Following on from the news that the Remembrance Sunday parade will sadly not go ahead this year, Midsomer Norton Town Council are pleased to share information from the Royal British Legion about new ways the day could be marked.

The Royal British Legion have updated their website with the following information on Remembrance Sunday activities:

To give you a helping hand, we’ve put together a wide range of suggested Covid safe activities that are inexpensive to create:

• Hold a small Remembrance service in your garden.

• Create a Remembrance space in your garden by planting plants that have a connection to Remembrance.

• Use Zoom, Facebook or another online meeting resource to host an online Remembrance service or activity.

• Set up a community Remembrance forum to discuss different residents’ Remembrance stories.

• Create an online exhibition of Remembrance-related photos from local residents that schools or others could use to discuss local Remembrance activities.

• Do an online interview with a local veteran or someone currently serving to discuss what service and sacrifice means to them. You could send people the link and create an online audience. 

• Open an online book of Remembrance that family, friends and others can sign as a mark of Remembrance.

• Write letters of Remembrance to veterans or serving personnel. 

• Use our Remembrance education activities to help children learn about Remembrance. 

• Create your own Remembrance art piece using our teaching resources – children and families could be asked to display something in their window like the rainbows for the NHS. 

 The Royal British Legion have also have created a virtual field of remembrance where people can virtually plant their Tribute from home, and explore other Tributes made to remember the fallen.?Some of the shops on our High Street have begun to pay tribute with their window displays, and Midsomer Norton Town Council have purchased large poppies from the British Legion for the lamp posts in the High Street, and will be laying a wreath at the War Memorial.