Citylife in Lichfield February 2020

New Style and
Headline Sponsor
for Best Kept
Village
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The Staffordshire Best Kept Village competition has announced major
changes for the new decade plus a headline sponsor. Announcing
Richard Winterton Auctioneers of Lichfield as the new county wide
sponsor, the competition has also changed its name, format and
submission methods to make it easier and more relevant in the 21st
century. Entrants to the newly named Staffordshire Best Kept Village
Community competition can now showcase the community benefits of
their village life as well as its beauty, via a brand-new website.
After more than 60 years of celebrating the beauty of Staffordshire
villages, the new style competition hopes to attract new entrants from
across the county. A website has been created to manage the whole
competition. Entrants can submit documents and photos, plus there’s
even an option to email in video or drone footage. Even the results will
be made available online. The website will allow entrants to showcase
their community on an on-going basis if they want to rather than a
Jo Cooper and Richard Winterton
previously restrictive two-day period. Villages will be able to illustrate
their activities, events and projects throughout the year and bring their
submissions alive and allow judges to see beyond village beauty to
understand how the community works together for the benefit of all.
To help explain the changes, The Community Foundation for
Staffordshire, which runs the competition, has created a series of
roadshows across the county to explain the changes. Everyone is
welcome to attend. The local event for this area is:
Friday 7th February 10:30am-12pm
Longdon Village Hall, Brook End, Longdon, Rugeley, WS15 4PN.
To celebrate the new style competition, organisers have announced
Richard Winterton Auctioneers as the new county wide headline sponsor.
Best known for being on BBC’s Bargain Hunt, Richard and his Lichfieldbased
team will be attending the roadshow and will visit every single
village that enters.
For more information visit www.bkvc.org.uk or contact The
Community Foundation’s BKVC Manager, Jo Cooper, on 01785 339540.
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