Town Activities

The Royal British Legion in Stamford is one the largest social groups in the town. The Branch of course plays the lead role in organising the Remembrance Parade and Service, creates the Garden of Remembrance each year, and arranges the observance of the Two-Minute Silence on Armistice Day.

But Stamford Branch is active in the wider local community calendar throughout the year. Over the years Stamford Branch has played a full role in, for example, the annual Stamford Summer and Christmas Festivals, the Mayor’s Civic Parade, the Wings Appeal and Battle of Britain Service and Parade, the Edith Weston Vintage Fayre, Operation Market Garden 2008 at Spanhoe, and other local WWII vintage events, and the homecoming Parades of 3 Squadron, RAF Regiment and 2 Battalion, the Anglian Regiment from Afghanistan and Iraq. In 2008/2009 the Branch led a civic programme of sending comfort parcels to the troops in Afghanistan and it continues to play an active role in the ‘Honour the Covenant’ campaign.

The Branch works closely with other former ex-Service groups in Stamford at every level, recently in the refurbishment of the War Memorial and the installation there of public seating.

Stamford Branch enjoys close links with the town’s schools and youth groups, as set out in the section on Youth and Schools.