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Job spec bar and catering assistant 2021

Winter Opening Times
West Road Cemetery, Shildon

October-March 2022

Monday    –    Thursday           08.00 am to  3.45 pm

Friday                                          08.00 am to  3.15 pm

Saturday & Sunday                 09.00 am to  4.00 pm

Please note NO Pedestrian access outside of these times.

Shildon Town Council are excited to announce, that wristbands will be available for this year’s ‘Spooktacular Night Walk & Spooky Disco’, from Monday 4^th October and you can get yours from Shildon Town Council Offices.

Wristbands will be limited to 6 per family and must be worn on the night to gain entry and collect by an adult, unfortunately if you do not have your wristband on the night, you will be refused entry. Please note that proof of address will be required as this event is open to Shildon residents only.

So, dig up your Halloween fancy dress and get ready to join us for a frightful night of spookiness.

You can choose from 2 entry timeslots, 4pm and 5pm on Sunday 31^st October 2021, Adults and Children over the age of 3 years will require a wristband.

Remember  – No wristband,  No entry on the night.

Ticket Band Collection Times

Monday – Thursday 9am – 4.00pm

Friday 9am – 3.30pm

Shildon Town Council are happy to announce the winners of their inaugural ‘Shildon Blooming Best Garden Competition Winner 2021’. It is my absolute pleasure to be writing this press article today as we disclose to the town who are winners are.

As you might imagine we have had a great variety of entrants from across all the categories, from small and perfectly formed to larger more formal gardens,  it has been lovely to see the care and attention all our green finger residents lavish upon their beloved green haven. Judging took place on Friday afternoon, and it was not an easy job, so many beautiful entries, big and bold, bright, and colourful and small and sedate we have seen them all –  so thank you to everyone who took the time to entre the competition this year.

So,  hear we go,  the winners by Category are as follows:

Garden Category and Winner
Category 1. Best Front Garden - Ken Holdsworth £50 prize money plus a GARDENA CleverRoll hose trolley set with 25m hose and comfort multisprayer gun and hamper of garden care products.
Category 2. Best Back Garden -Dawn & Stephen Jones £50 prize money plus a GARDENA CleverRoll hose trolley set with 25m hose and comfort multisprayer gun and hamper of garden care products.
Category 3. Best Frontage Shop - NO ENTRIES £50 prize money plus a GARDENA CleverRoll hose trolley set with 25m hose and comfort multisprayer gun and a hamper of garden care products.
Category 4. Home Frontage - Barry Lowry For properties that open onto the street – £50 prize money plus a GARDENA Balcony box, planting mat and gloves set.
Category 5. Hidden Garden - David Nelson-Vollans For properties that open onto the street – £50 prize money plus a GARDENA Balcony box, planting mat and gloves set.
Category 6. Allotment or Edible Garden -Stephanie Endersby A space or location not visible from the street – £50 prize money plus a GARDENA Liano Textile 20m hose and Comfort Multispray gun.
Category 7. Community / Multi User Garden - Chestnut Close Community Garden £50 prize money plus a GARDENA Liano Textile 20m hose and Comfort Multispray gun.
Category 8. Best Bug Hotel - Lily Butterfield & Liam Stevens The category for the younger gardeners – a Family Pass for Planet Leisure at Newton Aycliffe Lily Butterfield Liam Stevens

Congratulations to all the winners, for your inspiring entries, the ongoing attention, care, and endless love shown to your green spaces and shared with us- Thank you all.

Shildon Town Council would also like to thank Cllr. Dave Reynolds for his wonderful idea to hold the Shildon Blooming Best Garden Competition, at a time when we all needed something, other than Covid-19 to focus on.

He has personally sponsored the final award of the competition,  the Overall Blooming Best Shildon Garden winner,  and this year the bragging rights will go to Mr Ken Holdsworth for sharing with us his beautiful, wildlife friendly front garden, which has several areas, all beautifully maintained, interesting plants and shrubs, a good use of hard landscaping, all coming together to create a calm and contemplative space where you could imagine, sitting down with a cuppa, watching the bees and insects buzzing around, whilst surround by the beautiful planting. A credit to your horticultural skills.

Well done, and keep on growing and gardening.

Click here to view all the garden entries

The Fun Food and Film Project which is being funded via Bishop Auckland And Shildon Area Action Partnership – HAHF-Holiday Activities With Healthy Food fund,  is now in its fifth week, we can hardly believe it, the time has passed so quickly.

Those attending have been taking part in a range of family friendly physical activities, trying out new things, meeting new people and then enjoying a healthy meal together, followed by a family movie.

We hope that all those involved have enjoyed their time on the project, and we look forward to the final session next week, where we can all celebrate what we have achieved together.

We hope the friendships made during the project will be long lasting, and that the families will continue to use the skills they have learnt to be more active and continue to play together as a family.

For those families who would like to continue to be active together as a family, they can register for ParkPlay

ParkPlay sessions take place on Saturday mornings between 10am – 11 am, on the football pitch in Hackworth Park, Shildon,  so why not register today, so you can all continue to play and be healthy together, as well as meeting new people and enjoying the beautiful backdrop of Hackworth Park.

Yes, there is still time to entre your garden into the Shildon Blooming Best Garden Competition 2021, the closing date is 4.30pm the 1st September.

No matter how big, or how small, there’s a garden category for all, so, show off your displays, window boxes or hanging baskets and all that green fingered know how.
Its easy, just take a picture and upload it with you details, on the entry form, to be in with a chance to win one of the amazing prize bundle on offer.

Don’t forget kids, there’s the Bug and Mini Beasts Hotel Competition for you, its easy, so why not build one and enter the competition,  we have great prizes to give away, so why not enter today. We love to see your hotel creations and you’ll be helping the bugs, insects and little critters stay safe.

Click here for the entry form

For those of you who regularly visit Hackworth Park, you will have seen the early groundwork preparations by Shildon Town Council’s Direct Works Team, made in readiness for the creation of a new park asset.

The ‘Legacy VE DAY 75 Wildflower Meadow’ which was made possible by securing funding from the ‘In Your Neighbourhood’ pot, as part of the wider Shildon Town Council VE Day 75 Project Package.

We were all ready for an exciting year, then sadly Covid hit, and we were forced to put the project on hold, until finally earlier this year, the improved weather provided a window of opportunity for the seed to be sown.

We worked with staff and young people from Durham Agency Against Crime (DAAC),  who were only too pleased to help, and over the course of a couple of days, they had hand sown  70 metres x 30 metres of area, a very big job.

Everything was now in the hands of Mother Nature, the weather, which I might say was not very helpful at first,  with very cold temperatures and lots of frost followed by wind and rain, and even more rain, conditions improved and gave us hope, the green shoots started to appear and then the whole area was flushed in fresh green growth.

It has now been several months since the sowing took place, and wow how it has come along lovely.

It is a beautiful thing to behold,  a big, bold, splash of yellows, blues, and reds, these are the annuals we are seeing, and over the next two years the perennials will come on board, so it will get better as time goes on.

If you have not seen it, it is worth a visit.

Youth sessions are taking place each  Wednesday afternoon in Hackworth Park, the group meet at the tennis courts in Hackworth Park.

Staff from Auckland Youth and Community Centre, Maxine and Ryan, will be there to meet you, for a range of fun games and activities. Shildon Alive new Community Development Worker  Ashley, will also be on hand to say hi ,and to delver the free snack packs which have been generously donated by Shildon Alive,  to keep you all going.

So, why not drop on down and meet the team from 2.30pm till 4.30pm.

For more information contact us on 01388 772563