News in Wells

A dedicated team of 28 volunteers are helping a Wells artist create a huge ceramic mural she has designed.

It will be five feet high and 10 feet wide depicting three notable benefactors who made on impact on the city:

The New Year is a great time to reflect and set ourselves new goals for the year ahead.

If you are looking for a way to help others for your New Years' Resolution, why not try volunteering?

Looking for a new challenge for 2022? An exciting opportunity has arisen at Somerset Community Foundation (SCF) to join and lead their board of trustees. This unique local philanthropic charity is seeking an ambitious person to provide inspiring leadership as their new Chair and help steer the Foundation into the future.

Tim Walker, a current trustee at SCF, explained: "The trustees of Somerset Community Foundation are seeking a new Chair to replace Jane Barrie OBE DL who will retire from this office at the end of 2022. We're starting the recruitment process now so that the appointed person can work with Jane during a transition period and learn something of the great work this Foundation delivers, before taking over."

Somerset residents will have to travel to Bath or further afield if they wish to publicly express their views on the new general election boundaries.

The Boundary Commission for England (BCE) published its initial proposals in June 2021 for the new parliamentary constituencies which would take effect before the next UK general election.

Sadly, Covid continues to force the cancellation or postponement of community events.

So it's with great regret that Wells Independents have decided to cancel their next SOUP which was scheduled for Saturday, January 15 at the city's Connect Centre.

Somerset County Council is calling on residents to join the county's fight against climate change by 'cutting the carbon' in 2022.

The County Council and the four district councils have all declared a climate emergency and set ambitious goals for Somerset to become a carbon neutral county by 2030.

A housing development dubbed "one of the worst" ever planned for Somerset will still go ahead following a successful appeal.

East Brent LVA LLP applied for outline permission to build 40 new homes on Old Bristol Road in the village of East Brent near Burnham-on-Sea, not far from the Sedgemoor services on the M5.

Successful applicants who sought financial support through Mendip's Communities Fund and Climate and Ecological Emergency Fund have received good news.

Judging panels recently met and reviewed all applications, and have now allocated funding to those organisations who successfully met the criteria.

Mendip District Council, in partnership with the Centre of Sustainable Energy (CSE), have successfully bid for £49,057 to go towards supporting landlords with an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) rating below Band E, to improve their properties and meet their legal obligations.

Using the funding, the Council and CSE will work together to support Mendip landlords improve their EPC ratings through education, training and events, with the aim of making homes more energy efficient, warmer and cheaper for residents to live in.

Wells is expected to miss some of the thunderstorms forecast for later today (January 2) for the South West.

According to the Met Office :