weather work for you ... rainwater harvesting, solar water heating, solar electricity, heat pumps, wind turbines.

On the right TRAK to Paris

300 mile cycle ride for Help for Heroes

From the 5 to 9 May this year, four men from Swindon, Carl McCulloch and James Richards of local recruitment firm TRAK Employment at Westmead Estate, Jason McCulloch and Darren Rogers will be cycling ...

Royal Honour for Wiltshire Cadet

Douglas meets The Queen as Cadet Ambassador representing the South West

A young man from the Wiltshire Sea Cadets met Queen Elizabeth this week, after being selected as a Cadet Ambassador representing the South West region. The Royal Audience held at Buckingham Palace mar...

Guilty 'Bassett' Hounds

Police make no bones about canine arrests

Tracey and Andrew Parker of Wootton Bassett were awakened at 5am recently by two police officers who were responding to a 999 call. As they had both been fast asleep, they assumed it was a mist...