A year ago in May, we relaunched the Palmers Brewery Community Fund, partnering with Crowdfunder to support local not-for-profit community organisations.
Our Community Fund works to support the local community and charitable organisations that help keep West Dorset one of the best places to live, visit and explore. Not-for-profit organisations local to Palmers can apply via Crowdfunder for up to £2,000 to support their projects.
The team at Bridport Round Table have been running campaigns over the last four years, to help the local community with Covid and the cost of living crisis.
They raised over £8,000, allowing them to help local families at Christmas time, 2024, delivering over 170 Christmas hampers in the Bridport and Beaminster areas.
Learn more on their Crowdfunder page
The bells themselves were recast and retuned just after World War I, but the rest of the equipment has been in need of some TLC. The team called on the support of local people, to allow them to continue ringing the bells for services, national events as well as local weddings and similar.
Learn more here
Being home to countless youth and community groups around the area, the centre at Bridport was a hub for so many in the local community. With funding cuts and risings costs, they started their Crowdfunder and the generosity of our Dorset town came together in a huge way.
Learn more about the Crowdfunder initiative here
Keen to build an indoor, state of the art football facility for local community use, friends Ian, Tom and Jamie set up their Crowdfunder to do just that. They received an amazing response and have managed to provide a space that is well used by local people of all ages.
Read more about their journey here
Located over the river at Palmers Brewery, the ‘stalking dog’ was modelled by Greta Berlin as part of the Bridport Sculpture Trail. Queenie was voted the most popular sculpture, the money raised will pay for her to be recast and become a permanent exhibit on Palmers Weir.
Hear more about Queenie’s story here
Colfox students pitched their ideas to teachers in a bid to improve the school. More outdoor seating came out as a priority for the students, who needed £5000 to provide the proposed seating.
Their Crowdfunder was successful, raising over £5000 and with plenty of nice new benches outside in time for the warmer weather.
More details can be found at their Crowdfunder page
Martinstown Cricket Club intended to improve their club’s visitor experience for both cricket players and others passing the club. They envisaged the best way to do this was add a patio where customers could enjoy the outdoor space without being on the pitch, as well as match supporters and the youth teams that make extensive use of the ground.
Their Crowdfunder has been very successful so far and they hope to lay the patio in the new year.
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