Wickford Town

Sing For St Luke’s

Wednesday 8th March, 7:00pm at Towngate Theatre, St. Martins Square, Basildon SS14 1DL

Sing for St. Luke’s is St. Luke’s Hospice’s live show where 8 local schools from across Basildon and Thurrock are invited to perform. The eight school choirs – which vary in age and size – are given the unique opportunity to compete by performing two songs on a fully functioning theatre stage, in front of a live audience.

At the end of the evening, one school choir will be chosen as the winner of Sing for St. Luke’s 2023.

Money raised from the show will help St. Luke’s Hospice provide specialist and compassionate palliative and end of life care. Sing for St. Luke’s is kindly sponsored by Birkett Long. www.towngatetheatre.co.uk/sing-for-stlukes

Celebrating 20 years of our Viola & Pansy Festival

11th March – 19th March, 9:00am – 4:00pm at Meadow Croft Garden Centre, Woodham Rd, Battlesbridge, Rettendon Place, Wickford SS11 7QU

• Craft Stalls

• Face Painting

• Live Music

• FREE Goody Bag for Kids under 16

(Goody Bag includes seeds, pot and compost, mini meadows mini golf membership, tomato plant voucher and a kid gardening calendarwhile stocks last)

Visit at the weekends for Live Music, Craft Stalls, Facepainting and a FREE goody bag for kids.

11th & 12th March

18th & 19th March

The Viola & Pansy Festival is the largest independent variety trial of these plants held in the world, with seed of new varieties supplied by plant breeders from around the world.

Wick Country Park Monthly Wildlife Walk

Wednesday 15th March, 10:30am at The Wick Country Park, Wickford SS12 9ES

Started early in 2020 and organised by Martin

Save The Date

The Viola & Pansy Festival is returning for a week full of festival favourites - 11th19th March – free entry fun for the whole family - Meadow Croft Kitchen will be open throughout the event.

• Competitions

• FREE Hot Drink for everyone who votes for their festival favourite

Singleton of the Wickford Wildlife Society (WWS). Held monthly, on a Wednesday morning, Martin will be facilitating a sociable and leisurely walk lasting approximately 1 – 1 ½ hours around the Park looking out for, and recording, birds and other wildlife spotted or heard. Martin provides a report on each event, and also presents an annual summary. These events are free, but if you are interested in joining them, please register interest with Martin via b512rubble@btinternet.com, so that you can be notified of future plans by email and / or WhatsApp. You are advised to ‘get in the loop’ because sometimes it is necessary to vary the date and / or time from the standard pattern. If you come throughout the year, you may be amazed at the changing patterns of sightings throughout the seasons.