Lord Foster of Bath visited Bridgemead on 13th January. He came down from Suffolk to see some of the residents, Iris Stanton, Jean Kemmery and Ruth Hewetson. He said: “I like to go off and talk to people rather than follow a script, and when I do that here I find that everyone is so […]
Widcombe Baptist Church Sunday School performed their Nativity service on Sunday 17th December; a highlight of the Christmas calendar at Bridgemead for many years. The teaching staff and children have been hard at work for the past six weeks learning their parts and songs, accompanied by piano and guitar. This year the story was […]
Thank you to our Senior Carer, Denise Harris for creating our ‘Bridgemead Christmas Table Display’ and for dressing the house ready for Christmas for us all to enjoy.
” The Fayre raised £762.95 – an excellent result!” says Una McCullough the organiser of Bridgemead Christmas Fayre on Saturday 2nd December. She says: “It was a happy afternoon with a number of new faces there. I spoke to Philip, the vicar of St Stephen’s Church who was there with his two children. He had […]
Geoff Weekes, Chair of Bridgemead Trustees, thanked all the friends and supporters of Bridgemead at the 25th birthday party held at Bridgemead on 23rd November. Around 60 supporters came including the Deputy Mayor, Councillor Rob Appleyard, who said “I’ve visited Bridgemead several times and really feel the incredible warmth of the place.” A Happy Place […]
All welcome to Bridgemead Christmas Fayre on Saturday 2nd December at 2.30pm. We have stalls offering: Craft items of purses, jewellery wraps, peg bags, Christmas table runners, hand painted silk scarves Phoenix cards Homemade cakes Book stall Christmas tombola A hamper raffle General raffle £1 stall Delicious refreshments This festive event will take place at […]
Una McCullough, Chair of Bridgemead Friends, says “The Murder Mystery evening at Long’s Arms at South Wraxall was a great success. There were 45 guests and nearly all of the guests, or suspects, dressed up so they could be questioned and the murder solved. I think the Elvis impersonator, Mr Lee Hayward, was great, even […]
Some Bridgemead residents went to visit Widcombe Acorns Pre-School on Wednesday 18th October. Dena Moore, the nursery manager says: “What a wonderful time we had meeting some of your residents yesterday, the children have talked of nothing else, and I have had such lovely e-mails from some of the parents this morning saying that their children […]
Bridgemead’s new branding is revealed today. We needed to refresh our image after 25 years and want our new logo to reflect, in a modern way, some of the best things about Bridgemead. We asked our staff and others to say what Bridgemead means to them. Main themes were: Caring Family Community Homely Inclusive River […]
Mr James and Mrs Joanna Whitehead, owners of the world’s largest jigsaw puzzle – about 6m wide and 1.5m high when assembled, and 32,256 pieces, donated it to Bridgemead today. Mr Whitehead says: “My wife Joanna and I were one of the first to complete the puzzle in the UK not long after it came […]