Swindon175Launch

What’s being planned...

Through Swindon175, we can celebrate with great pride our past, present and future and certainly raise the profile of our town, our community and our region.

It’s very clear that we have an abundance of talent in our town and who want to be involved with us as we celebrate Swindon’s birthday. We are looking for business involvement to help us achieve our programme of events and showcase the town, its people and its culture.

We have already teamed up with Swindon Arts Trail which will see a month long exhibition of great works by a plethora of Swindon artists. The Swindon Fringe Festival, which will run for ten days and will feature various acts from comedy to plays to music gigs. One of our largest events, so far in the diary, is when the Swindon Symphony Orchestra raise the roof at STEAM. We are also working with the Janice Thompson Performance Trust to stage the aptly named Youth and Community Opera ‘Brunel: The Little Man in the Tall Hat’.

Away from the stage but very much part of Swindon’s past and present, Arkell’s Brewery will be brewing three new 175 Celebration ales, and Deacons Jewellers have commissioned a limited edition Swindon175 pocket watch.

For model rail enthusiasts, Hatton’s Model Railways have produced a STEAM Museum ‘00’ gauge model ‘King George V’ which is due out in February 2016.

Not only will we be celebrating the previous 175 years, we are looking to the future as well with a series of Distinguished Speaker events which will include key business leaders, economists and politicians.

If you would like to know more about Swindon175 and the events we are planning or if you want to get more involved please contact me, Caroline Black Project Manager of Swindon175 on caroline@swindon175.com