Swindonian Blog Posts
Swindon news, views, history and culture
Businesses Need an AI Policy
Businesses Need an AI Policy warns HR experts, the HR Depart. With the AI genie firmly out of the bottle, HR experts are urging all employers to draw up an AI policy – and fast!
Swindon Dance hosts Art Exhibition
Swindon Dance hosts Art Exhibition. Swindon Town Hall, home to the nationally renowned Swindon Dance, is hosting an exhibition of original art by local artist Sheryll K Fox. You’ll find her artwork displayed through-out the Grade II listed building across the next few months. All culminating in a celebration evening in July.
Festival of Tomorrow Booking Open
Festival of Tomorrow Booking Opens at www.festivaloftomorrow.com
Get ready to experience the Earth from a new perspective! Swindon’s popular Festival of Tomorrow returns with more venues, events and activities than ever before from the 12 to 23 February.
Joe McFadden Joins Rocky Cast
Ready to thrill you with fun and naughty moments, Richard O’Brien’s legendary rock ‘n’ roll musical, The Rocky Horror Show returns to Swindon soon. It comes as part of a new world tour, featuring Holby City star and Strictly Come Dancing winner Joe Mcfadden as the Narrator.
1000 Downloads for Podcast
1000 Downloads for Podcast that tells the unvarnished truth about the world of social care. Hosted by Wiltshire social care specialist Janet Shreeve, the podcast explores the world of a system which is struggling to cope.
Transforming the Bothy Gardens
Transforming the Bothy Gardens. When Jules Gilleland and Mark Wheeler stumbled across a forgotten Georgian walled garden in Wiltshire during the height of the pandemic in December 2020, they were looking at more than a property. They’d discovered a wild, overgrown dream.
Wiltshire Author Celebrates Third Novel
Lis McDermott, a Royal Wootton Bassett-based author and poet, has released her third novel, The Identity Enigma.
Following the success of her debut novel, He is Not Worthy (2022), and her second novel, Echoes of Drowning, earlier this year, Lis hasn’t sat on her laurels. Indeed she continues to delight audiences with her powerful storytelling. While each of her novels stands alone, readers will enjoy the subtle crossovers of characters and settings, creating a unique thread that connects her works.
La Carbonara Italian Restaurant
La Carbonara Italian Restaurant on Westcott Place – on the way into town from the west side of the town – is cooking with gas again. As it were.
Brooks Academy of Irish Dancing
The Brooks Academy of Irish dancing, based in Swindon has had a presence n the town since 1997. Though you might have known it as the Boyd School before a 2017 merger.
Westlea Station Fireman Santa
Westlea Station Fireman Santa – what a lovely thing this is. A gorgeous, festive community event that delights West Swindon’s families and raises money for charity – the Firefighters Charity – as it goes.
Swindon in 50 more buildings
West Swindon – What the eye doesn’t see
Swindon – A Born Again Swindonian’s Guide
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