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Great exhibition at Thatchers
THE Rotary Club of Wrington Vale organised The North Somerset Business and Youth Showcase, featuring around 60 local businesses and 30 local youth organisations. It was a chance to see the quality and range of products and services available from local companies and to support local youth organisations, showcasing their club’s sporting, leisure or cultural activities. The huge family day out was held in Thatchers massive new Jubilee Building before it’s kitted out as the company’s new production facility for kegging and canning. At the end of the event the club presented £1,000 each to 1st Banwell Scouts, Young ACT – Axbridge, Crossroads Young Carers and St. John’s Ambulance; £500 each to Axbridge Sea Cadets, Butcombe and Blagdon Youth Work Trust, Weston Youth Orchestra and Cheddar Youth Trust. The other 21 youth groups which submitted a project will each receive a donation of £80.
Some of the business stalls
Lucy Hole (left) and Michelle McQuarrie from Kingfisher
Weston MP John Penrose (centre) opened the show. He's pictured with John Thatcher, president of the Rotary Club of Wrington Vale, and one of the show's organisers, Merlyn Saunders. 1st Shipham scouts
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