We’re currently helping some parents in Wixams to set up a Pokémon club and more volunteers are needed. It takes a team of dedicated volunteers to get a new club off the ground, so if you can spare just a few hours a month to help out please get in

This May we'll be running another jumble event, including a jumble sale inside the village hall and stalls all around Wixams on the jumble trail. If you're looking for a bargain or have a load of stuff to shift here's your chance!
Sunday 12th May 2024
1:00 – 3:00pm
Free entry for attendees
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All the remaining bags of seeds have now been claimed
In the Wixams Community Group we love gardening, so in March 2022 we ran a little project to give away sunflower seeds to homes all across Wixams. We started with a couple of large bags of seeds of giant yellow and

There's no place like Wixams on Halloween and 2023 was no exception! The streets were filled with hundreds of people making their way around the town trick-or-treating, interacting with some of the wonderful spooky displays or simply enjoying the atmosphere. One of the judges commented how cheerful everyone was, that

This Christmas we'll be running a brand new project which should make a lot of kids happy as well as helping us raise some money for charity. Parents will be able to book a 'Santagram' which is a visit from Santa Claus, similar to a Santa's Grotto but in your

If you're a programmer or looking to learn then you might interested in joining the Wixams Coding Club! The club started in February 2023 (with limited numbers to make things more manageable) and so far we have been learning some of the basic concepts and techniques using the BBC micro:bit

Gardening is a fantastic hobby which is very rewarding, creative and relaxing. As part of our efforts to bring people together, and to create opportunities for the community to get involved in projects in our town, we would like to help create a community garden in Wixams. This would be

This event has now passed
If you're stuck looking for a gift for your loved one this Valentine's Day you're in luck! We've invited some small and local businesses to come along to the village hall, they'll be selling a wide range of handmade products and other great gift ideas. This

The judges scores are in and it's time to announce the winners of the Wixams Christmas Decorations Competition 2022! As usual we ran our competition to try and select the best decorated home and to award the winners with a prize for their efforts. Things have been a little different

Wixams is a fantastic place to be for Halloween each year and, despite the miserable weather, 2022 seemed to be busier than ever. We saw our town come alive with hundreds of little reanimated skeletons, witches, ghosts and even dinosaurs out on the hunt for sweeties and enjoying the atmosphere.

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The Wixams Residents' Association has now been established and will publish a new website in due course.
Some of the information on this page is now out of date.
It's been more than a decade since the first bricks were laid down in our lovely town and, even though Wixams is a

If you've never heard of Yarn Bombing you're in good company, we hadn't either. But after a suggestion and a donation from Barratt/David Wilson Homes to set up a group in Wixams we agreed it would be a great way to bring people together to do something crafty, fun and

This Christmas may be very different for many but the fantastic Wixams community have stood strong and don’t seem to be letting things get to them! Our judges were bowled over yet again by the beautifully decorated homes in Wixams this winter and we’re sure you’ll agree that our town

Yet again Wixams was absolutely thriving on Halloween, the streets were packed with families and children all dressed up for trick-or-treating and on the hunt for sweeties. The community put on an amazing display for all to enjoy too, with decorations ranging from some lovely carved pumpkins by the front

Despite such a turbulent year the Wixams community has excelled itself once again and together have created a magical place filled with lights, colours and decorations for everyone to enjoy. We've seen lots of families taking walks around our town enjoying the displays and getting into the festive mood. Thank

The Wixams community excelled itself again for Halloween in 2020 and put on a fantastic display for all to enjoy. The Trick-or-Treaters were out in smaller groups than normal and residents found some creative ways to share sweeties with the kids in a safe way, one home even had them

Following on from the success of our Spring Bulb Planting morning back in November we had planned to run a second gardening event, a Summer Flowering Planting morning. It was hoped we could run the day in a similar way, however due to the Coronavirus outbreak we were unable to

Welcome to the Wixams & Wilstead Photography Club. We are an online community on Facebook for everyone in our two communities who love photography. Join us if you would like to share your images captured in and around our delightful villages. Other members of the community who join the group

In collaboration with the Bedford Homeless Partnership
In recent years, there has been more awareness about the hardship of homelessness in Britain, with winter being an especially challenging time for anyone without housing. Bedford has the 8th highest number of rough sleepers in the whole of England, so we decided to

The 2019 Wixams Christmas Decorations Competition is now complete and we're very pleased to announce the winning home further down the page. Every year in Wixams we see a lot of nicely decorated houses and our judges were very impressed by the fantastic array of styles on display this year.

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UPDATE - Please skip to the bottom for some recent photos of our spring flowers in bloom
With around 80 people taking part in our Spring Bulb Planting Morning, we're very pleased to say that this project was an even bigger success than we had dared hope for. There were a

The very first Halloween Decorations Competition was a resounding success, with dozens of houses around Wixams covered in a wide range of spooky props. We saw many skeletons, spiders, cobwebs, witches (including a set of legs poking out of a cauldron), ghosts, grave stones, light shows and a lot of

As part of our ongoing efforts to bring the community together, we run the Wixams Walkers group, part of the national Walking for Health scheme. The group is aimed at all ages and abilities and simply gives an opportunity for residents to get some exercise, meet people and to explore

Wixams now has a bookcase which is used to provide free books to all, just like in other villages, train stations and airports. If you have any old books you'd like to share, you can drop them off in the book case and pick up a new novel whilst you're