Category: Leisure

Urban Orienteering Is Back!

Saturday 12th February will see the welcome return of Urban Orienteering to Bridgwater with 2 daytime events which will be open to the public to take part, watch or wander around at their leisure. The course created for the public will start at King’s Square at 1130 but there will be three different courses (Long, […]

Victoria Park Summer Fayre Sunday 9th June 2019

The 7th Annual Summer Fair of Victoria Park Community Centre’s 7th Annual Summer Fair is on this  Sunday 9th  June 2019. It will run 12pm – 4pm in Victoria Park Bridgwater – TA6 7AS. The event is Free to Enter  – with Free on site car parking in Victoria Park –which  can only be accessed […]

New ‘Men’s Shed’ Opens in Bridgwater

Westover ward councillors Kathy Pearce ,Brian Smedley and Leigh Redman joined Bridgwater Mayor Graham Granter as he cut the ribbon this week to launch the Bridgwater Men Shed – the first local version of this growing national phenomenon, in it’s Westover location along the canalbank down Old Taunton Road. Men’s Sheds are community spaces for […]

Quayside Festival Brings Crowds to the Town Centre

Saturday July 29th 2017 saw the launch of the new Quayside Festival which brought crowds to the town centre of Bridgwater, and saw artists, performers, musicians and entertainers connecting with the public at numerous key points around the town with the river as it’s focal point. The Festival was organised by the FUSE PERFORMANCE agency […]

Orienteerers Orientate themselves to Westover

200 lycra, parka and sweatband clad orienteering enthusiasts from all over England spread out across Westover, sometimes at breakneck speed, in mad quest for small orange and white markers indicating the key points on their makeshift racetrack created as it was from amidst the historic backdrop of Bridgwater. The Quantock Orienteerers were in town. But […]