Saturday 24th January 2026 What a fabulous Burns Night celebration at Gittisham Village Hall yet again and as always we felt so very warmly welcomed. We enjoyed a wonderful meal of Haggis with all the traditional trimmings and a choice of homemade various sponge puddings with custard as dessert. We danced to caller Mary to well past our bed times.…
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…
The Byes Friday 30th January 2026 Our January ‘Walk & Chat’ went along the Byes to Sidmouth. What an energising, wet but exciting ‘Walk & Chat’ it was. Only a small group ventured out due to the at times heavy rain and rather strong winds. We got off the Trip minibus at Livonia Road, walked down the Byes to the…
Honiton Market Charter day celebrated their Charter Day this year on Saturday 19th July with a fabulous programme all around the town finishing off with a concert by the Honiton Town Band at the Millennium Green in the Evening. Honiton Carers Support Group was the Charter Day Committee’s chosen charity for the year, much to our delight. We naturally had…
Offwell Fete, Saturday 28th June We had a great day at Offwell Fete yesterday. The weather was perfect, warm, sunny at times but with a nice breeze. The turn out was good, the entertainment appreciated by the crowds and even though our pitch was not as well positioned as last year, we did really well all in all. Sold a…
Honiton Carers recently received a grant from The Barchester Charitable Foundation towards transport to our weekly meetings. As a result our trustees were invited for a photoshoot at their local Care Home, Cumberland Grange which we attended on Monday 9th June. We were very warmly welcomed by Care Home Manager Beth and Mica their Home Service Advisor. We had a…
We had a brilliant turnout for our AGM on 14th May 2025, held at Honiton Methodist Church our usual meeting place. This was our first year as a registered charity although we have been operating since 2014. All the committee members agreed to stand for a further 12 months and were voted back on unanimously by the group members. We…
Wednesday 2nd April 2025 What a wonderful turnout at the Beehive for our Carers Cancer Awareness & Wellbeing Day, which was organised in conjunction with Wellmoor who had managed to obtain a Grant for this purpose. Ottery Help Scheme also put two similar events on. We had 2 cancer speakers one from the NHS speaking about Breast cancer and the…
Free travel training for disabled people in Devon Honiton Carers are the latest group of people to take part in travel training from the Devon-wide initiative, ‘Travelling with Confidence.’ The free training is designed to help people with disabilities to feel more confident when using public transport. The project is being delivered by Living Options Devon and Devon Communities Together,…
Lovely Evening at Gittisham Village Hall celebrating Burns Night. The Haggis, Mash & Swede were delicious as usual, and second helpings were offered of both the main course and desserts, we even had custard!!. Dancing to Mary is always fun and creates much laughter from both the participants and the viewers. The raffle was well supported and our group did…