Council Tax rise explained
With Council Tax bills hitting doormats at the moment, the Town Council has set out the reasons for increasing its share of the bill. The increase, totalling £15.23 a year or 29p a week at Council Tax Baand D, takes…
Town Clerk Moves On
Bridport Town Clerk Will Austin will be leaving his position at the end of June after 7 years in post, Bridport Town Council has announced. Will’s tenure has included some significant moments for the council, including the introduction of the…
Town Council Seeks New Internal Auditor
Bridport Town Council's current internal auditor, Lightatouch, will cease service provision at the end of 2024/25. We are now seeking a replacement auditor. The scope of the current internal audit service is shown at https://www.bridport-tc.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Audit-Spec.pdf. If you would like to…
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January 10 – donation to BTC of a very unusual picture My first and very pleasant engagement for the New Year was to gratefully receive a lovely piece of art created by Richard Butterworth, kindly donated to Bridport Town Council…
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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 not recoverable. …
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1st November 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” –…
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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 that weekend,…
Council Launches Bridport Workspace and Business Needs Assessment
Bridport Town Council is committed to supporting local businesses, especially the need to increase the resilience of Bridport’s local economy and drive future sustainability. In 2022, the council produced the Bridport Investment Plan, responding to consultations with businesses and the…
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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 and…
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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 and work has…