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SEAFEAST – The Dorset Seafood Festival 2022 New Name, More Features Same Great Location!
After 14 years of exceptional seafood, fundraising for the Fishermen’s Mission, and glorious sunshine in Weymouth, the multi-award-winning Dorset Seafood Festival is has announced a rebrand for the 2022 festival which will take place on 10th & 11th September 2022 on Weymouth Peninsula overlooking Weymouth Bay and the Jurassic Coast World [...]
Success For Weymouth Businesses in Dorset Tourism Awards 2021/22
Weymouth tourism businesses are celebrating this week after scooping 10 prestigious awards in the 2021/22 Dorset Tourism Awards. Checkout all our local winners here …
Weymouth Business Riding High in Dorset Tourism Awards 21/22
Weymouth is celebrating today with the news that six local businesses have been announced as finalists in the prestigious  Dorset Tourism Awards 2021/2022 With the possibility that even more business could be celebrating when other awards are announced at the award ceremony in February this year looks like it's going [...]
Sounds of Weymouth
Weymouth has rich history, from a Kings summer holiday to the Crabchurch Conspiracy of the English Civil War and more recently it’s association with D Day in 1944, but there has always been a constant…..a truly unique scene of extremely talented Musicians. Check them out on our playlist now 🎶
EBIKE Cafe Celebrates First Birthday
Locals poured in the EBIKE Cafe @ Deheers alongside the Old Weymouth Harbourside at the weekend (Sunday 7th November) to celebrate the company’s successful first year of trading. Owners Peter Claxton and Josephine Parker were overjoyed with the support they have received for their year old environmentally aware business, which [...]
Free parking in Weymouth in the run up to Christmas!
Free parking* will be available at several Weymouth town centre car parks on three fun-filled dates for your diary this Christmas. The first date coincides with the annual Christmas lights switch on which makes a welcome return this year promising festive, family-fun for all. And with two further dates when [...]
Local business spicing up the coffers for a local charity!
Spice up your life with a curry on the first day of December, and you will be spicing up the coffers for a local charity! This is the message from local restaurant owner, Shalim Abs, who will be honouring British Curry Day on Wednesday 1st December, by donating half of [...]
Installation of Weymouth Art Trail Underway
Dorset Council is working to install a collection of sculptural artworks in Weymouth, designed to encourage people to explore the town and reveal its history and relationship with water. Weymouth Art Trail will feature a series of six sculptural installations at a variety of locations around the town, including some [...]
Steampunk at The Nothe Fort
As part of  We Are Weymouth’s amazing Steampunk weekend Weymouth’s Nothe Fort shall be transformed, for just one day, into a creative world of steampunk imagination that could of sprung from the pages of a novel by Jules Verne or HG Wells. Feel free to dress in your Victorian best [...]
Steampunk Extravaganza to Come to Weymouth’s Christmas Celebrations
A mystical and fantastical array of events is set to take over Weymouth this Christmas as Steampunk hits the town. For one weekend only, official Steampunkers from across the country will descend on the town for a host of incredible, Christmas-themed, activities. [adsanity id="23244" align="aligncenter" max_width="800"/] 4th December [...]
Have Your-elf a Very Merry Christmas in Weymouth
Festive lights, Elf Workshops, Live Entertainment, and an Elf World Record Attempt - Christmas is coming to Weymouth!
Local homeless charities have had a lunchtime fish feast today – thanks to award winning local chippy, Fish ‘n’ Fritz.
Local homeless charities have had a lunchtime fish feast today - thanks to award winning local chippy, Fish ‘n’ Fritz. Let down by a coach party at the last moment left award winning chippy owner, Paul Hay with 45 portions of hot fish and chips dinners at lunchtime today (9th [...]
Weymouth’s Remembrance Sunday & Armistice Day Plans 2021
N.B. Jubilee Clock will be lit red from Thursday 11th to Monday 15th November to mark remembrance period. With Remembrance Sunday this weekend (November 14th), here’s Weymouth’s confirmed plans from Weymouth Town Council to honour our fallen heroes, veterans and serving members of the Armed Forces. A traditional Remembrance Day service will take place at the Cenotaph on the Esplanade at [...]
Weymouth Receives Purple Flag Award for fourth year running
Weymouth is officially celebrating after receiving the prestigious Purple Flag Award for its evening and night-time economy. [adsanity id="23244" align="aligncenter" max_width="800"/] The town has been accredited for the fourth year running, recognising its continued collaboration with partners to provide a safer night-time economy. Like the Blue Flag scheme for beaches, [...]
EBIKE Cafe @Deheers champions an Active Lifestyle, Healthier Eating & Mental Wellbeing
With the COP26 summit in full swing and the UK Government’s pledge to invest in cycling and walking infrastructure Weymouth business EBIKE Cafe @ Deheers heralds the ambitious target. The Net Zero Strategy announced by the government recently commits £2 billion investment in active travel infrastructure to enable half of [...]
Dorset Seafood Festival raises £8,000 for the Fishermen’s Mission
The Nyetimber Dorset Seafood Festival has raised another £8000 for The Fishermen’s Mission, bringing the total amount raised to just under £90,000 since the Festival began. The Fishermen’s Mission is the only fishermen’s charity that provides emergency support alongside practical, financial, spiritual, and emotional care. The charity helps all fishermen, [...]
Join in the Weymouth Bonfire Party Fun this November 5th
Weymouth Town Council will be hosting its free annual Guy Fawkes Event on Friday 5 November on Weymouth seafront. The fun starts at 4pm with a family funfair on the Pavilion forecourt, joining many stalls and attractions on Weymouth seafront which will be in place throughout the evening. [adsanity id="23244" [...]
Magical Augmented Reality Creatures Come to Weymouth
This October, families in Weymouth will be able to track down 10 Mexican folk-art inspired ‘Alebrije’ in AR thanks to We Are Weymouth, The Weymouth BID Click here for all you need to know about how to play In a first of its kind, We Are Weymouth have teamed up [...]
Greenhill and Sandsfoot Gardens Awarded Green Flag
In a record-breaking year for the Green Flag Award, as the scheme marks its Silver Jubilee, Greenhill and Sandsfoot Gardens are two of 2,127 parks and green spaces celebrating success today. Today (Thursday 14th October), Weymouth Town Council is raising a Green Flag Award at Greenhill and Sandsfoot Gardens. The [...]
Bloomin’ Marvellous Weymouth Wins Gold in Britain in Bloom 2021
We Are Weymouth (BID)Â is proud to announce that Weymouth has been awarded GOLD in the National Britain in Bloom competition. Chief Operations Officer, Dawn Rondeau and Zach Williams from the We Are Weymouth team attended the awards ceremony in Weston-super-Mare with Tara Williams Parks and Open spaces Manager for Weymouth [...]