South Swindon Celebrates Spring WITH THE RETURN OF THE BLOSSOM FESTIVAL!
South Swindon Parish Council announces the return of the Blossom Festival. It’ll be taking place throughout April across the parish’s open spaces. The festival will bring residents together to celebrate spring with a vibrant programme of nature-inspired events, family activities and community gatherings.
We Were Always Here.
Swindon & Wiltshire Pride are so excited to announce a £69,500 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund. They’ll use it to deliver ‘We Were Always Here’. That’s a community heritage project to discover the hidden social history of LGBTQIA+ people in Wiltshire.
SALOS Spring Concert Tribute.
With great delight, SALOS announce they’ll be performing their spring concert in tribute to the legendary Ray Dance. The show will feature numbers from many SALOS shows over the past six decades
Malmesbury Launches Visitor Guide. The Malmesbury Town Team has launched the new official visitor guide to the town. It includes a fold-out map featuring local attractions and landmarks such as the Abbey, Market Cross and the scenic river walk.
Budding scientists flocked to Brunel Centre or Festival of Tomorrow activities. Children flocked to The Brunel Shopping Centre during half-term week as Swindon’s annual Festival of Tomorrow brought science, technology and the arts to life.
Commemorating GWR Works Closure. LAST BLAST 40’ – Commemorating the Closure of the Swindon Works is a series of events taking place from 24th to 28th March 2026.
New Book Celebrates XTC. Published by Sorrento Books, XTC: I Am the Audience by David Marx launches on the 31st March 2026.
Festival of Tomorrow 2026 commences! The Festival of Tomorrow 2026 public programme opened today with more events, for more people, in more venues than ever before.
New Zealand in Wiltshire. Well, as know, the prime focus of this blog is Swindon and the borough. But – now and again I see no harm in spreading the blog’s virtual wings once in a while and going beyond the borough. This time, thanks to my occasional guest blogger, Rebecca Davies, we’re visiting New Zealand. But not the one in the Pacific I’m sad to say.
Performing Arts Sessions Expand ACROSS WILTSHIRE AS FOUNDER RETURNS TO HER MALMESBURY ROOTS.
A Wiltshire performing arts company is celebrating its biggest year of growth to date.
Festival of Tomorrow News – they and the Science and Innovation Park launch new Hawking Building series.
This February, Festival of Tomorrow audiences can get special access to the Hawking Building at the Science Museum Group’s Science and Innovation Park at Wroughton, near Swindon. The festival’s organisers have teamed up with the Science and Innovation Park. Together they’re launching a new series of exciting hybrid events. All aimed at people wanting to dive deeper into science and technology. The series of four evening events, which will take place in the Science and Innovation Park’s new Hawking Building, are now live for bookings. That’s along with the first wave of evening festival events aimed at adults and older teenagers.
Beaconsbury Forest Book 2, Finn, is coming soon! January 21st 2026 will see Lis McDermott, Royal Wootton Bassett-based author, release her fifth novel, Finn. It’s the second in the Beaconsbury Forest Series.
