Community section:Layout 1
5/24/18
MENDIP TIMES
2:37 PM
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Putting the “fun” into funding
TEN community projects based in the Radstock and Westfield area will share £5,000 after presenting their bids to judges at a Dragons’ Den-style event. The Radstock and Westfield Big Local funding scheme has now supported 60 groups in the area. Supporters packed Victoria Hall in Radstock to see representatives from 17 projects present their cases and trying to convince the judges and audience in just 90 seconds. Amongst the successful bids were Trinity School pupils who want to improve their outside space, Norton Radstock Amateur Boxing Club, two youth theatre groups (Confessions of the Youth and Exit Stage Left), the SWALLOW charity – celebrating its 25th anniversary – and a community project to clear rubbish from Wellow Brook and turn it into a piece of sculpture.
Norton Radstock ABC have won funds to refurbish their gym at Clandown
Two of the youngsters from the successful Confessions of the Youth theatre company
Dragons are all smiles: (front) Claire Wynne Hughes, from Quartet Community Foundation, Anna Parry from The Loft music business and Becky Brooks, editor of the Midsomer Norton and Radstock Journal with (back) Big Local committee members Ron Hopkins, Robin Moss and Sarah Westell
The audience were asked to vote on the projects
Trinity School pupils brought along an unusual prop to support their bid for a giant slide for their play area
To find out more about the Big Local visit: http://radstockwestfield.org.uk/category/dragonsden/
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