Families searching for an unforgettable day out this summer can step into an extraordinary world at The Roman Baths, where a new partnership with award-winning AQUILA Magazine has inspired a playful, puzzle-packed adventure full of storytelling and hands-on fun, offering 2,000 years of history in one legendary day out. Running throughout the school holidays from…
Independent Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES) Councillor for Peasedown St John, Cllr Karen Walker, will be holding a Street Surgery in the village on Wednesday 15th July. Each month over the next year Cllr Walker will be visiting every street to meet residents, hear any concerns and to find out about what issues matter…
Community groups across the West will soon be able to access a share of £25,000 to bring local nature and green space projects to life through the Mayor’s Community Nature Fund. Alongside the new fund, a new crowdfunding initiative developed by the West of England Mayoral Combined Authority in partnership with community fundraising platform Spacehive…
Interactive sessions to help young children learn how to repair, reuse and recycle electronics have been enjoyed by more than 430 primary school children across B&NES. The workshops run over the past few months by Bath & North East Somerset Council in partnership with Sustainable Hive aim to encourage good recycling habits at an early age and…
One of Bath & North East Somerset’s most senior councillors is calling on the government to do more to support local families by cutting VAT on motor fuel. Cllr Karen Walker, a former two-time Chairwoman of the local authority, has formally requested that the Leader of the Council and the Cabinet write to the Minister…
Local employers, business leaders and organisations are being invited to take part in Peasedown St John’s first ever Job Fair later this year. To be held at the village’s local primary school, hundreds of job seekers and potential employees are expected to attend the event. One of the organisers is village councillor, Cllr Karen Walker…
Bath & North East Somerset Council is stepping up action to prepare its services for the growing impacts of climate change and help prevent impacts on communities. Recent periods of extreme heat and storms have reinforced the urgency to act faster and strengthen resilience with extreme weather no longer rare. A Climate Resilient Council…
Hundreds more young people in care, and care leavers, are set to benefit from up to ten years of free bus travel across the West of England: one of the UK’s most generous schemes, and saving them up to £10,000 each. The West of England Mayoral Combined Authority has confirmed that its successful Care Leaver Bus Pass scheme will be extended to include young people…
Residents, businesses and performers are being asked for their views on how streets and public spaces should be used and managed in Bath and North East Somerset. Bath & North East Somerset Council is running three separate but linked consultations to understand how activities happening in one place at the same time, including trading events and street…
Helen Godwin, Mayor of the West of England, said: “I’m glad to see that devolution is front-and-centre of the national conversation. The West Country has to be at the heart of places getting more powers and more funding. That must be the case as the only expanding combined authority, with North Somersetjoining, and as we…
