Author: BFManage

Exciting new store opening VERY soon!

”We are absolutely delighted to announce the opening of our new Waterstones Bangor branch at Bloomfield Shopping Centre which will tentatively open its doors to customers on 01-03-2024 (our social media channels will confirm this date closer to the time).

Occupying a newly refurbished unit in the bustling Bloomfield shopping centre, our bookshop will a great destination for local readers. The bookselling team, under the leadership of bookshop manager Catherine McManus, can’t wait to welcome customers.

We will have a fantastic selection of books and gifts for everyone. From the newest bestsellers to inspiring children’s book and hand-picked non-fiction titles, our bright and spacious new location will become a destination shop for the people of North Down and beyond.

We can’t wait to share all the wonderful new publishing with our local community, there is nothing quite like visiting a bookshop and discovering your next favourite read.”

The Bloomfield Giving Trees


 
The Bloomfield Giving Trees are now on the mall in front of Tesco🎄🎁✨
 
We have been supporting North Down & Ards Women’s Aid for 24 years and every year are blown away by the kindness and generosity of our customers.
 
The Giving Trees help bring Christmas wishes to local children who have sought the support of the charity having left domestic violent situations.
 
If you wish to help please –
 
🎁 Visit the giving trees and select a gift you would like to purchase
✈️ Leave the unwrapped gift in Hays Travel for collection.
 
Thank you ❤️
 

National Recycling Week

It’s National Recycling Week! We had the recycling team from Ards & North Down Borough Council with us this morning with information & giveaways.
 
Did you know Bloomfield send nil waste to landfill? 97% of our waste is recycled and the remaining 3% is converted to energy!

The comfort of bees

You may have noticed some characters have appeared at Bloomfield over the last few weeks. We have been working with Daisy Chain Inc on an Arts and Business project which has created our Bloomfield story ‘Comfort of the bees’. Comfort of the bees was written by local writer Paul Hutchinson and local artirst Ray Bonner @francoisgotbuffed brought the characters to life.

You can read our story below and listen to a little bit about each of our characters read by writer Paul Hutchinson.

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Betty Whistle

Joe Sweep

Lenny Travel

Queen

Tall Boy

Print this PDF to colour the characters from Comfort of the bees.

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Bloomfield Recycled Garden

It’s National Gardening Week so no better time to showcase our Bloomfield Recycled Garden!

Jamie the Centre Manager has worked hard transforming this former dumping ground into a green space which creates a 5 star hotel for our bugs and beasts, absorbs carbon emissions and is a quiet area that can be enjoyed by our staff.

The Bloomfield Bees will be happy too!

National Piano Day

Today is National Piano Day. National Piano Day encourages players of all ages and abilities to play music in public spaces. Our beautiful piano will be on the mall every day and we would love you to stop and make music at Bloomfield!

Easter Fun

Join us 12-4pm on Good Friday and Easter Saturday for some Easter Fun! We will have a chocolate workshop with Aunt Sandra’s Candy Factory, face painting, balloon modelling and some chocolate giveaways.

Earth Hour

💡Earth Hour is an initiative designed to concentrate people’s attention on the environment, at least for one hour.

🌎 At Bloomfield we are already environmentally conscious.

✔️We have LED lighting throughout the site

✔️We send no waste to landfill

✔️Our electricity is supplied from 100% renewable sources

✔️ We dim the mall lights from 1800 each day

🐝 Not forgetting our Bloomfield Bees

In recognition of EARTH HOUR we will be switching off our main illuminated sign and totems around the site for an hour at 2030 this Saturday.

We would love you to join in and see if there’s something you could do to mark EARTH HOUR at home or in your work!

https://www.earthhour.org/