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Category: Dragons’ Den

The Radstock & Westfield Big Local run a grant giving event, called Dragons’ Den. This is where individuals and organisations who have an idea of how to make our area an even better place to live, pitch to the audience of local residents who then decide what projects they want to see happen in the community. Each winner is awarded £500 to bring their idea to life.

Here are a number of reports from the winners.

Dial&Smile – Our Community Reporter investigates

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Our Community Reporter, Rob Wicke, has been working with Somer Valley FM to create a series of radio interviews (called packages in radio parlance) about the people and groups that have benefited from Radstock and Westfield Big Local funding. Rob’s first entry is this – A chat with the friendly and engaging Dial&Smile’s founder. She won
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Big Local ensure the Community Bus delivers Easter playschemes in Radstock and Westfield

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Our community worker, Rob Wicke, with the support of SVFM, has developed a little advert for the upcoming Dragons’ Den. He used an interview with Mel Clarke, a winner at the first Dragons’ Den, to help people visualise how the funding helped The Community Bus to deliver an Easter playscheme to the children and families of
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Dragons’ Den A Success!!!

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Radstock and Westfield Big Local began the year with another very successful Dragons’ Den style event: “Dragons’ Den 2 – The Dragon returns” – the results!! Community groups show how many good ideas & great projects there are around in the area Radstock and Westfield Big Local were been thrilled to receive 17 ideas from
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Singing their Praises – Westfield Ladies Choir Win!

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Westfield Ladies Choir have made great use of their newly purchased song sheets – courtesy of the Radstock and Westfield Big Local. They were a winner at the first Dragons’ Den event, held at Prattens in March 2014. They kindly gave us a rendition of their songs at the Radstock Christmas Event which were thoroughly
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Hang It Project

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The project involved 31 Year 6 pupils from St Nicholas and St Mary’s School Writhlington and the Victoria Hall Radstock.  The project reached less children than originally envisaged because the schools decided to target the project at Year 6 and numbers were low in this year group. However, Welton Primary School also joined the project
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