National Adoption Week highlights children and parents looking for second chance
National Adoption Week runs until the 21st October and our reporter, Hannah Brown, looks at what adoption means for children and the people they may one day call mum and dad. There are 2000 children in the UK who sit patiently and quietly on a list waiting for adoption. Their early experiences have, more than […]
Bedford kids fly flag for Great Britain in indoor skydiving world challenge
Last Saturday, 10 children from Skydive Recruitz competed in Bodyflight World Challenge ‘Revenge’ 2018, an international competition at Twinwoods Adventure. Club secretary Tracey Bell, and mum to Jorja who competes for the team, helped establish Great Britain’s only indoor skydiving youth team. “It started as an after school club at St Andrew’s School Bedford and Rushmoor School a couple of years ago. We went to Twinwoods […]
SoupFest soup-er-stars return
Following the success of last year’s inaugural SoupFest Bedford, the charity take-over of Harpur Square will back on Tuesday 27 November – serving up amazing soups to raise money for homeless charities. Once again, Bedford’s chefs will be creating their signature soups to be sold from the Soupfest marquees in Harpur Square from 11am until the tureens run dry. […]