Wednesday 28th January 2026 This month our usual craft session with Hazel Austin was replaced with a sing a long with Hazel and her partner Mick. Hazel has the most beautiful voice and kindly offered to share it with us accompanied by Mick who harmonised her fabulously on his guitar. We enjoyed some lovely music from 60s right through to…
Wednesday 12th March 2025 Great session at The Methodist Church today with Bob Selway who did a lovely Woodturning presentation. He made a beautiful wooden bowl of ash, which was later raffled and won by Carole Sexton, who was delighted. Bob interacted with the carers throughout the whole presentation explaining what he was doing and why, he even explained what…
Monday 10th February 2024 Honiton Carers enjoyed the first session of the 6 weeks Creative dancing course arranged by Wellmoor specifically for our group and taking place at The Beehive. The course is funded by the Mobility scheme. The dancing instructor Willa is an absolute delight and a natural at expressive dancing. So very graceful and great fun. The session…
Wednesday 22nd January 2025 Lovely afternoon at the Methodist Church making adorable mini hats, so simple but very enjoyable with some fabulous results achieved by all our carers. We also had a visit from our new Admiral Nurse Jo Samuel who has taken over from her pre-successor Fay Valentine who left a few months ago. It is great to have…
Saturday 4th January 2025 On Saturday 5th January we all set off by Coach to The Manor Pavilion at Sidmouth for their 2pm performance of the Hansel & Gretel Pantomime, which was hugely enjoyed by us all. What a wonderful show, with a brilliant cast, & great costumes plus lots of funny jokes. The children performed outstandingly after 3 months…
During 2024 Honiton Carers will enjoy their Art & Craft sessions at The Methodist Church on the 4th Wednesday of each month. We are looking forward to working with various tutors during the year. Programme from January – July 2024 incl. Wednesday 10th January 2024, Jewellery with Vanessa Brown A wonderful first craft session of the year making bead bracelets.…
Wednesday 11th October 2023 Honiton Carers enjoyed a session of Art & Craft at the Methodist Church, making their own name badges with the help of Gary from Open Arms and our own Volunteer Valerie Lloyd. Gary brought along a specialist badge making machine which incapsulated the badges once we had done the artwork. Great fun both doing and watching…
What a lovely afternoon we spent with Julie Spiller today. We learnt how to do a modern floral table arrangement and although it looked so very easy to do it was in fact rather challenging for most of us. Julie did a demonstration first then she and Roxy her lovely granddaughter supported us doing our very own. Somehow they did…
Wednesday 25th January was the first day of our Art & Craft sessions at Creative Beings, Awliscombe. The sessions are paid for by the Co-op Community Fund. We did Silk Printing/Marbling with Alex, a very talented and approachable tutor. The results were fabulous, it was extremely therapeutic and all absorbing to do. We all loved it. Some carers drew free…
Our Art & Craft sessions for 2023 commences on Wednesday 25th January and will take place at The Creative Beings Studio, Awliscombe. 20 Carers will be participating in various activities such as Silk painting/marbling, Gelli printing, Cardboard construction, Marionette puppets, Collage and Herbs & Spices during the first 6 months, the programme has yet to be decided for the last…