Swindonian Blog Posts
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New Care Segment on 105.5
New Care Segment on 105.5. Leading care services podcast You Care, I Care expands into a prime slot at local community radio station, SWINDON 105.5. In so doing it’s bringing awareness of the demands of the social care system.
Historic Walled Garden Welcomes Visitors
Historic Walled Garden Welcomes Visitors. Wiltshire’s Grade II-listed Bothy Gardens has launched its 2025 corporate season in style. They welcomed The National Trust, Europe’s largest conservation charity, for a day of training and team building inside its historic walled garden.
Technology Business Supporting Best Mates
Technology Business Supporting Best Mates. Calne-based Black Nova Designs, a well-known provider of web design, hosting, and IT, uses their birthday celebration to forefront mental health charity, Best Mates.
Swindon Artist Leslie Cole
I don’t use Twitter (it’s still Twitter to me) much these days – it’s all rather grim. But there’s a couple of local folk I follow on there so I pop on from time to time to engage with them. In a recent chat with them, the topic of Swindon in 50 Artists arose. I posited that, were one to write such a thing (and no I’m not), the challenge would lie not finding 50 artists, but in stopping at 50. One member of the conversation disputed that there’d be so many. So, in the space of three tweets, and off the top of my head, I came up with close to twenty-five. My point was made.
Swindon Care Show Revamped
Swindon Care Show Revamped. Three entrepreneurs have come together to re-launch The Care Show (Swindon). And to take it into the future as a regular annual event to showcase the best services in social care and wellbeing.
Art Helps Overcome Illness
Art Helps Overcome Illness. Two Swindon Open Studios Exhibitors Share Their Stories.
Rare Wiltshire Tokens for Sale
Rare Wiltshire Tokens for Sale. It’s rather cool all this. As a fan of finding stories in buildings, plaques, park benches etc, what follows appeals for the stories told by these tokens that are going up for sale.
£150K for Breakfast Charity
£150K for Breakfast Charity thanks to national lottery funding. And that’s a lot of bacon butties!
The National Lottery Community Fund grant, spread across three years, is a huge boost for the charity. BBP offers a cooked breakfast seven-days-a-week to homeless and hungry people in the town.
SOS 2025 New Venues
SOS 2025 New Venues. Or new venues for Swindon Open Studios 2025.
It’s almost time to celebrate Swindon’s colourful creativity with a fun day out for all the family! This is the 21st year artists will welcome the public behind the scenes into their studios, workshops and homes to see their work. It happens during the last two weekends in September. This year, sees three new venues have added. This is because exhibitors are at different stages of their creative journey and not everyone has a dedicated workspace.
Doughnut Maker Branches Out
Doughnut Maker Branches Out. Artisan doughnut maker Pipp & Co, launched its first vegan doughnut earlier this year. And its now expanding its plant-based range with a new vegan banana and walnut loaf, plus four more vegan doughnut flavours.
Swindon in 50 more buildings
West Swindon – What the eye doesn’t see
Swindon – A Born Again Swindonian’s Guide
We Are Swindon
