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Fosseway Get Green Fingers

Posted on 11 November 2025 by Rob Wicke

We received a lovely report from Dragons’ Den 10 winner, Fosseway School: Here is the report for the Dragons Den regarding your donation to Welton Primary School. Unfortunately, we no longer have the allotment, as it became too logistically challenging for us to manage. We tried to encourage families to attend and explored various ways
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Young people have an upgraded music room!

Posted on 11 September 2025 by Rob Wicke

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

Posted on 11 September 2025 by Rob Wicke

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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Cuppa and Chat

Posted on 29 October 202429 May 2025 by Rob Wicke

At the start of 2024 we gave a small grant to SWAN Transport to help them with their Cuppa and Chat project. Here’s what they’ve told us about the project this year: Thanks to the support of the Radstock and Westfield Small Fund, as well as other local funders, we have been able to continue
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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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YCSW Positively Blooming

Posted on 15 August 2024 by Rob Wicke

A really lovely report with some great reflections from Youth Connect South West on their gardening group project, part funded by their Dragons’ Den 9 win: Age group: 11-19 Young people involved in the project: 27 Number of sessions: 4x2hours dedicated project session with YP, 4x2hours open access session, 2hours weekly with YP June-September,
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Writhlington Action Group Clean Up

Posted on 15 August 2024 by Rob Wicke

Writhlington Action Group were recipients of £500 from our Dragons’ Den 9. They made a successful pitch to receive funds towards litter picking equipment for their group to keep their area tidy. “This is an ongoing project with the litter picking equipment used at least every month to litter pick in Writhlington. We also
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PEOPLE’s Pots and Potter Project

Posted on 15 August 202415 August 2024 by Rob Wicke

Thank you to Jenny at PEOPLE charity, who has reported that the Pots and Potter Project is now complete. They won funding at our 9th Dragons’ Den to run a gardening project for mental health at Leigh House in Radstock. This was a project where people could come along, do a bit of relaxed gardening,
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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!