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WGC Celebration Day ✨
Tomorrow 12th July 2025 we will be joining the WGC Celebration day in the Howard Centre. The day is hosted by Together for Welwyn Garden City and looks to celebrate everything that makes our town unique. The All Aboarders will be showcasing our work at a stand outside Boots, with a seed swap and colouring…
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2024 – A Year in Bloom
With our last regular gardening session of the year now completed, let’s look back at 2024 at the station – and beyond! The group began the year on a competitive note at the Rotary Club Quiz. Having won the previous quiz the team were out on the defensive, and the competition was fierce. We came…
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Rotary Open Gardens 🏡
The WGC Rotary club are once more hosting their ever popular Open Gardens day on April 28th 2024 to raise money for the charities they support. Admire a wide variety of gardens: exotic, woodland; a plantsman’s; and a magnificent Chelsea designers garden. Date & time Sunday 28th April 2024, 2pm – 5pm Tickets £2.50 for…
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Makeover Day 2024 in Review
A look back at our successful 2024 Makeover Day which was held on the 13th March. The day attracted around 30 volunteers and supporters made up of: All Aboarders, Siemens Mobility, GTR, Network Rail, Rotary, sponsors Crane & Staples, local councillors & the Mayor of WHBC and some members of the public. The main event…
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Makeover Day 2024
Next month will see the return of our popular WGC Station Makeover Day on March 13th. This year we will be joined by staff from Siemens Mobility and Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), as well as friends from the wider community to tackle a new sensory bed and tidy up existing planting. New volunteers are welcome…
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Awards & Recognition 🏆
The All Aboarders have had a busy summer looking after the station which included filling gaps after the winter storms took their toll, creating vibrant displays and planning some exciting new initiatives for next year – watch this space! In amongst this activity we we invited to join the Anglia in Bloom entry for WHBC…
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The AllAboarders turn 5!
On March 15th 2018 the inaugural meeting for the “WGC Station Adoption Group” was held. 5 years later the group now called the AllAboarders is still going from strength to strength, with a history of proud accomplishments to look back on. Working together with GTR contractors and station staff, and with support from sponsors, here…
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Seasons Greetings
As Christmas approaches the All Aboarders would like to extend the warmest of festive wishes to all our supporters. The team achieved so much in 2022 so we would like to toast to all involved especially our volunteers, station and facilities staff, and sponsors – cheers! We once more decorated a tree for the St…
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Heritage Sign Installation
The station recently benefited from another installation for our heritage gallery in the platform 3 waiting room. We were delighted to be loaned an original illuminated station sign by Malcolm Cowan, who rescued it when it was decommissioned. The sign is on display above the vintage travel posters. You can see a photo of the…
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Rotary Quiz Victory
The All Aboarders were invited to join the local WGC Rotary Club quiz night to raise money for local, national and international charities. The Rotary Club has been a close friend and sponsor of ours, so of course we took the opportunity to reciprocate. We joined 12 other teams in a 10 round quiz, punctuated…
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