Soap Box Derby Results 2009
June 12th, 2009Calor Village of the Year
September 4th, 2008Mansel Lacy has won the Herefordshire County ‘Calor Village of the Year competition’, or as the ‘Hereford Times’ put it- has been named as the best in the county. The contest run by Community First judges a village on the balance of its community and whether it has made the best of the opportunities to improve the quality of life for its residents.
Mansel Lacy really got together to put on a series of displays as shown in the photographs below.
Mansel Lacy was entered into the regional competition but unfortunately did not progress further.
The celebratory party is shown in the photos attached
Celebrating after winning the Herefordshire village of the Year 2008
Mansel Garden Club
November 24th, 2007The Mansel Garden Club meets on a monthly basis, on the first Monday in the month. In the winter these meetings take place in the Community Hall in Mansel Lacy. In the summer the meetings comprise of visits to gardens or garden centres of interest
The programme for 2008 to 2009 is now availabe as a PDF below:gardenclub0809pdf
Community Association
May 31st, 2006The St. Michael’s Mansel Lacy Community Association, to give it’s full name, was set up on 21 February 1996. The Charity’s objects are the provision and maintenance of community facilities for the use of the inhabitants of the Parish of Mansel Lacy without distinction of political, religeous or other opinions including the use for meetings, lectures and classes and for other forms of recreation and leisure time occupation with the object of improving the conditions of life of the said occupants.
Since 1996 a number of sections have been been formed under the umbrella of the ‘Association’.
The Garden Club, the Lacy Ladies, The Get Together Club, the Soap Box Derby. Each of these section will have it’s own category.