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🖊️ Bournemouth Writing Festival this weekend!
Don't miss Bournemouth Writing Festival from 26 to 28 April 2024.
Over 100 free and ticketed writing events taking place to inspire you to write!
From 1-2-1s with literary agents, talks, walks, panels, networking opportunities and poetry activities, the 2024 Bournemouth Writing Festival is bigger and better than ever before! Find out more below.
Bournemouth Writing Festival
⚓ Freedom of Poole for Navy Ship - celebrations on 4 May!
Over 70 service men and women will march through the streets of Poole on Saturday 4 May as a Royal Navy Warship is granted the Freedom of Poole.
The entire Ships Company of HMS Cattistock, led by The Band of His Majesty’s Royal Marines Plymouth, will parade from The Quay in celebration of the ship being awarded the Freedom of Poole, the highest honour a city or town can bestow on the Royal Navy or one of His Majesty’s Ships.
Drums will be beating, bayonets fixed, and colours flying! Save the date in your diary for the bank holiday weekend. 🚢
Find out more about the celebrations
🛒Are you facing difficult choices when it comes to food?
If so, you are not alone and support is available.
Our award-winning Access to Food Partnership
is a Community food network working together with a vision that everyone in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole can feed themselves and their family nutritious food.
There are many community food projects which are helping residents, including:
* Our Access to Food Map
shows where you can get help to get food for yourself and your family, food banks, pantries and social supermarkets across the BCP area. Community fridges are also included in the map and are open to all and provide free, surplus food.
* Voucher scheme
in Poole to help those who are struggling to maintain a nutritious diet due to financial hardship.
If you want to find out more about
food support services, visit our website or view the video below with
Daisy Carr, BCP Council community food co-ordinator.
Help to get food for yourself and your family
👶 Dingley's Promise opens a new SEND nursery
We have been working closely with the charity Dingley’s Promise to provide a new nursery assessment centre to support children under five with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and their families.
The new centre aims to give children the best possible start in life by providing specialist support tailored to each child to help with their onward journey.
Dingley’s Promise, based in West Howe, had its grand opening this week.
Find out more about Dingley's Promise in Bournemouth
🙋🏽♂️ Could you be a mentor for a young person leaving care?
We're looking for volunteers to engage with young people transitioning from care, offering them inspiration, support, and guidance as positive role models. If you're interested in witnessing their journey toward independence and seeing them grow in confidence, we'd love to have you on board.
So, if you have some time and a passion to support our young people,
click on the link below to find out what's involved and register your interest with our partner, Goal 17.
Become a mentor for a young person leaving care
🎭 Impact Boscombe Children's Festival - coming soon
On Saturday 11 May, to mark National Children's Day, Impact Boscombe
will be hosting a Children's Festival in Churchill Gardens, bringing together all of the fabulous people who work to support children and young people in Boscombe for a day of family fun with entertainment, activities and more!
But wait, there's more! Prepare to be enchanted by a live performance of 'Cinderella,' brought to you by Treehouse Theatre. 🌟 Don't miss out on this magical extravaganza! Find out all the details below and join us for a day of unforgettable memories. 🎈
Impact Boscombe Children's Festival
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