This is a free service run by volunteers. No responsibility can be accepted for any issues resulting from incorrect information displayed on the board.
The display board is for community social events and aspects of community welfare. All local events may be accepted for timetable display, unless they are of a political or particularly commercial nature. Nothing may appear on this screen which might contravene Wigan MBC's ethical guidelines or place the authority in a contentious position.
In addition the timetable screens will alternate with advertisements/displays featuring individual local organisations and events. Churches, sports clubs, dance groups and others could feature all of their events, practices or services in these. This would include any organisations established for local community benefit, e.g. health and welfare services, police services, carers support services, dependency and addiction services. Please send PNG, JPEG or BMP images in landscape format at (preferably) 1920px x 1080px aspect ratio to whatsoninshevington@gmail.com. Organisations will be allowed one or two displays, but these may not appear in sequence.
If you wish your event to be listed on the board, please fill in the form . . . here. Organisations can have up to four sessions included in the main timetable in one week, (or possibly more if the events are of different kinds), but may show all their sessions/events in their advertisements. For the moment there will be no charge as the initiative is supported by a Lottery grant.
Events will be posted in order of their start times. Two hours after the start time at the top of the screen, the top event(s) will scroll up and off the board. If you would like to know what the screen should look like, . . . click here.
There is a Google Calendar for internet users, “What’s on in Shevington”, which contains additional information about your event which won’t be on the screen. Please add the extra information on the form. This should include the finish time of the event, the address of your venue with postcode, your website if you have one, email contact addresses, and anything else you want people to know. You may wish to include your event’s contact phone number as this won't be copied from the screen. This extra information will be duplicated to all recurring events. Please don’t ask for some of the extra information to be adapted for different dates.
The Display Board will show:-
Day / Date / Start time / Name of event / Venue / Contact phone number. All of these are obligatory.
We ask for a contact phone number to enable residents to find out more about what is going on. Obviously we cannot guarantee that you will be contacted at a time convenient to you. Please send calls to voice mail at times when you don't want to be disturbed, but do remember to respond to the call as soon as possible. It's good for business! However, please be aware that your organisation's phone number will be on public display in the Library. Photographs may be taken of the screen and use of these photographs cannot be controlled.
This calendar will run to December 31st each year; you will need to apply again in December for your events to continue to be listed in the following year.
Important – recurring events. Please make sure that you specify exactly all the dates when recurring events will, or will not, happen, even if you think it is obvious (e.g. "not December 25th"). If your events are on Mondays, don’t forget about Bank Holidays. Exact dates are required; statements such as "term time only" are not sufficiently precise.
John Whiteley (click to email me.)
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