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Westbury in Bloom 2008

A VERY BIG THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU WHO CONTRIBUTED TO THE FLOWERS IN WESTBURY IN 2008!

 This has included donations from many individuals and businesses in Westbury-on-Trym and every single contribution has been very gratefully received!
 Your generosity enabled us to have the full complement of hanging baskets for the lamp posts and all the tubs and troughs throughout the village! This excellent level of response not only showed how much you enjoy the flowers and how much you care about the environment you  live in but it really makes all the hard work involved worth it!

Thanks also to all the volunteers who worked hard in helping to bring the funds in; those who helped with the street collection and  all of you who delivered the gift aid envelopes throughout the village. A big thank you too to the volunteers who have helped (and are still helping!) with the plants generally, clearing the weeds, planting and also to those who look after the Pack Horse Garden. Blaise Nurseries were also very supportive.
This has been a real community effort!   So well done everyone!
As many of you know in 2008 we won the  gold medal for the Bristol in Bloom’s ‘Best Shopping Area/Street’ award and also gained a R.H.S. ‘Neighbourhood Award’ (which looks  at all environmental factors coming under the ‘clean and green’ umbrella includes weed, litter, and graffiti free streets, re-cycling measures as well as attractive flowers displays and sustainable planting. It also looks at the involvement of all the community in this so more volunteers to help with this are very welcome –   
Contact Sue Boyd on 9509621.    Thank you.  

 Some 65 businesses were official sponsors of Westbury in Bloom 2008 (their names are also on the notice board in Carlton court).  They have paid for a hanging basket for their own premises, sponsored a tub or hanging basket and/or made a donation of  £30 or more towards all the flowers for the village.
They are:
A & J Shoe Repairs                               Lloyds Bank TSB
 Amplifon Hearing Centre                       Mailboxes
 Anning & Co, Accountants                     Marie’s BargainCentre
 Appleton Fox Wealth Management Ltd    Memorial Woodlands
Barclays Bank PLC                                Merilyn at No.21
 J. Bayliss Ltd                                      W.H.Mogford & Son
 Bristol Key & Security                           Mogford Prescott
 Bristol Nine Journal                             Mumtaz Mehal
Bristol Locksmiths                               National Westminster Bank PLC
 Bristol Tax Savers                               Ocean Rodaway
Brittania Building Society                     Oxfam  - both branches  
 British Raj                                         Parson’s Bakery  
 Casamia                                            Patco Newsagent (Supernews)
Café Mundo                                        Pollard & Goodman Accountants
 Carousel Carpets                                Prescott Jones Accountants
 Charles Barnsley, chiropodist                R. Davies & Son
 Chesterfield Hearing Centre                 Rontos
 Devereaux & Co, Solicitors                   The Bridal Room
 Diamond Industry Distribution Ltd         The Printed Word
 Finest                                               Twiggy Fashions
 Funeral Care                                      Vivica’s
 Geoff Gollop, Accountant                     Westbury Fish Bar
 Gianni                                              Westbury Allotments & Gardens Assn
Halifax Estate Agents                         Westbury Men’s Club
 H.S.B.C. Bank PLC                              Westbury Village Hall
 Interlude Café                                   Westbury Methodist Church
 Intoto                                              Westbury Primary School
 J’s Autofast Repair 2 Ltd                     Westbury Trym & Tone   
 Jubilee Lets                                      The White Lion    
 Just So Balloons                               Woods Estate Agents   
 Kemps Jewellers                                Philip P. Corbin   
 K. Stabb                                          Me to You    
 Kingfisher Grill    

Very many thanks to you all –The Westbury in Bloom Committee
Blooming Marvelous
It was a ‘Win Win’ again this year for the Westbury in Bloom team. As well as providing the local community with a beautiful display of flowers, we also won 2 awards!
For the 5th year running we were awarded the gold medal for the ‘Best Shopping Area/Street by Bristol in Bloom. The second win was ‘Outstanding Achievement’ for the Royal Horticultural Society’s Top Neighbourhood Award. The Neighbourhood awards cover not only the introduction of floral displays and sustainable planting but also management of recycling, graffiti, litter and weeds. This is to encourage local communities to become ‘cleaner and greener’ so they can enjoy living, working and shopping in a pleasant environment.
So whether you kindly donated money, sponsored tubs and baskets, delivered yellow envelopes, stood on the street collecting money, planted flowers, or did some weeding - well done for these awards and many thanks to you!
We are now collecting for this year’s flowers and all contributions will be gratefully received. Why not give friends and family the gift of a contribution to ‘Westbury in Bloom 2009’ on their behalf, or sponsor a tub for them (cost £60 for a whole tub, £30 for half a tub).

Please send details and payment  to Sue Boyd (cheques payable to ‘The Westbury Flower Fund, Westbury on Trym Society’)