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By Florence Scialom on 14th February 2017

Announcing Latest Totnes Wellbeing Fund Recipients

The Totnes Wellbeing Fund aims to support individuals and community groups in and around Totnes (Devon, UK), offering small seed grants to help turn great ideas to boost wellbeing into reality. NOW is delighted to announce two of the latest

Our community - Wellbeing Together
By Kavi Jarrott on 8th February 2017

Human Kind Stories: Everyday People Working Towards a Better World

I, like many others, grew up with the belief that, “I can’t do that; I’m not good enough”. Over the years I’ve met so many amazing entrepreneurs and activists in the social change space who have experienced these same doubts,

Your wellbeing - Nature
By Alan Heeks on 29th January 2017

Grow Your Own Happiness: The Gardener’s Way

Many of us draw on nature to nourish our wellbeing. This blog will introduce you to the Gardener’s Way: a set of approaches that show the parallels between cultivating your own wellbeing, and tending an organic garden. I’ve evolved the

Our community - Wellbeing Together
By Florence Scialom on 26th January 2017

Can Happiness Change the World? Three Lessons from Bhutan

“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing” – Arundhati Roy. Those powerful words from author Arundhati Roy have often inspired me, because they remind me that many people

Our community - Projects
By Kate Reed on 3rd January 2017

Creating a New ‘Library of Things’: the Share Shed takes shape

Inspired by the Frome Share Shop, last year we seeded the idea of having a version here in Totnes: the Share Shed. Things soon began to take shape when Totnes Town Council granted us a space to pilot the Share Shed

Your wellbeing - Health
By Global Action Plan on 22nd December 2016

From Overwhelm to Wellbeing – Four Alternatives to Christmas Stress

In this blog, Rachel Marsh from Global Action Plan tells us how she’s ditched the Christmas stress of buy, buy, buy in favour of a more mindful approach to the holiday season, preserving not only sanity but also the planet!

Our community - Projects
By Della Duncan on 15th December 2016

Frome’s Economy: From Blind Growth to Wellbeing

The Upstream team spent the summer in the feisty Somerset town of Frome (population approx. 25,000) where they looked at the barriers, possibilities and potential for moving the town’s economy from one that had been focused on blind growth to

Your wellbeing - Health
By Pauline Virgo on 17th November 2016

Functional Fitness MOTs – Wellbeing Funding in Action

The Totnes Wellbeing Fund offers grants up to £500 to help new initiatives that could really enhance personal, community and environmental wellbeing locally. Earlier this year, Zest Physiotherapy secured a grant to run a pilot project of ‘Functional Fitness MOT

Your wellbeing - Creativity
By Mim Stenning on 17th November 2016

Fireside – Wellbeing Funding in Action

The Totnes Wellbeing Fund offers grants up to £500 to help new initiatives that could really enhance personal, community and environmental wellbeing locally. This summer, Mim Stenning and Julia Brownlow were awarded a grant to set up a community Open-no-Mic

Your wellbeing - Nature
By Kevin Marshall on 28th September 2016

Grow. Cook. Make. Mend: Changing Lives at Trill Farm

An inspiring project in Axminster, Devon is developing self-belief, practical skills and wellbeing amongst a cohort of volunteers in recovery from substance misuse.  The Old Dairy Kitchen is a wonderful, educational kitchen and community dining space based on Trill Farm

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