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Container Gardening

27 March 2024/

We are friendly, welcoming, enthusiastic gardeners. Come and join us! We meet on first Wednesday of the month at 7:00pm...

Theater masks, drama and comedy with a red curtain as backdrop / 3D Rendering, Mixed media.

26 March 2024/

West Huntspill Players April Production West Huntspill Players are pleased to announce their spring production “Cash on Delivery”  a riotous...

The Textile Set

25 March 2024/

The Textile Set The Textile Set present a retrospective exhibition of art quilts, embroidery and felted textiles ‘Looking Back’, 20th...

Woman driving car and holding both hands on steering wheel on the way to work and looking at camera

20 February 2024/

Your Local Community Needs Your Help Volunteers are desperately needed for our Community Transport Service that enables vulnerable people to...

Preparing for Shepton Mallet's Snowdrop festival which takes place this weekend, 19th and 20th February 

Sisters Ivy and Winnie Webb pictured in Shepton Mallet 

Shepton Mallet was home to James Allen, an amateur horticulturalist who was the first person ever to breed new varieties of snowdrops from wild plants - a feat which earned him the nickname of the 'Snowdrop King'

The Snowdrop Festival is a community project to plant Shepton Mallet with hundreds of thousands of snowdrop bulbs, and to restore the Allen family memorial in the town's cemetery, in order to celebrate James Allen's and the town's place in gardening history.

1 February 2024/

A packed programme: 2024 Shepton Snowdrops Festival The week-long Shepton Snowdrop Festival returns once again in February 2024 with an...

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