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12/12/2023

SEE COMMENTS FOR UPDATE…Do you know that 988 is a new phone number that recently went live in the UK to help people get help in a mental health crisis. This line is dedicated for anyone in need of mental health assistance of any kind. Its 988.

08/12/2023

Lynne's guest on tonights's show is Sophie from Rumwell Farm Shop, which has grown from humble beginnings to a Somerset landmark and destination, especially at Christmas time. Join Lynne and Sophie as they chat about how the business has grown and what is on offer at Rumwell in the run up to Christmas; and of course Sophie will share her Inheritance Dishes too. Plus, lots of great music, The Blender Music, Guess the Grub and a little Food for Thought from Elle at Harmony Within 🫶🍽

🎧Listen at 107.8FM, or online at www.tonefm.co.uk or via the Tone FM App; on your phone or your smart speaker, Just ask Alexa or Google for Tone FM!

🎧TWFDS is also available on listen again at www.tonefm.co.uk or search Tone FM on your fave media player e.g. Spotify

23/11/2023

Please support this if you can!!❤️

Would you like to help the homeless this Christmas? The majority of our clients at Open Door are sleeping on the streets, so every year we create a rucksack full of wrapped up goodies for them to enjoy over the Christmas period.
Take a look at our poster below and possibly create a donation box at your work, school, hobby or community centre? We’d love to add some extra Christmas cheer to our clients during December. 🎁
Thank you so much! 🎄

19/11/2023

Fantastic Quiz Night ahead! Join us on Saturday 9th December at Taunton Brewhouse for what is going to be an exciting evening. Doors open at 6pm and quiz will start at 7pm. Tickets are £5 per person with a max of 4 people per team.
All money raised will go to the rehoming and care of the animals at the centre. ❤
Tickets must be purchased in advance by calling 07809578555.

01/10/2023

Somerset FA is delighted to announce the launch of the Individual Access Fund. With this fund, we would like to help to remove barriers to playing football. We recognise that finance is one of those, a situation made worse by the current financial position. Our fund is open to individuals who are at risk of not being able to participate in football as a result of significant financial hardship. If you as an individual (or the individual you care for) are unable to afford the essential costs of playing football, this fund is here to help you play the game.

What can we fund?

Strand A: Equipment for you or the individual you care for (e.g., boots, shin pads, goalie gloves, specialised glasses, any other individual specialised equipment)

Strand B: Running costs for you or the individual you care for (e.g. training and match fees, transport)

The fund is a maximum of £100 per individual and for more information please contact [email protected] OR to apply for the fund, please do so via this application form: https://forms.gle/PZptx4typFRVqv397

22/09/2023

It was a joy to chat to Jack Linnell of St Giles Animal Rescue St Giles Animal Centre; what a fabulous human being! His committment to helping people have a long lasting and happy relationship with their pet is evident. We talk about the wide range of reasons - some good, some less so - that pets get left behind by owners and need rescue, and
of course, Jack is full of advice and tips for keeping your animal safe and healthy. 🐶🐱😍

🎧Listen now at https://theslicesomerset.buzzsprout.com or find The Slice Somerset on your fave media player.

21/09/2023

Ok, so it's not a cake, but it is a very delicious and super sweet treat that I've not had in years! But is it smaller than it used to be?🤔 And walnuts are healthy, right? 😚 Listen to this episode to hear Jack Linnell of St Giles Animal Centre St Giles Animal Rescue talk about how his family founded the Somerset animal charity and what it is like working everyday with pets who need love and care as they seek a new home. Jack is full of good advice for pet owners too. 🐱🐶

🎧Listen at https://theslicesomerset.buzzsprout.com or find The Slice Somerset on your fave media player.

20/09/2023

Talking to Jace Linnell of St Giles Animal Centre St Giles Animal Rescue made me realise how circumstances in wider society impact on their work. COVID, celebrity lifestyles and the cost of living crisis have all affected the need for animal rescue, pet food banks and good honest advice for current and prospective pet owners. We also eat a few sweet things along the way of course... 🍰🧁

🎧Listen this fascinating episode at https://theslicesomerset.buzzsprout.com or find it on your fave media player.

08/09/2023

Compassion and kindness are traits my guest this week has by the bucketload. Emma Busby is a manager at Taunton Open Door homeless centre and so our chat this week is about the homeless community in Emma's home town of Taunton in Somerset. What causes young men, in particular to become homeless? And why is simply providing a roof over someones head not enough to stop them returning to the streets?

🎧Listen now at https://theslicesomerset.buzzsprout.com or find The Slice Somerset on your fave media player.

07/09/2023

Enjoying a slice of something nice whilst we chat is part of my podcast ethos and this week I enjoyed a bakewell slice from Taunton Country Market whilst my guest Emma Busby of Taunton Open Door was hugely impressed by a lemon drizzle baked by students at Bridgwater & Taunton College where one of the volunteer chefs in the homeless centre kitchen teaches youngster's to cook and bake. 🍰🧁

🎧Listen at https://theslicesomerset.buzzsprout.com or find The Slice Somerset on your fave media player.

06/09/2023

For my guest Emma Busby of Taunton Open Door, making a difference to people's lives is her motivation. Listen to this week's episode to find out more about the work Emma and her team do to help the town's homeless community to find a new direction in their lives.

Listen at https://theslicesomerset.buzzsprout.com or find The Slice Somerset on your fave media player.

05/09/2023

My guest is Emma Busby of Taunton Open Door who support the town's homeless community back into permanent housing by providing a safe space for food, showers and laundry as well as access to other agencies that can help issues such as addiction and abuse that often lead to homelessness and can make the transition to a new home challenging for some of the centre's clients. 🏠

🎧Listen at https://theslicesomerset.buzzsprout.com or find The Slice Somerset on your fave media player.

05/09/2023

I’m here again! The What’s for The What's for Dinner Show on Tone FM 6-7pm. Let me know what you’re having for tea!!!

01/09/2023

We are looking for a Centre Support Worker to help at Open Door.
We’re a support centre for the homeless based in the centre of Taunton.
Hours are 830/9am - 2/230pm Monday to Friday. No bank holidays.
You will be managing volunteers, rotas and food hygiene. Must be able to deal with the homeless community, challenging situations, housekeeping, have great admin skills and be a general all rounder.
Please email [email protected] for an application pack

18/08/2023

I had a fascinating and hilarious chat with Kate Olver Taunton Village Midwife for this weeks The Slice. Passionate about helping women have the pregnancy experience they want, Kate works for both the NHS and operates as a 'village midwife' providing pre and ante natel classes to women in and around Taunton. She loves to bake and eat cake too, so we hit it off straight away...although you will have to listen to find out what slice of something nice Kate intended to bring to the conversation! 👶🍰

Listen now at https://theslicesomerset.buzzsprout.com or find The Slice: Somerset on your fave media player 🎧🎤

17/08/2023

I had twins so you would expect them to be smaller than the average baby... they weighed in at birth around 6lb each! I was barely 3lb when I was delivered back in the mid-1960s, very small and in neo-natel for a while, But we all grew and now look quite normal (honest!). Baby weight is a big concern for many, but as my guest this week, Kate Olver Taunton Village Midwife explains, it's pretty hard to estimate in advance! We chat pregnancy, birth, early days as a mother and, of course, cake. We have a good old laugh too! 👶🍰🎤🤣

Listen now at https://theslicesomerset.buzzsprout.com or find The Slice Somerset on your fave media player. 🎧

16/08/2023

I kept things nice and simple choosing a beautifully baked slice of shortbread from Taunton Countymarket. It was delicious. Listen to this week's episode to find out what h happened to my guest Kate Olver Taunton Village Midwife slice of something nice... as with pregnancy, sometimes cake-making just dosn't go to plan! 🍰👶🤣🎤

Listen now at https://theslicesomerset.buzzsprout.com or find The Slice Somerset on your fave media player. 🎧

15/08/2023

I had a fascinating and hilarious chat with Kate Olver Taunton Village Midwife for this weeks The Slice. Passionate about helping women have the pregnancy experience they want, Kate works for both the NHS and operates as a 'village midwife' providing pre and ante natel classes to women in and around Taunton. She loves to bake and eat cake too, so we hit it off straight away...although you will have to listen to find out what slice of something nice Kate intended to bring to the conversation! 👶🍰
Listen now at https://theslicesomerset.buzzsprout.com or find The Slice: Somerset on your fave media player 🎧🎤

15/08/2023

Knitted hats on new born babies... so cute but do you know why they are used? My twins had one each, but I never really thought about why... Listen to my conversation with the amazing Kate Olver Village Midwife to get the inside track on life as a midwife both for the NHS and as an indpendent provider of pre and post natel advice and classes. Oh yes, and Kate likes to bake too. Fabulous! 🍰👶🤣🎤

Listen now at https://theslicesomerset.buzzsprout.com or find The Slice Somerset on your fave media player. 🎧

14/08/2023

Olver... an interesting name for a midwife right?! 🤣🤣 Kate sees the funny side of course and uses the obvious pun to both educate and ensure her colleagues and clients don't mis-pronouce her surname! Listen as I chat pregnancy and cake with Kate Olver, Taunton Village Midwife. 🎤🍰👶

Listen now at https://theslicesomeset.buzzprout.com or find The Slice Somerset on your fave media player.

28/07/2023

Talking to Coleen and Di from Somerset Council's 'stepping stone' fostering service was hugely inspiring. The work these two ladies do is vital for young people who are leaving care services and foster homes at 18 years old, but still need a caring family to help them navigate the challenges of early adulthood. Of course, cake sustains Coleen and Di as they work to find foster families and support both them and the young person to ensure the experience is a genuine 'steppping stone' to the next phase of life. 🍰

🎧 Listen as we chat about the valuable work they do and, of course, share a slice of cake. Visit https://theslicesomerset.buzzsprout.com or find The Slice Somerset on your fave podcast player.

27/07/2023

Transitioning to independent adulthood is a challenge for the majority of teenagers in one way or another. But if you haven't had a loving and supportive family from the get go, it can be harder to navigate that journey. Coleen and Di work with young people leaving the care system at 18 but who still need the advice and support of a family to help them make their way. They support the families who act as that 'stepping stone' to adulthood and have witnessed both the challenges and the rewards they experience.

Listen as we chat about the work they do over a French Fancy and homemade sultant tray bake; find The Slice on or your fave podcast player or click https://theslicesomerset.buzzsprout.com to listen now. 🎧🍰😁

26/07/2023

I've not had these for ages! They are super pretty and super sweet but I still manage to eat half a box (=4) before, during and after my interview with Coleen and Di from 'Stepping Stones' service.

These ladies are dedicated to finding foster homes for young adults 18+ who need a caring family to help them make those first steps towards a safe and secure independent life.

Listen now at https://theslicesomerset.buzzsprout.com or find The Slice Somerset on your fave podcast player e.g. Spotify 🎧😁

25/07/2023

My guests this episode are Coleen and
Di from fostering service, 'Stepping Stones'. They work as a team, supported by Coleen's trusty Sultana tray bake, to find placements for care leavers turning 18 years old.

Listen and find out about their work and why is it so important to ensure young people from less than perfect backgrounds can find their feet in the adult world.

Click https://theslicesomerset.buzzsprout.com or find The Slice Somerset on your fave podcast player.

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Chatting to the lovely Jack Linnell, Centre Director of @stgilesanimalcentre and @stgilesanimalrescue. Listen now at https://theslicesomerset.buzzsprout.com or search your fave media player for The Slice Somerset.

Jack Linnell is my guest and he is full of advice on how to keep your pet healthly and happy! Listen now to find out about his role as Centre Director at St Giles Animal Centre St Giles Animal Rescue and his passion for finding new homes for pets that get left by their owners.

My guest is Emma Busby of Taunton Open Door who support the town's homeless community back into permanent housing by providing a safe space for food, showers and laundry as well as access to other agencies that can help issues such as addiction and abuse that often lead to homelessness and can make the transition to a new home challenging for some of the centre's clients. 🏠 🎧Listen at https://theslicesomerset.buzzsprout.com or find The Slice Somerset on your fave media player.

Find the full episode of thiw week's The Slice Somerset at https://theslicesomerset.buzzsprout.com or search on your fave media player. My guest is the wonderful Emma Busby from Taunton Open Door, a homeless centre in Taunton. Compassion, kindness and understanding of those less fortunate that many is guaranteed.

Knitted hats on new born babies... so cute but do you know why they are used? My twins had one each, but I never really thought about why... Listen to my conversation with the amazing Kate Olver @Taunton Village Midwife to get the inside track on life as a midwife both for the NHS and as an indpendent provider of pre and post natel advice and classes. Oh yes, and Kate likes to bake too. Fabulous! 🍰👶🤣🎤 Listen now at https://theslicesomerset.buzzsprout.com or find The Slice Somerset on your fave media player. 🎧

Olver... an interesting name for a midwife right?! 🤣🤣 Kate sees the funny side of course and uses the obvious pun to both educate and ensure her colleagues and clients don't mis-pronouce her surname! Listen as I chat pregnancy and cake with Kate Olver, Taunton Village Midwife. 🎤🍰👶 Listen now at https://theslicesomeset.buzzprout.com or find The Slice Somerset on your fave media player.

My guests this episode are Coleen and Di from @somersetcouncil fostering service, 'Stepping Stones'. They work as a team, supported by Coleen's trusty Sultana tray bake, to find placements for care leavers turning 18 years old. Listen and find out about their work and why is it so important to ensure young people from less than perfect backgrounds can find their feet in the adult world. Click https://theslicesomerset.buzzsprout.com or find The Slice Somerset on your fave podcast player.

Navigating early adulthood is tricky for all young people, but if you are coming out of the care system aged 18, it can be overwhelming. That is where Di and Coleen of the Somerset Council Stepping Stones service step in. They find and support families willing to foster a young adult and help them gain the skills needed to move to being fully independent. These women deserve your ears! It's important we all understand the challenges faced by the young people in our county, and this pair might even inspire you to become a foster carer yourself. Coleen would probably make you her cake if you did! 🤣🤣 🍰 🎧 Listen as we chat about the valuable work they do and, of course, share a slice of cake. Visit https://theslicesomerset.buzzsprout.com or find The Slice Somerset on your fave podcast player.

Mindfulness is applauded and criticised in equal measure nowadays, but my guest Teresa Wort - Mindfulness and Compassion Teacher explains that it is more than just sitting outside and relaxing (although it is that too...). She became interested, and then trained as a mindfulness teacher, after a series of unfortunate accidents...listen to hear her story and how she has now grown a following on local radio station Apple FM with her Monday evening show. 🎧Find The Slice Somerset on @spotify or another podcast player or click https://theslicesomerset.buzzsprout.com to listen now.😁

Fascinating chat with Graham Harvey; Board member for Somerset Food Trail, journalist, author of several books and longstanding writer and agricultural story editor for BBC Radio 4 4 The Archers. He was always going to be an interesting guest with that kind of CV! And he bakes his own cake! 🍰 🎧Listen now at https://theslicesomerset.buzzsprout.com or find it on @spotify or another player. You won't regret it.😁

Guest Graham Harvey is passionate about organic farming...so much so that he refuses cake unless it is made with organic ingredients. That shows a deep committment to a way of farming and producing food that he believes is fundemental to improving health and diverting the impacts of climate change. His involvement with Somerset Food Trail festival is based on a wish to bring people and the good quality organic food available in the county together. Oh yes, and Graham was also script writer and Agricultural Story Editor for BBC Radio 4 The Archers for decades! So we chat Elizabeth and Nigel Pargetter, Lynda Snell and Rob Titchener too! What's not to like? 😀 🎧Listen at https://theslicesomerset.buzzsprout.com or find it on Spotify

The quality of our food and the farming methods used to produce it have been on my guest's radar for many years. Graham Harvey has written for The Guardian and other newspapers, magazine and journals and spent 34 years writing scripts for BBC Radio 4 The Archers and, as their Agricultural Story Editor, ensured farming was at the forefront of the tales that unfolded in this long-running rural drama. He is now involved with Somerset Food Trail whose festival begins on 14th July as a way to bring Somerset people in closer contact with those that are pioneering organice and regenerative farming and food production methods across the county. Find The Slice Somerset podcast on @spotify or another media player or click https://theslicesomerset.buzzsprout.com 🎧

Hilarious chat with Emma Britton for the podcast this week. Love her, such a force of nature! We talk cakes of course, plus her life in radio and her new venture as a UK celebrant. Don't miss it. It's on all the main players, or find it in my bio or click https://theslicesomerset.buzzsprout.com #podcast #newpodcast #independentpodcast #local #localnews #localbusiness #localpeople #theslice #theslicesomerset #lovecake #somerset #somersetlife #somersetbusiness #somersetcounty #visitsomerset #whatsonsomerset #celebrant #celebrantlife #localradio #bridgwater #carnival #bridgwatercarnival #somersetcarnival

The Bridgwater Manchip....it's a joke right? Lifelong Bridgy girl, BBC local radio presenter (was) and Celebrant, Emma Britton is my guest and honestly, I thought she was having me on... But this lady knows cake. Trust me! Oh, and we talk about her career in radio and what being a celebrant actually involves! 🎤🎧🍰🥳 Listen on Spotify or your fave media player or visit https://theslicesomerset.buzzsprout.com

Hilarious chat with Emma Britton! Manchips! There is always something new to learn in this life. Listen on @spotify or another player or click the link in bio! #podcast #newpodcast #independentpodcast #local #localnews #localbusiness #localpeople #theslice #theslicesomerset #lovecake #somerset #somersetlife #somersetbusiness #somersetcounty #visitsomerset #whatsonsomerset #celebrant #celebrantlife #localradio #bridgwater #carnival #bridgwatercarnival #somersetcarnival

Somerset Bakehouse came up trumps again with this fab date and walnut loaf... just look at those chunks of yummy-ness on the top! My guest Sophie Luff, batswomen for Western Storm and Somerset County Cricket Club , 'forgot' to bring a cake (I forgave her on the basis that she is probably in training 🏏🏏) but we talked cakes quite a lot...and Sophie loves to bake so that put her back in my good books. 🍰👨‍🍳😍 Listen as we talk cricket and cake; find The Slice Somerset on Spotify or your fave media player or visit https://theslicesomerset.buzzsprout.com

My guest this episode is Sophie Luff, female cricket playing for Somerset County Cricket Club and captain for Western Storm . We talk about her journey to success in the competitive world of cricket and how she spends her time away from the bat and the field. Can you guess her fave hobby? 🍰😁 🎧Listen on Spotify or another player or visit https://theslicesomerset.buzzsprout.com

Sharing my cake with Sophie Luff, cricketer with Western Storm and Somerset County Cricket Club and chatting about women's cricket, biking in the Somerset countryside and Sophie's journey to achieving her sporting success. Listen on your fave player now.🎧🍰

Who knew?! Somerset-based bats woman Sophie Luff is a baking fan! A lady after my own heart, although she forgot to actually bring a cake to the interview 🤣🤣🤣 I let her off though...and we did have a good cake chat whilst she watched me eat 🍰. We talk about cricket too of course. 🏏 🎧Listen on Spotify or another player or visit https://theslicesomerset.buzzsprout.com

Since this week's episode with Geoffrey Bailey, one of Taunton, Somerset's most recent centenarians was a cake-free zone {I literally forgot about the cake I was so busy listening to Geoffrey!], I thought I'd re-share this ace clip from Iamrachelshop who was my guest a few weeks ago instead! Listen to my chat with Geoffrey (or my chat with jeweller Rachel Smith of IamrachelshopIamrachelshop) at https://theslicesomerset.buzzsprout.com or find it on Spotify or another media player.