19/08/2026
🌿❤️ Eversley – Small Parish, Big Community ❤️🌿
Today we were incredibly proud to welcome the judges from the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Village of the Year competition to Eversley.
The competition is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate what makes a village special – and for us, that is without doubt our community and our amazing volunteers. ❤️
It was lovely to bring together so many of the people who quietly give their time throughout the year to make Eversley such a welcoming, caring and vibrant place to live.
A huge thank you to everyone involved with our Community Café, Gardening Club, Speed Watch, Pond Volunteers, Litter Pickers, Village Hall trustees, Neighbourhood Plan team, Yelabus organisers ,Duke of Edinburgh volunteers, and all the other residents and volunteers who help with projects, events and activities across our parish.
The judges had the opportunity to meet some of our volunteers at the Community Café and hear about the fantastic work taking place across Eversley. We then showed them some of our community projects, including Cross Green Pond project and our village planting and our Borrow-a-Book boxes.
Whether we win an award or not, today was a lovely reminder of just how much is achieved in Eversley through people simply caring about where they live and being willing to give a little of their time.
To every single person who volunteers, helps, supports, bakes, plants, picks litter, looks after our village, organises events or simply steps forward when something needs doing – THANK YOU. ❤️
You are what makes Eversley so special, and we are incredibly proud of our wonderful community.
🌿 Eversley – small parish, big community. 🌿
Hampshire Association of Local Councils