Weekly club meeting are held at our headquarters in the Sedgemoor Inn, if you are interested in joining please contact us or come along on a Sunday evening and meet up with us before our meeting at 7:30pm. 2010 we will be our 50th year in carnival.
Club's 50th Anniversary Meal
Several members were invited to speak about a particular decade in the clubs history.Unfortunately Bob Heard who was going to speak about the 60's was ill and unable to attend, so Pete (Yogie) Evans took up the baton covering the 60's and 70's. Club chairman Chris Burge spoke about the 90's and our current cart captain Tim Martin finished off with the 0's. Guest speaker for the evening was Dave Stokes, currently publicity manager for Bridgwater Carnival. Dave grew up in Westonzoyland and from the age of 12 was often found at the shed building or painting.
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On June 5th Westonzoyland Carnival Club celebrated its 50th year in carnival with a dinner dance. Over 100 current and previous members attended as well as specially invited guests. There were 7 previous chairman as well as our current chairman Chris Burge and each had a story to tell of their time in the club.
A specially commissioned cake decorated with the clubs emblem and logo "Laborare Una" (which mean 'working together') was cut as a final act of celebration before Spohie Morris performed a selection of classical and more modern songs accompanied by Ryan Burge on guitar. The eveing finished a disco. 
In February 2010, our Treasurer Lisa Gilbert handed over a cheque for £1570 to the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance. This money was collected during the run-up to Christmas by Father Christmas and his helpers, when his sleigh travelled around Westonzoyland, Bridgwater and many other villages in the Sedgemoor area. The club was delighted to have supported such a worthwhile charity this year, and would like to thank everyone who supported the collection, making this the largest amount that we have ever been able to donate to charity. 
A big thank-you to Father Christmas who helped Westonzoyland CC raise over £2500 to be shared between the 
The excitement sent a shiver down your spine as the announcement went out that Father Christmas was on his way and around 30 children (plus a few adults) ran outside to see him arrive. Unfortunately the announcement went out a little early and there was a tense wait before the music from the sleigh could be heard and finally the sleigh was seen at the end of Cheer Lane, escorted by club members. Father Christmas had dropped in to support the Westonzoyland Christmas Fair organized by the carnival club. There were up to 20 stalls selling all kinds of last-minute Christmas presents from bags made of re-cycled clothes, locally made jewellery and kits to make your own candles from beeswax. There were also the obligatory mince pies and cups of tea. Thank-you to all club members who helped organise this event.
Well we set off back to Westonzoyland at about 11:00am, fortunately the traffic in town wasn't too bad and again most drivers were friendly and co-operative. We steamed out of Weston up to just before Highbridge when Gary comes over the radio "The tractor's died.. it just stopped!", Gary was towing the generator trailer at the back of the convoy escorted by Budgie, Tim and Matt in the club van. It was soon obvious the tractor wasn't going to start due to a flat battery (the batteries had only been replaced 3 days ago, at a cost of £200). We managed to unhitch the cart from AJ's tractor and hitch it up to the decorated tractor, then sent AJ back to tow Gary into a lay-by and hitch up to the Generator trailer. Once this was done we waved good-bye to a very unhappy Gary sat in his tractor and pulled away heading for the weigh-bridge at Dunball.Login
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