Community Chest grant awarded West End Million is supporting plans for the first Morecambe Pride with a grant to LGB&T Out In The Bay. Out In The Bay, which supports the Lesbian,Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community in Morecambe, Lancaster and the surrounding area, are hoping to stage a Morecambe Pride
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Local Newsletter!
Local Newsletter! If you live in the West End you may now have received a More Together community magazine for Spring 2019. The magazine is put together by an independent group of local people who are keen to encourage others to get involved. If you want to see the newsletter
Continue readingWhat’s On At Stanley’s
Stanley’s is an amazing community hub and resource in the West End of Morecambe, WEM is currently chatting with them about some potential projects and they have recently shared with us their plan of weekly events and meetings. Mondays: 9am – 3pm. Open access, free drop-in, use of washer
Continue readingWEM provides flu vaccines for people in need
West End Million has come to the rescue of people who need flu vaccines but can’t afford them. The community-led organisation, which has National Lottery funding to invest in improvements for residents of the West End of Morecambe, has granted £500 to an immunisation programme at Stanley’s Youth and Community
Continue readingNew Plan For West End Launched
Press Release: 09/11/18 A new plan to improve the lives of people in the West End of Morecambe has been officially launched. West End Million (WEM) have developed the plan for future work which was launched at The Alhambra when West End organisations and groups were invited to find out
Continue readingMorecambe’s West End is better off thanks to lottery windfall
It was back in 2012 – the year of the London Olympics – that Morecambe’s West End struck gold. The area was one of 150 nationally awarded £1 million to spend over ten years as part of the Big Local programme supported by the Big Lottery Fund. Big Local aims
Continue readingAn invitation to groups and organisations
An invitation to groups and organisations that are based in or who deliver work in the West End. The West End Million is holding a conversation drop-in to introduce and look at its new Action Plan. The drop-in will take place between 11am and 2pm on November 1st at the
Continue readingSmall Community Grants and Big Resident Ideas
As part of West End Million’s new programme, we are introducing two ways to try and make some small positive changes happen in the area. We know that there are lots of local people who have their own great ideas for making life better for residents in the West End
Continue readingWEM visit from Local Trust CEO
“A fantastic area, loads of really committed people and a strong new plan” That was the feedback from Matt Leach, CEO of Local Trust, who we were pleased to welcome on 31st August with a visit to talk about West End Million, and a tour around the area. Local Trust
Continue readingChange on the Coast
In a recent blog post from Local Trust, Fernanda Balata, Senior Programme Lead for Coastal Economies at the NEF, explains how the new partnership with Local Trust will put coastal communities in control of their future. Coastal communities face complex and urgent challenges. They see higher levels of deprivation, underemployment
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