Tesco Dedworth Summer Food Collection… bag it 🥳🥳 Help folk who are struggling if you can… thank you Thank you. Jon DaveyCommunity ChampionTesco Dedworth

It was yet another hot day, how many in a row, who knows?  I’d had an idea of shooting short videos but that flew out the window as the sun shone… Just grabbed a couple, here’s one of Windsor’s Town Crier who leads The Ukulele Band, enjoy… I switched tack, I wandered Alexandra Gardens and…

We’re taking part in this year’s Windsor & Eton Pride Event on Saturday 25th July. Last year it was all about the lawns and giving Alexandra Gardens to the people… an ongoing campaign… This year we’ll be wandering Alexandra Gardens with 100 Community Directories and 500 Windsor Day Photo Competition posters and our… QR CODE…

Morning all, it’s time to have some time away from the day to day management of the website and prepping for the next thing. We’ve re-jigged the site, as we like to do from time to time, giving it a calmer vibe. Rather than the blog being all over the front page, it’s now set…

Today local photographers, residents, an Aussie cricket team, a tree warden and the Town Crier gathered to announce Windsor Day into being.  Fully supported by Jack Rankin MP who would…

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Love this picture that Canva created for me… reminded me of this poem by Spike Milligan Smiling is infectiousYou catch it like the flu,When someone smiled at me today,I started smiling too. I passed around the cornerAnd someone saw me grin.When he smiled I realizedI’d passed it on to him. I thought about that smile,Then…

As England prepare to bring it home by winning their quarter final in the World Cup 2026, our young people have been designing new football kits 😉 Vote for your favourite World Cup Winning Football Strip over on our Facebook group We’ll be watching at Fi.Fest, you coming? Thank you. Jon

Just been checking the weather for Windsor Day, next Friday And there maybe a little rain… the rain bringing the fresh air is what tends to happen Seems to me, most of us struggle to cope in the heat, or the real cold, we like it just so, shall we say 16 to 24 degrees…

This Pedal To The Park is the second big bike ride organised by Windsor Cycle Hub. We’ll show you how easy it is to cycle from Windsor to the Great Park. Naturally, a degree of fitness, & your gears, are required. We can help you with the gears. Reception at Stag Meadow (by Windsor &…

Over the last month we had 1,276 votes cast, mostly for the first 30 of 60+ pictures. There were a number of late entries which we had to add at the end of the stack, which meant some didn’t get the votes they deserved, or would have had if entered on time.  It would have…

A FREE WINDSOR DAY EVENT – AT WINDSOR LIBRARY6.30 pm, 17 July 2026 Presenting: Windsor ’85: Unbridled SummerA newly released novel set in Windsor during the summer of 1985. FormatA brief introduction followed by readings from selected chapters, exploring Windsor’s history, character and community through fiction. Windsor Day celebrates the history and identity of one…

I popped in to see Mary at Radio Marlow, let’s say 10 years ago and took her a caterpillar cake because I knew it would make her smile 😉 She sadly left us yesterday but like all fabulous caterpillars, she’ll have morphed, this time into an angel rather than a butterfly. Always ready to help…

We are just 21 Facebookers shy of 13,000 Members in our “I Love Windsor Community” Facebook Group! Please share the link above with your pals Will we get there by Chico Time, Fi.Fest, next weekend? May be Windsor Day, 17th July, will prove to be the magic day? Or will we have to wait until…

I’ve seen a number of people out with their chain saws looking to trim the hedge with their No.1 tool 😉 In the UK, bird nesting season generally runs from 1 March to 31 August. During this time, it is an offence under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 to intentionally damage or destroy an…

Go find out what all those drone shots can’t show you… what’s going on inside the buildings 😉 Get yourself book on to one of 3 tours: 9am, 10am and 11am You need to book on by Friday 3rd July due to health & safety, contact Danielle Welburn, email danielle.welburn@abri.co.uk , or phone 07880 107269.

The Windsor Upper Schools are staging Les Misérables and it opens for FIVE incredible shows from Wednesday 8 July to Saturday 11 July 2026 Enjoy Jon

When I drove past Sutherland Grange the other morning I noticed the Thames Hospice bins were missing… then yesterday, their removal was being celebrated as a LibDem success on Facebook! This brought back memories of an early, long drawn out battle as a new Cllr.  I had won the ward seat that included the recycling…

GET VOTING FOR YOUR FAVOURITE LOCAL HEROES! Local Community Services Group, Windsor Lions Club is delighted to announce that voting for all the nominees in this years’ Local Heroes event is now open! A whopping 18 local groups and charities – more than twice as many as the first year of the event in 2025…

With Windsor Day on the horizon, it’s time to start thinking a few summer garden party games you can enjoy with your friends and strangers in the parks & gardens of Windsor on Friday 17th July 2026. You might like throwing balls into buckets, getting hoops over pins and if in Sweden for the summer…

Just loaded up a couple of great late entries… Flying back from Sweden yesterday afternoon and got this pic from the plane window which is banging 😉 You’ll find it at the end of the entries and there’s another great foxy entry, one for those that just love to see flags waving in the breeze……

We have 56 photos submitted, I added 4 to make it 60 and we have a couple more on their way… We’ve loaded up all the pics on mass below… Not sure how you vote on the blog… but over on Facebook, all you simply do is hit the emojis, like, love, crying face, angry…

These guys have worked tirelessly for the local community ever since the estate was built and they will continue “while they have breath in their bodies” KINGS BIRTHDAY HONOURS 2026 Two of our most important and distinguished West Windsorians and residents across Windsor and the Borough – congratulations to Jean and Don on receiving this…

Tesco Dedworth are hosting a “Colour Your Shirt Competition” for the World Cup 2026. Use the png image above or download the PDF below, colour it in and hand it in to Customer Services by the end of June… We’ll select 20 for our customers to vote on and then the WINNERS will be announced…

Talking to the community groups that took part in the expo this week, they would appreciate some LinkedIn training… their wish and all that… The trainer is Mark White, I’ve known him for 20 years, we ran workshops together. I soon realised I’m not great at repeating myself and he thrived and turned it into…

Exhibitions are a good way to connect with fellow humans in real time.  Thanks for today. The morning was spent chatting to potential volunteers and the afternoon was spent talking amongst ourselves to see how we could help each other which was really useful!RegardsKaren – Windsor Horse Rangers Community Groups are always struggling for volunteers…

This brochure gives you links to find out more about supporting wildlife in our gardens – how to welcome nature into our open spaces, how to build a mini wildlife pond, make a hedgehog feeding station, how to plant a butterfly box and how to make your own compost. Just the thing for keeping children/grandchildren…

I was just pondering what would be useful, as I put on my England shirt, for local offices and community groups across the land. A listing you can print off easily for your sweepstake… so here you go, a list below or a World Cup 2026 Teams List ArgentinaAustriaAustraliaBosnia & HerzegovinaBelgiumBrazilCanadaCongo DRSwitzerlandIvory CoastColombiaCape VerdeCuraçaoCzechiaGermanyAlgeriaEcuadorEgyptSpainFranceGhanaCroatiaHaitiIraqIranJordanJapanSouth KoreaMoroccoMexicoNetherlandsNorwayNew…