The Broadwell Events Committee have announced some upcoming events over the next few months, the details are below.
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The 2026 Broadwell Summer show will be taking place on Saturday the 12th of September on the village green and in the Victory Hall. If you would like a poster to advertise the event, or you would like a copy of the schedule, you can use the links below to download copies of these. Hope to see you there on the day!
Summer Show Poster
Summer Show Schedule
Over the course of last year the Broadwell Soup Kitchen built up a surplus of £225. With the agreement of the people who attend the monthly event this surplus was donated to the Hope4 charity. More details of the work this charity carries out can be found here
The Broadwell Soup Kitchen is held on the 3rd Wednesday of every month in the Victory Hall and runs from 12:00-1:30pm
On the first Wednesday of each month the Knit and Knatter group meet in the Victory Hall. At this month's meeting the activities covered...
Felted Mice
A bit of knitting; purl one, knit one!
Making paper Stars
And Voila, they're made!
On the third Wednesday of every month we hold our regular soup kitchen. They are always well attended, with this one being no exception
As with all groups of people eating food we are very grateful our Hall has a dishwasher!
On the 13th of September we held our annual Summer Flower Show. It all started so well with the Flecknoe Events Committee setting up 3 marquees for us
Sadly, that night we had some really high winds and the scene in the morning was not good
However, the show must go on and with some hard work and only 1 fixing needing replacing, later that day all was well again
Then it was the turn of the Broadwell Flower Show Committee to put up our marquees, a finely tuned team in action
And before you knew it the show was up and running. We are always grateful to our local artisan craft and other stall holders for supporting the event with some wonderful stalls
And of course, what village show would be without some music during the day
We also had some of our local farmers and contractors bring along a variety of machinery
In the middle of the afternoon we were presented with a fantastic rainbow.
Later in the afternoon Martin, the chairman of the show committee, auctioned off the entries to the show. Cakes, vegetables, fruit and flowers were all sold and at the end of the auction nearly £160 had been raised.
Over the last few weeks we have managed to scan in some of the old photos of Broadwell. These have been added to the Archive section of the website and can be viewed here.
Most of this group of photos are over 100 years old, so the quality is not perfect, but they do depict life and scenes in Broadwell that, if not recorded here, could be lost forever.
We have now added an archive area to the Victory Hall website. As of today we are starting to put up issues of the Broadwell Mail. There are a few older copies that have been scanned in so the quality is not perfect, but new editions should be from the original files. We have also added an index to the obituaries published in the Broadwell Mail so that friends and neighbours who are sadly no longer with us can be remembered.
Every month on the third Wednesday a group of volunteers run a 'soup kitchen' in the Broadwell Victory Hall. On each occasion we have three or four soups available, made by a handful of local chefs.
This month we had a vegetable, sweet potato and chorizo, pea and mint and lentil and Sweet Red Pepper soups available. Some of the soup makers also serve the soup
In a small community like ours events like the monthly soup kitchen pull us all together and make us stronger.