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The Visit Great Yarmouth Wheels Festival is set to take place on Saturday, July 1, from 10am to 6pm and Sunday, July 2, from 10am to 4pm, offering visitors a chance to see stunning cars, motorcycles and everything else wheels in the East of England.
While the festival remains free to attend, Great Yarmouth Borough Council has this year teamed up with East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA) to raise vital funds for its life-saving work.
Volunteers from EAAA will have a presence over the weekend of the festival - now known as Visit Great Yarmouth Wheels Festival in aid of EAAA - and will be collecting donations in buckets.
Once again, the festival is expected to be a highlight of the Norfolk summer season, with activities and events for all ages and interests. Visitors can expect to see a wide range of vehicles, including classic cars, sports cars and supercars, as well as vintage motorcycles, custom bikes and electric vehicles.
The principal funder of the popular event is Visit Great Yarmouth, which aims to bring together the local tourism and business community to promote the borough and encourage residents and visitors to enjoy all the town has to offer.
Some of the highlights of this year’s festival include exhilarating attractions such as The Ken Fox Wall of Death, Red Dragon Monster Truck Rides and On The Edge Motorbike Stunt Team.
The festival takes place on Great Yarmouth seafront, where visitors can take in the stunning views while enjoying the full range of activities and attractions. There will also be a number of interactive exhibits, trade stands and displays.
Lyndon Bevan, chairman of Visit Great Yarmouth said: “We are really looking forward to working with Great Yarmouth Borough Council again to bring our residents and visitors Visit Great Yarmouth Wheels Festival 2023.
“Helping East Anglian Air Ambulance raise vital funds for their cause, we are hoping for a great turnout and for members of the public to donate generously. They have a fundraising target of £17.2m this year and we are proud this festival will be able to help.”
An East of England Air Ambulance spokesperson said: ‘’We are incredibly grateful to Great Yarmouth Borough Council for supporting us with the Wheels Festival this year. EAAA is an independent charity providing life-saving critical care 24 hours a day. We receive no regular government funding and rely almost entirely on public support. Each mission costs on average £3,750 and we need to raise £17m a year from charitable donations. Fundraising events such as these ensure we can continue providing our life-saving service in Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire 365 days a year.’’
To keep abreast of all the exciting attractions and exhibits as they are announced follow Wheels on Facebook @gywheelsfestival. And for your chance to win Red Dragon Monster Truck tickets see https://www.facebook.com/
Clubs looking to book space at the festival should contact wheels@great-yarmouth.
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Great Yarmouth Borough Council has been working with a wide range of community groups to involve them in the ambitious new project to restore the town’s iconic Winter Gardens
As part of its consultation work around the exciting regeneration scheme, the council team has been running workshops, site visits and events to explain the plans for the seafront landmark and seek community feedback and input.
The Winter Gardens is the last surviving Victorian glass house in the country and, in 2021, was one of five transformational projects across the country to be awarded a Heritage Horizon Award from The National Lottery Heritage Fund made possible thanks to funding from National Lottery players/ The Heritage Horizon Awards were developed to support innovative projects that will revolutionise UK heritage.
Seven of Great Yarmouth's most iconic buildings will be having festive light ups for the upcoming Christmas holiday.
The council will once again switch on the lighting on the Town Hall, St George's Theatre, the Tolhouse, the Minster Church of St Nicholas, the Arc Cinema at the Royalty, the North West Tower and Gorleston Pavilion.
The collection includes five listed buildings and a scheduled monument, with all the buildings representing a special place in the town's history and cultural life.
The lighting has been used to highlight various local and national issues since its installation. In April 2020, the Town Hall bathed in blue light to praise key workers on the coronavirus frontline and in February 2022, the buildings were lit up mauve and green to highlight the needs and care of people living with a rare disease.
Thanks to public feedback, a walking trail to highlight some of the tremendous 'ghost signs' in the town centre has successfully launched.
Time and Tide Museum and Great Yarmouth Borough Council teamed up to create a trail that would send participants back in time whilst exploring the parts of the borough’s history which are hidden in plain sight.
'Ghost signs' are old shop signs and architectural features that have survived despite changes in the use of buildings.
The trail team asked residents to share their memories, photographs, and other images and that has helped create a unique downloadable map that can be used to explore the historical advertising and signs across the Town Centre.
As part of community consultation work around an ambitious project to restore the Winter Gardens, Great Yarmouth Borough Council has been engaging with young people to find out what students would like to see as part of the exciting regeneration scheme.
The Winter Gardens is the last surviving Victorian glass house in the country and, in 2021, was one of five transformational projects across the country to be awarded a Heritage Horizon Award from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
The award will see the iron and glass structure restored to its former glory as a people’s palace on the town’s seafront. Complete with beautiful gardens, galleries and café areas it will offer both entertainment and education, breathing new life into the area.
Rachel Daniel, the council’s Winter Gardens partnership and engagement co-ordinator - along with Time and Tide Museum’s youth engagement officer, Tricia Hall - recently took part in a Green Week event at Great Yarmouth’s East Norfolk Sixth Form College.
Working with Great Yarmouth community organisation Creative Collisions, the pair spent the day talking to students about the environmental features of the project, covering everything from planting ideas to sustainability solutions.
Businesses and would-be entrepreneurs around Great Yarmouth now have easy access to free business support and advice thanks to the launch of an exciting new Enterprise Hub.Great Yarmouth Borough Council has teamed up with the Town Centre Partnership to launch the service in Market Gates Shopping Centre.
The Hub is a new one stop shop for start-up, new and more established businesses and offers business advice, support, and training. Businesses can also book the space for their own business events.
The opening times are 10am – 4pm on, Monday to Friday. His Worship the Mayor, Cllr Graham Plant, officially opened the Enterprise Hub with a ribbon cutting on Wednesday 10, August at 11am, which was followed by refreshments and networking.
