Put your Food and Drink Business on the Map
August 26, 2021
Sedgemoor District Council, alongside Somerset West and Taunton Council, are working with the Food and Drink Forum to launch a Food and Drink Mapping project. Through the project, the local Food and Drink Forum team based at The Food WorksSW, will be contacting as many food and drink producers, suppliers and local retailers based within…
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Sedgemoor Business Excellence Awards Now Open for Applications!
August 23, 2021
Bridgwater Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce the launch of this year’s Sedgemoor Business Excellence Awards. The event is a celebration of our fantastic local business community and is the jewel in the Chamber crown with 15 separate award categories across all sectors, including hospitality and tourism for the first time this year. Applications…
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PAGEANT ENTRY TAKES SHAPE
August 18, 2021
Photo credit to 'Brian Sweeting, Bridgwater Photographic Society' The first stages of the design of Bridgwater Carnival’s Pageant entry are revealed to Pageant Master, Adrian Evans (L), by Mike Crocker (Centre) and Chris Hocking. Designs for Bridgwater Carnival’s entry in next year’s Platinum Jubilee Pageant are almost complete and the working drawings were shown to…
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£500,000 to boost re-start and recovery
August 16, 2021
Anchor businesses in Somerset that attract people to visit and support a wider range of local enterprises are being urged to bid for grants to help them re-start and recover from the economic hit of the coronavirus pandemic. Somerset County Council is launching a £500,000 fund to support strategically significant businesses badly affected by Covid-19…
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Pardoes welcome new members to their Residential Property team!
August 13, 2021
We are so pleased to welcome (from left to right) Lucy Smith, Nicola Hughes and Najmin Nessa to our Residential Property team. Nicola has joined Pardoes as the new Head of Residential with over 25 years of experience in Conveyancing. Najmin and Lucy will be based in our Bridgwater office, Najmin as a Chartered Legal…
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DETAILS OF BRIDGWATER CARNIVAL’S 2021 VIRTUAL LIVE STREAM REVEALED – SATURDAY 6 NOVEMBER, 7PM
August 5, 2021
With just three months until what would have been undoubtedly Bridgwater’s biggest night of theyear, Bridgwater Guy Fawkes Carnival has revealed the full details of its 2021 virtual carnival. Taking place on Saturday 6 November at 7pm, the two hour online virtual carnival titled ‘Through the Decades’ will feature 100 entries from Bridgwater Carnival processions…
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SOMERSET SUPER LEAGUE: WHO WON?
July 29, 2021
On 24 July 2021, Walpole Dunn hosted the Somerset Super League; a charity football tournament in aid of bibic and in celebration of Walpole Dunn’s 5th anniversary year. Bibic is Walpole Dunn’s ‘Charity of the Year 2021’. At Walpole Dunn, we are proud to be supporting a local Somerset charity that provides exceptional support to…
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PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN CREATE HOARDING DESIGNS FOR NEW NORTHGATE YARD DEVELOPMENT
July 29, 2021
Artistic school children from Northgate Primary School have created designs for a 20-metre section of hoarding around the new Northgate Yard and Brewery Field development site. 26 designs from talented pupils have been selected in a competition run by Sedgemoor District Council and site contractors Willmott Dixon to decorate the section directly opposite the school.…
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Weston College launches new Engineering facility in Bristol
July 26, 2021
As lead partner of the West of England Institute of Technology (WEIoT) Weston College has created a WEIoT base in north Bristol’s aerospace and advanced engineering heartland through partnership working with GKN Aerospace.The College will be opening its own Bristol WEIoT facility for delivery of Higher Education Engineering, within GKN Aerospace’s new flagship Global Technology…
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NATIONAL CHILDREN’S CARNIVAL WEEK IN BRIDGWATER
July 26, 2021
Children across the UK were able to experience the excitement and enjoyment of carnival during the National Children’s Carnival Week in July. At Somerset Bridge Primary School in Bridgwater the whole school took part and thoroughly enjoyed themselves designing and creating their own carnival masks, headdresses, collars and squibs. They then proudly donned their brand…
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Struggling To Fill Hospitality Vacancies?
July 15, 2021
A new service for the 2021 season has been developed to promote your current vacancies directly to young people in schools and colleges here in Somerset. Somerset County Council along with the four District Councils, Education Business Partnership and industry representatives have worked together to produce a link between a central web hospitality vacancy platform…
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New grants to boost tourism in Sedgemoor
July 15, 2021
The Hinkley Tourism Action Partnership (HTAP) has opened a grant scheme - Tourism Innovation Grant Scheme – aimed atboosting tourism in the Sedgemoor and West Somerset areas. The new grant scheme is specifically designed to support small to medium sized businesses to provide a greater range of visitor products and experiences. Grants between £5,000 and…
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Western Somerset district councils hold joint discussions to prepare for unitary future
July 15, 2021
Leaders, Executive members and Chief Executives of Somerset West and Taunton Council and Sedgemoor District Council have come together to discuss next steps in the preparations for a Western Somerset unitary council. It is now almost one month since the clear preference of Somerset voters was revealed in the result of the local poll, with…
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New Arrival At Stokes Partners
July 12, 2021
Stokes Partners Solicitors are delighted to announce the arrival of their newest Partner, Michael Brierley. Michael joins the firm from 6 July 2021. He specialises in contentious probate litigation and looks forward to developing this complex area of work within the firm. Michael was born and brought up in Somerset and trained at a large…
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Kings of Wessex Academy Employability Hub – unlocking creativity, expanding horizons
July 12, 2021
Kings of Wessex in Cheddar a co-educational Academy for 13-19 years olds, are taking the initiative to create better employment prospects and choices for our young people who will be our next generation entering the workplace industry, in what can only be described as an extraordinarily challenging time following the pandemic. The Employability Hub will…
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BY ROYAL APPOINTMENT!
July 2, 2021
The magnificent, amazing entries created for Bridgwater Carnival have come to the attention of the organisers of the recently announced Platinum Jubilee Pageant which will form part of the celebrations marking the 70th anniversary of Her Majesty the Queen’s accession to the throne. This has manifested in an official invitation to Bridgwater Carnival to join…
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