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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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Online Safety Workshops Safely Completed

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SWALLOW Charity made good use of a Small Grant award by running a number of online safety workshops, both for their members and for other people in our community. Here’s their report on how the events went: The project was very successful and engaged a total of 28 participants across three workshops.  We worked with
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Young people have an upgraded music room!

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One of the winners of our 10th Dragons’ Den, Youth Connect used the money to rennovate their dilapidated music room, for the benefit of young people’s creativity. They’ve been in touch to let us know that it has already had a positive impact on both the young people involved and the wider community. For the
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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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Silver Band Teaches Young People a Lesson

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What an absolute joy it was to take so many young people with us to the Areas this year! They played a key part in us securing second place and will be coming to the national finals with us this September! This would not have been possible without support for tuition and room hire! Word
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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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