A free to attend food and drink festival is coming to Nailsea for the first time in 2019. Hosted by eat:Festivals, organisers of multi award-winning food and drink festivals in Somerset, eat:Nailsea takes place on Saturday 5th October 2019 in Crown Glass Shopping Centre. It’s a non-profit festival that aims to showcase the quality of [...]
Volunteers of Nailsea Shedders, a repair café based at the scout hut on Hannah More Road, have put their craftsmanship to good use by crafting a bespoke cabinet for local charity Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW). The charity, which provide hospice care to children with life-limiting conditions and their families, appealed to Nailsea Shedders for [...]
Nailsea Lions Club conducted a brief opening ceremony for Lions Green, the piece of land outside of the Sapphire Lodge residential home next to the Town Centre car park, on Wednesday 13th February. Together, the Lions and the Town Council, with a donation from Cllr Phillip Barclay, have installed a bench system and pathway, which [...]
Priority Football’s popular football camps return to Nailsea School this February Half Term for children aged 4-12. During the Summer Holiday over 250 children attended the camps which will run 18th-21st February. Priority Football was founded by Nailsea resident Rob Prior in 2016 and now delivers technical football sessions to over 300 children in North [...]
One of the 20th century's most controversial murder cases takes to the stage in Nailsea in February. The town's theatre lovers have a chance to see a dramatic re-telling of the Ruth Ellis story when the Little Theatre presents 'The Thrill of Love' from Monday 4 to Saturday 9 February. Ruth was the last woman [...]
This year Nailsea Concert Orchestra will be presenting a New World Concert series, taking the audience through spring, summer and finally autumn/winter with a sumptuous mix of classics from Mendelssohn and Copeland, Bernstein to Gershwin and to a finale of Mozart and Dvorak to name just a few. The first in the orchestra’s series, ‘Appalachian Spring’, will [...]
The video below, commissioned by Nailsea Town Council, promotes 65 High Street and the wider Nailsea Place project. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DDffRqwaxI&feature=youtu.be Read more: No. 65 High Street opens as Nailsea’s Digital Community Hub >
Nailsea Town Council welcomes its new Clerk, Jo Duffy. Jo has been a Clerk for over fourteen years, with experience at both Parish and Town Council level. She qualified as a Clerk in 2010 and went on to Clerk for Portishead Town Council. Jo said “I am very pleased to have been offered the position [...]
Nailsea Entrepreneur in Final Five of BBC’s The Apprentice Daniel Elahi, a Bristol-born entrepreneur who attended Nailsea School & Sixth Form, is one of the five remaining candidates in BBC’s hit reality business show, The Apprentice. Elahi, 28, has been a major success in this year’s series of The Apprentice, competing against 15 other aspirants [...]
As in many small towns, Nailsea has a minority of drivers causing unnecessary risk to residents through extreme excess speeding. Speeds as high as 72mph have been recorded near schools and parks. Although the offenders are a small minority, speeds more than 50 and 60mph are recorded regularly around Nailsea. Collisions have happened over recent [...]
