Lord Mayor's Day

Step on board and start your journey to fostering with FCA

Foster Care Associates (FCA) will be welcoming the Lord Mayor of Plymouth into his new role on a form of transport sure to get visitors talking at this year’s Lord Mayor’s Day on Saturday (6 June).

The UK’s leading independent fostering agency is inviting people to step on board their bright pink double decker bus as part of FCA’s ‘30K foster care challenge’. This will involve the FCA...

Plymouth Lord Mayor’s Day needs you!

Plymouth City Council is gearing up for Lord Mayor’s Day on Saturday 6 June and its events team want to hear from anyone interested in taking part.

This year’s theme will be ‘the 200th Anniversary of Napoleon on HMS Bellerophon in Plymouth Sound’ and anyone can get involved – from individual people to community groups, clubs and organisations.

The day will be a great chance for...

Lord Mayor's Day brings celebrations to city centre

Plymouth's new Lord Mayor, Vivian Pengelly will lead a special parade through the city centre involving around 800 people.

Cllr Pengelly, a former leader of Plymouth City Council, was invested as Lord Mayor at a ceremony at the Guildhall on Thursday.

Today's celebrations will involve music and entertainment throughout the city centre with plenty of activities for all the family...

Vivian Pengelly becomes Lord Mayor of Plymouth

The former Leader of Plymouth City Council, Councillor Vivian Pengelly will be elected as Lord Mayor in a ceremony at the Guildhall today (Friday 17 May).

Cllr Pengelly was until recently the leader of the Conservative group in opposition to the Labour controlled Council. She led the Council under the previous Conservative administration between 2007 and 2012.

She succeeds Cllr...

Mama Mia! Douze points! Eurovision fun on the Plymouth big screen

It’s that time of year again! Weird and wonderful pop acts from across the continent are preparing to battle it out in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday 18 May – and you can watch it all on the Plymouth big screen.

Plymouth City Council is following this year’s Lord Mayor’s Day celebrations with a big Eurovision party on the Armada Way piazza, where people can cheer on...

City pupils to lead Lord Mayor's Day celebrations with ice age theme

There’s no time to ‘chill out’ for primary school children busy rehearsing for this year’s Lord Mayor’s Day celebrations on Saturday 18 May.

More than 250 pupils have been working with Stiltskin Arts and Theatre Company to stage a spectacular ‘Cattedown Man’ themed children’s parade and are putting the finishing touches to a giant wooden caveman, as well as colourful costumes, masks...