The first Miyawaki planting project in Bedford Borough will take place at Longholme Way, Bedford, on Saturday 21 January. This is an exciting opportunity for volunteers to make a positive impact in their community by helping to create dense, biodiverse urban forests using the Miyawaki method with native trees.
Bedford Borough Council is giving away 5,000 trees to local residents, businesses, schools and community groups to collect and plant locally. This giveaway will be held on Wednesday 15 February and Saturday 18 February, from 10am to 3pm at Oasis Beach Pool car park.
In a stranger than usual public event held in the Changing Places accessible public toilet in River Street Car Park, two further toilets in Bedford were twinned, bringing the total to more than 20 in supporting Bedford Park Rotary Club's Toilet Twinning campaign, highlighting sanitation needs and improving sanitation across the globe. The other Borough Council twinned toilet is in Borough Hall
The government has failed to inject money and support local communities in Kempston in last week's Levelling Up funding announcement. It comes despite Rishi Sunak's own constituency of Richmond in Yorkshire receiving £19m of levelling up funding. If the bid had been successful, it would have provided funding to restore the Saxon Centre and invest in public space, walking and cycling infrastructure.
Friday 27 January is Holocaust Memorial Day where we remember the millions of people murdered in the Holocaust, under Nazi Persecution, and in the genocides which followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur.
Bedford Borough is encouraging residents who have received a letter from their GP inviting them to a cervical screening test, to attend their appointment.
