The third annual Harfest Music Festival will take place at numerous venues around Saintfield over the weekend of Friday 23rd – Sun 25th October.

There will be something to suit every taste in Music!

Download the Harfest flyer HERE.  Choose an event or two, or three!  And come along!

The Saintfield In Bloom 365 Committee of Saintfield Development Association would like to thank the businesses, traders and individuals who participated in this year’s Translink Ulster in Bloom initiative.  Their support enabled us to produce a display which earned Saintfield joint second place in the large village category of the competiton.

The judges thought that “the colour-scheme was beautiful” and that “the place looked lovely”.

Saintfield also won first prize in the large village category of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive’s Cleaner and Greener Rural Community Awards. This competition is aimed at rural communities and the prize is awarded to the town or village which can demonstrate an on-going commitment to keeping their area clean and tidy and protecting the rural landscape.

We appreciate the contribution that everyone has made to Saintfield’s success in these two prestigious province-wide competitions.  Thank you again for your continued support.

Here is a selection of photographs of the beautiful floral displays on view in Saintfield this year.

As the temperature and leaves fall Rowallane Garden, Saintfield takes on a different eerie feel. Head along and enjoy some Hallowe’en fun with your ‘little spooks’ as they have a perfectly petrifying Hallowe’en planned.

Their spooktacular Ghosts and Gourds event takes place on 17 & 18 October. Prepare to be spooked. The Garden is alive this Hallowe’en with a terrifying ghost trail, spooky stories, sinister characters from the Premiere Circus and watch your little ones be transformed with fearsome face painting. To top off the day why not behead, scoop out and carve your very own pumpkin to take home with you and ward away the evil spirit this Hallowe’en.

The event takes place between 12 noon and 5pm on both Saturday 17 & Sunday 18 October. Normal Admission charges apply. [National Trust Members Free]

For further details, please contact Rowallane Garden on 028 9751 0131.

Saintfield Development Association were Runners Up in the Lidl Big Project Competition.  As a thank you to SDA for participating in the competition the Lidl Community Works team came out on a visit to Saintfield on Monday 12th October and provided members with goodie bags.

Look out for the photographs of Saintfield Development Association members on forthcoming Lidl publicity material in about three weeks from now!

There was a lot of smoke blowing around Saintfield this morning!