Monthly Archives: June 2021

Getting ready for a fortnight of festivals

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Are you feeling festive?

Don’t panic, you don’t need to be thinking about Christmas for a while yet – but the festival season is just around the corner and here in the East Midlands it’s time to get ready for festival fortnight!

Not one but two well-known events are in the final stages of preparation right now and if you’re into reading or gardening – or both! – mid July has plenty to offer for the whole family.

First up, from Thursday 8 to Sunday 11 July, the Newark Book Festival returns to various venues across the town…

And it’s closely followed by the Belvoir Castle Flower & Garden Show, which takes place on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 July.

Want to find out a bit more about what to expect? You need to join June next week, when she’s back behind the mic chatting to Andy Tudbury and Becky Goddard-Hill between 10am and 12 noon.

Andy will be on the phone just after 10.20am with the latest news about the Flower & Garden Show in the grounds of the magnificent Belvoir Castle.

Be prepared for a weekend of colour and inspiration for those with a love of gardening, featuring everything from sculpture artists, tools, garden furniture and crafts retailers to live music and a range of food and refreshments…

Along with the opportunity to get your gardening questions answered by expert horticulturists in the Lets Talk area.

Then at 11.10am it’s Becky’s turn to ring the studio to talk about one of the many activities taking place when the Book Festival comes to town once more.

If you’re a mum, a dad or a grandparent, you’ll want to hear what she has to say about Create Your Own Kindness, her latest book that’s packed with fun activities to inspire kids to be kinder to themselves, others and the planet.

Find out how they can take part in the event she’s running on Saturday 10 July – an hour of activities available both online and on the large screen at the National Civil War Centre – and how to get tickets to join in the fun.

Make sure you’re tuned in to 107.8FM or listening online for all this and more when you Put On Your Sunday Best again next weekend!

How often not now becomes never

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How many times do you find yourself putting off something on your to-do list, delaying a task that will take a while to complete until you’ve ticked off the quick and easy ones on there?

I’ll do that later, you tell yourself – and all too frequently, later can just end up being too late.

Or in the words of Martin Luther King, ‘How often not now becomes never‘.

It’s called procrastination of course and this weekend’s guest on Girls Around Town will be explaining what makes you do it…

And more importantly, how to stop doing it!

Joining June on the phone in the second hour of the show, Cathie Babbington’s recently published book 10 Minutes With Coach Cath is packed with hints and tips to help you manage your time efficiently where social media is concerned.

She’ll have rather more than just 10 minutes on Sunday of course and will be putting her time – and yours! – to good use when she shares her latest advice from just after 11.10am.

Make sure your to-do list this week includes a reminder to tune in to 107.8FM or listen online to catch what Cathie has to say…

No procrastinating – put it on the list now!!

Play the Newark & Sherwood Community Lottery – and support your favourite local radio station!

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Have you seen the news across our social media feeds?

The NEWARK & SHERWOOD COMMUNITY LOTTERY is up and running and weekly draws are now taking place!!

Tickets are just £1 each –  get yours now to be in with a chance of winning prizes up to £25,000 – and support your favourite local radio station too…

Here at Radio Newark – the home of Girls Around Town, of course! – we provide a much loved and valued service for our community.

Entirely staffed and run by volunteers, we give a voice to people, organisations and events across the Newark and Sherwood district.

We need your help so we can stay on air and continue to offer and even expand our service – choose to support Radio Newark and 50 per cent of the cost of all tickets sold from our page goes to helping us do just that!

And you don’t even need to live locally to support us – wherever you are, if you’re a fan of our 24/7 on air shows you can buy your tickets online here…

Just pick Radio Newark as the local cause you want to support and who knows – you could be the lucky winner scooping that TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND POUND JACKPOT one weekend!

Newark and Sherwood Community Lottery is fully registered with the Gambling Commission and Lotteries Council – PLEASE GAMBLE RESPONSIBLY