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.

St Mary’s Get New Play Equipment!

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We are pleased to have contributed £5,000 towards St Marys outdoor play equipment, improving and increasing their pupils time spent outdoors in the fresh air. The school let us know that: Health and Happiness is at the heart of St Marys, due to COVID children have missed on building resilience, having new play equipment will
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Outdoor Play at Fossway

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We are pleased to have been able to support Fosseway school to develop their play equipment so that children can get out more and exercise and learn in the fresh air. The school reported: The funding was used to support Fosse Way School update their Primary Playground area. Money was used to purchase climbing equipment
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New Pond at Westfield Primary School

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We are pleased to have contributed £5,000 towards the creation of an accessible nature area, including a pond, at Westfield Primary School. The school reported: that the site was significantly overgrown, unsafe and inaccessible to all of our school community. The area was cleared during Summer 2021 to enable all of the school’s children, from
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New Outdoor Learning at Trinity Church School

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We are pleased to have contributed towards Trinity Church School’s outdoor play and learning, contributing £5,000 to help them fund the design and build of a bespoke wooden climbing frame and outdoor learning shelter. We recieved this lovely report from the school: Trinity has 37% pupil premium children, many of which come from homes with
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Westfield Track Up and Running

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We’re pleased to have been able to contribute half of the cost towards creating the lovely running track and exercise equipment up at Westhill. Westfield Parish Council led on the project after consultation with the local community, and have created an incredible resource that is used by many people, including the running club, schools, dog
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Our Time Our Space – Childrens Centre course report

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Good to hear from Radstock Childrens Centre on an arts wellbeing programme that we provided match-funding towards in 2023:   Referral for all courses funded were invited from professionals working with women experiencing low mood, anxiety or depression in the perinatal period (from conception to baby aged 12 months). MTMS Radstock – September – December
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Caring for carers during the pandemic

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We are pleased to have been in a good position to support the community during the Covid lockdowns. One of the projects we supported was the Carers’ Centre’s Activity Pack and Check In for the carers. This entailed setting up a hot-desk and calling all the carers in our community, offering them a variety of
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Felt and Food for Writhlington Pantry

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Radstock & Westfield Big Local are pleased to have been able to support the Writhlington Pantry with a small grant, in order to continue the good work they are doing, providing free food to residents that need it. Resident Zoe Cornick, who put in the application, said “The fantastic donation from Big Local has helped
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