Arc formerly Taunton Association for the Homeless

25/09/2026

🏆 50 MILES COMPLETED! 🏆

What an incredible achievement from our amazing clients today! 💪🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

Our Sports Day was a huge success, with our clients, staff & volunteers collectively completing an amazing 50 miles around Victoria Park! 🎉👏

A massive well done to everyone who took part, your all superstars.🌟

If you’d like to support our clients and help us continue making days like this possible, you can do so here 👉🏻 https://shorturl.at/MdzyE

Every donation makes a difference. Thank you for your support! 💙🙏

23/09/2026

🎉 50th Anniversary Sports Day! 🎉

This Friday we’re holding a Sports Day for our clients.🏅

A HUGE thank you to everyone who has donated items to support the day:

👏 Queen's College, Taunton
☕ Brazier Coffee Roasters
🏉 Wellington Vixens RFC Women’s Rugby
⚽ Football Fun Factory
🪵 DJP Woodcrafts

We’re also taking part in our 50 Mile Walking Challenge!🚶‍♀️If you’d like to support those taking part, you can donate via the link in the comments below.🙏👇

18/09/2026

On Friday 25th September, we are hosting a Sports Day at Arc for our clients. This will be a free event for them, so we are asking you to sponsor them!

Clients, staff and volunteers will come together to celebrate 50 Years and take on the 50 Mile challenge by walking circuits of Victoria Park.

Click the link in the comments to make a donation on our fundraising page to show your support.

16/09/2026

🙏 Can you help us? 🙏

We’re currently experiencing a huge demand for our services, and we’re in need of donations.

If you have any of the items listed below that you no longer need and could give a new home, we would be incredibly grateful. 🙏

You can also support us by purchasing items directly from our Amazon Wishlist here: https://shorturl.at/B3iGq

Please share this post, you never know who might have something sitting at home that could make a real difference those we support. 💙

14/09/2026

🌿✨ Celebrating Somerset’s volunteers ✨🌿

We were delighted that two of our wonderful volunteers, Vickie & Anna, were invited to attend a special Garden Party at Marston House near Frome.

The event, organised by Mr Mohammed Saddiq, HM's Lord Lieutenant of Somerset brought together volunteers and charities from across the county to celebrate the incredible contribution of Somerset’s “unsung heroes."💙

A huge thank you for the kind invitation and for recognising the time, dedication and enthusiasm that volunteers give to their communities. 🙏

It was wonderful to see Vickie & Anna representing our team of fantastic volunteers who make such a difference to the people we support.

09/09/2026

Last Wednesday, our allotment team, made up of both community and client volunteers, came together for a planning meeting at the café in Vivary Park. Lots of ideas were shared as they looked ahead to the next steps for the allotment. ☕️

Everyone is very proud of the pumpkins, which are ripening beautifully in time for Halloween, as well as our gorgeous, tall sunflowers. 🎃🌻

A big thank you to all our hardworking volunteers, we can’t wait to see what comes next! 🙏

08/09/2026

A huge thank you to Taunton Round Table 140 for choosing to support us at their Charity Speaker & Auction event this October.✨

These events are always hugely supported by the local business community, and we hear tables are selling fast!

If you’d like to come along and help raise some much needed funds, please contact Jon Rata using the details below. 👇

🥂 Just under two months to go until our annual charity speaker night dinner with guest speaker and charity auction!

We are privileged to welcome Sir Alastair Cook CBE as our guest speaker for the evening. Knighted in 2019 for his historic services to cricket, Sir Alastair is widely regarded as one of England’s greatest batters having accumulated an astonishing 12,472 runs across 161 Test matches. Our guest speaker is once again being sponsored by Milsted Langdon, and we are grateful to them for their continued support.

This year’s fundraising efforts will be dedicated to Arc formerly Taunton Association for the Homeless. For 50 years, they have brought hope and life-changing support to homeless individuals across Somerset. We will be running raffles and an auction during the event, so please fill your table with generous bidders ready to support this life-changing organisation.

Tickets are priced at £800 – £1,100 per table of 10 guests, depending on seating location. The dinner will be held at Taunton School on Friday 30 October 2026, starting at 7pm.

Book your place via Jon Rata (event organiser)
[email protected] or 07833 285741

05/09/2026

6.00am start today for some of the team who are marshalling at Wellington Independent Market Food Fair. 🍲

Huge thank you to The Crepe Cart who have very kindly been providing us with free food & drinks! 🙏

Come and say hello 👋 we will be here until 4.00pm.

04/09/2026

⭐️ 50 Stories for 50 Years Friday ⭐️

Every Friday, we’ll be sharing a story from our 50 Stories for 50 Years campaign.

This week, we’re sharing the story of how Arc began, told by Ken Martin, one of our original founders.

After talking to Ken, we realised that everyone involved genuinely cared about the community. They were volunteers who had seen a problem and felt that something had to be done. It was a real community effort, people coming together to make a difference. 💙

You can read Ken’s full story, and discover more stories from our 50 Stories for 50 Years campaign, here: https://www.arc50.co.uk/about/50-stories-for-50-years/

01/09/2026

📢 Volunteers Needed This Saturday! 🙌

We’re looking for volunteers to help with marshalling at the Wellington Food Festival this Saturday. 🍔🎉

If you can spare some time and would like to get involved, we’d really appreciate your help!

Interested? Please send us a message or email us at [email protected] for more details.

Thank you! 🙏❤️