We are a mutual aid group formed by neighbours. We discover & connect the skills, gifts, passions & strengths of our community. m.youtube.com/@SBHGCom
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31 Aug 2024
Listen to Alexa open the Playbox yesterday.
We can’t tell you how hard this young woman had worked to make this happen & how over the course of the year she’s become practiced at public speaking.
With community members like this there’s real hope in the air for us all 😍
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15 Oct 2024
We were so chuffed to receive support to continue producing and growing local good news via Ey Up- Its Wigan West CommUnity News. The Autumn edition is with the printers right now 🥰 & to offer community reporting training next year 💃🥳
15 Oct 2024
📣 Exciting funding news! Thanks to #NationalLottery players, we've awarded over £144 million in vital funding to almost 2,500 community groups in England in the last quarter!
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2 Sep 2024
Good News Alert!
We’ve secured funding from the Awards for All National Lotteries Community Fund to fund Ey Up - It’s Wigan West CommUnity News for the next two years. And, offer local people training to become Community Reporters with Peoples Voice Media 💃🥳
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29 Aug 2024
We have the keys 🔑
Tomorrow is the day we open our own Playbox for the very 1st time
What an amazing achievement
And thanks to all those who’ve helped make it happen
Special thanks to @GreenmountProj1
We can’t wait to show you all!
Come along if you can x
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Springfield & Beech Hill CommUnity retweeted
17 Aug 2024
We are holding our third event at #FurClemt on Sunday Sep 1st — come along for #community networking and funding opportunities in #Wigan! Please rsvp via our website:
grassrootsofwigan.org/event-…
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25 Jul 2024
The Springfield Dog Show 2024.
Here comes the sun was an apt tune 😉☔️💧🌧️
The Springfield dog walkers are hardy!
And we raised £384 to keep us in poo bags!
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24 Jul 2024
I tell you what! We have some hardy dog walkers in Springfield.
Did rain stop the dog show tonight?
Did it eck & it piddled down for a while too.
Springfield Community Led Dog Show 2024
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20 Jul 2024
It’s party day and this time the weather is on our side.
Lots of fun for all.
Let’s enjoy each others company
Today is the start of a summer of community play.
Tuesday we’ve fun in the woodlands and Wednesday is the annual dog show 😍
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11 Jul 2024
Coach trips to Lytham
Julie offers her QiGong class
Lots of folk get involved in making planters outside of CommUnity Corner
Green fingered children work on their school garden
And a group of neighbours start a photo voice project exploring ‘good life’
Great week 😍
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8 Jul 2024
A community driven effort saw Ey Up hand delivered to every household in May.
Here’s the Spring edition online
🤞@TNLComFund says yes to our current application, which will see 4 more issues & local folk trained in community reporters
sbhcommunity.co.uk/ey-up-edi…
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5 Jul 2024
Today at CommUnity Corner we have:
Chill, Chat, Colour & Cuppa hosted by Sue & Val
Addiction Awareness hosted by Roz
LGBTQI Network hosted by Resolute Productions
& the public living room is open to all. Chat, read, play games, have 🫖 , eat some of Gills left over birthday 🎂
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30 Jun 2024
This months private members community lottery winner is no 1.
We had 81 players this month & £405 in the pot equally split between 1 winner & community good causes.
Players voted to spend the money on discounted tickets for summer trips & trophies for the community awards
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18 Jun 2024
Afternoon tea is always a local highlight.
Who doesn’t like a Tues afternoon 💃 ? We ❤️ to see so many carers enjoying carefree 💃 with partners
Today the children were doing the serious work with Mike & the design team at GreenMounts designing their permanent playbox
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Springfield & Beech Hill CommUnity retweeted
18 Jun 2024
Making space for creatives at CommUnity Corner.
Making and selling our wares to each other.
What talent we have
What talent we’ve yet to discover 😍
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12 Jun 2024
And we’re off
The 3rd Annual Community Led Awards.
Making the Invisible Visible & Connecting the Connectors in the Springfield, Beech Hill and Gidlow CommUnity
7 Categories
Opens today
Nominations close 14th July
Show your appreciation 👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/18Cm…
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11 Jun 2024
It was all work for the Playbox Campaign Group on International Day of Play
Chatting with their pals at Family Activity Club about plans for the Playbox
They really are serious about play 😍
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10 Jun 2024
Our Summer trips to the Lido at Skipton & New Brighton sold out in mins, thanks to help with coach hire from Local Cllrs.
Here's 2 more before schools break out, with subsidy available from community lottery winnings, agreed by SBHG members 🥰
Raising cash, spending together 💕
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