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.

Chat-E-Cycle Delivers Friendly Wellbeing

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Winners at our 12th Dragons’ Den, Chat-E-Cycle recently got in touch with an update on how the project is going…   Between 25 April 2025 and 31 January 2026 (approx. 40 weeks), Chat-e-Cycle went out on average three times per week for 1.5–3 hours per ride. This equates to approximately 120 ride sessions and an
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Skate Skills

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PARC Skate School CIC Delivers Successful Community Skate Project Thanks to £1,000 Big Local Funding PARC Skate School CIC is proud to announce the successful completion of its Community Skate Sessions in Radstock and Westfield, made possible by a £1,000 grant from Radstock and Westfield Big Local. The funding supported the delivery of inclusive skateboarding
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Natural Theatre Supporting The Community

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We granted The Natural Theatre Company funds to creatively support mental health in Radstock and Westfield. Here’s what they got up to:               These sessions are provided as part of a creative wellbeing provision for Adults struggling with their mental health in Radstock. The participants are all referred to
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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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