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fresh food on wooden background

8:59am - 28 January 2022

Voluntary organisations, community groups and settings are being encouraged to apply for funding from North Somerset Council for existing and new community food projects across the area.

Carlton Street Car Park - Google

5:18pm - 27 January 2022

Carlton Street multi-storey car park in Weston-super-Mare is closed for essential maintenance work.

Hands working at a desk with printed charts, graphs and calculator

10:09am - 27 January 2022

Businesses across North Somerset are being encouraged to apply for the latest business grants which support the hospitality and leisure sectors that have been impacted by the Omicron variant.

man smiling on a sofa with a happy child on either side of him

10:07am - 26 January 2022

Fostering North Somerset is celebrating two years of a ground-breaking foster care programme which is helping North Somerset children and their foster carers.

Camilla Rigby and Rachel Mostyn, co-founders of Women's Work Lab

9:40am - 26 January 2022

Up to 30 North Somerset women who have struggled to find a job after having children can get free help to return to the workplace thanks to the launch of a new project.

lady on bike in autumn

4:12pm - 25 January 2022

North Somerset Council, in partnership with Pier Health Primary Care Network, has won funding to develop ways to add more walking and cycling to the area’s social prescribing offer.

Sovereign cafe

9:49am - 25 January 2022

Work has started on Weston’s Sovereign Shopping Centre as part of the town’s placemaking investment programme, which will see the centre’s name evolve into The Sovereign.

Yellow cow slips surrounded by grass

3:54pm - 24 January 2022

North Somerset Council will be carrying out conservation management work next week to nature reserve land it owns at Cadbury Hill. This will improve the biodiversity of the site.

Planting a tree in Ashcombe Park to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee

12:30pm - 21 January 2022

An oak tree has been planted in Ashcombe Park, Weston-super-Mare by North Somerset Council as part of a national initiative to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

Picture of Weston's high street by Paul Blakemore

11:36am - 19 January 2022

To help keep Weston town centre safe and clean for everyone North Somerset Council is tackling the issue of unattended items being left in shop doorways. 

Image shows a close up of a large body of water

10:39am - 19 January 2022

Newly published data shows a mixed picture for bathing water quality assessments in North Somerset.

A school street sign

12:40pm - 17 January 2022

Work to build an expanded school site for children with special educational needs and disabilities at Brookfield Walk in Clevedon can now begin following a court judgement that there is no case for judicial review of the planning and appropriation processes.
 

person holding a lateral flow test for covid-19 in their hands

5:09pm - 11 January 2022

North Somerset Council’s Covid-19 rapid testing vans are back on the road as testing rules change in England.

Family of four riding their bikes down a path with green trees behind them

9:37am - 11 January 2022

Funding is now available for companies, schools and community groups who want to introduce active travel initiatives.

mans hands holding a negative lateral flow test

3:16pm - 7 January 2022

Residents across North Somerset are asked to keep looking after each other as Covid rates climb.