This years’s Saintfield Christmas Fair will be held on the evening of Friday 2nd December.

Members of Saintfield Development Association are working hard on preparations for the event which will run from 6:30 – 9:00 on Main Street.  The street will be closed to traffic during this time.

We are keen to have as many stalls as possible on Main Street.  If you would like to bring your own stall or hire one of ours then please email us for an application form via:

events [at] discoversaintfield [dot] co [dot] uk

Saintfield has received recognition for its work in the wild flower planting schemes on the Belfast Road and Lisburn Road sites.  Congratulations to everyone who helped! More information and photographs can be found on the Grow Wild website HERE.

Issue 12 of Saintfield Development Association’s Saintfield News is available for download HERE.

Open Meeting of Saintfield Development Association

Date: Monday 19th September

Venue: Saintfield Sports Club

Time: 7.30 pm

The Agenda for the meeting can be downloaded HERE.

Everyone welcome.

Come along and find out what the SDA is doing for Saintfield and make your views known!

You might have noticed that members of Saintfield Development Association’s Green Saintfield Committee have been busy over the spring and summer cleaning Saintfield’s streets.  You can discover how many bags of dirt and litter they have gathered by looking HERE.

Saintfield Development Association sponsored two local bands to play in the Rowallane courtyard during the European Heritage Open Day last Saturday.

 Baillies Mills Accordion Band

 Cahard Flute Band

Join Saintfield Development Association for its 4th Annual

Pedal The Peninsula

cycle ride on Sunday 4th September

The 53-mile route round beautiful Strangford Lough starts and ends in Saintfield, and is fully marshalled and sign posted. However, for a bit of a change, the circuit will be completed in an anticlockwise direction. We will leave Saintfield and head for Strangford, cross on the ferry to Portaferry and then travel up the Ards Peninsula to Newtownards before making our way back to Saintfield via Comber.

Registration is from 8:30 am in Downpatrick Street car park, with the ride commencing at 9:30 am.

Only £20 on the day!

Come along and enjoy a great day out!

Saintfield Development Association’s own competition for the best floral displays for both small and large businesses has taken place and the winners are:

Large Premises:-
First: R. Savage & Co.
Runner-up: Second Saintfield Presbyterian Church

SDA member Anne Walker presenting Noel Gibson of R. Savage & Co. with their certificate.

Small Premises:-
First: Masseys of Saintfield
Runner-up: Town and Country Antiques

Judges Nicky McGarry (of Flowerish Design) and Michael Quinn (of Cumran Landscapes) presenting Masseys of Saintfield with their certificate.

Nicky and Michael were very impressed with the overall standard and it should be noted that the SDA’s own floral displays were not taken into account when judging took place. Our sincere thanks go to Nicky and Michael for taking the time out of their very busy lives to come to Saintfield and to Anne McCandless of Norr & Brown for providing afternoon tea.

The Green Committee of the SDA are most grateful to everyone in Saintfield who helped by giving donations, having their own floral displays, either on their premises or homes, watering, dead heading and all the numerous tasks involved. A special thank you goes to the First Presbyterian Church, not only for their generous donation but for allowing the use of their railings to show off our floral displays. Thanks also to those who told us that we were doing a good job as they were passing by. It makes it all worthwhile.