Welcoming a New Trustee: Debbie Mawer
June 3, 2016
We are delighted to welcome Debbie Mawer as a new trustee to our board. Debbie currently holds the role of Director of People and Culture at Claims Consortium Group where she has worked for the previous 16 years overseeing and developing the accounts and HR departments. Last year her responsibilities focused on the learning and…
Busy Promoting & Raising Awareness
May 3, 2016
Over the last month we have been busy promoting ourselves and giving ourselves a presence at local events and groups. Adam gave a talk to the W.I in Fiddington, Rowbarton Methodist Church and Street Methodist Church, and we attended a 999 day in Glastonbury organised by the lovely Taunton and Street Police Cadets. We were…
Genius comedy collaboration raises over £22,000
May 3, 2016
On 28th April Wellsprings Leisure Centre Taunton hosted a fantastic Charity Comedy Benefit show starring Russell Howard for local cause Stand Against Violence, entertaining over 950 people and raising an amazing £22,587 in total. The sell-out event headlined by TV funny man Russell Howard was supported by Steve Williams, Becky Brunning, Steven Hall and…
On the Chrissy B Show
April 3, 2016
Adam Fouracre, CEO of Stand Against Violence spoke in an interview with TV show host Chrissy. The Chrissy B show is dedicated to mental health and wellbeing topics and is on Sky 203. Chrissy interviewed Adam about the loss of his brother Lloyd and the formation of the charity, our work and the impact we…
Thank you to Music On The Quantocks
March 14, 2016
Thank you to everyone who attended the recent Music On The Quantocks event for your generous donations. Each year over 60% of us will experience the effects of violence. Stand Against Violence works hard to reduce this by delivering educational workshops to the future generation. The effects are profound and young people report improvements in…
SAV Experiments with Virtual Reality
March 10, 2016
Currently we at SAV are experimenting with the new technology of Virtual Reality (VR). It wasn't long ago that we embarked on our 3D interactive film adventure. It was certainly challenging but well worth the wait. Working with Yeovil College, Somerset College, and one of our sponsors Invirt Reality we have decided to embrace…
Cadets lock up CEO
February 3, 2016
Taunton and Street police cadets locked up CEO Adam Fouracre and a fellow partner in crime from one of the charities sponsors IDN in January to raise sponsorship money for the charity. Some of the cadets were also locked up and raised sponsorship. The challenge involved being locked up for 6 hours. Adam said,…
Merry Christmas from Stand Against Violence
December 20, 2015
Stand Against Violence would like to take this opportunity to wish all of it’s supporters and the Taunton community a very merry Christmas. Adam Fouracre, founder of the charity said ‘we are overwhelmed by the support we have received during the course of our 10th anniversary year. It has been truly touching to see the…
Thank you Clarke Willmott
December 20, 2015
This year we have been fortunate to have the support of Clarke Willmott who have been hard at work fundraising for SAV and their other chosen charity Hope for Tomorrow. Last week they presented both charities with cheques. We each received a very generous £3,250! We are extremely grateful to everyone at Clarke Willmott in…
Tone Leisure donate member joining fees to Stand Against Violence
November 23, 2015
Throughout October, Tone Leisure donated all its joining fees to local charity, Stand Against Violence, which came to the sum of £1050! Each year Tone Leisure’s centres choose a local charity to support and in 2015 Stand Against Violence was voted charity of the year. Stand Against Violence Founder, Adam Fouracre said: ‘We are extremely…