Projects

Sky Rise Festival 2025
Music Stages The event has two awesome live music stages, DJs, kids’ area, street food stalls, bar, bouncy castle and craft & info stalls. There’ll be an outdoor stage with live bands playing latin, funk, reggae, ska and also include a kid’s disco time from local Fun Bass DJ. The

New Bridgetown map with safari animals!
Our fantastic volunteer Bob Carpenter, has produced this great map of all the attractions and animal sculptures.

‘Man Eater’ (Men’s Cookery Course)
Over the years we’ve noticed that our projects are often filled with 90% women. We have therefore started to run projects that are specifically targeted at men. This course will bring men together to cook, laugh, and eat together. We’ll learn how to prepare healthy but tasty food on a

Kool Kitchen Cookery Lessons
In both 2023 & 2024, Bridgetown Alive! ran a free 6-week cookery course at St John’s Church. It was a chance to make new friends, be part of a team and learn new skills. It was designed to help people make healthy and nutritious meals on a tight budget that

Giant Community Picnics
With the help of lottery funding, local volunteers delivered a series of fantastic picnics across Bridgetown. Along with sharing food, residents organised entertainment and family activities. The project helped neighbours come together, make new friends and forge links for future events. Not just ordinary picnics! The days included:

Bridgetown Volunteering & Wellbeing
During the pandemic, Bridgetown Alive! volunteers organised a series of uplifting wellbeing events. One project was the now-legendary Doorstep Disco! Working in partnership with Talk Action, we developed a volunteer programme and wellbeing activities. We recruited local residents and delivered online training to empower participants to set up their own

Community Cafe (Arts & Wellbeing)
Every Tuesday 11.15am-1pmBridgetown Community Hall, Hope Close, TQ9 5YD We are a group of fantastic local people helping to make Bridgetown be a wonderful place. We meet every week for tea, coffee and biscuits. It’s an opportunity to meet new people. The hall is also a “warm space” where everyone

Steamer Quay Pirate Ship
The Pirate Ship is an adventure playground on Steamer Quay overlooking the river. The playground is on the main walking route from Bridgetown to the town centre and the Bob the Bus community service can take people directly there from other parts of Bridgetown. There are public toilets and a

Tree Planting in spring!
BA! volunteers planting trees in the spring sunshine. Trees kindly supplied by Trees for Totnes https://www.treesfortotnes.org.uk/ The helpers found the planting hard going as the ground seems to have been a site for dumping the building rubble when the site was developed. Despite the struggle, everyone kept smiles on their

Parkers Way play area
Parkers Way play area is open to the public! We are very grateful to Earth Wrights and everyone else who helped to make the project happen.

Bridgetown Community Hall
The hall is a terrific asset for our community. It is used for coffee mornings, a youth club, yoga and other activities. The hall is leased from LiveWest housing association. It was refurbished in 2020 with help from South Hams District Council, Berry Pomeroy Parish Council, Totnes Town Council, LiveWest