The Nornen Project

13/10/2025

One day left to vote!

Did you see the epic TV show Reunion earlier this year? Starring our brilliant Captain, Matthew Gurney, and featuring our wonderful Stephen Collins, it's an incredibly powerful drama. Not only that, but it's the first prime time TV drama to put the deaf community front and centre, led by a deaf character.

You can vote for Matthew Gurney in the "Best Drama Performance" category, and for Reunion in the "Best New Drama" category.

Whoever wins, we're incredibly proud of both Matty and Stephen, and honoured to have worked with them alongside the rest of our talented team.

⏰ Hurry! There are only two days left to cast your vote in the 2026 TV Choice Awards.

Don’t miss your chance to support your favourite shows and stars this year! Click the link in the comments to vote - and you could win a pair of tickets to this star-studded event! 🌟 Imagine joining the biggest names in TV for a night to remember.

Have your say and get involved now!

05/09/2025

We're wishing the lovely Angie Lars a great opening night tonight in "Ghosted" at Alma Tavern & Theatre! Angie was one of our brilliant community cast members in "All Hands!" and we're absolutely chuffed to see her career progressing. Break a leg Angie!

Our Autumn season kicks off with a brand new feel good play from Johnny T. Ashman and Naked Heart Productions.

GHOSTED follows Jess, recently back from a stint abroad who decides to tackle her dating woes with a challenge: 7 dates in 7 days, 0 expectations. But if all dating went well, there would be no romcoms, right?

A charming new romantic comedy - brand new theatre for our September season. Ghosted runs from Friday 5th - Thursday 11th (no show Monday). One night is already sold out - so what're you waiting for? Jump on our website and grab your tickets now!

www.tickettailor.com/events/almatheatrecompany/1749811

02/09/2025

One of our lovely community members has launched a new amateur dramatics company in merry old Burnham. Fancy getting into character? Or perhaps getting into stage management is more your thing? Whatever your interest or skillset, groups like this are a great way to give it a go.

Do get in touch with them or pop along to the first session on September 18th.

Princess Theatre and Arts Centre

Break A Leg Theatre Company will be meeting next month. Open to adults of all ages and abilities. Contact [email protected] for more information

24/07/2025

2.30pm TODAY

Our brilliant Community Cast member, Bronwyn, will be speaking as part of a talk marking the 340th anniversary of the Battle of Sedgemoor this afternoon. We do love a bit of local history!

Did you know it was the last battle on English soil?

Did you know the fate of King and Country was decided by a surprise attack gone wrong?

If you'd like to find out more about this intriguing, dark and bloody story, do go along. The talk takes place at St Peter and All Hallows Church in West Huntspill.

Unfortunately, Facebook has marked our original post with the link to the details as spam, but you should be able to see the full details on Burnham-On-Sea.com.

Burnham-On-Sea.com is the town website for Burnham-On-Sea in Somerset - providing news, what's on listings, tourist information, a live Burnham seafront we**am

09/07/2025

Our Founding Director and Producer Corrinne got to catch up with the lovely folk at Deafinate Matters CIC this afternoon. Thank you for making us so welcome! Relationships like this are important for making sure our work is open to EVERYONE.

What a productive afternoon at Deafinate Connections Cafe. We welcomed Corrinne from the Nornen Project and discussed accessibility within her projects for D/deaf people. Thank you Corrinne for considering us
The Nornen Project

11/05/2025

A huge congratulations to our friend and collaborator John Strickland and his fantastic team for this inspiring event today! We popped down for the launch this morning, and it was wonderful to see such a brilliant turnout! So many people enjoying the many photos and artefacts of our area's heritage on display. It's certainly sparked our imaginations!

It's only on for today, so make sure you pop down befoe 4pm and have a look around!

Happy Anniversary to the North Sedgemoor Local History Group and Happy to you all!

A special event is to be held in Burnham-On-Sea Community Centre today (Sunday, May 11th) to mark the opening of a new history photo archive.

07/04/2025

Who's ready for some Matty-spotting? 😀🙋‍♀️ We are! Our brilliant colleague Matthew Gurney stars in brand new 4-part drama Reunion, starting tonight at 9pm on BBC 1. A huge congratulations to you Matty!

19/03/2025

Look who's coming back to Burnham! Our brilliant Lucy Tuck will be splitting sides once more in Living Spit's "There's Something About Typhoid Mary".

Hop on over to theprincesstheatre.co.uk to book tickets.

Princess Theatre and Arts Centre

Warning: The show contains some very strong language. And, one of the characters throws some wheat around the stage so please don’t sit on the front row if you’re allergic Irish immigrant. Cook. Amiable host. Killer? 1906. New York City. Talented cook Mary Mallon takes a job preparing delicious ...

10/03/2025

Fantastic news from our friends over at SYT! If you know of a school, youth group or other organisation for children, do let them know about this inspiring opportunity to make children's voices heard.

15/02/2025

Wonderful news! Great to see so many local businesses supporting the fab folk over at Burnham Information Centre. Do spread the word and support them if you can.

*HELP US TO HELP OTHERS*

We took over the running of Burnham Information in April 2011 when the District Council made the decision to withdraw funding and close. With between 30 - 40 volunteers at any one time on our list we have managed to be open everyday except Christmas day each year.

As well as running the information centre, advising and assisting many locals and visitors each year, we have tried to establish ourselves as a major part of our community including:

Running the Burnham & Highbridge Helpline through Covid. Many people are still being assisted today from this scheme.

Supplying and organising volunteers for vaccination centres in Berrow, Burnham, Highbridge and Cheddar.

Assisting many events in our locality.

Advising, assisting and signposting many locals in need of an extra bit of help when in distress.

At the end of 2024 a decision was made to close our whole operation on Dec 31st 2024 due to the lack of funding.
This decision has been withdrawn as we have been saved. More info to come on this soon. It's basically taking us back more to how we set up originally and is very exciting with lots planned.

To help us become sustainable going forward, we have set up a 'Friends of BiARS' scheme. This scheme is open to all local businesses who wish to support our ventures and want to gain from the recommendations and promotion we can give to them. Cost to each business is £50 per year.

What can you do to help?

Ask your workplaces and local businesses to get in touch and join our scheme.

Share, share and share this post.

We will list the businesses that are supporting us over the next few days, and ask you to support them back with us.

If you're a business and want to find out more about our scheme and benefit from bring a friend, get in touch with our manager Ian by email on [email protected]

Thanks all and we really appreciate any circulation of this post and recommendations you can give to local businesses.

With your help, we can be here to help our community for many years to come.