Category: community

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 […]

Bridgwater Town Council Past, Present and Future

On Wednesday 10th January the guest speaker for the first Bridgwater & District Civic Society  meeting of 2024 will be Cllr Brian Smedley, the Labour Group Leader on Bridgwater Town Council, who will speak on the subject of: “Bridgwater Town Council Past, Present and Future”. The talk will be held at Victoria Park Community Centre […]

Hidden Voices ‘Anti Slavery’ Day

Hidden Voices Bridgwater was set up to raise awareness of Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking. Globally there are around 50 million people held in Modern Slavery with around 150 thousand of those being in the UK. Hidden Voices attend community events and offer training for those wishing to learn about Modern Slavery, Human Trafficking and […]