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Local Documentary Maker Puts Bridgwater Carnival On The Big Screen

l to r Mackenzie Plummer Scott Cinemas, Oliver Butt Scott Cinemas, Alan Windsor...

Free Event Marshalling Training

FREE EVENT MARSHALLING TRAINING Offered for all Volunteer Marshals at Bridgwater Guy Fawkes...

Application Window for Entering the 2022 Carnivals Opens on Monday 4 July

The application window to take part in the prestigious 2022 Somerset County Guy...

‘From Parkway to the Palace – The Story of the Jubilee Cart’

Photograph courtesy of Andy Bennett Local carnivalite and BBC Radio Somerset presenter, Andy...

Jubilation – The Journey to London

Bridgwater Guy Fawkes Carnival’s entry ‘Jubilation’ caught the hearts of a national and...

Bridgwater Carnival to Host ‘Drop In’ Day

Bridgwater Guy Fawkes Carnival is holding an open day so charities, community groups,...

Platinum Jubilee Pageant Cart

We are so sorry but we have had to cancel our plans to...

‘JUBILATION’ – A Carnival Cart for a Queen

Photos by Bridgwater Photographic Society It is now just under one week before...

Local Talent to Appear at 2022 Carnival Concerts

13 talented local entertainment acts fought off tough competition during auditions to secure...

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Christmas Collection 2024

SANTA’S BOOST FOR LOCAL CHARITIES Bridgwater charities have benefitted from a seasonal rush of goodwill. The Christmas Sleigh collection organised by the Bridgwater Guy Fawkes Carnival Committee raised a whopping £4,412. For a fortnight in the lead up to Christmas, the sleigh toured the town, including stopoffs at local supermarkets

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Matty

Matty, a 17 year old boy from South Devon, is a wonderfully complex character who has had many medical challenges in his life and faced these with strength and determination. In many ways Carnival has saved Matty in moments when he needed distraction, before operations and at scary times.   

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2024 BRIDGWATER GUY FAWKES CARNIVAL – ‘IN NUMBERS’

2024 BRIDGWATER GUY FAWKES CARNIVAL – ‘IN NUMBERS’ 1) 2024 is the 419th anniversary of The Gunpower Plot, and the origins of Bridgwater Guy Fawkes Carnival can be traced back to when Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators failed in their attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament in

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BRIDGWATER GUY FAWKES CARNIVAL – SATURDAY 2 NOVEMBER,

THE FINAL COUNTDOWN HAS STARTED With just under one week until the carnival returns to town on Saturday 2 November, the final countdown has begun to Bridgwater Carnival 2024. For the carnival clubs and masqueraders who are working on their spectacular entries around the clock, to the carnival organisers who

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