Give your Christmas this year a heart-warming start by visiting our Tree Festival at Curry Rivel Chapel (United Reformed Church) in Wiltown, TA10 0JF. All the trees displayed will have been prepared by local groups, clubs, firms and companies. Admission is free of charge but there will be an opportunity for visitors to make donations towards the following charities during the weekend: Langport Memory Cafe’ (at The Angel) and the Children’s Society. SATURDAY DECEMBER 12th, from 10.30am (official opening) until 4.00pm (Refreshments available) SUNDAY DECEMBER 13th, from 12.00 noon until 3.45pm (Refreshments available) CELEBRATION CAROLS AT 4.00pm (Refreshments available)
Butleigh Post Office & Village Shop continue to support the Poppy Appeal in 2015
Local Poppy Appeal Organiser Colin McNamee said ‘We are very grateful to Paul for his continued support over the decades in helping to raise money for the Poppy Appeal and really getting behind the activity. Also to the other businesses; the local pub The Rose & Portcullis and to Higher Hill Farm for their collective contributions. Both the village church, St Leonard’s, and the local primary school are also active and each year the school displays a 1 metre high model Cenotaph in the assembly/dining hall. It does encourage the dedicated small group of seven house to house collectors who cover a large area to raise funds and make the poppies widely available to those who wish to donate. For the first time this year we were unable to provide a collector in Butleigh Wootton and if anyone would like to volunteer for 2016 I would be very pleased to hear from them!”
Let’s celebrate local government together! South Somerset District Council is taking part in #OurDay
From collecting waste to animal welfare, and school places to trading standards, the hundreds of vital local services of a council will be brought to life in 140 characters when councillors and staff from South Somerset District Council take part in a tweetathon on Wednesday 18 November. They will be among thousands nationwide to tweet using the hashtag #OurDay, to give residents an insight into the hundreds of jobs councils do every day. During #OurDay last year over 8,000 twitter accounts participated, sending more than 10,000 tweets and reaching 3 million people. Full story: Read more