Making a Difference for Our Highbridge

Efforts by the community group Our Highbridge to make the town a better place to live have been given a boost by Homes in Sedgemoor (HiS). HiS looks after hundreds of homes in the town owned by Sedgemoor District Council.

Homes in Sedgemoor has a special fund called Making a Difference, which provides grants to community groups like Our Highbridge and has given them £500 to sow the seeds of a new ‘Community Patch’ programme.

The community patches will be small garden areas across the town which will be situated close to areas where many HiS customers have no gardens of their own. The first patch will be in Trowbridge Close.

Nadja McDevitt from Our Highbridge said: 

“We are really grateful to Homes in Sedgemoor for this donation. We’ll be spending the money on garden tools and plants, and on outreach projects to get more people involved. We will be trying to get support from local businesses and individuals so we can have more of the patches. Lots of people in Highbridge don’t have garden spaces of their own and it will be really nice to get people involved, and to spread the idea so we can transform more open spaces.”

Kaylun Henson from HiS said:

“We are delighted to support the Community Patch programme. if you are involved in a community group that would benefit from support from the fund, visit www.homesinsedgemoor.org and search for Making a Difference.”

Kaylun and Involved Customer, Ann Hooper, came along to meet Nadja and Ruth Coull from Our Highbridge – and they were joined on a chilly January afternoon by Gizzy the cat who photobombed the occasion.

If you would like to be involved with future events organised by Our Highbridge or support the Community patch programme, email ourhighbridge@gmail.com or search for Our Highbridge on Facebook.