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A new group has been launched to build safer and kinder communities in a UK town - with £4000 already on offer for budding entrepreneurs ROC WSM aims to build safer and kinder communities in Weston-super-Mare and Worle, Somerset over the years to come. Now they already have £4,000
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Little Amelia Rose, 10, has donated 13 inches of her hair to help The Little Princess Trust, which provides real hair wigs to children across the UK who have lost their own hair through cancer treatment. She headed to Prim N Proper salon in Burnham on Sea, Somerset to have
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By Good News Post Every Mind Matters is a new way of empowering people to manage and improve their mental health. It aims to help people take simple steps to look after their mental health, improve their mental wellbeing and support others. It was launched after a worrying Public Health
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By Jill Dando News Two kind-hearted youngsters have helped a cancer support charity by donating locks of their hair so they can be tuned into wigs for sick children who have lost their hair. Lilly, 9, Emee, 7, visited hair salon No.1 Regent Street in Highbridge, Somerset this week
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By Good News Post reporter. Big hearted footballer Marcus Rashford has formed a taskforce with some of the UK's biggest food brands to try to help reduce child food poverty. The 22-year-old Manchester United and England forward has already won a fight to feed children on free school
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By Elijah, aged 11 One year ago, our Good News Post and Jill Dando reporters descended on Downing Street to interview new Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The first journalists in the world to do so. What a day for the children, and what a year for Boris and the world.
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A talented youngster has designed and created this incredible dress to be worn as a costume in classical ballet dancing performances. Dorothy, 14, spent part of the Coronavirus lockdown designing the highly-detailed tutu before turning it into reality. Dorothy, who is a student at King Alfred School Academy in Highbridge,
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By Jill Dando News The amazing mental health charity, In Charley’s Memory is celebrating this week after receiving a £23,000 windfall from the National Lottery. In Charley’s Memory is a rapidly expanding charity which helps the mental wellbeing of hundreds of 11 to 25 year olds in
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By Elijah, 10, Jill Dando News A world IT expert is deploying a game-changing COVID-19 track and trace ‘Intelligent Wi-Fi’ - which could now help save the global hospitality industry. The Intelligent Wi-Fi can help businesses to identify people who have had COVID-19 to within metres of each other inside
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British motivational speaker aims to help workers and firms build optimism out of the devastation of coronavirus Mental health, anxiety and depression are at epidemic proportions in the UK. And then came along Covid-19. These talks give tips to fill minds, offices and organisations with inspiration and optimism.” Shane Dean
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By Jill Dando News Andrew Scott of the Ascot Group in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset is advertising for a host of new appointments over the next few months at their State of the art HQ next to Worle train station. The positive and innovative entrepreneur took what he described as a “nuclear
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By the Founding Editor The world in 2020 has reached saturation point with rolling 24/7 365 bad news. The tide has turned, and now there is a fast growing demand for positive good news from the public. In 2020, after COVID-19, Brexit fury on both sides, and 19 years
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The Bristol-based company Community of Purpose created a new programme, ‘Board Games for Bored Kids’, which delivers games and food to some of the city’s most disadvantaged children. The city has 13,500 children on Free School Meals, which includes 70% of children living in South Bristol. COP has
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By Jill Dando News ‘FUCHSIA’ meets in the community-based Nightjar Pub to support dozens of people with teas and coffees, support and encouragement. They want to tell Weston-super-Mare and Worle residents that they are still available to support people during these tough times, even when face to face meetings are
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By Jill Dando news The King Alfred School Academy in Highbridge, Somerset saw dozens of Year 10 students return to enjoy lessons as facilities partially re-opened. They had 90% of students in as well as the vulnerable and key worker students. Students enjoyed lessons in the core subjects lasting around
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By Liam Drury and Jill Dando News Superb Shannon used chalk and her garden to create an amazing picture during lockdown, getting her inspiration from a t-shirt she owns. The student from the brilliant Priory Community School Academy (PCSA) in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset showed incredible innovation and creativity. Head of Creative