The Teddy Bears Picnic has become something of an institution in Dorchester – this
year’s is the twenty-first! It provides a day of totally free entertainment for
children of all ages thanks to the efforts of volunteers from a range of community
organisations across the town, fronted by the team from Ridgeway Radio, the radio
station for Dorset County Hospital. It is sobering to think that some of the children
who attended early Teddy Bears Picnics are now old enough to be bringing their own
children along!