About us
Edventure Frome is a non-profit that supports community-led initiatives and initiates social enterprising projects to build a stronger, resilient Frome.
Who we are
Edventure Frome CIC is a community incubator that develops social enterprises, leads community initiatives, and supports action-led groups to drive positive change.
We help individuals and groups turn energy into action and ideas into enterprises.
We do this by:
- Building local initiatives with social or environmental impact, through hands-on course programmes that help people turn ideas into reality. See our current courses
- Creating networks for community-led action, and offering free training, coaching and resources to support people to make things happen. Find out more about this
- Delivering Green and Healthy Frome, a unique, lottery-funded partnership between Edventure, Frome Town Council and Frome Medical Practice. The multimillion pound initiative makes it easier to live greener, healthier lives in Frome through projects linking climate and health. Discover all the ways you can involved
Why we exist
Edventure is driven by a vision: for rural market towns to be vibrant, inclusive and resilient places where communities have the agency, connections, and skills to create a sustainable and joyful future for themselves.
To do this, our mission is to support rural market towns to thrive in an uncertain future by becoming more self-reliant and creative in response to challenges; turning energy into action, and ideas into enterprises.
We bring together people and community to build solutions and create a positive future for people, planet, and place.
Our approach
Edventure brings together three key pillars to drive change: community, enterprise, and education. By doing so, we can create practical solutions to both global challenges & local issues on the grassroutes level. See our impact here.
Through our work, people gain skills, confidence, and livelihoods while generating grassroots responses to both local and global challenges. Edventure shows how market towns can thrive by becoming more self-reliant, resilient and creative, inviting people to play an active role in developing solutions.
People
Edventure is run by people in our local community. We have a permanent staff team, a voluntary board of directors who guide the development of the organisation, and a team of volunteers who contribute to our various projects. We also work with a large number of freelancers, partners and informal supporters who are essential to our work.
Pictured: the staff team in June 2025
History
Edventure Frome CIC was set up in 2012 by Johannes Moeller & Temujen Gunawardena, together with a founding team of young adults. From 2013 it was governed by a board of voluntary, non-executive directors from the local community and a Managing Director, Johannes Moeller, until 2022, when Doug Steward became Edventure’s CEO.
Read the origin story in the book Hosting Transformation (2013): https://issuu.com/knowmads/docs/hosting_transformation/82
