Saturday 22nd August 2009
Fundraising Event in Bridport, 5pm – 11pm
GREAT MUSIC, GREAT FOOD AND GREAT FUN & LOTS TO DO FOR THE CHILDREN
Come and enjoy Fun, Food and an Entertainment Feast of local talent all evening with music from live bands plus children’s games, a barbeque and a raffle.
It will be held from 5pm to 11pm in the field opposite The King’s Head, Bradpole at the top end of St Andrews Road, Bridport.
Entry – Adults £4.00, Children £1.00, Family ticket £10.00. Tickets available from The King’s Head, the Music Shop in South Street and Fruits of the Earth in Victoria Grove.
All this is to raise funds for ‘Bridport Burma Appeal’ and ‘The Street Children of Calcutta’.
For more information, please contact SW Dorset LETS’ Lyn Jones 01308-425684 or email lynlidiard@btinternet.com or Fel Moore 01308-459001 or fel_moore@hotmail.com.
SW Dorset LETS are looking for some help at the event, so if anyone in Dorchester LETS would like to volunteer for a good evening and earn a few NETS (or MARTS), please contact Lyn Jones lynlidiard@btinternet.com.
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Friday 7th August 2009
Fundraising Event in Pilsdon Community, West Dorset
Ceildih and Supper at the Pilsdon Community
LETS members interested in supporting the community in other ways such as fundraising may also be interested in this event too…
Dorset folk are invited to a fundraising supper and ceilidh at the Pilsdon Community in the West Dorset on Friday 7th August. The event will provide an opportunity for locals to find out more about the community, to enjoy a delicious home grown supper and evening of entertainment. The band is a combination of Devon based Baladines and Bridport based Celtic Air - friends of the community. The donations given will go towards the 50th anniversary fundraising appeal.
Pilsdon is a place of refuge for people in crisis whether through alcoholism, addiction, divorce bereavement or depression. Thousands of people from all walks of life from the homeless to wealthy celebrities have come to Pilsdon. In its unique atmosphere and through its generous hospitality guests are able to rebuild their lives.
The community is based in a beautiful manor house tucked away deep in the heart of the Marshwood Vale. Much of the food eaten there is grown at the community which has extensive vegetable gardens and keeps pigs, chickens, sheep and cows.
In his recent book Utopian Dreams (Radio 4’s Book of the Week and serialised the The Guardian) Tobias Jones writes of his stay with his family at Pildson:
We were amazingly happy here because it was never pious or imperious, it was just a bunch of people surviving together’.
The appeal, which was launched last year, aims to raise a further £183,000 to allow the community fully sustainable for the next 50 years through;
- Incorporating environmental improvements to greatly reduce the carbon footprint
- Purchasing more land for food and fuel production
- Refurbishment of the East Wing to provide more bedrooms for guests
- Vastly improving and extending the accommodation the Pilsdon provides for the homeless
- Developing Community Enterprise and Training to allow people to return to work
Those wishing to come to the supper and the ceilidh need to book by calling Pilsdon on 01308 868308 or visit www.pilsdon.org.uk. Please note Pilsdon is a dry house so no alcohol is consumed consumed there.
