Working for the West End
WEM is developing a ‘West End Online’ website to promote local businesses, trade, community groups, and services. This has moved to its beta version (a nerdy name for testing) and is currently looking for local partners who want to begin being listed.
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Back in March 2023 we launched a mental health project commission, looking for some activity that would support mental health in the West End. The mental health commission was advertised for over five weeks and generated a good deal of interest, with over 170 downloads of the main commission and small ideas form.
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Among the projects that West End Morecambe Big Local (WEM) has recently commissioned are a growing number of smaller initiatives.
WEM has been having
conversations towards the idea of a
unifying community fair in the West
End. This would be an occasion for
bringing together the potential of both
past and existing activities, festivals,
fairs, etc., but with a specific objective.
Rather than replicating or seeking to
improve on previous projects, one
suggestion has been to underscore
such an event with a more serious
purpose, such as a health fair, whilst
still offering a ‘community festival’
appeal. Let’s see what 2024 brings.
Frontierland has been a vacant eyesore on Morecambe’s seafront since closing in the late 1990s. For over 20 years it was subject to a number of failed private sector schemes until it was bought by the city council to kickstart redevelopment. Lancaster Council is now entering into local consultation about
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WEM is currently seeking to appoint a young person’s mental health support worker for the West End.
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Growing Resilience is a self-awareness course that considers encountering conflict and stress in everyday life, as a certain inevitability. The programme shows participants how to grow a mental health toolkit to become more resilient and be better able to cope with times of chaos and deal with conflict pro-actively, focussing on a positive future situation.
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The Home Energy Action Together project (HEAT for short) is being funded by WEM Big Local for 12 months from Jan 1st 2023 to Dec 31st 2023 to deliver free Home Energy advice, support and training across the West End. We met and talked to Morecambe-based Green Rose CIC to deliver the project and Green Rose was given a set of targets. HEAT are now half way through their project, and have already reached around 50% of their target completion. It seemed a good time to catch up with how they are doing, so we spoke to Lucy Reynolds, the WEM-funded HEAT Project Worker to hear how things are going.
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We’ve been chatting lately with Growing Well, a group who were unsuccessful with their Mental health submission, but we still wanted to promote their service to West End residents. You can read about Growing Well below, or find out more at their website at https://www.growingwell.co.uk/.
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NBC NEWS Reports on UK Cost of Living Crisis with feature on Morecambe The US News Agency NBC reported in December 2022 on the UK cost of living crisis with a headline which read “Spiralling costs and crumbling public services leave millions in Britain struggling to live“. NBC News reporters
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Eggcup, the food club project with outlets in Lancaster and the West End of Morecambe are looking for a new supervisor. This role offers a fantastic opportunity for someone who is passionate about food and community to become part of a forward thinking team that is taking action and creating
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