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Ulverston Dickensian Festival 23rd and 24th November – Event information
Updated information about Ulverston’s Courtesy Toilet Scheme
Charter Fun Day Celebrations 2024
Charter Family Fun Day Saturday 7th September
Ulverston Lantern Festival 14th September
Westmorland and Furness Local Plan Consultation
W&F Council Library options appraisal – fill in the survey online
Ulverston Town Council library survey – have your say on the future of the library
D-Day 80 commemorative events
Ulverston’s Eco Fair returns to The Coro on Thursday 24th April with doors opening at 10.30am for this FREE annual event.
Come and meet over 35 exhibitors with a focus on the environment, wildlife, biodiversity and how to live more sustainably.
Free trees, seeds and hedgehog highway goodies
Improve your composting skills with advice from the Master Composters
Free children’s activities and recycling crafts
Meet Kate Rawles, author of The Life Cycle , and her bamboo bike
Find out about energy efficiency grants
Measure your carbon footprint
Local eco-organisations – their projects and how to get involved
Talks throughout the day
Tasty and nutritious hot food, drinks and cakes
And much more!
On Saturday 26th April at 5pm, we have a showing of the not-to-be-missed film Wilding with a recorded Q&A at The Roxy Cinema.
Tickets are just £3 in advance or £6 on the door.
Click here to book.
🦇Don’t miss the evening bat walk on Saturday 26th April at 8pm along Ulverston Canal.
In partnership with Ulverston’s WalkFest, join local ecologist Tamsin, to find out more about these magical creatures and use bat detectors to listen to them.
This event is free but booking is essential via the WalkFest website here
The extremely popular Dickensian Festival returns to Ulverston on 23rd and 24th November.
Click here to find out all you need to know about the event –
Did you know there are more conveniences available within the town, other than the public toilets at The Gill?
Thanks to the businesses in the town who have kindly offered the use of their facilities for free as part of the Ulverston Courtesy Toilet Scheme, there are now a number of alternatives across the town centre:
- Coronation Hall
- Costa Coffee
- Indoor Market Hall
- Royal British Legion (open evenings)
- Ulverston Railway Station
The public convenience located near the Gill car park continues to be managed by Ulverston Town Council.
To view the information leaflet with a map and times the conveniences are open, click here
The council-run Charter Fun Day took place on Saturday 7th September – an annual event to celebrate Ulverston being granted its Market Charter by King Edward 1st in 1280.
Town Crier, Peter Winston began the event with the ringing of the town bell and reading of the charter at 10.30am before the full day of events, entertainment and activities began.
Families were able to enjoy this free event with live music at the Market Cross from Ulverston Town Band, Char and Boom Dang.
Magic shows, model-train rides, games, henna, balloon modelling, walkabout characters, the human fruit machine, giant chess boards, fire engines, the Inshore hovercraft, local organisations
providing all kinds of family friendly activities were all on offer for families to enjoy.
The ever-popular Family Dog Show saw around 70 entries for categories: Handsomest Dog; Prettiest Dog; Waggiest Tail; Best Collar / Bandana; Best Trick and The Dog the Judges Would Like to Take Home. Ralph Spours compered the show, while Mayor Graham Scrogham had the difficult task of choosing a winner from the many deserving entrants.
Allotment awards were presented to allotment holders for the best and improved plots by Councillor Margaret Hornby.
A huge thank you to everyone who helped support the day as a volunteer, performer, organisation or as a visitor to the event.
Join us on Saturday 7th September in Ulverston Town Centre for this FREE event for all the family!
They’ll be live music and entertainment, magic shows, games, balloon modelling, free henna, stalls, activities, ‘Lily’ the Victorian Street Organ, model train rides, inshore rescue boats, walkabout characters, inshore rescue boats and more!
Think you own the cutest puppy / dog with the waggiest tail / dog with the best trick? Then bring them along to our Family Dog Show at 2pm at Market Cross. No entry fees and no booking – just turn up. Everyone who enters [dogs and their owners] will receive a prize.
The Coro will be running a Make-a-Market-Stall competition for children and their families from 10am, with judging taking place at 3pm.
14th September 2024
2024 Theme – Story Time!
It’s ‘Story Time’ for Ulverston Lantern Festival 2024
Ulverston Lantern Festival aims to captivate thousands of people and inspire hundreds of lantern makers with wonderful heroes, villains, spacemen, super heroes, kings and queens, dogs and dragons and every other fantastical tale you’ve ever heard, read or seen with its ‘Story Time’ theme for the 2024 procession.
On Saturday September 14th Ulverston will once again come alive with a river of light that will start from four points around the town before converging on County Square to come together in a dazzling display, with the fireworks finale in Ford Park at the end of the evening.
Lantern kits priced at £6 are on sale from Appleseeds in Market Street, The Coronation Hall, Ulverston Market Hall, The Cumbria Way in Upper Brook Street, and Croftlands Launderette.
Lantern workshops will take place in the Coronation Hall on Sunday 8th Sept (2-6pm) and 9th-13th Sept (5:30-8:30pm), when absolute beginners and skilled lantern builders can come together to bring their ideas to light!
Lanterns Chair Chris Nelson explains: “The theme of the Festival changes each year and it is always a challenge to come up with something that excites and inspires. We think Story Time is one of our best. Every TV programme, every film, every play every book invariably tells a story so there is huge scope for people to create lanterns large and small.
“It could be a character or idea from a Once upon a time fairy tale, a droid from Star Wars, a hippogriff from Harry Potter or Harry himself. Inspiration might come from Captain hook, or his crocodile, Paddington bear, Pirates or Peter Rabbit. With the Festival featuring in an episode of Channel 5’s Cumbria – The Lakes and the Coast, we are expecting bigger crowds than ever on the night.”
Westmorland and Furness Council is preparing its first Local Plan. The planning activity looks ahead 20 years from now, and considers how many new homes and workplaces our area needs, whilst also protecting our local and historic character, special landscapes, green spaces and environment.
The Local Plan will:
• set out how much new development (e.g. homes and employment sites) is needed to support our communities
• make sure new development is built in the right places and in a way which is best for people and the environment
• allocate sites for new housing and other development
• protect some areas and green spaces from development
• include policies that are used to decide planning applications
• plan for development relating to minerals and waste
Community conversations will be happening at drop-in sessions, when people can talk to council officers to find out more about the process and contribute. A session has already taken place at The Coro in Ulverston on 11th July. Forthcoming sessions in the Ulverston area include the Buccleuch Hall Lindal on 19th July, Askam & Ireleth Community Centre on 24th July, and Dalton Drill Hall on 1st August.
To find out more, follow the link – https://consult.westmorlandandfurness.gov.uk/localplan/
Westmorland and Furness Council have today launched a consultation on the preferred option for Ulverston library service and The Coro.
They now want to hear your views on the proposal.
Please complete the survey online by clicking on the following link:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/UlvLibraryCoroWF
The online survey includes plans, illustrative images and a walk through video showing how the proposed designs could look.
There are also displays and booklets containing more information about the proposal available in Ulverston Temporary Library.
Please look at all the information and the proposed designs to help you answer the questions in the survey.
Your views will help inform a final decision by councillors.
Deadline for responses to this survey is 23 August 2024.
Ulverston Town Council have launched a survey for the community to share their thoughts on the closed Kings Road Library and the current library service in The Coro.
Ulverston King’s Road Library closed on 1st September 2023 due to ‘electrical issues’. A temporary library service was set up in the Market Hall and The Coro Ante Room. It is now based solely in the Supper Room of The Coro.
We would like to encourage as many people as possible to fill out the survey as we recognise that the views of the community are extremely important and will help to shape the future of the Library and services.
The Community Library Survey takes around two minutes to fill in and can be accessed on the following link – http://tinyurl.com/ULVLCS
Paper copies of the survey will also be available from Ulverston Town Council Office on County Square, where completed surveys can be posted in the letterbox outside the office.
On 6th June we raised our D-Day 80 flag on the Town Council office and at the top of Hoad Hill next to the Sir John Barrow Monument. There was a short service at the War Memorial at 11am with around 70 attendees.
At 9.15pm a beacon was lit by the Mayor on top of Hoad Hill and shone brightly across the town. The Town Crier, Mr Peter Winston read the D-Day Tribute and the Last Post was sounded by a member of Ulverston Town band.
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