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Category: Resilience

The community and community organisations are taking control of their future by building strength and making good plans. We are helping to facilitate this – sharing information about resources and providing funds via the Dragons’ Den.

Toilet un-block

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Westfield Community Centre are the proud owners of a newly refurbished toilet block, in part thanks to a £500 grant from Radstock & Westfield Big Local. Terry Andrews, Manager said “Thank you for grant money it was a great help in refurbishment of gents toilet. The floor was sealed and latexed new heavy duty flooring.walls
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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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£5,000 granted to local community projects at Dragons’ Den!

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The excitement and energy was high at Westfield Sports and Community Centre on Friday evening, where around seventy residents of Radstock and Westfield turned up to make our 10th community Dragons’ Den a very special event! All the pitches were brilliant and absolutely wowed the audience, whom in our very own twist, were the ones
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Support for Young People

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Off The Record successfully applied to our Small Fund to provide a mental health support service to young people in our community. They’re been running the sessions out of Hope House Centre during 2022/23. Here’s what they have reported:   The introduction of OTR’s listening services in Radstock has evidently met a need amongst local
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Pathways to health – at Larch Court Allotments

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The good folk at Larch Court Allotments were successful in their pitch to our Dragons’ Den 9, winning £500 to help make their paths around the allotments more accessible.. They’ve been in touch to let us know how they got on: “We are so pleased with our new pathways that you have kindly enabled us
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14 Community Projects to Choose From at Dragons’ Den 9!

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We are delighted to announce that local people will have 14 amazing community projects to choose from at our 9th Dragons’ Den – Taking place on Friday 21st April, from 5pm at Whisty Hall in Radstock. If you live within the Radstock and Westfield ward boundaries you are invited to come along, lend your support,
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Sporting Family Change – Social Prescribing Project

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We are pleased to have supported Sporting Family Change with a grant, in order to explore and evidence a social prescribing project that enables isolated people to get out of their house and get moving. Sporting Family Change reported: Sporting Family Change have continued to deliver this new project focused on social prescribing in the
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Forest School Is Brilliant

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In 2020/21 we commissioned a study looking at how effective the forest school approach can be in our community. Led by a forest school organisation called Curiositree, with support from Bath University, the study focused on two groups – one in St Mary’ school, and the other in the community with support from the Children’s
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