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.
Care calls for carers
As part of our Covid response we have made sure that local carers are getting as much support as possible. We funded the Carers’ Centre to provide supportive calls, letters and activity packs to around 200 carers. Here is some great feedback: ‘It’s been a struggle to say the least – very hard. We feel
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Small Stuff Baby Bank helping families most at need
We’re delighted to have provided support to Rachel Steeper and Small Stuff Baby Bank so that they can upscale the great work they’ve been doing in the community – They help new families who are in need, with all kinds of baby related supplies such as nappies, formula, wipes and cotton wool, nappy rash cream,
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Food Parcels Bring Relief to Families in Radstock and Westfield
report first appeared in Radstock Nub News The Radstock & Westfield Big Local community group have been taking action to help people respond to the challenges that Covid19 has created for our community. As well as setting up and running a food delivery project ourselves, we’ve funded Sporting Family Change to deliver weekly food parcels
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Hot Square Meal Project – Final Report
Hot Square Meal Project – Report On Weds 25th March our worker sent round an email asking how we could invest some of our money as a way to help out the community in this difficult time. Within a few hours we had come up with a project idea to provide hot square meals to
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Square hot meal project reaches 50 meals in under a week!
In response to the coronavirus lockdown we quickly came up with a project that provided people in need with a regular hot square meal. We were able to call on some local supporters who joined as volunteers and found a local business in Riverbank Cafe that we could purchase meals from. We’re working with Compassionate
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Running For Belief
John Reynolds is a man on a mission. He wants to help children and their parents to improve their confidence, especially around health and wellbeing. John is an enthusiastic runner and has committed a lot of his time towards a very popular local running club that he set up called Westfield TT… now he’s taking
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Community Orchard Justgiving
We are sad to say that the newly planted community orchard in the Church Street Recreation Ground we helped to fund was recently vandalised. Radstock In Bloom are fundraising to replace the broken trees and to improve access to the space by putting in steps. If you can make a donation, please go to their
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Meet Our New Locally Trusted Organisation
We are very pleased to announce that the BANES Carers’ Centre have generously taken on the responsibility of our Locally Trusted Organisation for Finance (LTO). This is an important position in the Big Local programme because it involves holding our money, performing due diligence on any payment to make sure it is in accordance
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