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Radstock Town Football Club Changing For The Better!

At our very first Dragons’ Den, back in 2014, the attending residents of Radstock and Westfield voted to support the Radstock Town Football Club in their quest to build new changing room facilities. They were awarded £500, which has gone some way to help get them started, as you can see from the picture. They are
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Community Mini-Market Launched!

A big congratulations to Rhea Morgan for organising and launching the Community Mini-Market in association with DNA arts! It was a really amazing day at the Roundabout Radstock event and the mini-market was tons of fun with stalls from independent businesses and community organisations, providing entertainment, beautiful products and a real sense of connection to
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Roundabout Radstock Big Funded

Chloe Edgell reports on how her organisation, DNA arts, helped to benefit our community with support from Radstock and Westfield Big Local: Please give us a statement of how it has helped/improved/impacted on our local community: Round-about Radstock 2016 was yet another sunny, happy day in the town centre. 400 people took part in the
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Previous Dragons’ Den Winners – Video by Our Bigger Story

Are you thinking about entering the Radstock and Westfield Big Local Dragons’ Den competition this April? You could win £500 to make your community idea happen! Have a look at this fab video to see how previous winners are getting on:   Many thanks to Our Bigger Story for creating the video http://www.ourbiggerstory.com/  

Shining a light on Victoria Hall community building

At a recent Dragon’s Den event run by the Radstock and Westfield Big Local, the good people of the community voted to provide funds to help improve the lighting at the Victoria Hall community building. Caroline Green from Victoria Hall has got in touch to let us know about the positive impact the Radstock and
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Firefighters help Radstock town traders put up Christmas trees

We are very happy to have played our part in getting the Christmas trees put up around the Radstock shops this year.. by politely asking if the Avon Fire and Rescue team could help us! Their extremely generous response was a big YES! The workers at Radstock and Westfield Big Local worked tirelessly with the
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Did you win? The local shopping voucher draw has taken place!

Radstock and Westfield Big Local Vice Chair, Marlene Morley, along with keen helper Emma, drew the winning entries at the Radstock Museum Christmas Fayre on Saturday the 10th of December. The winners each get a £20 shopping voucher (donated by Radstock and Westfield Big Local) to be spent in local shops only. Our community worker,
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Helping Radstock celebrate the Xmas season!

Radstock and Westfield Big Local were heavily involved in helping to bring people together to make the Radstock Town Council Xmas Lights Switch On a fun-filled community event. We worked with Radstock Town Council and DNA arts to plan the event and connect the organisations that wanted to be involved and to spread the good news.
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Somer Valley FM report live at the Westfield Lights Switch On and get an update from Big Local

We are pleased to have commissioned Somer Valley FM to do a live recording of the Westfield Lights Switch On the 24th of November. They spoke with Westfield Parish Council, the Westfield Ladies Choir and with Radstock and Westfield Big Local who were all there contributing to the wonderful xmas community event.   Until Dec
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