29/12/2025
Everything changes...as is this page and the primary focus of Weyforward. We've had a challenging and rewarding time since our inception as a page in 2013 when we tried very hard to persuade Weymouth & Portland Borough Council to build something beautiful, beneficial and sustainable on Weymouth's peninsula by introducing them to one of the countries very best architects and a community friendly sustainable developer with access to the funds to build it and provide the council with an income in perpetuity (hence the URL of this page). But hey, you can lead a horse to water...
We've launched The Ideas League for local schools which generated ideas from young people on how to improve the area. We've founded two Community Interest Companies. We've opened a dedicated sea swimming centre promoting mental and physical good health and sea swim safety. We've taught people how to use their smartphones to do creative and economically beneficial stuff for themselves and their lives. We've mentored six young people coming out of Covid lockdown which spawned The Circular Shop and got them all back into full time education or employment. The shop was a commercial space dedicated to goodness, sustainability, zero waste and useful local products and services at ridiculously affordable prices. The shop is now shut, unfortunately, but, everything changes, no?
The world is changing rapidly. Don't think those changes won't impact the local. They already are. Look around you.
So we are changing...we have some ideas...we will keep diving for foraged seaweed and do some other stuff not entirely unrelated to health and well-being. It might not even be in Weymouth...so this page might vanish, just as it appeared, in a flash of inspiration.
Thanks so much to everyone in Weymouth & Portland who have engaged with our 'crazy' schemes over the years. We have made a lot of friends and hope we have helped a few people and inspired a few more, especially our younger residents. Thanks for the memories.
Jason (and I'm sure Baz would agree, he normally does 🙂)
