Category: Zone For Other Stuff

Information and topics which do not match the criteria of the main categories of this blog, or which does not relate to Warminster and district.

Community Open Day At West Wiltshire Crematorium

Wednesday 1st October 2025

Community Open Day
on
Saturday 4th October 2025
10am – 2pm
at West Wiltshire Crematorium.

This is a welcoming opportunity to:

Explore our chapel, gardens and crematory.

Meet our friendly team.

Learn more about the services and support we provide.

Enjoy light refreshments.

We will also be joined by Celebrants, Embalmers, and E Wooten and son funeral Directors who will be on hand to answer any questions you may have.

Everyone is welcome — whether you’d like to find out more about what we do, have questions you’ve always wanted to ask, or simply want to spend some quiet time in the gardens.

We look forward to welcoming you.

About The Country Gentlemen’s Association

Saturday 21st October 2023

From the website of the Country Gentlemen’s Association:

It’s now more than 120 years since the CGA, the Country Gentlemen’s Association, was founded.  Queen Victoria was still on the throne, the First World War was more than 20 years away, manned flight was in its infancy as were the motor car, the telephone and so many other things we take for granted these days.

But despite the progress in virtually everything you can think of, the CGA has remained true to the ethos of its founding fathers, to represent and serve the interests of its members through a variety of services, privileges, offers and events.

Much of our offering has of course changed thanks to the passage of time but one thing hasn’t – the same degree of courtesy and respect that has been part of the CGA’s DNA since its early days is still at the heart of everything the various teams at the CGA headquarters in Wiltshire do.

They offer professional, qualified advice on legal, financial and insurance questions, put together a programme of exclusive events every year and produce an award winning magazine.

That is why I am proud and honoured to be at the helm of what is a truly remarkable organisation – and why I would invite you, if you’re not already a member, to follow the links to the membership page on this website and add your name to the 14,500 from all over the UK who are already on our membership list.

I very much look forward to meeting you at a CGA event in the near future. Meanwhile I hope you will enjoy being a member of an organisation which has its roots in the past, its feet firmly planted in the present and its thinking fine tuned to the future.

William Harrison-Allan,
Chairman and CEO of The CGA.

www.thecga.co.uk/

No Great Dorset Steam Fair 2023

Thursday 27th October 2022:

There will be no Great Dorset Steam Fair next year, 2023.

The Board Of Directors of the Great Dorset Steam Fair have made the following announcement:

Following a thorough review of the 2022 show, it is with great sadness and disappointment that the Great Dorset Steam Fair Ltd Board of Directors have to announce that unfortunately we will be taking a year’s break before running the next Great Dorset Steam Fair event, which will now be held over the August Bank Holiday weekend in 2024 (subject to confirmation).

This has been an extremely difficult decision for us to make. Whilst the 2022 event has been a fantastic and resounding success as a spectacle, it has been mired by significant and spiralling increases in contractor and infrastructure costs and the costs associated with meeting the necessary regulatory and statutory compliance which are commensurate with operating such a large-scale event. In short, as a big show we have big costs, costs which have risen disproportionately this year and, crucially, are very difficult to forecast for next year in the current economic climate.

The event industry as a whole is still feeling the harsh financial repercussions of the COVID-19 Pandemic, which together with the aftermath of Brexit and the war in Ukraine, has seen significant increases in staff, contractor, fuel, transport, material and equipment hire prices. The likelihood is that event costs will continue to rise in 2023, compounded by the emergence of the cost of living crisis which will undoubtedly affect consumer confidence and spending in the event industry next year.

Whilst we appreciate that this will come as a surprise to many, given the success of the 2022 event, as organisers of a large scale major event we are acutely aware of the financial unknowns moving into 2023 with further cost increases likely and our regular customers, exhibitors and traders also feeling the financial squeeze. With the ongoing economic situation, the rise in inflation and the cost of living crisis, the reality is that it would be financially challenging for us to run the event in 2023. It is not prudent or sensible to hold the show next year and in order to safeguard and preserve the future of the Great Dorset Steam Fair, we believe this to be the right decision to enable us to continue to run a high-quality event in 2024 and beyond.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your continued support.

www.gdsf.co.uk