Her Majesty The Queen is the first British Monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee, marking seventy years of service.
Celebrations are planned throughout the year and the extended bank holiday in June included public events and community activities. Communities were encouraged to come together over that weekend for their own Jubilee celebrations.
This was a chance for everyone at Haig Housing to get together with family, friends and neighbours to hold a celebration. To help with this, the Trust sent a £20 supermarket voucher to each household to help them with their parties and other celebrations. With some 1,500 homes, this was the Trust’s main initiative to assist in celebrating our Patron’s Platinum Jubilee.
We had some lovely messages of thanks for the supermarket vouchers and some fabulous photos and competition entries.
Please see below a selection of your photos. If you have others you would like to be included, please send to [email protected]
An Album for Her Majesty
We have compiled a special album of photographs to send to our Patron, HM The Queen. We thought she’d like to see your celebrations with family, friends and neighbours.
Permanent Markers
The Trust has procured 30 engraved granite Jubilee flagstones that will be installed on estates across the UK. Where there is already some existing Memorial on an estate, we will co-locate them but will otherwise will look to position them securely in a central or prominent area where they will remind residents in future years of this occasion.
Other initiatives
We will also be carrying out some other initiatives to mark the Jubilee on around ten of our estates including refurbishment of the Trust’s main Memorial Garden at the Morden Headquarters, to replace a flagpole on one estate, to build a small Memorial Garden on another and on others to provide commemorative benches.
