Southbourne Forum

12/06/2026

This is a great way to support Solent Meads & also to raise a bit of money for charity at the same time as having a great game of golf!

HENRA Charity Golf Event, 15th AugustPosted on 11/06/2026 in General‚ News Supporting Macmillan Caring LocallyJoin us for a fun and friendly afternoon of golf while helping to raise money for a fantastic local cause. The HENRA Charity Golf Event is open to golfers of all ages and abilities, whether...

05/06/2026

Here's a great idea, anyone up for baking?

04/06/2026

Here's a great one for your diaries, do note though that it is Twynham Primary School at BH23 2NH rather than the Senior school

📣 SAVE THE DATE! 🌞🎉

Our Summer Fete is returning on **Saturday 27th June**, and it’s going to be bigger and better than ever!

We’re delighted to have permission to host this year’s Fete on the grounds of **Twynham Primary School**, giving us a much larger space to fill with fun, games, stalls, and live entertainment 🎪🎶

Pop it in your calendars and keep the date free — it’s shaping up to be a fantastic community day out for all ages! 💛

03/06/2026

Tonight's meeting on our water quality, whether you are in the water or near the water, the quality of our water is important.

Tonight's HENRA meeting on our water quality locally, a really important topic whether you are an all year round dipper or someone who paddleboards, canoes or boats in our rivers or the sea. See you there

03/06/2026

These are really good to get involved in

Are you joining us for our next beach clean? 📝✨🏖️
🗓️ Saturday 6th June ⏰ 10am
📌 Sobo Beach

Join in & get a free coffee at SOBO BEACH ☕️

Come join the awesome cause with Ryan & the Surfers against sewage 💛 This beach clean-up is part of the Million Mile Beach Clean campaign, a national effort to mobilise 1 million volunteers to clean 10 million miles of the UK’s coast and landscape by 2030

28/05/2026

Something for your diaries

Definitely feeling summery with all the hot weather we've been having in May, and it's putting us in the mood for our Summer Fair in July! Join the Parish of Southbourne-on-Sea and HENRA on Saturday 11th July at St Nicholas' Church, Broadway, Southbourne, 1.00pm-4.00pm. Free entry, and as you can see, there will be lots of fun for all the family. Let's hope the sun is shining then as well as now!

27/05/2026

Mark the date of the 25th of July in your diaries, entry forms to follow very soon.

Want to get involved?

Here are the full details.

https://christchurchrotary.org.uk/christchurch-river-pageant/

The Team behind the event would be delighted if you tagged as many people who might want to take part or just be a pirate for the day & also anyone for sharing details of the event, thank you in advance. 🙏

Coastal BID

Boscombe and Southbourne Rotary

Kayaks and a floating picnic table are set to return to the waters of the River Stour in this years a quirky celebration of all things nautical.

23/05/2026

Join us on Saturday 30 May for our HHO Water Sports Open Day. A community day celebrating adventure, wellbeing and connection on and around the water.

Expect:

Sailing tasters
Paddleboarding
Guest speakers
RNLI activities
Accessible watersports
Refreshments and community vibes

Whether you're a lifelong water sports enthusiast, a complete beginner or simply curious to see what HHO is becoming, come and join us.

📆 Saturday 30 May
⏰10am–4pm
📍Hengistbury Head Outdoors

Tickets available for a donation to HHO. Secure your place now.
https://hengistbury.sailia.com/?folderID=11946&sessionID=6166

18/10/2025

I make no apologies for the Forum being quiet for a while, the time though is right to bring things together.

My thanks must go to all of you who took the time to let BCP know how you felt, from the results it would be very easy to say that we have got what we wanted. We won’t be getting a Community Council for Southbourne, Tuckton, Wick & Hengistbury Head.

At the full council meeting this week our elected councillors came to a Democratic decision with all councillors voting after a lengthy debate.

After many hours the final proposal to create a Bournemouth Town Council was voted on & this was carried by a slim margin of 3% (51% to 48%) & this now means that Bournemouth Town council will come into being next year.

It is still early days but it seems that Southbourne will be well represented on this council with perhaps 2 councillors & I can speak on behalf of all of the Lead Team of The Forum that we will continue to champion events in the community, continue to work closely with our neighbours in Boscombe & also Coastal Bid who do so much to help our Grove to be the vibrant heart of our community.

I appeal to residents to engage now so that their opinions can shape the future. Social media is fine but it doesn’t replace having your say in person and putting yourself forward and getting involved.

To me this is a time when The Forum needs to continue the work that it has been doing in the past, the lead team has grown by some 5-6 people but we would welcome more to become involved. There will be an AGM in November & it would be great to see many of you there.

Facebook is an amazing communication tool, so I’m going to ask politely that you don’t voice your annoyance at what has happened, it’s happened, we now need to move forward. Our Community is special, we have so many special people who want to see the community thrive.

Southbourne has again been voted in the top 10 places to live in the UK & we must champion the area not bad mouth it.

One example of the community coming together is the Halloween Pumpkins, Southbourne is now lauded thanks to the involvement of people in the community, this is happening soon, get involved rather than sit behind a keyboard.

Please please please do not take your frustration out on this post but think about how you might be able to help make the community even better than it already is.