CONNECTING OUR COMMUNITY SINCE 2016

It’s been great to see the mobile breast screening unit located at the Health & Wellbeing Centre on Dock Street for the last week. The return of the service to Fleetwood follows a passionate and successful community campaign earlier this year. With a local unit now available again, women are encouraged to take up their appointments - it really can save lives. Our best wishes to Ben and the team at Fleetwood Museum as the venue prepares to open for the 2022 season on Tuesday 5

Our latest update on the Town’s Jubilee Celebrations focusses on Fleetwood Museum and the local schools … As part of the event there will be a special display of community artwork to celebrate the Queen’s reign, coordinated by the Museum with all of Fleetwood’s primary and secondary schools taking part. Each of the primary schools is creating a themed artwork inside a 1m square frame, taking a decade of the Queen’s 70-year rule as their theme - the High schools will be depict

Plans for Fleetwood to mark the Platinum Jubilee are continuing and there’s an invitation for all members of the community to get involved ... The centre-piece of the celebrations is a ‘family picnic’ at Marine Hall Gardens on Saturday 4th June and this will include stalls as well as loads of live entertainment. Potential stalls could include: arts and crafts; interactive sports; face painting; hair braiding; mobile gaming stations; festival makeup/temporary tattoos; carnival

Here's some suggestions of things you might want to do in the week ahead, bringing people together and supporting health and wellbeing. (The links will take you to Facebook pages for the groups or events) Monday 14th March … It’s the monthly ‘Folk in the Afternoon’ event upstairs at the Strawberry Gardens Pub and Bistro Fleetwood, Poulton Road from 1pm to 4pm. Go along to sing, play, recite or just listen and enjoy! Tuesday 15th … There’s a weekly breast-feeding support group

There has been a fantastic community response to the appeals for items to support Ukrainian refugees ... The donation centre set up at Affinity Lancashire by Fleetwood Rotary last weekend was so busy they had to close early on one day but with the generosity of the public and the hard work of Rotarians, the first lorry load of donations is on its way via International Aid Trust. The Tram Weigh shop on North Albert Street, Fleetwood is continuing to take donations, best to che