Resilience Archives - Big Local | my Radstock

Silver Band Teaches Young People a Lesson

Posted on 1 July 2025 by Rob Wicke

What an absolute joy it was to take so many young people with us to the Areas this year! They played a key part in us securing second place and will be coming to the national finals with us this September! This would not have been possible without support for tuition and room hire! Word
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Parent Carer Forum Supported

Posted on 1 July 20251 July 2025 by Rob Wicke

The Parent Carer Forum was successful in their application to our Small Fund for DBS and sustainability outcomes, and have recently reported back to us: “The project was to increase support for parent carers of children and young people with SEND 0-25 years in the area. By being DBS checked we were able to use
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Radstock Wellbeing Group Being Well Activities

Posted on 10 March 202529 May 2025 by Rob Wicke

A winner at our 10th Dragons’ Den, Radstock Wellbeing Group have reported back on their project: Radstock Well-Being Group Dragons’ Den Winner’s Report 2024-2025 Please receive this report with immense thanks as the grant we were allocated has enabled us to have a very good year filled with a wide range of activities which would
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Toilet un-block

Posted on 1 October 2024 by Rob Wicke

Westfield Community Centre are the proud owners of a newly refurbished toilet block, in part thanks to a £500 grant from Radstock & Westfield Big Local. Terry Andrews, Manager said “Thank you for grant money it was a great help in refurbishment of gents toilet. The floor was sealed and latexed new heavy duty flooring.walls
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A Running Report!

Posted on 28 August 2024 by Rob Wicke

Local residents pitched at our 9th Dragons’ Den for funds towards setting up a park-run in our community… they won and wow have they delivered! Here’s their wonderful report on how things are going: With support from the Big Local’s Dragon’s Den and other local organisations/businesses, Five Arches parkrun launched on 23rd September 2023 and
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Amateur Boxing Club gets an upgrade

Posted on 29 May 202429 May 2025 by Rob Wicke

Winners at our 10th Dragons’ Den, the Norton Radstock Amateur Boxing Club have been able to make a start on doing up their building. Look at those happy faces!

£5,000 granted to local community projects at Dragons’ Den!

Posted on 8 April 2024 by Rob Wicke

The excitement and energy was high at Westfield Sports and Community Centre on Friday evening, where around seventy residents of Radstock and Westfield turned up to make our 10th community Dragons’ Den a very special event! All the pitches were brilliant and absolutely wowed the audience, whom in our very own twist, were the ones
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Support for Young People

Posted on 5 October 20232 January 2024 by Rob Wicke

Off The Record successfully applied to our Small Fund to provide a mental health support service to young people in our community. They’re been running the sessions out of Hope House Centre during 2022/23. Here’s what they have reported: The introduction of OTR’s listening services in Radstock has evidently met a need amongst local
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Pathways to health – at Larch Court Allotments

Posted on 5 October 202311 October 2023 by Rob Wicke

The good folk at Larch Court Allotments were successful in their pitch to our Dragons’ Den 9, winning £500 to help make their paths around the allotments more accessible.. They’ve been in touch to let us know how they got on: “We are so pleased with our new pathways that you have kindly enabled us
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Need some local stats to back up your funding application?

Posted on 19 June 202319 June 2023 by Rob Wicke

Do you need to find local data to back up your funding application? Now you can begin your search at our Local Statistics page where we have provided helpful links and tips! We will update and improve this page regularly so please keep an eye on it!