Category: News and Events

Festival Weekend

The  Midsummer Festival held on the 25th and 26th June was a big success with thousands attending on the Saturday and nearly 800 on the Sunday. Everything went ahead as planned from the colourful and noisy parade to the dog and duck show, Party in the Park, cream teas and fun dog show. The Colour […]

Jubilee Concert

The Jubilee Concert was a great success with local singer and musician Bondy entertaining a large crowd in the parish church who ranged in age from toddlers to great grandparents. Before the concert the Midsummer Festival committee crowned Festival princesses Summer Sinclair and Ellie Blake (see below), winners of a competition. Summer’s dad Matthew Sinclair […]

Local Heritage List

Information has been received about the recent launch of the Cambridgeshire Local Heritage List Project website. ​Home – Cambridgeshire’s Local Heritage List (local-heritage-list.org.uk) The project is a chance for local residents to have their say and help protect Cambridgeshire’s local heritage. The organisers are keen to find out which local heritage assets people think are […]

Christmas Party

The Christmas Party for Over 70s organised by Chatteris Town Council and held at the King Edward Centre on Friday 10th December 2021was a resounding success with nearly 70 Chatteris residents enjoying a traditional Christmas dinner with all the trimmings, entertainment, bingo and going home laden with goodies. The Town Council decided to organise the […]

Pocket Park Opening

The Little Acre Fen Pocket Park was officially opened by the Mayor, Cllr Linda Ashley, on Saturday 13th November 2021. Cllr Ashley gave a brief history of the park and thanked those who contributed grants towards its creation (including Honeysome Solar Farm, Court Leet, Stainless Metalcraft, Red Tile Wind Farm Trust, Healthy Fenland, Jacks Supermarket […]

Festival Fun

Multi-coloured, happy children were proof that the first ever colour fun run in Chatteris was a resounding success. About 150 people, ranging in age from toddlers to grandparents, took part in the run around Furrowfields Recreation as part of a scaled down Midsummer Festival. The event was sponsored by Jacks supermarket. As they ran past […]

Mayor for 2021/22

Cllr Linda Ashley was unanimously re-elected as Mayor for a third term of office at the Annual Chatteris Town Council meeting on Tuesday 4th May 2021.  Members agreed that Cllr Ashley should continue in the role for a third year as the past year had been unprecedented due to the pandemic. Covid-19 meant she had […]