Community money - invested by the community

Category: Health and Wellbeing

Residents want to access services and information that enables them to take charge of their health and wellbeing. We have so much going on in our community – from sports teams to support groups, coffee mornings to free outdoor gyms – that we want to help promote these and invest in providing more options.

Fosseway Get Green Fingers

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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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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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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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A Running Report!

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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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Always learning at SWALLOW!

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SWALLOW won £500 at our 9th Dragons’ Den for their workbench and making project. Jade Ogden led the project with the SWALLOW members and reports: “Members of our Horticulture Group were delighted to be able to purchase a new wood-workbench, as it is something that they had wanted for a long time. It has enabled
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PEOPLE’s Pots and Potter Project

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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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