SMART Prebend Centre have said "thank you" to Bedford Independent readers after our story about their Christmas Appeal created a dramatic surge of donations, helping them achieve...
Companions Real Bread on Mill Street Bedford has announced it will be taking over Delices bakery on Lurke Street from mid-January 2019. At a special event today, where the bakery...
Back in October, we wrote about the launch of Mel Stratton's Love in a Bag campaign - aiming to deliver much needed essentials, plus a message of hope and support, to women in crisis...
The Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation (BLCF) has teamed up with the Bedford Blues to launch the Surviving Winter Appeal to support the 41,700 households...
Drive through Wootton at this time of year and you'd be forgiven for thinking you'd reached Father Christmas' grotto in the north pole, as local festive fan Graham Mayles...
Pupils at Bedford School have raised over £10,000 for the Movember charity, ranking them the events top fundraising school and 16th highest in the whole country.
A fundraising page has been set up for Simon Mushonga, the Bedford man murdered in Kettering at the weekend. The page, set up by a family members is asking for support to raise the £5000 needed to send Simon...
![SMART CRIB appeal Homeless man[1]](https://www.bedfordindependent.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/SMART-CRIB-appeal-Homeless-man1-640x480.jpg "Help Bedford’s homeless this Christmas with SMART Prebend Centre")
SMART Prebend Centre has launched their annual appeal to raise funds to support the homeless and vulnerably housed in Bedford and they're aiming to raise £50,000.
Today is World AIDS Day and in recognition of this international event, to raise awareness of AIDS and the HIV infection, the Terrence Higgins Trust will be offering free confidential rapid HIV tests to the people of Bedford.
This week is the UK's first Homelessness Awareness Week, a series of events in Bedford to highlight awareness of the challenges facing homeless people, the charities helping then and break the...
The Bedford Club has presented St Paul's Church, Bedford with a silhouette statue commemorating a World War One soldier.
Part of the national There But Not There campaign, in association with Help for Heroes Official and...
To mark the centenary of the end of WW1, communities had the opportunity to take part in There But Not There, a national installation of the fallen.
The project sees life-size silhouettes and Perspex cut-outs of...