Budleigh Information Centre
People: Improving people’s mental wellbeing
We would like to organise another community street party in 2025, which unites the town and enables people to make new friends.
About this cause
We offer a useful information service for visitors and locals on what is going on in the Budleigh Salterton area and to promote sustainable tourism that benefits the town trades and local economy. We offer a ticket sale facility for local events and festivals, which is helpful to those who don't have access to online sales. This year we organised a community street party to celebrate the Coronation, which united over 660 people in the High Street. We also act as a community hub, offering help to fill out forms, printing information and sometimes dealing with other issues that arise when asked, such as translating documents. This utilises the broad range of experience of our volunteers. We are working with other organisations in order to overcome issues such as isolation.
How this cause brings people in the community together
Our Volunteer Team would like to host another community street party on Budleigh High Street in 2025, uniting the town and encouraging new friendships. This event gives a huge boost to the town’s wellbeing, demonstrated by the very positive feedback. At our last event we had tables allocated for individuals to join and many of those people who came alone made new friends. At that event people of all ages and backgrounds united. We encouraged participants to purchase party supplies locally and local businesses contributed vouchers to the raffle, stimulating extra business and interest for traders. We also worked with other community groups. We wish to respond to requests from the community to host this event.