Don Mayes reported at Monday's town council meeting that the wheels were in motion to hold a summer festival.
He said: "The committee is finally reaching the stage where it will be able to present an arts festival for Bordon and Whitehill from June 30 to July 9, 2006.
"This includes theatre production, both amateur and professional, drama display, disco with band, a concert, songs of praise, youth drama, the Mill Chase School show, the Garrison fête and Party in Park with a concert."
The committee - which includes representatives from Mill Chase School, the Phoenix and the Forest Community Centre - will apply for £1,000 start-up funding from EHDC and the town council, and it intends to apply for funding from other sources as the programme develops.
Mr Mayes said: "It just remains for me to say thank you to all the organisations which have responded and their members who have joined the committee to progress what will I think be a memorable event."
The festival's co-ordinator, David Phillips, is looking forward to the challenge ahead and believes that the festival will be very well received.
"I have been involved in the project for two months now and at the moment we are concentrating on booking venues within the area.
"We have not as yet encountered any difficulties because we are still planning and I don't envisage many, but our main concern is to ensure that the event is well attended," explained Mr Phillips.
He added: "We will publicise the festival with posters and possible leaflet drops, word of mouth and local advertising. The idea is that the event is switched across a number of areas throughout Bordon and Whitehill such as Mill Chase School, the Forest Community and the Phoenix."
Jane Dawes, director of the Phoenix Theatre, said: "We were approached by Whitehill Town Council who asked us if we could put on an arts festival, similar to the one already held in Haslemere, and we were more than happy to do it.
"We have been planning for around six months with other local organisations such as Mill Chase School and the MoD as to what will happen and where.
"The Phoenix will actually stage the ongoing arts exhibition, two professional plays one for adults and the other for children. There will be a film screened here and the Phoenix's youth theatre group and the children's drama club will also perform.
"The garrison will stage a party in park, which will coincide with the other events happening during the 10 days," said Mrs Dawes.
She added: "It will be great for the town and will appeal to all ages because there will be something for young and older people."
Mill Chase School has also helped to get the project up and running.
"We have a lot of things going on in school with various exhibitions and concerts at that time, so we were happy to have our school as a venue.
"As yet, the pupils are unaware of the school's involvement because it is too early, but they will in the spring term and the whole school will be involved in it.
"Mill Chase has always looked at ways of getting out in the community and this project has developed a similar ethos to that of the school's," explained Kelly Kent, head of drama at Mill Chase.
The committee is busy organising next year's festivaland is headed by David Phillips and includes Jane Dawes and Peni Parfitt of the Phoenix, town councillor Don Mayes, Lindsay Kelly Forest Community Centre manager, Jenny Windebank, Steph Moral and Kelly Kent from Mill Chase School and Jean Fox from Victim Support.