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Take a virtual tour of our office at of the layout, decor and ambiance. It’s
Basepoint Business Centre, without a great way to show off retail outlets,
having to come and visit us. restaurants, gyms, salons and schools
Normally it’s a pretty boring room - in fact anywhere the public is to be
where busy people concentrate on found. It can also be used by charities
producing the town’s best read pub- to attract more members or users.
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Toothill casts votes for £1 million committee Kaye to offer our advertisers and Bring a new dimension to market-
Toothill has £1 million allocated by the National Lottery under its Big readers the chance to show off their ing your business by contacting Roger
Local programme, to be spent on community development initiatives business in stunning, clear images. Ogle: [email protected]
over the next ten years. Visit us at www.bit.ly/Linkof- or call 01793 608840.
It’s two and a half years since applications and allocate money.
the money was announced and the The closing date for nominations Community action research in March
Toothill Big Local steering body has for this committee is Monday 25 Stepping Forward, a new project funded by the Heritage Lottery aims to
finally agreed a structure to adminis- February. Toothill residents can trace Swindon’s strong tradition of community involvement - and there
ter the funds by forming two groups: nominate themselves or somebody are two exhibitions and coffee mornings where people can discuss how
• One open to all residents that meets else by downloading a form from their areas have evolved. These take place at:
to develop ideas which support the www.toothillbiglocal.co.uk
key priorities for Toothill as well plan If there are more than 11 nomina- • West Swindon Library: Friday a great deal written about the social
ning community projects, and, tions, names will be posted on public 1 March to Friday 15 March, with history of Swindon, but little about its
• A formal committee of eleven notice boards and www.toothillbi- a coffee morning discussion on grassroots community action.
people, the majority of whom must glocal.co.uk and residents can vote 15 March, 11am to 1pm; “Our town has a very long and
be Toothill residents, to assess project between 26 February and 5 March. • North Swindon Library: Friday proud record of people ‘doing things
15 March to Thursday 28 March, for themselves,’ since the rapid in-
with a coffee morning on 28 March, crease in population from the 1840s.
11am to 1pm. With the cutbacks going on perhaps
Swindon people have to reconsider
Swindon-based historian and social
researcher Martha Parry is keen to what it takes to build a community.”
meet people with memories and pho- Meet Martha at the coffee morn-
tos to share in an online archive and ings listed above or mail her: martha.
in a book to be published. She said: [email protected]
Or contact Shaz Qaddus at Vol-
6 Star Service from “Everybody talks about how we have untary Action Swindon on 01793
Trevor Salter a great tradition of community action 538398.
here, so we wanted to prove it. There’s
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