Month: August 2020

Funding Available From The People’s Postcode Lottery

The People’s Postcode Lottery is a not-for-commercial-gain organisation owned by Dutch organisation, Novamedia, the creators of the Postcode Lottery brand.

They have launched the Postcode Neighbourhood Trust in response to the current pandemic. In 2020 Postcode Neighbourhood Trust will provide funding in Great Britain to organisations affected by the COVID-19 pandemic under the following themes: supporting your organisation’s resilience & adapting/expanding services to meet new challenges. Applications opened on the 4th August 2020 for community groups and good causes across Great Britain. They expect to distribute over 4 million pounds across the country.

If you would like to apply for funding, start by taking their eligibility quiz HERE and please make sure you have followed their funding guide before submitting. Click the website link to learn more and apply for a grant:
www.postcodeneighbourhoodtrust.org.uk

This comes in addition to the Postcode Lottery’s other four charities listed below. Click on the relative website link to learn more and apply for a grant:

Postcode TrustPostcode Trust: the People’s Postcode funds projects aimed at promoting human rights, combatting discrimination and helping to prevent poverty.
You can apply to receive up to £20,000.
www.postcodetrust.org.uk

 

Postcode Local Trust

Postcode Local Trust: the Postcode Local Trust is for groups looking to increase community access to outdoor space and improve biodiversity.
Groups looking to improve sustainability or combat climate change are also encouraged to apply.
www.postcodelocaltrust.org.uk

Postcode Community TrustPostcode Community Trust: the Postcode Community Trust supports initiatives working to improve health and wellbeing in communities, including those that look to reduce isolation.  This includes projects that increase participation in arts and physical recreation.
www.postcodecommunitytrust.org.uk

Postcode Innovation TrustPostcode Innovation Trust: the Postcode Innovation Trust operates two programmes:
i. Social Investment Programme 
This programme provides blended finance (50% grant, 50% loan) to asset locked social enterprises looking to achieve impact in the areas of: social inclusion, community development or environmental impact.
ii. Social Enterprise Support Programme 
This programme provides grant funding for charities who support social enterprises by delivering programmes including enterprise training, capacity support, accelerators, incubators, mentoring and peer support.
www,postcodeinnovationtrust.org.uk

People's Postcode LotteryAll the funds are raised by the players of the Postcode Lottery.
To take part, tickets cost £10. 32% of each ticket sold goes to supporting charities.
Visit their website: www.postcodelottery.org.uk or
Freephone: 0808 109 8765

 

 

 

Local Employment with Baboo Gelato

🍦 🍦 Baboo Gelato are hiring! 🍦🍦

Love gelato? Love the sea? Have a passion for customer service? Baboo Gelato have got you covered!

They’re looking for a Seasonal Supervisor to join their team at West Bay.
You need to be reliable, organised, friendly and hard-working.
Experience in customer service and cash up procedures essential.
Interested?
Get in touch via Facebook HERE or
email: frenchie@baboogelato.com.

Please share! 😊

#LocalEmployment #SupportLocalBusiness #BabooGelato #Broadwindsor #WestDorset #WestBay #IceCream #Sorbet #Gelato #Summer #SocialDistancing #StaySafe

 

Beccas Fabric Larder Relocating From Redlands Yard

The Fabric Larder, originally Beccas Quilt Emporium started in 1999. Becca was hoping to celebrate 21 years with a Walk About exhibition in September. This will have to wait. Here is what Becca had to say:

A letter from Becca:

“The Craft Centre [Redlands Yard] notified us all that they are making changes. This includes major development of the centre, and due to their changes they have asked me to give up StudiOne which many of you have enjoyed mine & other craft classes.
I was so looking forward to getting back to teaching in September and making exciting plans to celebrate 21 years of business.
As you know the teaching is a huge part of The Fabric Larder and I am afraid one doesn’t survive with out the other. With all the changes & disruption to come on the site and with out teaching space, running solely a shop isn’t viable so I am looking to relocate!!
I am not in a hurry to relocate but will only be open at the centre [Redlands Yard] until 25th August.
I have viewed a few places but also with the virus still lurking & economic hardship to many I have decided not to rush anything.

Beccas's Fabric Larder

In the mean time. . .

I have a trusty van called Florry. She is currently a van with a bed & cooker, but how about I change that around to shelves & fabric! I will mail you about that later. OR, if you would like to express interest on me visiting your group with a mobile shop in your area please email me HERE.

Classes:

I am sussing out town & village locations for pop up classes & patchwork surgeries! Help with on going projects will be at hand! Keep signed up to the news letter to wait for more information & dates.

OPEN HOURS UNTIL 25th AUGUST.  (L A S T  D A Y in Broadwindsor)

Tuesdays – Friday 10:30-4pm
Saturdays 10:30-3pm

CAFE OPEN.
I have a small 1/2 price Fabric Sale & bargain baskets. Stock up with your wadding / calico/ plains / essentials”

Beccas Fabric Larder

BECCA’S ONLINE SHOP CONTINUES – Click HERE.

#Broadwindsor #BeccasFabricLarder #AllThingsFabric #Relocation #Bargains #RedlandsYard #OnlineShop #Covid-19 #SocialDistancing #WearYourMask #Stay Safe

National Allotments Week 2020 10th – 16th August

With lovely sunshine forecast, the theme for 2020’s National Allotments Week is Growing Food for Health and Well-being, a reflection of the many benefits of growing, cooking and eating your own fruit and vegetables.

Broadwidsor Allotments Cow on hill.
Broadwindsor Allotments 2020. Photo credit: Irish Macc

National Allotments Week started in 2002 as a way of raising awareness of allotments and the role they play in helping people to live healthier lifestyles, grow their own food, develop friendships and bolster communities. The campaign week is still thriving 18 years later and interest in growing your own fruit and vegetables has never been stronger since the WW2 Grow for Victory campaign.
They ran a competition last month asking for ‘My Allotment Story‘ from entrants in the form of videos and storyboards, the winner will be announced on August 10th.

Get a Bee Kit To Help Save Our Bees

Friends of the Earth are running another campaign promoting the necessity of bees in our human and our planet’s life.

Click on the link HERE to get your own Bee Saver Kit – a minimum of £5 donation is requested.

What’s in the kit?

  1. Wildflower seeds – grow bee food so your neighbourhood bees don’t go hungry.
  2. A garden planner – to help you create a bee-friendly garden all year round.
  3. A bee spotter guide – so you can identify your new garden visitors.
  4. Step by step guide – full of useful hints and tips for saving bees.
  5. A bee postcard – to send to your loved ones.

Bumble Bee on flower

If you’d like multiple kits please call their Supporter Care Team on 0800 581051. Monday – Friday 9am-5pm.

#Broadwindsor #WestDorset #FriendsOfTheEarth #SaveOurBees #BeeSaverKit #Crops #Food #Flowers #Summer #StaySafe

 

Murder and Mystery in Marshwood

Tomorrow morning (6th August) at 10am on BBC1, there will be a broadcast of Murder, Mystery and My Family (S4Ep9) examining the infamous case of Martha Brown, resident of Birdsmoorgate and the last woman to be publicly hanged in Dorset.

In the early hours of the 6th of July 1856, Martha Brown, a resident of Birdsmoorgate in rural Dorset, called on her neighbour begging for help. She believed her husband John had been attacked by his vicious horse and was lying in a critical condition in their home.

When Martha returned with assistance, John was found dead having succumbed to multiple head wounds. After a hasty investigation, Martha was charged and convicted of the murder of her husband. She continued to maintain her innocence, but on 9 August 1856, she was executed at Dorchester Prison.

Now, over 160 years later, sisters Fran and Irene, relatives of Martha Brown, have been researching the case. They are keen to separate fact from fiction, as the story of Martha famously inspired Thomas Hardy’s classic novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles, a tale in which Tess is executed for the murder of her husband.

Top criminal barristers Sasha Wass QC and Jeremy Dein QC re-examine and review the hasty investigation, consider the pathological evidence, and undertake a psychological evaluation of Martha and John’s relationship. Will they be able to prove that Martha Brown was wrongly convicted? Watch and find out!

#Broadwindsor #Dorset #Birdsmoorgate #MarthaBrown #1856 #Execution #ThomasHardy #TessOfTheDUrbervilles #BBC1 #StaySafe

Broadwindsor Group Parish Council – Online Meeting Monday 10th August

Broadwindsor Group Parish Council are meeting online using the Zoom platform later this month .  All are welcome to attend.

The full agenda is available to download HERE.

The meeting is at 7.30pm on Monday, August 10th 2020 and can be accessed HERE.
The Meeting ID is: 836 1481 7766.
Zoom is Free! – Sign Up and get it HERE

This month’s meeting involves several Planning Applications Received and Circulated for Consultation from Broadwindsor:

  • WD/D/20/001414, Hursey Farm, Main Street, Hursey, DT8 3LN
  • WD/D/20/001415, Hursey Farm, Main Street, Hursey, DT8 3LN
  • WD/D/20/001499, Cambridge House, The Square, Broadwindsor, DT8
  • WD/D/20/001582, Notification of intention to remove 23 public payphones
  • WD/D/20/000052, Blackbird Cottage, The Square, Broadwindsor, DT8 3QD
  • WD/D/20/000053, Blackbird Cottage, The Square, Broadwindsor, DT8 3QD

#BWGPC #StaySafe #SocialDistancing #Community #Broadwindsor #Burstock #Seaborough #Blackdown #Drimpton #ParishCouncil #Zoom

 

Happy 150th Anniversary to the British Red Cross

Inspired by Swiss businessman, Henry Dunant and originally called the British National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War in 1870, it would be renamed the British Red Cross in 1905 becoming part of an international movement of humanitarian organisations offering aid in disasters and health crises.

Granted its first Royal Charter in 1908 by HM King Edward VII, Queen Alexandra then became its president. Our Queen has been a patron of the organisation for 65 years and Prince Charles has been president of the Red Cross since 2003.

All Red Cross programs and activities are guided by their 7 Fundamental Principles:

  1. Humanity
  2. Impartiality
  3. Neutrality
  4. Independence
  5. Voluntary Service
  6. Unity 
  7. Universality

The British Red Cross refuse to ignore people in crisis. They help people cope with disasters, conflicts and personal crises.
To donate to their UK Coronavirus Response Appeal, by card or PayPal – Click HERE.
To learn more of the history and work of the British Red Cross, visit their website – HERE.

#Broadwindsor #WestDorset #UK #BritishRedCross #CrisisAppeal #Donate #Coronavirus #Community #Volunteers #StaySafe

 

The Dorset Council Community Impact Fund (DCIF) Round 5 – Apply Now

The Dorset Council Community Impact Fund (DCIF) Round 5 (Coronavirus Support) has launched to support local charities, and voluntary organisations that are providing support and assistance to help Dorset’s most vulnerable people and their communities to recover after the recent Coronavirus outbreak.

New applications are now being accepted and the fund closes at midnight on Sunday, 20th September 2020. Award decisions will be confirmed from the end of August through to the end of September 2020.

Organisations and community groups can apply for up to £5,000. New and emerging groups (those with less than 6 months delivery experience and who may not have the normal governance in place) can apply for up to £1,000 provided they have a referee who will endorse their application and manage the funds on their behalf.
Organisations awarded a grant will need to be able to commence delivery of their project/activities within six weeks of being awarded funding. Groups will need to use their funding by end of March 2021.

Who can apply? Who is eligible?

  • registered charities including charitable incorporated organisations
  • constituted community croups
  • community benefit societies
  • social enterprises (companies limited by guarantee with a not-for-profit clause)
  • CICs (must be limited by guarantee and have community benefit objectives)
  • parish councils (if funded activities are not deemed part of statutory duties and must also have a voluntary and community sector partner to support delivery)
  • town councils (if funded activities are not deemed part of their statutory duties and must also have a voluntary and community sector partner to support delivery)
  • places of worship and religious organisations (if funded activities are not promoting religion)
  • new and emerging groups – please see information below
  • school PTA’s
  • all of the above must be local or regional organisations; local branches of national charities are eligible if they are financially independent and separately managed
  • CIC’s will also need to provide an ‘Asset Lock’ statement and copy of their Memorandum or Articles of Association

All organisations applying (apart from new and emerging groups) must have:

  • a management committee, trustees or board of directors with at least three unrelated members
  • a written constitution or set of rules that sets out the purpose and management of the organisation
  • a bank account in the name of the organisation with at least two unrelated cheque signatories

Please read through the full guidelines HERE (a new window will open) before applying.

If you have read the guidelines and are ready to apply, click HERE.

If you want to chat through your project before applying or have a specific question you can contact any of the following:

  1. Policy and Performance Officer (Grants) – Ian Wells
    ian.wells@dorsetcouncil.gov.uk
    Tel: 01305 224307

  2. External funding and grants manager – Laura Cornette
    laura.cornette@dorsetcouncil.gov.uk
    Tel: 01305 224306

Good Luck!

#Broadwindsor #Dorset #Funding #DCIF #CommunityGroups #Voluntary #Volunteers #Covid-19 #Coronavirus #ApplyNow

Catch Of The Day – Every Wednesday

Catch Of The Day are in Broadwindsor every Wednesday morning at 11.30am until about 12.15pm.

Tom, Tina and Daisy park in the square near The White Lion with their fresh fish for sale.
Naturally, social distancing will be practised.

Catch Of The Day Shellfish

Contact: 07851 649939 or
Message them through Facebook HERE or
Just appear on the day to buy!
They will be very pleased to see you!

They usually continue on to –

  • 12.30 – 1pm Mosterton outside the shop
  • 1 – 1.30pm Beaminster square
  • 2 – 2.30pm Drimpton
  • 3 – 3.30pm Salwayash in the village hall car park

#Broadwindsor #FreshFish #Delivery #Mosterton #Beaminster #Drimpton #Salwayash #StaySafe #StayAtHome #EatFish