The West End Morecambe (Big Local) 10 years comes to an end in March and to mark the project’s close we will be holding a closing event at The Platform, Morecambe LA4 4DB on Tuesday March 17th.
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WEM proud to fund school eco-garden project
Work has begun on a pupil-designed Eco-Garden at Sandylands Primary School funded by WEM. The project has beed designed by the pupils themselves, and Headteacher Allison Hickson has said she is “incredibly proud” to see the transformation of previously unused land behind the school’s Balmoral Road buildings into a vibrant, sustainable learning space.
The ambitious project has been made possible thanks to a £47,000 grant from West End Morecambe Big Local (WEM), alongside additional support from Lancashire County Council.
Continue readingDigital Inclusion and Support for the West End Community
During the summer, WEM provided funding support to Lancaster & Morecambe College (LMC) to launch a new Digital Inclusion project in the West End of Morecambe. Offering advice, support and training for local residents to help them develop essential digital skills at The Link on West Street.
Continue readingMinds Within the Bay
Earlier this year we asked a group of young people from across the West End to develop a scheme to distribute £20,000 to their local community.
Continue readingBig White Shed
Big White Shed is an indie publisher, expert in peer publishing, offering support with writing and editing as well as consulting – a place to seek advice and tools, trade expertise and ideas, in order to complete a creative project – a virtual meeting place for people who want to get a job done and the people who can help achieve that. In the shed, we talk through what you have in mind, and help make it a reality.
Continue readingGrowing Well
Growing Well, are an established, independent, organic farm-based, registered mental health charity, located on the
outskirts of Kendal and at Tebay services on the M6. Growing Well provide a safe, supportive, working environment to
their volunteer participants to nurture long term mental health recovery through meaningful physical activity and personal development opportunities.
Are Mental Health & Wellbeing the Same Thing?
Roughly one in four people may experience some kind of mental health problem in their lifetime, but within that there is a vast range of difference. The general idea now is that mental health is a spectrum, on which we range from daily healthy norms through to diagnosable conditions, makes a lot of sense in general conversation.
Continue readingThinking About Some Mental Health Support? (pt 1)
Enable is a supportive community group for people living with long term health conditions in the West End, and throughout Morecambe, Lancaster and surrounding areas. They offer support to people struggling with their mental health, physical health or both and have a wide variety of members. Their general activities include regular support group meetings, weekly coffee catch ups, craft sessions, monthly meals out, day trips and much more to help combat isolation, and increase the wellbeing of their community, which their members find invaluable.
Continue readingWest End ‘Heat’ Project
Green Rose are working with WEM to make their advice and support directly accessible to communities in the West End. The West End work was set up for one year but has proved so successful that WEM has agreed, with Green Rose home energy advisors, to extend the activity for another six months, covering the upcoming winter.
Continue readingLDCVS to open office in Morecambe’s West End
Among the projects that West End Morecambe Big Local (WEM) has recently commissioned are a growing number of smaller initiatives.
One exciting development is that LDCVS (Lancaster District Community & Voluntary Solutions) is looking to set up a local Morecambe office and, being of impeccable taste, they are looking at the West End.