The Hitchin Community Forum is a North Herts District Council meeting where locals can share news, discuss community issues, organize events, and support one another.

Today's agenda will see Councillors who make up the forum agree on a series of community grants including £1,133 for The British Schools Museum to help them update their display room for exhibitions and £1,300 towards two sets of goal posts for Hitchin Town Youth Football Club.

The grant to Hitchin youth football club will support them as they look to maintain their 30 teams with approximately 440 players- approximately 250 are from Hitchin itself, 100 from the surrounding villages (within 5 miles) and around 50 from further afield, Letchworth, Baldock & Stevenage. It is estimated across the lifetime of these goals (10 years) around 20,000 children will have the benefit of using the new goal posts which will be based at Holwell Recreation Ground.  

Meanwhile the British Schools Museum hope that the grant will support an exhibition they plan to reveal in Spring of next year. It will be based around the childhood story books of the late Queen Mother, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. The Bowes-Lyon family, and their ancestral home close to Hitchin at St Paul's Walden Bury, are an important and much-loved part of the town's history. They hope to bring a part of this history to life in a way that has never been explored before, and to open it free to all visitors in an accessible space, ensuring that no members of the community are excluded. They hope for around 1000+ local visitors during their standard opening hours. 

For those interested in attending the meeting it is at Hitchin Town Hall, Brand Street, Hitchin, SG5 1HX from 7.30pm today (Tuesday 10th December)