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Sainsbury's Bradford on Avon has made Splitz their charity of the year for 2012-13. It's great news for us - both in terms of raising money, and of raising our profile. Our Young People's Service team celebrated the launch with Fran Lewis, our Executive Director, and staff from

We have published our latest environmental and equality reports. They can be read at the Other Reports page in the About Us section.

Wiltshire Council have given us £9,600 to build some great new features on our service user database. The Council's Mental Health Capital Grants are aimed at improving and promoting the mental health and wellbeing of Wiltshire residents.

Three local funders, the Walter Guinness Charitable Trust, St James Trust and Trowbridge Almshouses Trust have all recently given us grants.

We were absolutely delighted that, following a visit from no less than Chief Executive Steve Matthews of the Mentoring and Befriending Foundation, the Buddy Scheme has once again achieved Approved Provider Standard.

The Henry Smith Charity, whose founder was born almost 500 years ago in 1548, gives away some £25 million each year to initiatives and projects that address social inequality and economic disadvantage. We're extremely happy to have benefitted from their generosity.

The Wiltshire Police Authority have established a fund, raised from the disposal of unwanted property, to help local groups address crime and anti-social behaviour, as well as improve personal and community security. They've given us £3,000!

We've had several small but important grants in the last few weeks. First, the Domestic Abuse Reduction Group gave us £225 toward an outing and workshop in at-Bristol for children who've been affected by domestic violence;

Our phones and internet are now working. We have finally resolved our difficulties with BT and our broadband now works. It seems they gave us the wrong login details and had conflicting settings on their system. Pity it took nearly 2 weeks to resolve.

We are extremely sorry if you haven't been able to contact us over the past week. Since we moved to our new office on 30 Mar we have suffered from broadband and telephone issues, which BT have failed to resolve. We are working with BT to resolve these as quickly as possible.

Calls to our phone numbers 01225 777724 and 01225 775276 can now be received at our office. An engineer will be on site on 7 Apr to resolve the remaining line issue.

We cannot get Internet access despite our pleas to BT. They insist the line is working perfectly, which is clearly not