Category: community

Playday Comes to St Matthews Field

St. Matthews Field will host a Playday on Wednesday 30 July 2025 as part of Love Parks Week, a week that highlights the vital role green spaces play in boosting the health and wellbeing of residents and communities.This free event is open to everyone and promises a day filled with fun children’s activities. Playday is […]

Bridgwater Sparkle Lights Up Blake Gardens

Emma Cole is a showperson and wants to bring something brilliant at Christmas to the people of Bridgwater. And so she’s set up a mini fairground, christmas market and ice rink in the middle of Blake Gardens and it’s now open, so get on down and check it out! Sparkle ‘Bridgwater Sparkle’ has all the […]

Bridgwater Town Council Launches Life-Saving Defibrillator Initiative

Bridgwater Town Council has announced a new initiative aimed at enhancing public safety by installing 24/7 public access defibrillators in areas currently lacking these critical life-saving devices. The locations of these devices is key and Bridgwater Town Council need your help to ensure these defibrillators are placed where they are most needed. Ideal spots might […]

Community Comes Together to Clean River

Social media has been wringing its hands this week over the sight of shopping trolleys at low tide under Bridgwater’s  town bridge. Then suddenly at the low water mark on Friday volunteers turned up out of the blue, with magnets, hooks and lorries and it was sorted. Well, it wasn’t ‘quite’ out of the blue […]

Town’s May Day Celebration in Blake Gardens

Bridgwater Town Council are holding a May celebration this Sunday 5th May in Blake Gardens. There will be lots of free entertainment including a traditional May Pole, Morris Dancers, the Rock Choir and Westfield Choir.Organiser AnnMarie Gould says “We will also have a bouncy castle, face painting, stalls, free craft activities for children, food and […]