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Charity gig
GuILLY and Tony Jones will be opening their garden in Pensford for a charity gig, raising funds for St Thomas a Becket Church Tower, the Pancreatic Cancer research fund and in memory of Tina Jenkins. It will take place at the hollies on Pensford hill on Sunday, July 18th, from 3pm, featuring various bands. Tickets are £8 in advance and £10 on the day. Take your own rugs, picnics and chairs. Details: Guilly or Tony 01761 490456
Volunteers wanted
VoLunTeerS from Weston-super-Mare and north Somerset Samaritans have welcomed a special visitor to the branch. David Matthews, from Doncaster, is walking 6,000 miles visiting all 201 branches of the Samaritans in the uK. Weston was branch number 127 on his mammoth route and he has walked almost nine million steps so far. Weston branch member John said: “It was great to meet David and cheer him on his way. he is doing a fantastic job promoting the work of Samaritans as he walks the length and breadth of the uK.” The local branch of the charity is currently looking for new volunteers to join its team of listeners.
Details: WestonSuperMare.Recruitment@Samaritans.org or visit www.samaritans.org/volunteer
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Buskers raise the bar for Fair Frome
Singing in the sun (l:r) Danny Shorten, Paul Kirtley and David Goodman
A GrouP of musicians who have been busking in Frome throughout the last nine months of the pandemic have raised more than £2,500 for charity. now the friends, who call themselves the We Don’t Scare easy Tribe, have set themselves a target of raising £5,000 for Fair Frome by December. Fair Frome works to tackle poverty in the town, running the food and furniture banks for referred clients.
Schools charity needs support The Lifeskills Safety education Charity, which is used by primary schools throughout the area, says it needs more volunteers if it is to reopen fully this September. hundreds of Year 6 classes normally visit their centre in Bristol every year, where they teach children how to keep themselves safe by taking them on a tour around their realistic (indoor) village. Volunteer-led and in small groups, children are guided through many hazardous, real-life, interactive scenarios and they learn how to best deal with difficult or risky situations, including a road, beach, railway, dark alleyway, shops, and homes. They use special effects to bring things to life. The children even get to make practice emergency 999 calls. It truly is a memorable experience. Pre-pandemic they were teaching around 12,500 primary school children every year. Since then the centre has remained closed to schools. They quickly produced a video package to replace school visits during lockdowns, which schools could subscribe to and help keep the charity afloat. It now has more schools on its waiting list than it can cope with, unless it can recruit more volunteers. It’s holding taster sessions for recruits on Tuesday, July 13th, 10.30am and Thursday, July 15th, 1.30pm. Details: sam@lifeskills-bristol.org.uk 07860 832768 Facebook Link: https://bit.ly/2T6RVP6 Twitter Link: https://bit.ly/3gjih8S
