PERFORMING ARTS’ FOUNDER WINS GOLD AT BEST BUSINESS WOMEN AWARDS.
Swindon-based entrepreneur Fi Da Silva-Adams is a Gold Winner! Where and for what I hear you cry?! She recieved the award at the prestigious Best Business Women Awards 2025. That’s the UK’s largest celebration of female business talent.
A Health Hydro Visit.
A few weeks ago I’d booked myself on a tour of the Health Hydro – AKA – Milton Road Baths. In the event, I couldn’t make it – family ties etc. So I asked a chum and fellow Swindon Heritage Preservation Trust, trustee for a few words on the topic.
Book Launch 25th October.
At LAST! I’ve managed to bring to fruition my Swindon in 50 More Buildings project – begun on the blog before the pandemic.
Song for Swindon Saturday Night. Swindon’s home-grown music scene is long-considered a hidden gem by music lovers near and far.
Old Town’s annual Swindon Shuffle features dozens of Swindon-based bands and performers over a hectic weekend. And summer festivals like My Dad’s Bigger Than Your Dad provide a bigger stage for more established acts and their fans – all crowded into the Town Gardens Bowl.
The Grief Opera. The Grief Opera, a moving musical journey through grief and loss, comes to Christ Church, Swindon. On Saturday 1st November 2025, Christ Church in Old Town, Swindon, will host The Grief Opera, a powerful production that uses music and storytelling to explore one of life’s deepest challenges: grief.
SALOS Bringing Evita to Town. And rehearsals are well under way for the first-ever production of Evita staged in Swindon. Thus bringing Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s legendary musical to local audiences for the very first time.
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.
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.
Art Helps Overcome Illness. Two Swindon Open Studios Exhibitors Share Their Stories.
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.
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.
WEST END FAVE IN PANTO CAST. West End Star and TikTok Sensation Abbie Budden will join Swindon’s Wyvern Theatre Pantomime cast to tell the much-loved tale of Sleeping Beauty this festive season.
