Hundreds of pounds raised at 70s night for Burnham-On-Sea BOSfest music festival
Hundreds of pounds were raised for Burnham-On-Sea music and performing arts festival BOSfest at a fundraising event at the weekend.
This year’s Burnham-On-Sea BOSfest music festival is set to be held in the town centre on September 3rd, 4th and 5th, with the third day of entertainment in the Manor Gardens.
The organisers of the popular festival held a ’70s Night Fundraiser at the Ritz Social Club in Burnham’s Victoria Street last Saturday, as pictured here, which was well supported.
Tanya Dyer said: “Huge thanks to everyone who attended our ’70s Night Fundraiser, we had a ball. It was great to be up and dancing again after so long to some great live tunes from Buzzard.”
Popular fundraising charity quiz nights are set to re-start at Burnham-On-Sea’s Ritz Social Club from Monday 26th July.
From their launch in 2014, the popular quizzes have raised a huge £25,000 for local clubs, groups and charities.
The first post-lockdown quiz will be supporting Burnham and Highbridge Sea Cadets when everyone will be welcome to come along and enjoy a fun quiz while raising funds for a good cause at the same time – you do not need to be a club member to take part.
Organiser Mike Barsby says: “The quiz nights are family-friendly, with hand out rounds given out at 8pm and the questions starting promptly at 8.30pm, ending about 10pm.”
The organisers of Burnham-On-Sea’s town centre music and performing arts festival, BOSfest, have announced that this autumn’s event will be a three-day event after all.
The team has confirmed that the popular event will return on September 3rd, 4th and 5th, with an extra third day of entertainment added.
The festival – which was cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic – had been due to be a scaled back, two-day event this year.
However, with the likely relaxing of many Covid restrictions by the Government, it is scheduled to run for three days instead.
Tanya Dyer, one of the organisers, told Burnham-On-Sea.com: “We are really pleased to announce that, as well as the already scheduled Friday and Saturday events, by working closely with Sedgemoor District Council to ensure Covid safety is in place, we will now also be in the Manor Gardens on Sunday 5th September.”
Burnhamâs Ritz Social Club re-opens today after 10-day closure due to Covid cases
Burnham-On-Seaâs Ritz Social Club re-opens today (Monday) following a deep clean and staff coming out of isolation following two positive cases earlier this month.
The club temporarily shut on June 17th when staff went into isolation and a deep clean got underway, which has since been completed.
Manager Paul Hale said:Â “The health and safety of our members and staff is our number one priority.â
He adds: “Our staff are now out of isolation and they have all had their first Covid jab and 60% per cent have had their second jab.”