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The Moordown Traders Association are an enthusiastic group of business
owners from the Moordown community who have come together to promote
local trade and raise the profi le of Moordown as a shopping and business
destination, to support local traders and enhance local businesses.
We meet regularly, work voluntarily and liaise closely with the Bournemouth
Chamber of Trade & Commerce (BCTC), Bournemouth Council, elected
Members and local media to ensure that the Moordown trading district is
represented in a positive light.
The Moordown Traders Association meet monthly between 6pm-8pm
upstairs at the Moordown Conservative Club in Balfour Road.
All Moordown traders & businesses are welcome.
Come along, air your views and meet other local business people.
Drinks available at the bar and sandwiches are provided for the peckish.
Next meeting dates are:
Tuesday 19th April / Tuesday 17th May
For more information visit: www.more2moordown.com
Bournemouth In Bloom

Bournemouth is in two big competitions this year. The fi rst is the South and South East in Bloom which
is judged in August and is against 12 other coastal towns. At the same
time local gardens, patios, baskets, tubs etc are also judged and prizes
awarded in October. This year because we won Gold in the South
and South East Competition we have been fortunate enough to be
automatically entered into Britain in Bloom where we are against 72
other towns and resorts and this will be judged in July.
We would like to get the whole of Bournemouth interested in the
competition and hope all will join in.

To this end we have a schools co coordinator who regularly tries to get
the children via their schools involved by making small gardens within the school grounds. Schools are
invited to join and the best three results per school will be shown at the award ceremony in October. Prizes
and certifi cates will of course be won.
We have discovered that the judges go regularly on to our web site to check how much it is used and
how popular it is. They award 25% of the points to enthusiasm of the whole town not just the committee
members.
The big competition for all is now open and anyone wishing to take part is asked to go on line where the
entry form can easily be completed and they then become entrants and will be judged in August.
For more information please visit: www.bournemouthinbloom.co.uk

“Annuals” mean disappointment once a year.
Your lawn is always slightly bigger than your desire to mow it.
Whichever garden tool you want is always at the back of the shed.
Th e only way to ensure rain, is to give the garden a good soaking.
Weeds grow at precisely the rate you pull them out.
Nothing ever looks like it does on the seed packet.
Th e only way to guarantee some colour all year round is to buy a garden gnome.
However bare the lawn, grass will appear in the cracks between the patio paving stones.
Evergreens go a funny shade of brown in the winter.
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