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Author: Rob Wicke

Small Fund Pot Launched

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We’re pleased to be able to offer local, unincorporated community associations up to £500, in order to increase their resilience or the resilience of the community they serve. Small Fund Pot – total of £5,000 For: Local unincorporated community associations to increase their resilience or community resilience. Amount per organisation: Up to £500. Fund Close date: End of
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Hot Square Meal Project 2

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We are pleased to be able to offer a weekly hot square meal to any Radstock/Westfield resident who is on the Department of Health ‘clinically vulnerable’ list and are either: unable to get a hot meal / at risk of deteriorating mental health. If this is you or someone you know, please call the Community
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Care calls for carers

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As part of our Covid response we have made sure that local carers are getting as much support as possible. We funded the Carers’ Centre to provide supportive calls, letters and activity packs to around 200 carers. Here is some great feedback: ‘It’s been a struggle to say the least – very hard. We feel
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Small Stuff Baby Bank helping families most at need

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We’re delighted to have provided support to Rachel Steeper and Small Stuff Baby Bank so that they can upscale the great work they’ve been doing in the community – They help new families who are in need, with all kinds of baby related supplies such as nappies, formula, wipes and cotton wool, nappy rash cream,
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Food Parcels Bring Relief to Families in Radstock and Westfield

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report first appeared in Radstock Nub News The Radstock & Westfield Big Local community group have been taking action to help people respond to the challenges that Covid19 has created for our community. As well as setting up and running a food delivery project ourselves, we’ve funded Sporting Family Change to deliver weekly food parcels
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Hot Square Meal Project – Final Report

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Hot Square Meal Project – Report On Weds 25th March our worker sent round an email asking how we could invest some of our money as a way to help out the community in this difficult time. Within a few hours we had come up with a project idea to provide hot square meals to
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Square hot meal project reaches 50 meals in under a week!

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In response to the coronavirus lockdown we quickly came up with a project that provided people in need with a regular hot square meal. We were able to call on some local supporters who joined as volunteers and found a local business in Riverbank Cafe that we could purchase meals from. We’re working with Compassionate
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