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Lenny’s cafe is back on alternate Fridays in Shipham Village Hall starting on 27th September, serving light lunches and delicious home-made cakes from 11:00am to 2:30pm. A warm friendly place where you can come to meet and make new friends.
Everyone welcome!
Lenny’s Cafe in Shipham.
The community cafe in Shipham Village Hall on alternate Fridays beginning 27th September, from 11:00am to 2:30pm. Serving light lunches and delicious home-made cakes. It’s a warm and friendly place where you can come to meet and make new friends. Everyone is very welcome.
Marie Curie are looking for volunteers across the Mendip area to help raise funds for our hospice at home nursing service in Somerset. The role involves placing Marie Curie tins and daffodil boxes and banking income. It is a flexible role, in which you can give as much or little time as you like. It is a great way to get out and active in your local community, while raising money to support people with terminal illness in your area.
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Prickles Hedgehog Rescue in Cheddar needs volunteers to help with the morning clean out or afternoon feed.
If you have some spare time and would like to help please call 07806 744772 for details.
The Isle of Wedmore Society September meeting will take place on Thursday 26th September at 7:30pm in the Wedmore Masonic Hall. Our Wedmore Parish Clerk, Lindsey Baker and Matthew Martin, a councillor from Somerset County Council, will attend. They will tell us, given the recent changes in local Government structure, how things are managed now.
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Celebrate the voice YOU have and join us for an afternoon of song. Open to those living with Dementia, Parkinson’s, other brain atrophy or those feeling isolated – along with your partner/carer – you are ALL VERY WELCOME. Enjoy a drink, a biscuit and chat with others before singing starts. Meet alternate Tuesdays, Axbridge Town Hall. Times 2:15pm – 3:45pm. £2 donation welcomed.
Next sessions: September 24th; October 8th, 22nd; November 5th, 19th; Dec 3rd, 17th.
“Finishing Well”; addressing questions around the end of life & funerals
Knowing what happens when we die & how to organise a funeral can greatly relieve anxiety. Churches Together in the Cheddar Valley invite you to this free event. We’ll hear from a GP, hospice nurse, funeral director & local church ministers; with sessions on what a good death looks like, what has to be done after a death, how to arrange a funeral and where we go when we die. Opportunity to ask questions & share experiences.
21st September, 9:15am – 12:30pm, Cheddar Village Hall. Coffee & cake from 9:15am.
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Wedmore Antiques and Collectables goes from strength to strength.
The Next Fairs are Saturday 21st September, 16th November, and 28th December with no fair in October. All 9:00am – 4:00pm.
Why not join us one Saturday?
SAVE THE CHILDREN lunches begin again and will be served in Shipham village hall at 12:30pm on Friday 20th September, 4th and 18th October. All are welcome to come and join us for bread and cheese, soup, chutney, homemade biscuits, tea/coffee for £5.50pp. Pay at the door. All profits go to SAVE THE CHILDREN charity.
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Winscombe District U3A Monday 16th September, 2:30pm at Winscombe Community Centre, BS25 1HP. Illustrated Talk on “Hannah More, writer and
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