Visitors to Bromsgrove’s Sanders Park can commemorate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee this June with a fantastic community event.

On Thursday June 2, visitors to the park can enjoy the free event from 5pm until 10pm.

Bromsgrove District Council are working alongside partners and community organisations to bring together a celebratory event with food, street entertainment, and music, finished with the ceremonial lighting of the beacons in the park with local choirs at 9.45pm.

Leisure Portfolio Holder, Cllr Michael Thompson, said: “Communities up and down the country will be coming together to celebrate this unique occasion and I am very proud that in Bromsgrove we will share a special part in the Platinum Jubilee, by being one of only 1500 events to take part in lighting the beacons. We’re planning lots of fun activities, entertainment and music, so put the date in your diary and watch this space for more details closer to the time.”

Thousands of town criers, along with Pearly Kings and Queens, traditional and Northumberland pipers, buglers, and choirs from communities across the four corners of the nation and the Commonwealth will lift up their voices and play and sing specially commissioned music prior to the lighting of over 1,500 Platinum Jubilee Beacons, at 9.45pm on Thursday 2^nd June 2022.

Bruno Peek LVO OBE OPR, Pageantmaster of The Queen's Platinum Jubilee Beacons, said: “Building on a long tradition of lighting beacons to mark significant royal celebrations, over 1,500 Platinum Jubilee Beacons will be lit across the UK and Commonwealth on the first evening of the four-day Jubilee Weekend (on Thursday 2^nd June 2022). The Beacons will enable local communities to join together and pay tribute to Her Majesty as part of the official programme of events.

“For the first time town criers, pipers, buglers and choirs from the UK and the Commonwealth will come together to join in the celebrations in their own individual and special way. It is wonderful to see the range of support for beacon lighting which will highlight both the diversity and the unity of the nation. The Queen has lit up our lives for seventy years through her dedicated service and commitment. We would like to light up the nation and the Commonwealth in her honour.”

For more information, or to get involved in the Jubilee Event, contact the Parks and Events Team on at events@bromsgroveandredditch.gov.uk