Isolation is described as feeling alone and/or without friends or help. It is also described as having a lack of contact between people and groups of people, as well as failing to maintain communication between people.

Help the police fight crimes against vulnerable people in our community.

The police are doing a pilot survey in Frome.

This survey has been developed by Avon and Somerset Police to understand community relationships in the area of Frome.

http://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/Frome

Look out for your vulnerable neighbours!

All About Frome 11^th January 2022

Mental health

Emma Parker, Project Officer, Frome Town Council

talks about encouraging us to be active

especially by walking and cycling

frometowncouncil.gov.uk

Jen Pridgeon from letsconnectandfeelbetter

explains Emotional Freedom Techniques

and how they can help mental health

letsconnectandfeelbetter.co.uk

Emma King, campaign for St Andrews Ward, Wells

tells us why they’re trying to keep the local

residential mental health ward open

m.facebook.com/Emma-King

Lucia Chadwick from Focus Frome

talks about local help combatting

mental health problems

focusbath.com

Luke Thompson from Somerset Recovery College

explains how people with lived experience of

mental issues can work together with expert

professionals to help recovery

somersetrecoverycollege.co.uk

Frome FM wishes you a happy new year and hopes that our FM transmissions will begin again soon.

Meanwhile, you can hear all our programmes, live and recorded, online on this site and on Mixcloud.

Keep listening and please let us know what you think of our shows by emailing hello@nullfrome.fm

IN THIS EDITION

Frome Culture edition!

Extracts from Oakfield Choir and orchestra’s Hallelujah concert

Rehearsals at the Memorial Theatre for Dick Whittington panto which starts today

Part of an interview with Cooper Hall owner and singer Morag McLaren

The Mayor’s Message

Extracts from Working Memories – tales of work in Frome in days gone by.

If you would like your organisation featured on All About Frome, send an email to hello@nullfrome.fm

IN THIS EDITION

Our main feature is about refugees and their resettlement experience in the UK. Frome has seen several families from Syria pass through in the last few years and there are many more families out there from other countries looking for help to integrate into British society. We look at the plight of the refugee and the protocols for settling them into a world which is culturally very different from the one they fled.

In the studio, Dinah Bardgett, who worked on a scheme resettling vulnerable people in Somerset and Jason Hart from Bath University, who has spent 25 years on research with refugees in the Middle East and South Asia, and also helped support the Frome refugees.

Later, Julia meets Sue Merrills, Shop Manager at Oxfam, Frome and

Sue Willis from Purple Elephant on Christmas help for families.

If you or your organisation would like to be featured on All About Frome, email hello@nullfrome.fm and we’ll be in touch.

Annabelle McFadyen talks about COP26

and climate change activism

extinctionrebellionfrome@nullgmail.com

Cllr Richard Akroyd talks about a screening

of new George Monbiot Film Rivercide

at Frome Town Hall at 1800 hrs on 19^th November

How did our rivers end up like this and what can we do about it? – Frome Town Council

The screening is followed by a (virtual) appearance from Franny Armstrong, director of the film, and a panel discussion featuring guests from

Wessex Water, Bristol Avon Rivers Trust, the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group South West

and representatives from local farming and fishing communities.

then

Simon Keyes from Friends of the River Frome calls for volunteers

for a new river monitoring scheme called Riverwatch

Celebrating, protecting and improving the Somerset River Frome (friendsoftheriverfrome.co.uk)

Christopher Curtis shows us the new board game, Prometheus,

he invented while he was a maths teacher at Frome College

prometheusconcept.com

PROMETHEUS COMPETITION – organised by Christopher Curtis, inventor:

The names of entrants who can name the wife of Prometheus

will be entered into a draw to win a copy of the game.

To enter the Prometheus competition.    Contact Christopher at info.prometheusconcept@nullgmail.com with your answer and phone number or email address.