News in Glastonbury

Mendip District Council can announce that the Additional Restrictions Grant (Round 4) opened yesterday (May 17).

The Additional Restrictions Grant is available for businesses that are not business ratepayers and were required to close by law due to Covid lockdown.

The Glastonbury Nub News Jobs Section is now easier than ever to browse for the latest job opportunities in the Glastonbury area.

A scrolling jobs page makes the job ads easy to read and you know all the jobs we are advertising are exclusively local to the Glastonbury area. No time wasting.

Glastonbury Abbey is extending an invitation to the community to experience the site free as a Member for a Day on Sunday (May 23).

Members of Glastonbury Abbey receive free entry to the abbey throughout the year and also enjoy 10 per cent discount in the abbey's gift shop and cafe for less than £1 per week.

In an effort to help our readers who have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus crisis, we have compiled a list of jobs currently available in Glastonbury to give you a helping hand in your job hunt.

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Does your child enjoy swimming? Do you want them to improve their ability, keep fit, and make new friends? Build their confidence by competing? Then consider joining Street and District Swimming Club.

The club has an experienced and well qualified coaching team and welcomes swimmers of all abilities from entry level up to regional and national competitors.

Indoor hospitality venues will reopen and hugging will be allowed as the country moves to the next step out of coronavirus lockdown restrictions on May 17.

Significant parts of the hospitality industry will reopen and people are being advised to use common sense and personal responsibility rather than government rules when it comes to social distancing, after data confirmed the government's "four tests" for easing Covid restrictions had been met.

Former Glastonbury resident and ex-St Benedict's and St Dunstan's pupil Mark Lain became a published author a few years ago when he launched his adventure gamebook series entitled Destiny's Role.

Four books are now available on Amazon with combined sales of nearly 1,000 copies and Mark is currently working on the series' latest entry, Red Monsoon, after it was funded on Kickstarter in January.

Journalist and broadcaster Mariella Frostrup is to be the new president of CPRE Somerset (Campaign to Protect Rural England, Somerset), succeeding Roger Martin.

Mariella is keen to champion the work of the countryside charity which works with rural communities to protect, enhance and celebrate the Somerset countryside.

To mark Mental Health Awareness Week, the team behind the campaign to save Mendip's last adult mental health ward say they have been told it will now not be closed until summer 2022 at the earliest, with a recent protest in Glastonbury helping to highlight their cause.

The decision by the Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) to close St Andrew's Ward in Wells followed a two and a half-year period of consultation with staff, patients, carers and colleagues in the voluntary sector and people with an interest in mental health to co-create a new model of mental health care for Somerset.

Despite the country slowly but surely heading back to normality, there was much more of a focus on social media than the in person celebrations for Somerset Day.

Restrictions are still in place and that meant we couldn't celebrate in the way which we would have liked.