Community & Charity News

Tuesday 11th May is Somerset Day and Somerset County Council will be celebrating the day with the launch of the new Somerset Medal.

With Somerset Day fast approaching school children across Somerset have been busy working hard to celebrate Somerset Day through song and music.

Monday 10th to Sunday 16th May 2021

Project Play now needs support from audiences to survive! Rehearsals for Project Play, an exciting community theatre initiative, came to a stark halt in six towns across the southwest, just over a year ago.

Help turn Somerset into a sea of Somerset flags and bunting, flying from public and community buildings, churches, schools, village flagpoles, gardens, windows, cars etc over the weekend of 8th and 9th May through to 11th May, Somerset Day.

Somerset Waste Partnership (SWP) has announced that all collections in the week of the Early May Bank Holiday on Monday 3rd May will be one day later.

Monday 3rd to Sunday 9th May 2021

Over 150 members took part in optional competitions last week as Yeovil Golf Club continued its journey towards a full re-opening of its facilities.

Police are appealing for witnesses to the theft of a catalytic converter from a vehicle parked at Ham Hill near Yeovil.

There’s been a big increase in reported cases of dangerous dogs on the loose in South Somerset.

Measures are planned to install further, more permanent schemes to support cycling and walking in Yeovil.

Farmers and landowners are being reminded that if they have a bridleway, cycle path or footpath running across their land they are responsible for maintaining access to it.

A rapid increase in the rat population has been identified during the lockdown.

For more than 100 years, Yeovil has been at the cutting edge of aviation invention.

Stage two of the government's roadmap out of lockdown continues on Monday, April 12th, with the reopening of non-essential shops, hairdressers, gyms and beer gardens.

Have you got an Electric Car? Here is a list of Electric car charging Points across South Somerset & West Dorset.

Illuminated carnival carts will not be seen on the streets of Somerset for the second successive year.