How will you celebrate health and wellbeing this summer?

Join in with one of the Wellbeing events being held during the first two weeks of June over Northamptonshire.

Click here to see the diary of events.

SATURDAY MAY 1ST 5.00 am Rise early and come to join
Brackley Morris Men

May Day morning in Brackley used to be a quiet peaceful affair, not much stirred apart from the birds and perhaps the milkman or occasional postie. In 1980 all this changed. At the ungodly hour of 5.30 a.m. precisely, mayhem replaced the peace! Brackley for the first time in many years heard music, jingling bells and the clashing of sticks on a May morning. An event was taking place, an event designed to welcome in the summer! The perpetrators of this event were none other than The Brackley Morris Men! They had decided that dancing out in the wilds on May Bank Holiday Monday, like sensible Morris men, was for wusses. No, they had to be different and dance on the 1st of May regardless of what day of the
week it fell.

Click here for more details of this event.

http://www.thebrackleymorrismen.org.uk

In 1260 Brackley was granted its first charter of borough status and many people in the town still remember the week of celebrations that took place in 1960 to commemorate the Septcentenary of this event.

2010 therefore marks the 750th anniversary and, to this end, there will be festivities in the Market Place on Saturday 10 April.

They will start at 11.00am with performances of Morris and country dancing by the Brackley Morris Men. Public participation may well be sought. There will also be some side stalls where local organisations will offer activities; a Punch and Judy show; jugglers; musical interludes.

Refreshments will be available inside the Town Hall as well as at the town's many food and drink outlets.

A few items have still to be finalised but further details may be obtained from Brackley Town Hall on 01280 702441.

Put the date in your diary and come along to celebrate with the Town Mayor and Councillors.

Click here for details of the Northamptonshire Yeomanry Association event 10 April 2010 in Brackley

Please click here for the Play Space PRESS RELEASE

Please click here for the Play Space Policy

There is to be consultation meeting held on Saturday 20th February 2010 in Brackley Town Hall from 10am – 12 noon with a view for members of the public and various stakeholders to comment on the proposals for Swift Way Play Space and to enable further comments on the future requirements for other play spaces within the town.

Brackley Town Council invite you to come along to the consultation to see the types of equipment and facilities that are available for the immediate construction of Swift Way Play Space and to further comment on future requirements for the town. You will be able to meet with members of the Play Space Working Party and other stakeholders.

There will be further opportunities to discuss all of the above at Brackley Town Council's Annual Town Meeting scheduled for 7.30 pm on Monday 8th March 2010 in the upper hall of Brackley Town Hall.

THE TOWN COUNCIL IS ORGANISING A COURSE WHICH COVERS THE USE OF FIRE EXTINGUISHERS AND FIRE TRAINING.

This includes a practical training session in the use of fire extinguishers where candidates are presented with different classifications & types of fire which allows trainees to experience fire extinguisher use within a controlled & safe environment.

THE COST IS £5.00 AND THERE WILL BE A CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE

AND IT IS TO BE HELD ON FRIDAY 12 TH MARCH AT 2.30PM ON THE PIAZZA

PLEASE CONTACT  

Telephone: (01280) 702441
Email: town.clerk@brackleynorthants-tc.gov.uk

TO BOOK YOUR PLACE

ANNUAL TOWN MEETING

TO BE HELD IN THE

TOWN HALL

8th MARCH 2010

7.30PM

To include a discussion on Swift Way Play Space.

EVERYONE WELCOME

MGWSP, the highways service provider for Northamptonshire County Council, has been salting the county's roads throughout the night and is continuing to treat and plough routes across the county. For more information please click here


http://www.mgwsp.co.uk/
Please click on the link for the latest gritting and snow information

The staff members of the Town Council would like to thank all those who attended the coffee morning in aid of the Katharine House Hospice on 18th December in the Lower Hall of the Town Hall the total raised on the morning was £394.

The Town Mayor Cllr Caryl Billingham would like to invite you all to the Christmas Carol Service to be held on the Piazza on Sunday 20th December at 7pm.  Prior to this there is a Christmas Parade organised by Brackley Community Events which will leave Brackley Park at about 6.30pm. Free soup will be served by the Town Councillors, Father Christmas will appear by demand only and members of the public will have to sing a rousing chorus of Jingle Bells to make their requests heard. Please click here for a Carol sheet for you to download to bring to the event.  (There will be copies available on the night but we would appreciate it if residents will return them for next year's event). The High Street and Market Place car park will be closed to all traffic for this event at 6pm until the event is finished, all residents in the High Street have been advised by letter.

There have been a number of successful Craft Fairs held at regular intervals in the Town Hall over the last 18 months, generally coinciding with the Farmers Market (but not December).

A ‘holiday break' was taken July to September 2009 but we are back again on 17th October, 21st November and 12th December so come along and do your early Christmas shopping.

There's a wide variety of gifts to choose from including:

The event runs from 9am to 1pm, in both the Upper and Lower Halls. Coffee and biscuits/cakes are on sale so pop in, you might find just what you need.