Celebrating 10 Years

The old adage of “time flies when you’re having fun” has never been truer, we can hardly believe that Midsomer Norton Life is ten years old!

The last ten years of bringing you Midsomer Norton Life has really crept up on us and what a jam packed ten years it has been! Our first ever issue was in Winter 2011 and as you can see from the front cover, pictured here with all our other covers, the high street has gone through a few changes since then. The first edition contained articles on the role of the new Town Council, the signing of the new lease with Welton Rovers on West Clewes Recreation Ground and the formation of a new Youth Team, the story behind South West in Bloom and information about the Council’s work with allotment holders.

The first few issues were actually hand delivered by the under 11 team at Midsomer Norton Football Club, who were raising money for a new kit, these days, the magazine is delivered via Royal Mail and reaches every home in Midsomer Norton – with all the new development that has gone on over the past decade, hand delivering would be a mammoth task! But it means that we have more readers than ever and some of you might be picking up

the magazine for the first time – if so, welcome and we hope to see you in another ten years! Midsomer Norton Life was created by Ignyte Media, who still publish the magazine to this day, in collaboration with the Town Council. It all began with the then clerk, Clive Stillwell, and former mayor, Cllr Paul Myers, who approached Ignyte Media about creating a quarterly newsletter to keep residents informed of what was going on in the town. Since then, it has grown into the magazine you see today. Since the first issue, Midsomer Norton has celebrated a number of milestones including the creation of the Community Trust, who continue to bring social events and activities to the town and have been working hard planning future fun times despite the disruption of Covid-19. Other achievements include returning the Carnival to its former route passing through Midsomer Norton High Street; the creation of M-Fest and the Town Fayre; starting up the community cinema; the creation of the Town Park; the setting up of a community radio station in the town; the return of the community asset; St John’s School celebrating its 300th anniversary and now so much more!

With Midsomer Norton High Street being one of several historic high streets to be given funding for regeneration as part of the Heritage Action Zone project from Historic England, who knows what other achievements we will be reporting on over the next ten years!