Poole Communities Trust is supporting Mental Health Awareness Week. Mental Health Awareness Week is an annual event when there is an opportunity for the whole of the UK to focus on achieving good mental health. The Mental Health Foundation started the event 21 years...
General News Articles
Ann, our Community Worker in Turlin Moor
It is with great sadness that the Chair of Poole Communities Trust - Chris Beale announced the death of Ann Khambatta, the Community Worker at Turlin Moor. "Ann achieved a lot in her life for all sorts of people. Ann fostered teenagers and provided a lot of support...
Poole Communities Trust Annual General Meeting
The Chair of Poole Communities Trust Chris Beale invites you to attend the virtual AGM on Thursday 17 December at 4pm via zoom. Please join us to hear more about our activities during the last year and our plans for the coming year. Although its been a...
National Lottery funding enables Branksome Community Centre to re-open and support to Turlin Moor to increase
Huge thanks to the National Lottery for providing us with a grant to enable us to re- open the Branksome Community Centre and increase the hours of support to the residents of Turlin Moor. The Branksome Community Centre will re open on Monday 27th July, with the...
Funding Target Nearly Reached for the Bourne Community Hub
We are delighted that both the Talbot Village Trust and BCP Council have made additional grants for our project to build a new Community Hub in Bourne. Huge thanks to the Talbot Village Trust for an additional £30,000 bringing their total contribution to £230,000 and...
53 shoppers visit the Moor Community Food Store
Thank you to everyone who came along to the Food Store this week We are trying to have different types of food available – this week we had support from Branksome Fridge who donated lots of bread. Our thanks to all our volunteers. See you next Tuesday 16 June 1-3pm...
Moor Community Food
Moor Community Food is a community partnership of local organisations and people coming together to provide surplus food to residents of Turlin Moor at a reasonable price & to help reduce food waste. It will run weekly on Tuesdays 1-3pm and Wednesdays 5-7pm at St...
National Volunteer Week
Its National Volunteers week! Research by Power to Change, a national charity supporting community businesses found volunteers contribute over 18 million hours of time. Volunteering is a significant boost for well being and people volunteering in communities reported...
Turlin Moor – Community Store
Our Community Worker, Ann is working with Turlin Moor residents and partners to develop a Community Store for Turlin Moor and Hamworthy residents, who are finding it increasingly difficult to find nutritious food at a reasonable price, due to the social and economic...
New Play Park for Bourne
The first step in building a new Community Hub for Bourne has been the construction of a new play park on the green opposite. The old play park will be removed and free up space on the site for the Hub. Construction concluded as the lockdown for Covid 19 started so we...
