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Charity ONLINE St Margaret’s Hospice Care Weekly Prize Draw The draw takes place every Friday (advance notice given if the draw day changes) and each chance costs just £1. All of the profits raised from the hospice draw provide vital funding to help St Margaret’s support patients and families facing the challenge of a life-limiting illness. For further information, please visit www. st-margarets-hospice.org.uk/ weekly-prize-draw. LANGPORT Volunteers required! Langport Red Cross Shop urgently needs new volunteers to help out. It need not be a huge commitment – most volunteer between once a month and twice a week – and working hours are very flexible. Open every morning (except Sunday) from 10.00am to 12.00 noon. Do pop in one morning and give it the once-over. For more information, contact Chris Cox, group leader, on 01458 273085, 07963 689699 or cox. cj@btinternet.com. DORSET Inspire a child to read! Local charity Dorset Reading Partners is recruiting volunteers to deliver vital literacy support to children in primary schools across the area. The charity has been supplying primary schools with trained literacy volunteers for fifteen years. Volunteers will be provided with full training, a DBS check, resources and ongoing
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support from the charity’s friendly team. If interested and can spare two hours a week over a school year, contact Juliet on 01305 458515 or visit dorsetreadingpartners.org.uk. SHERBORNE Volunteer drivers required! Sherborne Voluntary Ambulance (SVA) provides transport for older local residents to take them on regular shopping trips, on day excursions, and to attend regular local events such as the RVS lunch club sessions. All drivers are volunteers. The chairman of the SVA board of trustees is a local doctor who is passionate about using the ambulance, aka the Red Bus, to encourage older people, still fearful of leaving their homes, to get out and enjoy themselves! If interested and have a few hours to spare each week, please contact John Miller on 01935 873784 or at denis70john@sky.com. Clean licence and D1 category required. For more information, see the SVA Facebook page. YEOVIL Ukraine SIAB Appeal Somerset-based charity, School in a Bag (SIAB), has launched an appeal to get SchoolBags to children who are having to flee their home country of Ukraine. SIAB works with two existing charity partners, the Chernobyl Children’s Lifeline Charity and Te Aud Romania, at the forefront of the Ukrainian crisis. Through direct links with these charities, SIAB knows exactly where the SchoolBags will go and what will be required over the coming weeks/months. To donate directly or to set up a fundraiser to help raise even more, go to www.schoolinabag. org/campaign/ukraine-crisisappeal. For more information, please contact Zoë Fox on 01935 849160 or zoe.fox@ schoolinabag.org.
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Yeovil Hospital Charity Appeal The original target of £2 million has been reached but the charity now has to find another £500,000 for this desperately needed new Breast Cancer Unit. The total so far is £2,107,523. So please keep supporting the appeal for unwanted/broken jewellery and watches. To donate to the appeal or if interested in arranging a talk to find out what the charity does with the jewellery, please call Maggie (appeal committee member) on 01963 250108.
Coffee Morning COMPTON DUNDON Every first Wednesday from 10.30am to 12.00 noon at Compton Dundon Meadway Hall Meeting Room, there is a coffee morning. Coffee, tea, cakes and chat for everyone! LONG SUTTON On Saturday 4 June from 10.30am to 12.00 noon at Holy Trinity Church, there is a coffee morning in aid of Brain Tumour Research. Coffee and refreshments. Cake and produce stall. All welcome. MARTOCK Every last Friday from 10.30am to 12.00 noon at Martock Parish Hall, there is a coffee morning. Coffee and homemade cakes. Everyone welcome! QUEEN CAMEL Every second Tuesday from 10.30am to 12.00 noon at the Memorial Hall is the Village Cafe. Enjoy good coffee, tea and cake. Book and jigsaw exchange. It’s an opportunity to meet friends and make new ones. SHERBORNE Every Thursday from 10.00am to 11.30am at Cheap Street Church Hall is Coffee Time. Everyone welcome. SOUTH PETHERTON Every last Wednesday from 10.00am to 12.00 noon at The David Hall, there is a coffee morning. Pop in for a cuppa and a chat. Look around the book and bric-a-brac stalls and, more often than not,
listen to some live music. Free entry. A ‘Support the Hall’ event. WEST CAMEL Every Thursday from 9.15am to 11.15am at The Davis Hall, there is a coffee morning. There will be the usual tea, coffee and cake. Bread and cakes from The Bakery A303 are on sale, also charity cards and sometimes plants and local produce, plus post office facilities. Free entry. WINCANTON On Saturday 11 June from 10.00am to 12.00 noon at St Peter and St Paul Parish Church, there is a coffee morning. Cakes, books and raffle. Everyone is welcome. For more information, call 01963 824503. YEOVIL Every Thursday from 10.00am to 12.00 noon at Yeovil Baptist Church, there is a coffee morning. At ‘Jacob’s Well’, hot and cold drinks are served, along with a delicious array of home-made cakes, scones and other goodies. Outdoor seating area available. Entry free. A warm welcome guaranteed!
Fair CREWKERNE On Sunday 12 June from 10.00am until 3.00pm at Lower Severalls Nursery, the Hardy Plant Society Somerset Group is holding its Summer Plant Fair. Admission £4, Hardy Plant Society and RHS members £3.50. Visitors can purchase a wide range of plants from specialist growers and independent nurseries from across the South West. For more information, visit www. somersethps.com. SHEPTON MALLET From Friday 10 to Sunday 12 June at the Royal Bath & West Showground is the Antiques and Collectors Fair. Opening times: Friday 12.00 noon to 5.00pm £10 (Friday ticket allows entry Saturday and Sunday), Saturday 9.00am to 5.00pm £5, Sunday 10.0am to 4.00pm £5. For more information, call 01636 702326 or visit www.iacf. co.uk.
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