Sherborne In Bloom!

Yesterday (16 Sep) was the South West In Bloom awards ceremony held at the Assembly Rooms, Bath. And guess what? We won another Gold Award! This is the fourth year running that Sherborne has won Gold and we can be justly proud that the efforts of all our gardeners, young people and volunteers have been so rewarded. Thanks to all of them for their commitment to keeping our town looking so beautiful. In addition to Gold, we also came away with six Neighbourhood Awards for sites in the town that represented especial community efforts. Oh, and sherborneinbloom.com (this website!) also won the Barry Cruse Trophy for Best Website. This is a great honour because the competition from the other towns and cities was very strong. Webmaster Gillian Gunner received the Barry Cruse Trophy for Best Website from Bob Flowerdew, the guest presenter of the occasion.

The Neighbourhood Awards were given to the following locations where volunteer groups had contributed to enhancing the environment of their neighbourhoods:

Quarr Lane Park

Acreman StreeCar Park

Fosters Furlong

Long Street Planter

Culverhayes Planter

Sherborne Police Station

Well done to all these groups for making a difference in the town. The Police Station award was actually graded as ‘Outstanding’ – well done to the girls and boys in blue!