
Honouring the Windrush Generation on Windrush Day
Today, June 22nd is Windrush Day, a day to honour and celebrate the British Caribbean community and those who travelled to the UK to live after the Second World War.
Today, June 22nd is Windrush Day, a day to honour and celebrate the British Caribbean community and those who travelled to the UK to live after the Second World War.
Today, 21st June, Armed Forces Week begins with the raising of the Armed Forces Day flag on buildings and famous landmarks around the country. This morning, the Armed Forces Day Flag was raised in a ceremony at Borough Hall in Bedford which also featured a Standard Bearer and a piper.
Last week, ahead of today's Global Motor Neurone Disease Awareness Day, Mayor Dave Hodgson met with members of Bedford Motor Neurone Disease Association to discuss the Act to Adapt campaign and the services Bedford Borough Council offer locally.
The latest weekly coronavirus snapshot for Bedford Borough has been published.
Bedford Borough Council is calling on all EU, EEA or Swiss citizens and their families, who lived in the UK on 31 December 2020, to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme.
This week is Refugee Week 2021, and local organisations The Higgins Bedford, St Paul's Church, Bedford & Bedfordshire Refugee & Asylum Seeker Support have been working together to run free events inspired by the theme 'We Cannot Walk Alone'