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Category: People

Online Safety Workshops Safely Completed

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SWALLOW Charity made good use of a Small Grant award by running a number of online safety workshops, both for their members and for other people in our community. Here’s their report on how the events went: The project was very successful and engaged a total of 28 participants across three workshops.  We worked with
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Young people have an upgraded music room!

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One of the winners of our 10th Dragons’ Den, Youth Connect used the money to rennovate their dilapidated music room, for the benefit of young people’s creativity. They’ve been in touch to let us know that it has already had a positive impact on both the young people involved and the wider community. For the
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A more sustainable allotment

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A lovely message from the good people at Writhlington Allotments:   We are delighted to say that thanks to the funding we received from Big Local we were not only able to meet our goals but instead have surpassed them. Writhlington Allotments now has a full Solar PV system as detailed in the photos which
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Silver Band Teaches Young People a Lesson

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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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Listening Support Sessions

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Off The Record were one of the winners at our 10th Dragon’s Den and have now completed their project to listen to young people to support their mental health. Here’s their report: Two BCAP trained counsellors delivered 12 weeks of 1:1 50-minute sessions (approx. 96). Young people aged 10 – 25 received a minimum of
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Creativity at Hope House – the Natural Theatre way

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One of ten projects to receive funding via our community-led Dragons’ Den, Natural Theatre Company explain why their work is important and what they did with the grant: We were approached last year by the Social Prescriber at Hope House Surgery in Radstock to provide a series of free creative wellbeing workshops for adults in
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Radstock Wellbeing Group Being Well Activities

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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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Dragons’ Den a Winner!

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£10,000 granted to local community projects at Dragons’ Den! The excitement and energy was high at Westfield Sports and Community Centre on a recent Friday evening, where more than seventy residents of Radstock and Westfield turned up to make our 11th community Dragons’ Den a very special event! All the pitches were brilliant and absolutely
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