Mayor’s Quiz
Have you booked your table for the Mayor's Quiz yet? It is being held at Bridport Youth and Community Centre on Saturday 8 March at 7pm. You can have tables of up to 6 and it is £5 per person. …
Mayor’s Blog 160 Happy New Year
Mayor’s Blog 160 December Blogs Dear Readers, I must have been visited by some mischievous Christmas elves! I was adding the last photo to this set of blogs and whoosh! Everything else I’d prepared just vanished into thin air and was…
Mayors Blog – 159
November opened with another book launch – this time the brainchild of Sheila Meaney, working within Bridport Heritage Forum on a community project called “A House Through Time”. This she explained was “The end of chapter one” – as it can,…
Mayor’s Blog – 158
Mayor’s Blog 158 6th October – Lions’ Swimarathon – Bridport Leisure Centre I was invited to be present for the Lions’ fundraising Swimarathon, to say a few words and to sound the hooter for the opening rounds. We had friends visiting…
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Mayor’s Blog 157 6 September – The Children’s Democratic Republic of Bridport A great big THANK YOU to the organisers! Well this was just ‘something else’! Brought together by The Bank of Dreams and Nightmares – being invited to open this unusual…
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Mayor’s Blog 156 30 July, Opening of Asker Meadows Nature Reserve It was a warm summer evening when I was kindly invited by the organisers of the Askers Meadow Wildlife Reserve team to do an official ‘opening’. So much thought…
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Mayor’s Blog 155 25th July – Raft Race – West Bay What a lot of fun! After some bright and sunny weather this day started off fairly grey and people were saying the Raft Race would be ‘washed out’ – my…
Hello Summer!
The Summer Holidays are here and there's lots going on in and around Bridport and West Bay. As well as our Events page, https://bridportandwestbay.co.uk/visit/events/ we have a page dedicated to family friendly activities in the area. You can pick up…
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Monday 8th July – Young Creatives working with ‘Stuff and Nonsense’ at the Lyric Theatre This is not all that easy to put into words, but I seem to have managed quite a few here! A…
Changing Places Awareness Day
In the UK, there are an estimated 12 million disabled people or 20% of the population. A 2021 survey of Changing Places Insights by MDUK reported that 83% of disabled people would use a Changing Places toilet if available. Furthermore,…