If you would like to support the Mayor in his fund raising efforts on-line buying you may also benefit local good causes at no cost to yourself if you click on to: www.thegivingmachine.co.uk, and choose for all or part of your donation to go to Bishops Stortford mayors appeal fund. A Stortford based 'not for profit' site hosting many major retailers.
There is also an enjoyable evening ahead with Stortford's young talent who will be performing for charity at the Mayors Variety Show on 13 March: tickets just £10 from Rhodes to see the largest caste ever performing songs, dance, comedy and magic at our premier venue.
Previous Engagements
Date
Time
Occasion
Venue
21 May
Hertford Mayor Making
County Hall
Sunday 24 May
10am
Hertford Town Council Civic Service
All Saints Church, Hertford
Fri-Sat 29-30 May
Town Twinning
Visit to Villiers Sur Marne, France
3 June
6pm
Pop Music School open evening
Northgate School
6 June
12noon
Community Church Fun Day
Sworders Field
7 June
11.30am
Mayor’s Civic Service
St Michael’s Church
11 June
6pm
Herts and Essex High School A level art exhibition
Rhodes
13 June
12noon
open fete
Northgate School
15 June
9am
Mayor’s walk with Police inspector
Havers
15 June
12noon
Abbeyfield Coffee Morning
Cricketfield Lane
15 June
7pm
Town Twinning Petanque
Marne Inn
Friday
19 June
7pm
Performance of ‘The Longest Story in the World’
Rhodes Arts Complex
21 June
Garden Party for Animal Rescue Raised £4558
Friday
26 June
8pm
Buntingford Town Council Civic Reception
Saturday
27 June
10.30am
Carnival Day. Crown Carnival Queen, North Street
1 July 2009
2pm
Centenary Mass
St Josephs RC Primary School
Thursday
2 July
4pm
Award Ceremony
St Mary’s School
Saturday
4 July
12noon
Speech Day
Bishop’s Stortford
College
Sunday
5 July
12.30pm
Open Fete
Richard Whittington
School
Monday 6 July
7pm
Hertfordshire Scouts AGM.
County Hall, Hertford
Tuesday
7 July
10-12
Open Sensory Garden/coffee morning
Rhodes Arts Complex
Thursday 9 July
11am
Re-open British Heart Foundation
Shop, Potter Street
9 July
11.30am
2nd Mayor’s Walk with Police
Town Centre
Saturday
11 July
Hertfordshire County Council, Chairman’s Garden Party
County Hall, Hertford
Sunday
12 July
5pm
34th Anniversary Party, Abbeyfield House
Tuesday
14 July
11.45am
Junior Prize Giving
Herts and Essex High School
17 July
2.30pm
Backing Olympic Hopefuls in Hertfordshire
Riverside Quarter
Saturday
18 July
Street Collection in aid of Mayor’s Charity Appeal
18 July
1pm
Open Day
Grove Cottage
18 July
Opening of BS Bowls Club
Bowling Lane
20 July
7pm
Boys and Girls Brigade evening
Methodist Church
23 July
Thorley Open Door. Tea and Biscuits
27 – 31 July
Operation Tag. Cleaning litter and graffiti with volunteers and young offender all over BS
Fri 31 July
7.15pm
Music Mix Final 2009
Rhodes Arts Complex
1 August
12noon
Royal British Legion Real Ale Beer Festival
28 Windhill
Sun 2 August
Holiday Bible Week Commissioning Service
Thurs 6 August
Holiday Bible Week Open Evening
13 August
11am
160th birthday party
Saffron Building Society
1-3pm
Visit to Grove Cottage
12noon
Official Opening of Bowls Club
15 August
1.30pm
Judging
Coopers Country Fair
21 August
10am
Open Motability Event
Gates of Stortford
22 August
3pm
Thank you for the Music
BS Rugby Club
25 August
7.30pm
AGM
Age Concern, Apton Centre
27 August
1pm
Go Cart Youth Project
Northgate Centre
29 August
11am
Re-open Smile and Wellbeing
South Street
6 September
2pm
Memory Walk in aid of Alzheimer’s Society
Rye Meads, Hoddesdon
6 Sept
2pm
Launch Day, Enfield Scouting Association
9 September
7pm
East of England
Plan Consultation
Stevenage
11 September
12.45
WW1 Exhibition Opening
Rhodes Arts Complex
12 September
10.30am – 5pm
BS Railway Society
Markwell Pavilion
12 September
7pm
Mayor’s Charity Ball for MacMillan
Rhodes Arts Complex
19 Sept
1.30pm
Carnival
Great Dunmow
20 September
9.45am
Town Twinning
Ramble
23 Sept
3pm
Isabel Hospice Presentation of Queen’s award for Voluntary Service
Day Hospice
23 Sept
5/6pm
HACRO AGM
County Police HQ, Welwyn Gdn City
26 September
MacMillan Coffee Morning
Meth Church & TIC
27 September
2pm
Grove Cottage Fun run starter
Grange paddocks
27 September
Town twinning planning for 2010 with Villiers Sur Marne/Friedberg guests
27 September
6.30pm
Shine Festival United Service
29 September
12.15pm
NSPCC Branch Annual Meeting
Letchworth Garden City
29 September
7pm
A New You’ – Makeover competition
Rhodes Arts Complex
3 October
12 Noon
Coopers of Stortford
Open furniture dept.
3 October
Afternoon tea with former pupils
Herts and Essex School Centenery
5 October
10am
Health Walk
Southern Country Park
7 October
British Heart Foundation Event
Jolly Brewers
15 October
10.30
Home-Start East Herts AGM
16 October
8.00pm
Harlow Council Civic Dinner,
Gibberd Gallery
17 October
7.15pm
Maltmakers Supper
Ware Priory
22 October
South Anglia Housing 5th Community Spirit Awards
Boreham House, Chelmsford
23 October
7 for 7.30pm
Age Concern BS Fund raising Event, ‘Any Questions’
Apton Centre, Apton Rd
25 October
Curry Lunch, for The Army Benevolent Fund
27 October
10am - noon
Coffee Morning
Haskell at Grove Cottage
31 October
2pm
Charity Performing Arts Showcase for The Cystic Fibrosis Trust
St Mary’s Catholic School, Windhill, Bishop’s Stortford
1 November
Abdul Douglas owner of Ancient Raj – to meet a minister from Bangladesh
Sawbridgeworth
4 November
6.30pm
Inaugural Observer/ Mercury Community Awards
Castle Hall, Hertford
12 November
6.00pm
Cocktail Party at Relish Eatery
The Priory, Thremhall Park, Bishop’s Stortford
13 November
7.15pm
BS Arts Society Exhibition
Library
18 November
7.00pm
Hertfordshire Constabulary Awards Ceremony
Police Headquarters, Welwyn Garden City
19 November
7pm
Charity Concert
City of London School
19 November
8.30am
Launch of the community mini bus service
Bell Street Car Park
20 November
9.00am
Opening of QD
Bishop’s Stortford
21 November
1pm – 3pm
Grove Cottage
Christmas Bazaar
23 November
7.00pm
East HertsCitizens Advice Service, Annual General Meeting
Priory Hall, Ware Priory, High Street, Ware
25 November
Wine tasting evening at host fund raiser for MacMillan
28 November
1pm - 4pm
St Elizabeth's Xmas Bazaar
Perry Green,
Much Hadham
1st December
6.30pm
Girlguiding Bishop’s Stortford West District, District Carol Service
St Barnabas Centre, Church Lane, Thorley
3 December
10-12 noon
Carers Finance talk
Bishop’s House
3 December
6pm
Routeways
Next Step, Bishop’s Stortford
4 December
5pm
Isabel Hospice Lights of Love Ceremony
Market Square
4 December
6:30pm
Christmas Carols and turning on Christmas tree lights
at Coopers
5 December
11.30am
Wave Off of a group of regulars of ‘The Cock’ ph, for fund raising
Grove Cottage
5 December
12.30pm
Collecting in Jackson Square
Isabel Hospice
5 December
7pm
The Salvation Army Carol Concert
Methodist Church
7 December
6.30pm
Bishop’s Stortford and District Cubs, Carol Concert
United Reformed Church, Water Lane, Bishop’s Stortford
10 December
7.30pm
Christmas Concert
The Herts and Essex High School and Science College
12 December
3pm
Christmas Party with the Salvation Army
Herts and Essex Hospital
13 December
2pm
The Royal British Legion - Hertfordshire County Annual Carol Service