Weyforward

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 🙂)

08/11/2025

08/11/2025

Informercial from the market. The health benefits of brown algae...Sugar Kelp being a variety of it. 💚

27/10/2025

Another great night of spoken word coming up

27/10/2025

Fun video...do share and go along.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/17ShKgAnp1/

23/10/2025

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jonathon-porritt-love-anger-betrayal-speaker-tour-weymouth-tickets-1814254687609?aff=oddtdtcreator

Jonathon Porritt introduces his new book which asks: "What good are science and rational persuasion if no one is paying attention?"

19/10/2025

Get down there (next time!) with your broken stuff...

We don't just fix sewing machines - bring along your broken electricals, electronics, clocks, binoculars, jewellery, tools for sharpening, teddy bears - in fact anything you can carry in. There's loads of free parking, tea/coffee and cakes, and you can sit with a repair volunteer and maybe learn a bit about the thing you've brought in.

Southill Community Centre, Saturday 18 October, 10:00 am to 12:30 pm.

18/10/2025

Get your gut biome into better balance...pop down to to purchase some dried sugar kelp from The Circular Shop's hand foraged offerings!

08/10/2025

Pondertime! Go...!!!!

https://www.facebook.com/share/1HHwoKowXY/

30/09/2025

Great stuff...cheap! Get down to the shop this Saturday. Good for your wallet, your health, your conscience and...well...everything! How often can you honestly say that?

06/09/2025

Hat Festival day at Bridport Market...dug out my peasant's hat (all self-respecting peasants need one) and added a frond of Sugar Kelp (seaweed/brown algae). Come and say "Hi!" and wear your best titfer. 💚