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Press Release – Grants – October 20th 2014

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After some months in setting up the Community Trust and an initial appeal for grant requests to be brought forward, the Trustees are delighted to award its first two grants. Pensford Primary School has received £1,500 towards their innovative iPad project. This will help equip the school with iPads which will be used to access … Read more

Mining into the Past – Sold Out!

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Shane Gould from English Heritage and Robert Bailey, retired Stint Measurer from Pensford Colliery guided a fascinated audience through the local mining heritage of North Somerset and in particular, life for men, women, children and horses working at Pensford Colliery which closed in 1958. Judith Chubb Whittle who was part of a team raising funds … Read more

Successful Heritage Evening

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Thank you to everyone who supported our Mining Heritage event on 19th Sep 2014 in Stanton Drew. A really great night – fantastic interesting talks by Robert Bailey and Shane Gould.   We raised over £700. All profits go to The Community Trust

What projects would you like to support?

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A couple of potential projects have been identified to the Trustees, if you have an idea for a useful project please let your Parish Council know and ask that they forward the idea to the Trustees. Decisions on which projects to fund will be made by the Trustees, which includes representatives of the Parish Councils.

Pensford Publow and the Stantons Community Trust

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Pensford Publow and the Stantons Community Trust was initially set up in 2012. The primary objective of the trust is to fund raise to help local projects that benefit a large number of people in our communities.