Voluntary Groups Information Form

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INTRODUCTION
The Sherborne Area Partnership serves the town of Sherborne and its
surrounding parishes including: Queen Thorne, Over & Nether Compton, Trent,
Sandford Orcas, Poyntington, Oborne, Castleton, Goathill, Bradford Abbas,
Clifton Maybank, Thornford, Beer Hackett, Ryme Intrinseca, Yetminster,
Chetnole, Stockwood, Melbury Bubb, Batcombe, Hilfield, Leigh, Holnest,
Lillington, Leweston, Longburton, Folke, Alweston, North Wootton, Haydon,
Caundle Marsh, Bishop’s Caundle, Holwell and Purse Caundle.
David Fifield, Chairman of Sherborne Area Partnership writes
‘I am delighted to have been given the opportunity to introduce you to a brand
new Community Services Directory for Sherborne and the surrounding area. The
document has been collated by the Sherborne Area Partnership and aims to
present a comprehensive directory of local statutory and voluntary organisations
dedicated to providing a wide range of services for people of all ages who live in
the Sherborne Area.
This new edition is available on-line at:
www.sherbornetown.com/sites/SherborneAreaPartnership.aspx
Hopefully this will make the Community Services Directory not only
straightforward to access but also ease the burden of it being updated on a
regular basis. Updated copies of the Directory will also be available as reference
documents in the Town Council office, the Library and the Tourist Information
Centre.
We very much hope that you will find this document useful. It contains a wealth
of information which we hope will enable you to find local services as well as the
organisers of local activities.
We have endeavoured to include local and national help-lines as well as details
of voluntary organisations and community groups.
Please remember that contact details can change so please let us know if you
find a piece of information which needs to be updated.’
Our online version is updated on a monthly basis.
If you want to add an entry and/or any changes/updates for the latest
monthly online edition then email details to
c.rowland@sherborne-tc.gov.uk
by 27th of each month.
Updated DECEMBER 2015
INTRODUCTION by David Fifield
Chairman of Sherborne Area Partnership
Page 1
INDEX Headings
Page 2
Sherborne Area Partnership
Pages 3-9
Adult Education
Pages 10-14
Advice and Help in Sherborne
Pages 15-17
Arts and Culture
Pages 18- 25
Children & Families
Pages 25-39
Churches
Pages 40-44
Commerce & Tourism
Pages 45-49
Crisis Support & Helplines
Pages 49-52
Council information for Town, District & Parish
Pages 53-63
Environment, Recycling & Up-cycling
Pages 64-76
Health & Wellbeing
Pages 77-96
Housing
Pages 97–100
Leisure Activities/Groups (Sherborne Area)
Pages 101-108
Local Services
Pages 108–111
LUNCH CLUBS
Pages 111-112
Media & Local Newsletters
Pages 113 –117
Older People
Pages 117-119
Parish Information
Page 120
Parish & Church Magazines
Page 121
Politics
Page 122
Post Offices
Pages 122-123
Residential Homes
Page 124
Schools & Education
Pages 124-126
Sports in the Sherborne area
Pages 126-137
Transport & Roads
Pages 137 -139
Venues for Hire
Pages 140-142
Village Halls
Pages 141-142
Voluntary & Community Sector
Organisations (Sherborne Area)
Pages 142- 146
Young People
Pages 147 – 151
Find individual entries using A- Z index on Pages 152 – 159
PLEASE LET US KNOW IF THE ENTRY PAGE IS INCORRECT
c.rowland@sherborne-tc.gov.uk
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Nigel Engert – Partnership Co-ordinator
Email: n.engert@sherborne-tc.gov.uk
SHERBORNE AREA PARTNERSHIP
Address: The Manor House, Newland, Sherborne DT9 3JL
Telephone: 01935 816961
Web Address:
http://www.sherbornetown.com/sites/SherborneAreaPartnership/718.aspx
TWEET @sherborneAP
Follow us on FACEBOOK @ sherborneap
Caroline Rowland – Community Development Officer
Email: c.rowland@sherborne-tc.gov.uk,
Sherborne Area Partnership (SAP) encourages better communication and
partnership working amongst our members, facilitates project development and
promotes the Localism agenda.
Set up in October 2003 to implement and action the community planning
process via the Area Action Plan and Area Forums. A community-based
organisation run by a Management Committee whose members represent a
wide range of local, voluntary organisations.
A small Executive Committee steers the day-to-day work and there is a wider
Consultative Group who are kept informed of progress.
We have a small marquee for local hire at very reasonable rates - £15.00 per
day for charities or £20.00 for commercial organisations. Contact us on 01935
816961 for more details and availability.
Sally Westlotorn - Partnership Administrator
Email: s.westlotorn@sherborne-tc.gov.uk
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Here are the forums facilitated by Sherborne Area Partnership
SHERBORNE AREA TOURISM FORUM
Chairman: Janet Schofield
Telephone: 01935 815341
Email: sherborne.tic@westdorset-weymouth.gov.uk
Secretary: Sally Westlotorn
Telephone: 01935 816961
SHERBORNE AREA HEALTH
AND SOCIAL CARE FORUM
The Forum, set up in May 2014, identifies specific projects for delivery by
members within a defined time scale before moving on to others.
Current projects include:
Dementia-Friendly Sherborne
Information on Out of Hours Services
A Health Information Event 24 June 2015
Contact: Nigel Engert
Details: 01935 816961
Email: n.engert@sherborne-tc.gov.uk
Sherborne Area Tourism Forum is a representative group of tourist attractions,
businesses, accommodation providers, associations and others that have an
interest in attracting more visitors to the town.
This Forum works closely with the Town Council and has published a visitor
strategy for the town as well as carrying out some limited marketing activity.
SHERBORNE AREA HOUSING FORUM
Sherborne once again made it into a “Best Place” listing. This time, Sherborne
came second in a list by The Times of the “30 Best Places to Live in the
Countryside”; previously, it has featured in the ‘Best Place to Retire’ and the
“101 Best Places to Live” when it was described as ‘one of the most drop-dead
gorgeous towns in the country’. Visitors to the town certainly agree and the
Tourism Forum has been working to publicise Sherborne as much as possible.
Meets bi-monthly and brings together representatives from WDDC, Magna and
other Housing Associations with properties in the Sherborne Area, elected
members of Town and Parish Councils, voluntary organisations and anyone else
interested in housing issues.
Contact: Nigel Engert details as before
Supported by the Town Council, the Forum has been successful in generating
some additional publicity through press releases and, recently, a journalist visit
which will result in coverage in a national magazine later in the summer.
SHERBORNE AREA ENVIRONMENT FORUM
Dormant – contact us if you would like to be involved in re-starting it
The Environment Forum was set up in 2008 under the auspices of the
Sherborne Area Partnership to:
Enable members to share views on environmental issues
Respond to consultations on environmental legislation affecting local
people
stimulate and support local people who want to improve and enhance
their environment
Work on environmental projects in partnership with Sherborne in Bloom
It links with and participates in the Dorset Community Sustainable
Energy Group
Contact: Nigel Engert at SAP for more information
Plans are under way to put a short video of Sherborne on YouTube and the
@VisitSherborne twitter account is busy detailing events and attractions.
SHERBORNE AREA CHILDREN & FAMILIES PARTNERSHIP
Currently not meeting – contact us if you would like to be involved in
re-starting it.
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ADULT EDUCATION, COURSES AND RURAL
OPPORTUNITIES
DORSET CENTRE FOR RURAL SKILLS
SHERBORNE ARTSLINK
Name: Helen Chaloner
Position: Director
Telephone: 01935 815899
Address: The Manor House, Newland, Sherborne,
Dorset DT9 3LL
Email: info@sherborneartslink.org.uk
Web Address: www.sherborneartslink.org.uk
Contact Name: Rob Buckley
Position: Director
Address: West Farm Barn, West Farm, Farrington, Blandford, Dorset, DT11 8RA
Telephone Number: 01747 811 099
Email Address: info@dorsetruralskills.co.uk
Website: www.dorsetruralskills.co.uk
The Organisation aims to keep rural skills alive.
DORSET YOUNG ENTERPRISE
Sherborne ArtsLink is a registered charity delivering a broad spectrum of arts
tuition, education and creative opportunities to everyone in Sherborne and the
surrounding area. From art classes, theatre outings and film screenings to fun
workshops across all media for children, young people and families. ArtsLink
brings the best of the arts to the community.
BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY
Name: Katherine Sawyer
Position: Employability (EEE) & Company Programme West Dorset
Telephone: 07918 561 360
Email: katherine.sawyer@y-e.org.uk
Website: http://www.young-enterprise.org.uk/.
Young Enterprise, South West. The continued uncertainty about the South
West’s economy means it’s essential for business and education to work
together to ensure the next generation has excellent business skills. We are the
leading force in enterprise education in the South West, and we work in
hundreds of schools, colleges and universities across the region to empower
young people with the confidence, ability and ambition to succeed.
TALBOT CAMPUS
Address: Fern Barrow, Poole
Telephone: 01202 524111
Email: enquiries@bournemuth.ac.uk
Website: www.bournemouth.ac.uk
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FUTURE ROOTS
KINGSTON MAURWARD COLLEGE
Name: Julie Plumley
Address: Rylands Farm, Boys Hill, Holnest, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 5PS
Telephone: 01963 210703
Email: futurerootsproject@gmail.com
Website: www.futureroots.net
Future Roots offers the opportunity for people to utilise a rural environment to
enhance their well being and to reach their potential. We use a Resilience Model
to structure practical activities which have proven to be effective in ensuring
progression. We cater for all ages 8 to over a hundred and programmes are
designed to engage people who are hardest to reach.
Rylands Farm
Rylands Farm is a 30-acre livestock farm near Sherborne in Dorset. At Rylands
we breed pedigree Simmental cattle and we also have goats, sheep, donkeys,
rabbits, chickens, ducks and some unusual breeds of pig. The site offers animalassisted therapy and most of our accredited vocational programmes, but we
also do some horticulture, building skills and craft.
Accreditations and Registrations
The staff who deliver Future Roots’ programmes are accredited by The
Countryside Educational Visits Accreditation Scheme (CEVAS) and we hold
a Learning Outside the Classroom Quality Badge.
Address: Stinsford, Dorchester DT2 8PY
Telephone: 01305 215000
Email: reception@kmc.ac.uk
Website: www.kmc.ac.uk
A range of agricultural and land based courses available.
LOCAL LIBRARIES
Most libraries provide information about adult learning courses
Sherborne Library
Telephone: 01935 812683
Email: SherborneLibrary@dorsetcc.gov.uk
NATIONAL NETWORK FOR DEAF STUDENTS
DEAFAX
THE KINGCOMBE CENTRE
Address: No. 1 Earley Gate, University of Reading, Whiteknights Road, PO BOX
236 Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6AT
Telephone: 0118 935 3685
Email: info@deafax.org
Website: www.deafax.org
Address: Toller Porcorum, Dorchester, DT2 0EQ
Telephone: 01300 320684
Email: office@kingcombecentre.org.uk
Website: www.kingcombe.org
Holidays, courses and day events in a wide range of subjects relating to the arts
and the countryside
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OPEN LEARNING
ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR THE BLIND (RNIB)
EDUCATION CENTRE
ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH CORRESPONDENCE COLLEGES
Address: PO BOX 17926, London SW19 3WB
Telephone: 0202 8544 9559
Email: info@homestudy.org.uk
Website: www.homestudy.org.uk
Address: 105 Judd Street, London, WC1H 9NE
Helpline: 0303 123 9999
Email: helpline@rnib.org.uk
Website: www.rnib.org.uk
Educational courses and advice for the blind.
NATIONAL EXTENSION COLLEGE
Address: The Michael Young Centre, Purbeck Road, Cambridge, CB2 8HN
Telephone: 0800 389 2839
Email: info@nec.ac.uk
Website: www.nec.ac.uk
SKILLS AND LEARNING
Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole
Courses in Sherborne
Name: Julia Markus
Position: Business and Outreach Officer
Telephone: 0795 761 9968
Email: J.Markus@poole.gov.uk
Website:www.skillsandlearningbdp.co.uk
THE OPEN COLLEGE OF ARTS
Address: Registration Department OCA, Freepost SF10678, Barnsley, South
Yorkshire, S75 1BR
Telephone: 0800 731 2116
Email: enquiries@oca-uk.com
Website: www.oca-uk.com
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REFESH YOUR DRIVING SKILLS
@SkillS_Learning
SOMERSET SKILLS AND LEARNING
Name: Kate Priddle
Position: Careers Adviser and Tutor
Telephone: 01460 53195
Email: kmpriddle@sslcic.co.uk
Address: 47 Ditton Street, Ilminster, Somerset, TA19 0BW
Works Monday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday
Website: www.learnsomerset.gov.uk
Name: Sue Virgin
Position: Senior Road Safety Officer
Telephone: 01305 224267
Email: s.virgin@dorsetcc.gov.uk
Website: www.dorsetforyou.com
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U3A (THE UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE)
Name: Gerry Holdstock
Telephone: 01963 362001
Email: gerry_holdstock@btinternet.com
Address: Griffin, Stourton Caundle, Sturminster Newton, Dorset DT10 2JW
Website: http://u3asites.org.uk/code/u3asite.php?site=73&page=0
U3A stands for the University of the Third Age, which is a self-help organisation
for people no longer in full time employment providing educational, creative and
leisure opportunities in a friendly environment. It consists of local U3As all over
the UK, which are charities in their own right and are run entirely by
volunteers. Local U3As are learning cooperatives which draw upon the
knowledge, experience and skills of their own members to organise and provide
interest groups in accordance with the wishes of the membership. The
teachers learn and the learners teach. Between them U3As offer the chance to
study over 300 different subjects in such fields as art, languages, music,
history, life sciences, philosophy, computing, crafts, photography and walking.
A typical U3A has about 250 members but could be as small as 12 and as large
as 2000. The U3A approach to learning is – learning for pleasure.
TAKEPART
Name: Jennie Loader
Position: TakepArt Community Arts Co-Ordinator
TakepArt is a Big Lottery Fund, Reaching Communities project managed by
Sherborne ArtsLink.
The Big Lottery Funded TakepArt project provides access to quality creative
activities for children, young people and families in Sherborne and the
surrounding area.
Email: takepart@sherborneartslink.org.uk
Facebook: Sherborne Artslink
WORKERS EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION
THRIVE
THE GEOFFREY UDALL CENTRE
Address: Beech Hill, Reading, RG7 2AT
Telephone: 0118 988 5688
Email: info@thrive.org.uk
Website: www.thrive.org.uk
THRIVE are a national charity aimed at creating positive change for the lives of
disabled, disadvantaged and old people through the use of gardening.
THRIVE run courses for children with learning difficulties right through to older
people with dementia. They also have a national resource centre providing
advice and support to local projects around the country,
Name: Gill Keniston
Position: Learning Manager for Somerset, Dorset, Bournemouth and Poole
Telephone: 07920 072 332
Email: gkeniston-goble@wea.org.uk
Website: http://www.wea.org.uk/
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ADVICE AND HELP
This section contains information about Sherborne based groups
supplying help and advice.
FIRST DORSET CREDIT UNION - SHERBORNE
Contact Name: Rachel Bailey
Position: Office Manager
Address of organisation: 40 High East Street, Dorchester, DT1 1HN
Telephone number: 01305 268444
Email address: admin@fdcu.co.uk
Website: www.firstdorsetcreditunion.co.uk
CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU – SHERBORNE
First Dorset Credit Union is a co-operative savings and loans organisation. It
encourages members to save regularly and provides affordable loans to
members in West Dorset. It is run by volunteers and regulated by the FCA and
PRA who guarantee members` savings.
There is a service point in Sherborne every Thursday morning, 10a.m 12 noon, at the Zest Café in Abbey Road.
First Dorset Credit Union
We are the co-operative savings and loans organisation for rural Dorset.
We are a community based organisation, staffed by local volunteers.
We provide our members with a safe and ethical place to save
and with affordable loans. Run by local people, for local people. FDCU is your
local savings and loans
co-operative. Contact us today or visit your nearest
service point. We can offer loans from £50 to £7,500 depending on your
circumstances. Our loan repayment schedules are negotiable and we will agree
payment details with you – even if you don't have a bank account or can't get
credit with high street banks. Our interest rates are low, with no hidden
charges. You need just £5 to join: a £4 joining fee, and £1 to open your own
savings account.
Telephone: 0344 245 1219
Address: Manor House, Newland, Sherborne, DT9 3JL
Email: bureau@sherbornecab.cabnet.org.uk
Website:www.westdorsetcab.org.uk/sherborne/index_s.htm
Unlike banks, we are not here to make profits for others; we charge interest
starting at just 1% per month on the reducing balance (12.7% APR). This
interest is used to cover basic office costs - any surplus would be paid back to
members as an annual dividend. At all times members are treated with respect
and courtesy. Your personal details will be kept in strict confidence First Dorset
Credit Union is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential
Regulation Authority. We also belong to the Financial Services Compensation
Scheme which guarantees 100% compensation for all your
savings (maximum £85,000). The current maximum savings a member can
have with FDCU is £15,000 which means all savings are covered under this
scheme.
The Citizens Advice Bureau helps people resolve their legal, money and other
problems by providing free information and advice and by influencing
policymakers. Sherborne Citizens Advice Bureau is a registered charity
reliant on volunteers and needs to raise funds to provide these vital services.
The majority of our advisers are trained volunteers, helping people to resolve
their problems.
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LETS – SOUTH WEST DORSET
(LOCAL EXCHANGE TRADING SYSTEM)
You charge, using the LETS currency, for your skills or goods and can ‘buy’
anything you want from other members. You don’t even have to be in credit to
trade. Currently the services Yeovil members offer includes: gardening –
cleaning – DIY goods hire – soft furnishings – PC maintenance – alternative
therapies – room hire – tuition – house clearance –child-minding – carpentry –
Plus many more. If you are interested contact Meriel or Steve above.
Name: Vee Driscoll
Telephone: 01308 425518
Email: dric.juggs@talk21.com
Approximate numbers of members: 110 but it fluctuates.
Name of currency: Nets
South West Dorset Lets covers the Bridport/Beaminster area including
Marshwood Vale and Lyme Regis plus one or two members out towards
Dorchester. Trading is quite healthy at the moment with blitz-like teams being
in great demand. The teams have tackled a variety of tasks from garden
clearing to shed shifting and are a popular way for members to earn Nets.
Neighbourhood Watch and Citizen Patrol Schemes in
Sherborne, West Dorset, Dorset
Website: http://www.ourwatch.org.uk/your_local_area/neighbourhood_watch_
scheme_locations/Sherborne_West%20Dorset_Dorset
SAFER NEIGHBOURHOODS
Website: http://www.dorset.police.uk/default.aspx?page=901
What is Safer Neighbourhoods?
Safer Neighbourhoods is a commitment by community service providers to
improving the quality of life in our communities by working together to target
the issues identified by local people as those that matter most. Safer
Neighbourhoods is about providing our communities with:
ACCESS to local policing teams and their community safety partners – local
councils, health, housing, fire and rescue, youth organisations and probation through a named point of contact.
INFLUENCE for local people over how community safety services are delivered
in their area and what the local priorities are.
INTERVENTIONS by community safety partners and the community working
together to tackle those priorities.
ANSWERS - sustainable solutions to problems and feedback on what has been
done.
LETS–YEOVIL & SOUTH SOMERSET LETS
(LOCAL EXCHANGE TRADING SYSTEM)
Name: Meriel or Steve
Telephone: 01935 883201
Email: stevemeriel@tiscali.co.uk
Website: www.core-energy.co.uk/ysslets.html
LETS is a way of obtaining goods or getting those long standing jobs done
without using money. Do you love DIY, but hate the ironing? Could you knit
until the cows come home, but wilt at the gardening? Need to borrow something
and love fiddling on the PC? Like the sound of it? LETS could be for you.
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RELATE SOMERSET (YEOVIL AND DISTRICT)
The Rendezvous is a local charity that runs a successful drop in advice and
guidance centre for young people from 14 to 25. The centre offers free use of
computers, i-pads and access to a recording studio and engineer. Our team of
youth workers and trained mentors are on hand to give young people in need
the opportunity to discreetly seek, advice and support to help them overcome
any problems they may be facing e.g.: the trauma of family breakdown, health
issues and substance misuse, homelessness and benefits. As an accredited OCR
centre we provide 1:1 tuition and support for young people needing to gain
qualifications in functional skills (English and Maths).
Address: 25 The Park, Yeovil, Somerset BA20 1DG
Telephone: 01305 262 285
Email: enquiries@relatedorset.org.uk
Website: www.relatedorset.org.uk
Services offered: Relationship Counselling
Opening times (for enquiries)
Monday: 9:00-17:00
Tuesday: 9:00-17:00
Wednesday: 9:00-17:00
Thursday: 9:00-17:00
Friday: 9:00-17:00
Saturday: Closed
Sunday: Closed
These are opening times for enquiries, not counselling hours. Please contact the
Centre for more details
Monday 2-4pm Free English Tuition
Friday 2-4pm Free Maths Tuition
Friday 2-4pm Job Club
Wednesday 3.30pm-7pm Gryphon After School session
YOUTH RESOURCE SERVICES
THE RENDEZVOUS SHERBORNE) LTD
We work closely with the Gryphon school and other agencies to help provide
joined up support for young people living in the area. Additionally we run a
popular Young Parents Group on Wednesdays and provide the support for young
people living in Oborne House, a Magna Housing Association property.
Opening Hours
Monday
1 – 2pm - Appointments only & 2pm – 7pm - Drop in
Tuesday
CLOSED
Wednesday
12.30 – 2.30pm- Young Parents Group
1 – 2pm Appointments only & 2pm – 7pm - Drop in
Thursday 1 – 2pm - Appointments only & 2pm – 7pm - Drop in
Friday
1 – 2pm - Appointments only & 2pm – 7pm - Drop in
Youth Resource Services (The Rendezvous Sherborne) Ltd
Contact Name: Helen Da Silva Wood
Position: Manager
Address of organisation: The Rendezvous, Under Cheap Street Church,
Sherborne DT9 3BJ
Telephone & Fax Number: 01935 814496
Email address: office@therendezvous.org.uk
Website: www.therendezvous.org.uk/
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the Exhibition, held annually in July, has flourished and grown to become one of
the West Country’s largest and most popular Open Art Exhibitions. The Club’s
main purpose is to encourage and promote West Country artists. In 2013, over
600 paintings, miniatures and sculptures in a variety of media were entered for
Selection. Last year's Exhibition proved to be our most successful yet, with over
120 more submissions and increased sales of both paintings and sculptures.
The beautifully presented exhibition is organized by a hardworking Committee
of volunteers led by our enthusiastic Chairman, Lucinda Thomson. Our 350 West
Country members regularly enter their artwork and we also encourage nonmembers to enter their work.
ARTS & CULTURE
THE AMATEUR PLAYERS OF
SHERBORNE
Name: Sylvie Lord
Telephone: 01963 251833
Email: sylvie27@googlemail.com
Website: http://www.aps-sherborne.co.uk/
Name: Jim Reville
Position: Newsletter Editor
Email: jim.reville@btinternet.com
Since its foundation in 1934 the APS has staged
more than 120 productions ranging from
comedies to classics, from murders to musicals. We mount two major
productions a year and hold regular social evenings, and new members are
warmly welcomed, either as actors or to work back stage.
BELLRINGING SHERBORNE COMPANY OF RINGERS
Captain: David Fifield
Telephone: 01963 210337
Email: captain@sherborneabbeybellringers.com
Website: www.sherborneabbeybellringers.com
Meet Tuesdays at the Abbey 7.30 pm – 9.00 pm for bell ringing.
ARTSLINK FLICKS
Screenings of popular films every second Wednesday of the month
(except August) in Digby Memorial Hall, Sherborne at 7.30 pm.
Tickets in advance from Tourist Information or on the door.
Website: www.sherborneartslink.org.uk
SHERBORNE ART EXHIBITION
SHERBORNE ART CLUB
Name: Ian Pennycook
Telephone: 01935 872331
Annual Summer Exhibition takes place in the Digby Hall
in Hound Street, Sherborne from July–August. Private
viewing available. 200 artists submit their work and 400
– 450 paintings hung. 70 volunteers.
Email: sherborneartclub@gmail.com
Websites: sherborneartclub.weebly.com &
http://groupspaces.com/Sherborneartclubcom/pages
Sherborne Art Club was founded in 1931 by a small
group of local artists to showcase their work. Since then
Best Oil Prize
Tangier Man by
Michael Parker
THE BETJEMAN SOCIETY (SHERBORNE BRANCH)
Name: Mrs. Kay Jackman
Telephone: 01963 210240
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We are a branch of the main Betjeman Society and we read Betjeman poetry
and prose in different churches and give all the proceeds to the church that we
read in.
BLACKMORE VALE SCRIBES
Secretary: Eileen Dearden
Telephone: 01308 425383
Email: mikeandeileen@hotmail.co.uk
We are a friendly group of hobby calligraphers who meet
monthly at Bradford Abbas Village Hall to practise and
improve our calligraphy. All levels are welcome. We hold day workshops
with nationally recognised Calligraphy Tutors twice a year. Further details from
the Secretary.
SHERBORNE COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA
Name: Frances Edwards
Telephone: 01935 816012
Website: http://www.sherbornecommunityorchestra.org.uk/
SHERBORNE BRADFORD ABBAS
CAMERA CLUB
Email: gillian@sherbornebradfordabbascameraclub.org
Website www.sherbornebradfordabbascameraclub.org
We are a small, friendly Camera Club of both digital and film
photographers and we meet on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of
each month in the Bradford Abbas Village Hall at 8pm. We
have a full programme of activities for the year including
guest speakers, competitions and community events. We
welcome new members. You don’t have to be an expert photographer (although
we won’t mind if you are!) but you’ll have an interest in taking pictures, sharing
them with others and learning how to do more. Our annual subscription is £15
and we pay £1 per meeting towards the cost of hall hire, tea and coffee. If you
would like to join us please just turn up to one of our meetings and see what
we’re all about. There is no obligation to join if you don’t like what you see
Photograph: Far from the Madding Crowd filmed in Sherborne.
DANCE - YETMINSTER IRISH DANCERS
Name: Sharon Sandom
Address: Rosemount, 10 Gainsborough Drive, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 6DR
Telephone: 07730 532 198
Email: sharon@yetminsteririshdancers.com
Website: www.yetminsteririshdancers. com
SHERBORNE CHAMBER CHOIR,
SHERBORNE CONCERTS,
SHERBORNE SCHOOL MUSIC SOCIETY
Name: Paul Ellis
Telephone: 01935 815200
Website: http://sherbornechamberchoir.org.uk/
DANCE - SHERBORNE DANCE ACADEMY
Address: North Road, Sherborne, Dorset. DT9 3JN
Name: Caroline Cole
Telephone: 01935 816156
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Email: mail@sherbornedance.co.uk
Website: http://www.sherbornedance.co.uk
Twitter: twitter.com/SherborneDance
BALLET - TAP - MODERN JAZZ – STREET
Sherborne Dance Academy is Sherborne's only resident
dance school. Our studio has wall to wall mirrors, fixed
barres, a sprung floor and inspiring art work. All this
makes for a lovely environment in which to dance.
The school principal Caroline Cole RAD RTS, AIDTA is a
fully qualified ballet teacher with the Royal Academy of Dance, and is qualified
to teach classical ballet, tap and modern jazz dance to all ages.
RAD Classical Ballet - IDTA Tap - IDTA Modern Jazz
Check out our classes and timetable section to find something that suits you or
your child. This is a structured programme of pre-school education in music and
movement. They are gentle classes, full of joy and exploration, where ears and
minds are opened to music, stories and play, and which quickly brings rewards
and a real sense of achievement to the child. Not only does this encourage selfexpression and self-confidence, but it also prepares the children for their entry
into primary school by helping them to interact with adults and children outside
of their own family, and in learning to be obedient to the teacher
DRAMA CLUB
Leader: Sue Huggins
Mobile: 0775 7510 617
Email: dramatic@gmx.co.uk
Weekly children’s and youth drama club meeting at West End Community Hall,
Sherborne. Stretch your imagination, develop your performance skills and build
your confidence. Part of the Sherborne ArtsLink TakepArt project
Classes in RAD ballet, and IDTA tap and modern jazz are available at all levels
and to all ages and abilities. Students range from age 2½ to adults of all ages.
Children's classes range from pre-school, through the syllabus to higher grade
and vocational grades allowing students to attend just for fun, or to work
towards exams and on to reach their higher dance aspirations.
Street Dance - Non syllabus classes in Street Dance are available
for ages 4 to adult.
RAD Ballet - IDTA Tap - Modern Jazz - Theatre Craft
Street Dance - Contemporary
Also Hosted at Sherborne Dance Academy: Acting/Singing, Fitsteps, Barre
Concept, Zumba, Yoga Karate Tai-Chi Insanity
FILM - SHERBORNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Email: sherbornefilmfest@gmail.com
Website: www.shiff.org.uk
Three day annual Film Festival featuring films, documentaries and shorts from
around the world. Screened at the Powell Theatre, Abbey Road, each day there
are short background introductions. Bar and refreshments. To be a Friend of
SHIFF, for concessions and advance programme details, email as above. All
proceeds to charity.
First Dance for Weddings
Hall Hire - Dance Themed Parties
Personal Training
Coming Soon: Pilates - Piloxing - Powerhoop
DANCE - PRE-SCHOOL BALLET
Name: TLW Dance Studio
Address: 10a/b Wincombe Business Park, Shaftesbury, Dorset. SP7 9QJ
Email: TLWdance@goooglemail.com
Website: http://www.shaftesburyacademy.co.uk/
Plein Soleil (1960) starring Alain Delon
TLW Dance provide dance and performing arts classes for all ages and abilities.
It is our aim to provide quality but enjoyable dance training for everyone.
Whatever your age, standard or ability we will have something that suits you!
FIRST WORLD WAR
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world. Please feel free to add yourself to our mailing list by contacting us via
our website www.swangallery.co.uk
If you are searching for works by a particular artist do please do enquire as we
have extensive contacts and are continually sourcing new paintings.
Find names and biographies of First World War armed forces commemorated on
war memorials in Dorset and Somerset.
FREE NAME SEARCH
Website: www.warmemorialsww1.co.uk
HISTORY - SHERBORNE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Name: Bob Edward
Position: Vice President
Telephone: 01935 816650
Name: Nigel Parkinson
Position: Secretary
Telephone: 01935 814286
Meetings are held at The Digby Hall, Hound Street, Sherborne, Dorset,
DT9 3AA, approximately once a fortnight during the winter months. Lectures
commence at 8pm preceded by coffee from 7.20pm
Website: http://www.sherbornehistoricalsociety.co.uk/
Membership Secretary: Shelia Leaning
Telephone: 01963 370899
Email: shs7membershipsec@gmail.com
A society for those interested in history - both local and worldwide
Founded in 1957, Sherborne
Historical Society is a group of
people who are interested in
history, both local and
worldwide. It meets regularly in
the winter months to
provide lectures from
distinguished speakers and
offers field trips in the summer
months.
Membership: The annual
membership subscription for the year ending 31st August 2014 is £15.00 (no
charge for students in secondary, higher or further education). The subscription
is payable to the Sherborne Historical Society.
Visitors: Visitors are welcome to attend lectures provided that the capacity of
the hall is not exceeded, when members will have priority. A fee of £5.00 is
payable per person per lecture (students, as
above, no charge.)
GALLERY - THE JERRAM GALLERY
Name: The Jerram Gallery
Address: Half Moon Street, Sherborne,
Dorset DT9 3LN.
Telephone: 01935 815261
Email: info@jerramgallery.com
Website: www.jerramgallery.com
Opening Time:
Monday to Saturday 9.30am – 5pm
The Jerram Gallery exhibits pictures and sculpture by British Contemporary
Artists. In a variety of mediums, the work on view displays a breadth of subjects
and styles by artists located throughout the UK. By exhibiting work by
established artists, along with emerging talent, the Gallery continues in the fine
tradition of Dorset Art Galleries and galleries in the South West. Regular
exhibitions of pictures and sculpture are held throughout the year.
GALLERY - SWAN GALLERY
Name: Simon Lamb
Telephone: 01935 814465
Gallery Address: 51 Cheap Street, Sherborne,
Dorset DT9 3AX
Website: www.swangallery.co.uk
Swan Gallery: We have been dealing in good
traditional Victorian and Edwardian
watercolours, drawings and oil paintings, antique maps and prints for over
30 years. Our large gallery lies in the centre of the historic market town of
Sherborne. All our paintings are carefully selected as good or outstanding
examples of artists’ oeuvres. Subjects include marine, landscape, sporting,
portraits, still life and genre.
Quality, condition and presentation are very important to us and our team of
conservationists and framers all have over 25 years
experience. Watercolours are presented in conservation mounts with hand
painted washlines and framed appropriately for the period.
We hold bi-annual exhibitions of newly acquired paintings, for which we send
out free colour catalogues and email alerts to our many collectors all over the
SHERBORNE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION
Contact Name: Barry Brock
Position: Chairman
Address: Abbey Gate House Sherborne DT9 3EP
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Email address: info@sherbornemuseum.co.uk
Or Sherborne.museum@ukonline.co.uk
Website: www.sherbornemuseum.co.uk
SHERBORNE DECORATIVE & FINE ARTS SOCIETY (NADFAS)
Name: Miss S. Marshall
Telephone: 01935 812617
Website: http://sherborne-dfas.org.uk/
Members of NADFAS meet monthly in the Digby Hall for lectures. Sherborne
DFAS is a local member society of the National Association of Decorative & Fine
Arts Societies (NADFAS), a national charity dedicated to the appreciation of the
arts and the preservation of our artistic heritage.
We enjoy stimulating monthly lectures, visits, study days and voluntary
projects, all designed to promote an understanding of the arts, art history and
culture amongst like-minded local people of all ages and backgrounds.
THE NATIONAL TRUST
BLACKMORE VALE & YEOVIL ASSOCIATION
Name: David Wilkins
Position: Chairman
Email: davidjwilkins@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/blackyeovil
An Association under the auspices of the National Trust with 500 members
made up of people of like minds. Members live in the area between Shaftesbury,
South Petherton, Castle Cary and Cerne Abbas. There is a varied programme of
lectures and visits. In the winter, lectures take place on a monthly basis, while
day visits are arranged during the summer to places of interest. Lunches and
teas, as well as short holidays, also feature in our programme.
We meet on the first Wednesday of each month (except January and August) in
the Digby Hall, Hound Street, Sherborne. Sherborne DFAS was founded in 1990
and membership increased so quickly that from September 1998 an additional
evening session was started with lectures at 8pm. Lectures now take place at
2pm and 8pm and members can choose which to attend. The same lecture is
given at both the afternoon and evening sessions. If you would like to join
Sherborne DFAS, or enquire about membership, please phone or visit
our website for more information.
View across the Lake, in evening light at Stourhead, Wiltshire
DORSET OPERA
Telephone: 01258 840000
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DorsetOpera
Website: www.dorsetopera.com
It all began with a production of Smetana’s opera, The Bartered Bride, in
September 1974 at Sherborne School. Patrick Shelley and Robert Glen,
members of the staff at the School, put together a team of professional soloists
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Telephone: 01935 816764
Email: barker.jeremy@tiscali.co.uk
Website: http://www.sherbornehouse.org.uk/friends/
The Friends of Sherborne House exists to support the activities of Sherborne
House Arts in its plans to maintain an Arts Centre in the existing galleries. The
Friends have, in the past, raised money to conserve the Thornhill mural in the
House, run symposia on varied Thornhill-related topics and are at present
involved in raising money to conserve a screen, decorated by Macready, the
actor, and Charles Dickens. For more information on activities, events or
membership please contact Chairman Robin Legg on 01935 815379 or email
robin.legg@btinternet.com
and orchestra and an amateur chorus and backstage crew of local young people,
and although the venture made a heavy financial loss it was in every other way
such a success that it begged to be repeated. In 1976 Dorset Opera was
registered as a charity with the object of presenting opera with professional
soloists and orchestra and at the same time giving large numbers of young
people the opportunity to take part in the chorus and other production roles.
Since then an opera has been performed every summer to much critical
acclaim. For many young people this has been their first exposure to fully
staged opera and is frequently the beginning of a lifelong passion.
Every summer, Dorset Opera gives at least four performances of a fully staged
opera in the original language with full orchestra and professional soloists. The
performances are of exceptional quality, attracting the attention of national
critics and opera-goers from across the UK and abroad, as well as entertaining
local audiences.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY SOCIETY
DORSET BRANCH
Name: John Pett
Position: Chairman
Telephone: 07754 780335
Email: dorset@ousoc.oxon.org
Website: https://www.alumni.ox.ac.uk
SHERBORNE HOUSE TRUST
Name: Andrew Stooke
Email: art@asholt.co.uk
SIGNWRITING
Name: Phil Rushworth
Telephone: 01963 362273
SINGING FOR FUN
Name: Rosalie Silverstone
Telephone: 01935 814000
Singing for Fun is an informal group for people who
enjoy singing irrespective of the quality of their voices.
There are no auditions and no public performances.
Meetings are held in Sherborne, in the Digby Memorial
Church Hall, near to the Abbey. There are two terms, one before Christmas and
one after. We do not meet during the summer. Sessions are held every
Wednesday evening between 7.30 p.m. and 9.30 p.m. with an interval for
refreshments. Dates for the current term are 24th September to 26th
November. Quentin McConnell, formerly musical director of the Yeovil Amateur
Operatic Society, leads us. We ask our members what kind of music they enjoy
singing and Quentin produces a varied programme, which tries to include
something for everyone, from classical to popular. Singing for Fun is now in its
tenth year. Anyone interested in joining can come along on the first night to see
whether they would like to become a member.
SHERBORNE POSITIVE STREET ART
Sherborne Positive
Street Art Project
(SPSAP)
came into existence in
June 2013 to remove old
murals painted by Gryphon
school students and
produce new artwork as a
community project along a
length of fencing bordering
the Old Market Place car
park. A small committee
was formed and the
decision taken to depict
the history of Sherborne on 18 panels. The "Gifting of the Pageant Murals" is
due to take place on completion of the project in June 2015.
FRIENDS OF SHERBORNE HOUSE
Name: Jeremy Barker
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Email:syb@sherbornetownband.co.uk
Web Address: www.sherbornetownband.co.uk
Sherborne town band is a brass band based in Sherborne. We perform in
concerts, local events and private functions within the local area. Based
at the Terraces in Sherborne; we can offer the full band, a small group or
the Youth band for public and private events. We also offer a Bavarian
style band for parties or beer festivals. Booking is via our website.
THE POWELL THEATRE
Telephone: 01935 810579
Address: Abbey Road, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 6AP
Email: enquiries@powelltheatre.co.uk
Ticket Reservations: Reservations@powelltheatre.co.uk
Website: www.powelltheatre.co.uk
The Powell Theatre brings you all the best drama, comedy, music and film in
the region. As well as our regular promotions, keep your eyes open for our oneoff special events announced here on the web site or, better still, why not join
our mailing list to receive details of many events before they go on general
release.
SHERBORNE TOWN BAND
Name: Sean Beechy
Position: Chairman
Telephone: 01935 329026
Email: info@sherbornetownband.co.uk
Name: Natalie Miles
Position: Band Secretary
Email: info@sherbornetownband.co.uk
Name Steven Rogers
Position: Musical Director
Name: Jim Bennett
Position: Director of Youth Scheme
The band has a very good Youth band lead by Jim Bennett who rehearse
once a week during school term time. We always welcome new starters in
the Youth band; we provide instruments and ensemble based tuition
tailored to the individual’s ability. We welcome budding brass players and
percussionists. The town band also welcome new members so if you
would like to join our friendly group, or would like to book us, please visit
our website: www.sherbornetownband.co.uk
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Telephone: 01935 814090
Mobile: 07721 991401
Toddler Tunes takes place in Cheap Street Church Hall.
Fun sessions of music making on Friday mornings for babies and toddlers aged
6 months to two and a half and also two and a half – four years.
Action songs, Teddies, musical instruments and much more. For more details or
to reserve or place please contact Amanda.
SHERBORNE YOUNG SINGERS
Name: Amanda Slogrove
Telephone: 01935 814090
Email: amanda.slogrove@btinternet.com
Sherborne Young Singers, an all-girl choir from six local schools
performing sacred and secular music.
“SOUNDS TOGETHER”
Name: Tom Hopkins
Position: Community Music Developer
Email: communitymusic@westdorset-dc.gov.uk
Address: Community Music, Stratton House, 58/60 High West Street,
Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1UZ
‘Sounds Together’ is the newsletter for Community Music Development in
Dorset. Bringing you news of what’s happening in Community Music
across Dorset and beyond. We value your contributions to this.
CHILDREN & FAMILIES
Services & information
SHERBORNE AREA
YOUNG PEOPLE’S PARTNERSHIP
Currently not meeting
Name: Lizzie Kingsbury
Position: Community Development Manager
Address: The Gryphon School, Bristol Road, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 4EQ
Tel: 01935 810152
Email: lizzie.kingsbury@gryphon.dorset.sch.uk
Website: www.gryphon.dorset.sch.uk
SHERBORNE CHILDREN’S CENTRE
Name: Tricia Darley
Position Centre Team Leader
Amanda Slogrove BA Hons LRSM PGCE.
The Dorset Music House
Hospital Lane, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3JF
Email: amanda.slogrove@btinternet.com
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Address: Tinney’s Lane, Sherborne DT9 3DY
Telephone: 01935 389 914.
Text: 0791 7092732
Email: sherbornecc@dorsetcc.gov.uk
Website: www.dorsetforyou.com/childrenscentres/sherborne
0 – 19 VCS FORUM
Convener: Lindsey Halford
Telephone: 01305 262440
Email: lindseyhalford@dorsetyouth.com
Website: http://www.dorsetyouth.com/
In 2007 Funding from the Children's Workforce Development Council enabled
DYA to play a lead role in providing support for 3rd Sector organisations in
Dorset working with or for Children, Young People and their Families. DYA is
here to support the development of the Children's Workforce Agenda by
encouraging the continued development of those who work with and plan
services for children and young people. The role also includes:
Undertaking a review of the meetings that take place in the 3rd Sector
Opening Times: We are open most days from 9am until 3pm. However, to avoid
disappointment please phone ahead if you plan to visit us.
Restructuring the meetings schedule
What we do: We run regular weekly activities in our fully equipped activities
room. The activities room includes a sensory area, heuristic play materials,
books and much more. We are able to offer one to one support with families
and continue to work with local organisations and groups throughout the area.
Arranging 3rd Sector Representation at key strategic meetings, including
Children's Trust Boards and sub-groups
Planning and running the 0-19 3rd Sector Forum meeting bi-monthly
Develop an e-mail communication system supporting over 230 children &
young people's organisations
Provide a weekly update of relevant information about opportunities for
training, development, funding and resources
We are committed to safeguarding children and can offer support and advice.
Find more information on safeguarding children, how we assess children who
need extra support and how you can volunteer at the centre on our essential
information for all Children's Centres web page via the website link above.
Specialist support for training and workforce development
We also offer:
Group and one-to-one training and support to any 3rd Sector organisations
who is interesting in competing for commissioned contracts
Please feel free to drop into the centre to meet the staff. We have lots of useful
information that you can access whenever you need it. The centre acts as
a Treats toy library drop off point. We can access the internet on one of our
laptops that we provide for families to use. Come and see for yourself and if we
don't have what you need, please ask a member of the team.
Support in preparing to bid for tenders
Brokerage service between 3rd Sector organisations looking for partners to
work with for future tenders
Information alerts specifically about forthcoming tender opportunities
Information about the 'Aiming High for Children with Disabilities' funding
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Held every fortnight in West Dorset on a Monday between 10am –
12noon.
Support in attracting and tendering for 'Aiming High for Children with
Disabilities' funding
DORSET FAMILY INFORMATION SERVICE
Telephone: 01305 224800
Website: www.dorsetforyou.com/fis
Email: familyinfo@dorsetcc.gov.uk
Website: www.dorsetforyou.com/fis
BABY MASSAGE CLASSES FOR MUMS, DADS & BABIES
Telephone: 01935 817442
Address: Glencairn House Clinic, Glencairn House, South Street, Sherborne,
Dorset DT9 3NQ
Website: www.glencairnhouse.co.uk
Email: enquiries@glencairnhouse.co.uk
The Dorset Family Information Service aims to provide an accurate,
independent and confidential information and advice service, which is free and
accessible to all parents, carers, young people and professionals. We can
provide information on childcare providers, activities for children and young
people, outdoor play areas, and support services for children aged 0-19 years.
WEST DORSET WOMENS REFUGE
SUPPORT GROUP
Telephone: 01305 262444 for further details.
Website: http://www.womensaid.org.uk
Complementary and traditional medicine including antenatal, postnatal and
neonatal osteopathy and crania-sacral therapy. Osteopathic Clinic for mothers,
babies and children on Monday afternoons 2pm–5pm at Glencairn House. Run
by Anita Hegerty - osteopath, crania-sacral osteopath and baby message
instructor.
SHERBORNE BREAST FEEDING
SUPPORT GROUP
Venue: Sherborne Children’s Centre, Tinneys Lane, Sherborne, Dorset. DT9 3DY
Telephone: 01935 389914
When: Tuesdays -10am- 11.30am
West Dorset Women’s Refuge is running a Support Group for women who have,
or who are suffering from domestic violence and abuse.
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Breast Feeding Support Group from Bumps to Boobs
Contacts: Rachel 07799 701427 • Hollie 07966 068175 • Emma 07891
738994 • Bethan 07736 042438
Facebook: Sherborne Breastfeeding Support.
Dorset Reading Partners is a charity that recruits and trains volunteers to work
in local primary schools, helping children with their reading development. Our
reading partners work one to one with children in half hour sessions away from
the classroom. They talk, share books and play games in order to increase the
child’s confidence and motivation, as well as their communication and literacy
skills.
A relaxed friendly group for Mums and expectant Mums meet every Tuesday
morning including school
holidays. Older siblings welcome. An opportunity to meet new mums in your
area, share experiences, ask questions and get up to date information on all
aspects of breastfeeding, from positioning & attachment, to weaning or
returning to work. Older siblings are welcome and will have access to toys and
books for all ages. You do not need to have a problem to attend, or require any
particular help or advice, but we are trained to help should any issues or queries
arise. We are here to provide friendship, a place for your children to play, and a
weekly excuse to have a cuppa.
Breast Pumps: We now stock the Ardo Breast Pumps within the centre. These
electric pumps are designed to support Mums in expressing milk and can also
help increase milk supply if your baby is struggling to latch on and feed. The
pump is free to hire, although we do ask for a £5 refundable deposit which will
be paid back to you on return of the pump.
Each reading partner typically works with three children over a school year,
seeing them once or twice a week. They don’t teach children to read, but
support the work of the teacher by allowing children to practise their reading in
a relaxed, unhurried atmosphere. All reading partners are equipped with a box
full of books and games and the sessions are designed to be child-led and fun:
we want children to go away with a feeling of success, and looking forward to
the next time. Our aim is to give children confidence in their ability and to help
them develop a lifelong love of reading
DORSET CC ADULT & COMMUNITY
SUPPORT SERVICES
Telephone: 01305 228444
Address: Grove House, Millers Close,
Dorchester, Dorset. DT1 1SS.
Email: dorsetsurestart@dorsetcc.gov.uk
DORSET READING PARTNERS
Name: Juliet Ruddick
Position: Volunteer Co-ordinator
Address: The Little Keep, Barrack Road,
Dorchester, DT1 1SQ
Telephone: 01305 458515
Email: Juliet@dorsetreadingpartners.org.uk
Website: www.dorsetreadingpartners.org.uk
HOME-START WEST DORSET
Name: Helen Horsley
Position: Senior Organiser
Email: helen@homestartwestdorset.co.uk
Address: Paceycombe House, (Suite B) Paceycombe Way,
Poundbury, Dorchester,
DT1 3WB.
Telephone: 01305 265072
Website: www.homestartwestdorset.co.uk
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Home-Start
So what is Netmums?
Founded in 2000 Netmums is the UK's fastest-growing online parenting
organisation with over 1.7 million members and 8 million unique users each
month. Netmums is a family of local sites that cover the UK, each site offering
information to mothers on everything from where to find playgroups and how to
eat healthily to where to meet other mothers. The local sites are backed by a
wealth of parenting articles that start with pregnancy and follow through each
stage of childhood helping mums to enjoy a happy and healthy family life.
Netmums is also available offline too with the publication of eight books. Our
books respond to the practical needs of real mothers who juggle increasingly
busy lives, and offer support and guidance for those times when it's difficult to
cope with the demands of family life.
We are a local charity which gives friendship, advice and practical
support to families who live in West Dorset. We help parents, with a
child under 5, discover, or rediscover, the joy and fun of parenting.
We are self funded and governed but work in partnership with
Home-Start UK.
Get Support
Everyone needs a bit of help sometimes! Through a network of
trained parent volunteers we support parents in West Dorset who
are finding it difficult to cope. If you have a child under 5 and
would like some non-judgemental, practical support to help build
your family's confidence and ability to cope - please get in touch.
Our mission is:
Give Support
Could you make a difference to local, young families by supporting us? Many
parents need help, friendship, advice or support during those early years when
children are young. Your experience as a parent can really help others. We are
always keen to hear from anyone who is interested in finding out more about
Family Volunteering, being a Trustee or Fundraising.
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To help families have fun with and enjoy their children
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To make it unnecessary for any mum to feel lonely or isolated
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To give mothers a voice, locally and nationally, on issues of importance to
them
To bring people together to make our local communities more lively and
friendly
To make sure every parent has access to all of the local support and advice
available - from other mothers and from professionals
NATIONAL CHILDBIRTH TRUST
Sherborne and Yeovil Enquiries
Telephone: 0871 421 1515
Email: yeovilenquiries@nct.org.uk
Website: http://www.nct.org.uk/branches/yeovilsherborne
SHERBORNE NATIONAL CHILDBIRTH TRUST
Sherborne Drop-in
West End Hall, Littlefields, Sherborne, Dorset.
Meet other expectant parents, new mums and healthcare professionals.
Tuesdays 2-2.30pm
WWW.NETMUMS.COM
Whether you're a Netmums 'Newbie' or a seasoned visitor you can get to know
us a bit better via our website www.netmums.com Read about your local
Netmums site, and how it works, the core values that we believe in and
the campaigns we've spear-headed over the years. You can also find out about
our valuable Parent Support Service and how we help thousands of mums each
month.
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Single Parent Action Network (SPAN) is a nationwide network of one parent
families and organisations representing diverse backgrounds and cultures.
SPAN is a Bristol based grassroots charity with national reach. Our vision is to
engage and empower one-parent families living in poverty and isolation, from
different backgrounds and cultures, to improve their lives and play a greater
part in society.
WE WORK TO REALISE THIS VISION THROUGH
Campaigning for policies and services that support single parents and other
disadvantaged families to improve their life chances. SPAN brings voices
from the grassroots to the corridors of power in Bristol City Hall,
Westminster and the European Parliament.
Conducting research that highlight the issues facing
single parents, other disadvantaged parents and their
families. We actively involve parents in this process
giving them the opportunity to have a voice and get
heard.
Offering on-line support to single parents through our
dedicated website One Space. The site offers single
parents the opportunity to get 1:1 support and advice on a range of topics,
talk to others in similar situations through forums, information, and, access
to on-line learning opportunities.
Supporting parents in groups and 1:1. We deliver the inclusive parenting
program Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities and have a
dedicated parenting support team, which includes a father support worker
and a Somali speaking support worker.
Delivering a wide range of adult learning opportunities in partnership with
further and higher education providers to support parents' personal
development, skills and employment prospects.
Childcare for children to parents accessing SPAN services as well as
members of the wider community.
Partnership work and a network of member organizations who are all part of
our SPAN Family!
Yeovil, Sherborne & District
NCT Branches are your local parent support network, helping you
become the parent you want to be
Run by local parents, we offer support, information and friendship to new
parents and parents-to-be. Our branch is run by volunteers, mostly parents of
babies or young children. We are a friendly bunch and always welcome
newcomers. No matter what your situation: parents, parents-to-be or just
moved to the area with a young family, we should have something to offer you.
For parents-to-be: Our antenatal classes are very well attended, we run
regular courses in the evenings and at weekends. To find out more and to book
your place please contact Parent Services Administrator, Fiona Makin - 0844
243 6949 or bookings3b@nct.org.uk
For new parents: We organise a variety of events and social activities,
ranging from open houses to family fun days. For Nearly New Sales Information
Please select from the list opposite under " in this section" to get all the details
on our next forthcoming Sale event and the contact details for our Nearly New
Sales Team, to take part as a Seller or any other related NNS enquiry.
Get involved. The current committee is very small and we desperately need
more volunteers to take on a role within the committee in order for the branch
to continue to run. Please get in touch if you are interested in volunteering or
would like to organise more open houses or events.
SINGLE PARENT ACTION NETWORK (SPAN)
Since our merger with another Bristol based charity – Silai for Skills – in 2013,
we manage a large community building in inner-city Bristol – The Silai Centre.
This Centre is SPAN's headquarter and the main site for our front-line service
delivery. From the Silai Centre we run a number of social enterprises, which
includes a community café, a pre-school and sewing & upholstery workshops.
Any profit generated through these activities is used to support the charitable
aims of our work.
Telephone: 0117 9514231
Fax: 0117 9355208
Address: The Silai Centre, 176 – 178 Easton Road, Easton, Bristol, BS5 0ES
Email: info@spanuk.org.uk
Website: www.spanuk.org.uk
CHILDREN & FAMILIES
Activities & Clubs
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Telephone: 01935 812683
Fax: 01935 817623
Email: sherbornelibrary@dorsetcc.gov.uk
Website: www.dorsetforyou.com/sherbornelibrary
Chatterbooks is a reading group programme for children which is all about
encouraging a love and enjoyment of reading. With best-selling author
Jacqueline Wilson as the patron, and authors and publishers supporting the
scheme, the group can decide a whole range of themes, games, authors and
websites to explore, as a springboard for exciting activities and discussions.
In Chatterbooks children have the freedom to take their ideas as far as they
like. Activity for children aged 6 – 12 years. Groups run from September to July
and membership is normally for one
year – Please contact the library for
days and times. Libraries are free to
join - free to use and you can renew
and
reserve
items
online
at
www.dorsetforyou.com/libraries.
Wheelchair accessible entrance with
full buggy/pushchair access.
Full
internal access, allocated disabled
parking, free internet and free Wi-Fi
access for all.
TAKEPART
Name: Jennie Loader
Sherborne ArtsLink.
surrounding area.
SHERBORNE DANCE ACADEMY
Address: North Road, Sherborne, Dorset. DT9 3JN
Name: Caroline Cole
Telephone: 01935 816156
Email: mail@sherbornedance.co.uk
Website: http://www.sherbornedance.co.uk
Twitter: twitter.com/SherborneDance
BALLET - TAP - MODERN JAZZ – STREET
BOOGIE BEAR MUSIC
Name: Wendy Ibbotson
Telephone: 01747 852659
Email: wendy@boogiebear.co.uk
Website: http://www.boogiebear.co.uk/
A Music Group for under 5's with action songs, teddy bears
and percussion instruments. There are two different classes.
Babies: for 0 - walking and Toddlers: for up to 5 year olds. 30
minutes of music and fun, followed by coffee and play.
CHATTERBOOKS
Venue: Sherborne Library
Address: Hound Street, Sherborne,
Dorset DT9 3AA.
DRAMA CLUB
Leader: Sue Huggins
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Mobile: 0775 7510 617
Email: dramatic@gmx.co.uk
A weekly children’s and youth drama club.
Meets at West End Community Hall, Sherborne. Stretch your imagination,
develop your performance skills and build your confidence.
Part of the Sherborne ArtsLink TakepArt project
Beavers - Ages 6-8 years from 6pm-7pm on Mondays
Cubs – Ages 8 – 10 1/2 years from 6.45pm – 8.15 on Thursdays
Scouts - Ages 10 1/2 – 14 years from 7.30pm – 9.30pm on Fridays
For children aged 14 – 18 years please contact Dorchester & West Dorset
District Scouts via www.dwdscouts.org.uk
If you are interested in joining and/or in helping any sector then please contact
Julie, Sarah or Clare
The Scout Hut is also for hire.
JUNGLE JUNGLE – INDOOR PLAY AREA
Name: Jungle Jungle
Telephone: 01935 433833
Address: 4 Artillery Road, Lufton Trading Estate Yeovil, Somerset. BA22 8RP
Open every day from 9.30- 5.30pm
Email: info@junglejungle.co.uk
Website: www.junglejungle.co.uk
Jungle Jungle invites all young explorers (under the age of 12) to enjoy the
challenges of our indoor adventure-land. Divided into three special areas, our
specially designed jungle playground means that even the youngest children can
explore in a safe and secure environment. Rations are always available from the
jungle water hole. Children must always be accompanied and supervised by
persons with parental responsibility at all time. Party bookings welcome – during
the day or private parties from 5.30pm.There
LIBRARY GETS LIVELY
Venue: Sherborne Library
Address: Hound Street, Sherborne,
Dorset. DT9 3AA.
Telephone: 01935 812683
Fax: 01935 817623
Email: sherbornelibrary@dorsetcc.gov.uk
Website:
www.dorsetforyou.com/sherbornelibrary
Tuesday: 10:30-11:15
Enjoy fun stories, songs and rhymes. Sessions have
also been shown to help babies develop an early love of
language, rhymes and songs, which builds a firm
foundation for learning to read. Activity for children
under five and
their parents or carers. Libraries are free to join - free
to use and you can renew and reserve items online
atwww.dorsetforyou.com/libraries.
Wheelchair
accessible
entrance,
buggy/pushchair
access, full internal access, allocated disabled parking,
free internet access and free Wi-Fi for all.
GUIDES, SCOUTS & CUBS
SHERBORNE & DISTRICT GUIDES, BROWNIES & RAINBOWS
Name: Julie Brown
Position Sherborne District Commissioner
Telephone: 01935 873631
Email: juliebrown401@msn.com
Name: Sarah Fricker
Position Sherborne District Commissioner
Email: thefrickerfamily@gmail.com
If anyone is interested in joining and/or in helping please contact Julie or Sarah.
Open to girls aged 5 -18, Rainbows 5-7, Brownies 7-10, Guides 10 – 14, Senior
Section 14+
STORYTIME in the LIBRARY
Venue: Sherborne Library in Hound Street,
Sherborne Dorset
Telephone: 01935 812683
Last Tuesday of every month from 10.30am-11.00am
SCOUTS AND CUB SCOUTS
Name: Claire Burden
Position: Group Scout Leader
Telephone: 01935 812862
Email: 1stSSG.GSL@gmail.com
Website: www.groupspaces.com/1stSherborneScoutGroup/pages
Address: 1st Sherborne (St Aldhelm’s) Scout Group
Blackberry Lane, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 4DE
For all aged between 6 -18 years - Boys and Girls.
Meetings usually take place in the Scout Hut in Blackberry Lane
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OXLEY SPORTS CENTRE
CHILDREN’S ACTIVITIES
Climbing Courses - Tuesday, Wednesday and
Fridays 18.15 - 19.15 please see reception (01935
818270) or email for more details and space
availability.
Junior Gym - 11-15 year old sessions in the fitness
suite on a Monday, Wednesday and Fridays 45.30pm and Saturday and Sundays 11am-12.30pm
Half term/School Holiday Activities
The Crèche at OXLEY’S
Name: Natasha Williams
Telephone: 01935 818270.
Email: n.williams@oxleysc.com
The Crèche at Oxley Sports Centre is available to allow the parents/guardians of
those with babies and young children the opportunity to use the centre to help
them keep active and improve their fitness.
WHEN? Tuesday and Thursday mornings
WHERE? Oxley Sports Centre, Sherborne
WHAT TIME? Tuesday 10.00am-12.00 and Thursday 9.30-11.30am
WHO? Children aged 8 weeks up to and including 4 years old.
WHATS INCLUDED? Care of your child for an hour allowing you access to our
pool, classes or gym.
HOW MUCH? Children of members £2.50 per child. Children of nonmembers
£3.50 per child.
PARENT & TODDLER (2 YRS +) SWIMMING LESSONS
Contact: Heather Crewe
Venue: Oxley Sports Centre Swim School
Address: Oxley Sports Centre, Bradford Road, Sherborne, Dorset, DT9 3DA
Telephone: 01935 818270
Email: h.crewe@oxleysc.com
Website: www.oxleysc.com
CHILDRENS SWIMMING
When do lessons take place?
Children's Lessons run on Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Friday afternoons and Saturday
mornings.
Adult Lessons take place on Monday evening
and Friday mornings.
Parent and Toddler (2-4years) lessons take
place on Fridays 2-2.30pm
Private 1-2-1 and 1-2-2 lessons are also
available.
All current swim school pupils receive FREE swimming during public sessions.
Our swim school runs 48 weeks of the year on a monthly direct debit.
OXLEY’S LOOSE WOMEN
Contact: Heather Crewe
Telephone: 01935 818270 Email: h.crewe@oxleysc.com
Thursday’s from 9.30am – 11.00pm
. Bring Swimming costume and comfortable clothing. Oxley's Loose Women
have been together since September 2010 and are still going strong today.
Having started from a government initiative to get more women swimming and
participating in sports, it has grown into its own social and friendly group of
women. Thursday’s from 9.30am – 11.00pm. Bring Swimming costume and
comfortable clothing.
For those that wish to socialise and participate in exercise and get together with
other like-minded women, you will be given the chance to try different activities
throughout the centre. Each week the pool is available. Alternative activities
have included Studio Cycling, Racket ball, use of the Fitness suite, aqua and
bokwa just to name a few. The morning is then rounded off with a cuppa and a
girly gossip.
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Tiffany & Lynne
Name: TLW Dance Studio
Address: 10a/b Wincombe Business Park, Shaftesbury, Dorset. SP7 9QJ
Phone: 01747 850462
Mobile: Tiffany 07584 340897
Mobile: Lynne 07584340898
Email: TLWdance@goooglemail.com
Website: http://www.shaftesburyacademy.co.uk/
TODDLERS ACTIVITIES BOOGIE BEAR
Telephone: 01935 817378
Address: West End Hall, Littlefields,
Sherborne, Dorset DT9 6LG
TLW Dance provide dance and performing arts classes for all ages and abilities.
It is our aim to provide quality but enjoyable dance training for everyone.
Whatever your age, standard or ability we will have something that suits you!
Check out our classes and timetable section to find something that suits you or
your child. Pre-School Ballet
This is a structured programme of pre-school education in music and
movement. They are gentle classes, full of joy and exploration, where ears and
minds are opened to music, stories and play, and which quickly brings rewards
and a real sense of achievement to the child. Not only does this encourage selfexpression and self-confidence, but it also prepares the children for their entry
into primary school by helping them to interact with adults and children outside
of their own family, and in learning to be obedient to the teacher
TOGS
Children’s Clothing Agency
Name: Arabella Latimer-Sayer
Address: 243 Westbury, Sherborne,
Dorset DT9 3EJ
Telephone: 01935 814213
Second hand clothes, toys and
equipment.
MOVIES FOR JUNIORS &
SATURDAY CINEMA £1 UNDER 7s
Venue: Cineworld
Address: Yeo Vale Leisure Park, Old Station Road, Yeovil, Somerset BA20 1NP
Telephone: 0871 200 2000
Website: http://www.cineworld.co.uk/cinemas/yeovil/information
Want to introduce your children to the exciting world of cinema? Then get
involved with Movies for Juniors, our discounted weekly screenings of kids films
at Cineworld Cinemas. For just £1.50 (only £3.00 for 3D!) choose from our
selection of lively kids movies, from animated films to live action spectacles.
Register your details with mycineworld and sign up to receive exclusive film
time emails, news and offers.
Go to http://www.cineworld.co.uk/whatson/category/junior
and click on the title of one of the kids films to book tickets to a flick your kids
are sure to adore.
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FAMILY FRIENDLY FACILITIES
VENUES WITH HIGHCHAIRS
The Eastbury Hotel, Long Street, Sherborne
Telephone: 01935 813131
Email: enquiries@theeastburyhotel.co.uk
Highchairs available and games in the garden.
BABY CHANGING FACILITIES AVAILABLE AT
THE WALLED GARDEN RESTAURANT
at Castle Gardens Garden Centre, New Road, Sherborne,
Telephone: 01935 814345
The Pear Tree, Half Moon Street, Sherborne
PUBLIC TOILETS
in Old Market Car Park, Newland, Sherborne
Telephone
: 01935 812828
The Three Wishes Restaurant
Address: 78 Cheap Street, Sherborne
Telephone: 01935 817777
Email: enquiries@thethreewishes.co.uk
WAITROSE
Cheap Street, Sherborne.
Telephone: 01935 389490
The Walled Garden Restaurant at Castle Gardens
Garden Centre, New Road, Sherborne
Telephone: 01935 814345
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HEALTH VISITORS
Contacted via doctor’s surgery
Health and Welfare.
LEWESTON NURSERY
Name: Chiara Damant
Telephone: 01963 211010
Email: damantc@leweston.dorset.sch.uk
Leweston Nursery is open all year round and from 8am-6pm daily.
Young children thrive in the happy, purposeful environment of our Nursery. We
provide a warm and welcoming environment in which children can develop as
individuals, growing in confidence and independence during their foundation
learning.
Lewiston’s Nursery and Early Years facilities are well placed, with secure south
facing gardens and well equipped play areas. During their time in the Nursery
your child will find the Early Years Foundation Stage engaging and challenging.
They will be taught by experienced and committed staff and will receive
specialist teaching in ICT, French, Music and P.E. Outside of the classroom, the
46 acres of parkland in which the school sits, as well as the Prep School’s
‘Enchanted Wood’, provide endless opportunity for outdoor learning and the
children at Leweston have the freedom to explore and discover. Here they
become focused learners, commencing on a journey of adventure and fun!
CHILDCARE & NURSERIES
HOLWELL NURSERY SCHOOL
Address: Crouch Lane, Holwell,
Sherborne, Dorset, DT9 5LP
Mobile: 07966 849768
Fax: 01963 23368
Email: holwellnursery@btconnect.com
Website: http://www.holwell-nursery.btck.co.uk
We provide care in the nursery and pre-school for
children from 3 months – 4 years. We are open Monday - Friday 8.00am 5.30pm (excluding bank holidays) for 50 weeks per year. We are closed for 2
weeks at Christmas We also provide a Holiday Club for children from 5 years –
12 years during school holidays (except Christmas)
LITTLE GRYPHONS NURSERY
Contact Name: Eiron Worbey
Telephone: 01935 810112
Address: Little Gryphons Nursery School, Bristol
Road, Sherborne, Dorset, DT9 4EQ
Email: nursery@gryphon.dorset.sch.uk
KALEIDOSCOPE NURSERY
Address: Sherborne Business Centre Ltd, Sherborne Business Centre,
Sherborne, Dorset. DT9 3DP
Telephone: 01935 812424
Email: kaleidoscope.sherborne@yahoo.co.uk
Website: http://www.kaleidoscopenursery.co.uk/
We have a variety of sessions and flexible hours available. Open 50 weeks a
year, closed Christmas and Bank Holidays. We provide a holiday club, library
visits and special events throughout the year. Regular pre-school sessions
include gymnastics and French lessons. Brand new premises with an acre of
garden.
Little Gryphons is a 44-place nursery school, offering excellent childcare and
education opportunities for children from 3months – 5years, in line with the
Early Years Foundation Stage. The nursery offers full and part time places for 49
weeks of the year, Monday-Friday from 8am – 6pm. Nursery education funding
is accessible for all children from the term after their 3rd Birthday. All ‘Employer
Childcare Vouchers’ are accepted at Little Gryphons.
LOWER COVEY MONTESSORI NURSERY
Name: Julie Partridge
Telephone: 01935 872544
Address: Chapel Lane, Yetminster, Dorset DT9 6LJ
Email: info@lowercovey.co.uk
Lower Covey is open 8-6pm Monday to Fridays
and is registered to take children from 0 –5 years
old. There is an After School Club available for children up to 12 years old.
Lower Covey is open all year round except Christmas. All ‘Employer Childcare
Vouchers’ are accepted at Lower Covey. It is our aim as a nursery to provide the
children with a well-balanced and varied time whilst they are at nursery, to
KINGSTON NANNIES
Name: Pam Kingston-Jones
Telephone: 01935 872663
Mobile: 07711213181
Address: Kingston Nannies Agency, Rivendale,
Leigh, Sherborne,
Dorset DT9 6HW
Email: enquiries@kingstonnannies.co.uk
Website: www.kingstonnannies.co.uk
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encourage the children to communicate and join in alongside their peers and
with the staff. Our nursery is for the benefit of all the children who attend.
Individual needs of children are always the top priority.
Children, parents and family are made welcome and we endeavour to make
them feel that they belong. Young children thrive and feel happy in the right
environment where others are happy.
baking under the care of a qualified team of staff. SCAPA activities are wide
ranging, from card playing; painting, playing with sand and clay, to football
cricket, tennis, singing and instrument playing. During the holiday period many
day trips and additional special activities are planned, such as horse riding,
rambling, and National Trust visits.
Although SCAPA has been operating with Sherborne Primary School for some
time, it is only recently that it has been able to move into its own permanent
and purpose-built location. Previously it found temporary homes in various
places including canteen/music room; the school hall; nearby Learning Centre.
Finally it has found a happy home where children love to go.
SHERBORNE CARE & PLAY ASSOCIATION (SCAPA)
Name: Di Cockerell
Position: SCAPA Team Leader
Telephone: 01935 810001 or 812619
Mobile Phone: (during outings use 07790 761125).
Address: Based in Sherborne Primary School, Harbour Way,
Sherborne, Dorset. DT9 4AJ
Email office@sherbornepri.dorset.sch.uk
SCAPA provides after school/breakfast and holiday activities for children aged 414 years of age, in a safe, happy environment, supervised by professional,
experienced staff.
Breakfast is provided to children during Breakfast Club and children are
encouraged to enjoy some quiet time before the busy day begins. A healthy
snack and drink is also provided at After School Club – an unstructured part of
the day when children can play with their friends. During Holiday Club children
also receive a snack but parents are required to provide a pack lunch.
SHERBORNE PREPARATORY PRE-SCHOOL
Address: Sherborne Prep School, Acreman Street, Sherborne, Dorset. DT9 3NY
Telephone: 01935 812097
Email: info@sherborneprep.org
Website: www.sherborneprep.org
We are a small friendly day care nursery. We aim to provide a loving, caring,
safe environment in which all children are valued and given the opportunity to
grow and develop. Learning through play we aim to provide a wide range of
activities supported by experienced and qualified staff.
Age range: 2 years 0 months to 5 years 0 months
Lunch is available at a cost of £5.50 with 5% sibling discount for 2nd child, 20%
sibling discount for 3rd and subsequent children. Teaching staff discount. Please
see website or call for details of fees. Costs vary for mornings with lunch
included and just mornings and afternoons, please phone for details. Provision
has an inclusion / equal opportunities policy.
The club sessions - Term Time:
Breakfast Club starts at 8.00am-8.45am
After School Club starts at 3.30pm and finishes at 6.00pm
Holiday Time:
Holiday Club starts at 8.00am until 6pm
There are two holiday sessions 8.00am-1.00pm and 1.00pm to 6.00pm.
Sherborne Primary School is proud to be able to offer help busy parents in
Dorset and Somerset manage their work commitments in regard to schools’
timetables and holiday periods. The Sherborne Care and Play Association
(SCAPA) is housed within a purpose-built facility in the school complex,
providing a safe and fun place for children between the ages of four and 14.
PARENT & TODDLER GROUPS
BUMPS & BABIES PARENTS & TODDLERS
Address: Thornford Village Hall
Contact Name: Mrs C. Wendell
Telephone: 01935 872343
Email: christinewendell@hotmail.co.uk
Takes place in Thornford Village Hall, Thursdays 9.45am-12.00. The age range
is from birth to school. We provide a snack & drinks. We have a wide range of
toys, both indoor and outdoor. A very friendly atmosphere.
SCAPA operates as a department of
Sherborne Primary School (Schools
Provision) and thus has full use of its
playground and facilities.
JIGSAW TODDLER GROUP
Contact: Emma Myles
Address: Methodist Church Rooms, Church Street, Sturminster Newton, Dorset
DT10 1DB
Telephone: 01258 471419
Mobile: 07957 011765
The recently inaugurated SCAPA wing
encompasses a bright and colourful
room with facilities including kitchen,
TV, Wii, sofa, enabling exciting
activities such as cake and bread
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Website: http://www.netmums.com/west-dorset/local/index/babytoddler/parent-toddler-groups/sturminster-newton
Supervised craft area, messy play, song time, ride on toys, free play, drinks &
biscuits & baby area.
ST PAUL’S TUMS, TINIES & TOTS
Address: St Pauls Church, St Pauls Close, Sherborne, Dorset, DT9 4DU
Telephone: 01935 816444
Meets at St Pauls Church Hall on Wednesday mornings from 10 – 12 noon.
10-11am babies under 1 year Group runs from 10 – 12.15
LEWESTON PARENT & TODDLER GROUP
Address: Leweston School, Sherborne. DT9 6EN
Contact Name: Margo Liddle
Telephone: 01963 210783
Email: enquiries@leweston.dorset.sch.uk
Website: http://www.leweston.co.uk
Small friendly toddler group for newborn to 4 year
olds on Thursday mornings during term time. Come
and join us for a free morning of fun activities. It’s
the perfect opportunity to meet new friends with your child to mix, learn and
socialise with other children of a similar age and for you to relax and join us for
a cup of tea and a chat! The group offers a selection of craft and music activities
provided by specialist staff and children enjoy making music, printing
techniques, collage, sticking, free painting, chalking, play dough and much
more. The children can see their work displayed in our Toddler Group Gallery or
take it home each week.
No need to book, just drop in! There is a secure, safe outdoor infant garden
and play area equipped with a climbing frame and slide, playhouse and log
cabin, sandpit and the water tray. We have nappy changing facilities and childsized toilets available in the nursery. Everyone is welcome.
TOPSY TURVY TODDLER & BABY GROUP
Address: St Andrews C of E Primary School, Stoneyacres, Yetminster,
Sherborne, Dorset. DT9 6LS
Telephone: 01935 872430
Email: bower1@tesco.net
UNDER ONE’S GROUP
Venue: Sherborne Children’s Centre
Address: Sherborne Area Youth & Community Centre, Tinneys Lane, Sherborne.
DT9 3DY
Telephone: 01935 389914
Email: sherborne@dorsetcc.gov.uk
Website: www.dorsetforyou.com/childrenscentres/sherborne
Engage with your infant to focus on the development of your child. Health
visitors present to advise about specific topics and also guest speakers providing
information on subjects such as dental care, home safety and The Family
Information Service
YOUNG PARENTS GROUP
Address: Rendezvous under Sherborne Methodist Church, Cheap Street,
Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3BJ
Telephone: 01935 814496
LITTLE PREPPERS TODDLER GROUP
Address: Sherborne Preparatory School, 37 Acreman Street, Sherborne, Dorset.
DT9 3NY
Telephone: 01935 817737
Email: hb@sherborneprep.org
Website: http://www.sherborneprep.org/
'Little Preppers' is our Toddler Group and runs in our Nursery on Friday
mornings in term time. You are welcome to join us at any time between 9am 11am, have a cup of tea or coffee and join in with creative and messy activities
with your child. We are sure they will enjoy socialising with other children whilst
becoming familiar with our setting and staff, easing their transition into Nursery
or School.
SHERBORNE CHURCHES TOGETHER TUESDAY TODDLERS
Address: Digby Memorial Church Hall, Digby Road, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3NL
Contact Name: Mrs P. Lordon
Telephone: 01935 816335
Fruit, nibbles and biscuits for children + water or squash. Tea or coffee &
biscuits for mothers and carers. We end with songs and instruments. Many craft
activities.
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PLAYGROUPS
PLAY AREAS AND SKATE PARKS
SHERBORNE
Name: CHATSWORTH PARK PLAY AREA
Address: Off Granville Way.
Name: CULVERHAYES PLAY AREA
Address: Ludbourne Road.
Name: GRANVILLE WAY PLAY AREA
Address: Granville Way.
Name: LAMBSFIELD PLAY AREA
Address: Lambsfield.
Name: MIDLEAZE PLAY AREA
Address: Midleaze.
Name: ST CATHERINES CRESCENT PLAY AREA
Address: Opposite St Catherines Crescent.
Name: ST PAULS CLOSE
Address: St Pauls Close.
WEST END PRE-SCHOOL
West End Hall, Littlefield, Sherborne, Dorset. DT9 6AU
Name: Lindsay McGarry
Position: Manager
Telephone: 07890 438558
Email: lindsay2008@btinternet.com
Website: www.westendpreschool.com
Opening times: Monday – Friday 9am- 12 noon.
Age Range: 2 years 0 months – 5 Years 0 months
We build confidence and expand children's horizons as they take their first steps
towards independence. We provide a safe, secure and stimulating learning
environment within a framework which ensures an anti-discriminatory antibiased approach for all children and adults in the group.
Name: BLACKBERRY LANE PLAY AREA & SKATE PARK
Address: Top of Blackberry Lane.
THORNFORD PLAYGROUP
Address: New Village Hall Pound Road
Thornford, Sherborne, Dorset. DT9 6QB
Telephone: 07934 109548
We are in a large village hall with beautiful views and access to a large playing
field and play park. We encourage independent play in a caring and loving
environment, with opportunities to explore and create in exciting way
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PARISH PLAYING FIELDS
Name: BRADFORD ABBAS PLAYING FIELD
Address: Bradford Abbas, Sherborne, Dorset
Name: BISHOPS CAUNDLE PLAY AREA
Address: Giles Lane, Bishops Caundle, Sherborne, Dorset.
Name: CHETNOLE PLAYING FIELD
Address: Church Close, Chetnole
Name: GLANVILLES WOOTTON PLAY PARK
Address: Glanvilles Wootton, Sherborne, Dorset
Name: LEIGH VILLAGE PLAY PARK
Address: South Street, Leigh.
CHURCHES
Sherborne & Parishes
Name: OBORNE PLAY AREA
Address: Opposite St Cuthbert’s Church, Oborne, Dorset
Name: TRENT MEMORIAL HALL PLAYING FIELDS
Address: Village Hall, Trent, Sherborne, Dorset
Name: THORNFORD RECREATION GROUND
Address: Pound Road, Thornford
Name: YETMINSTER PLAY AREA
Address: Sussex Farm Way, Yetminster.
SHERBORNE ABBEY WITH CASTLETON AND ST PAUL’S
Vicar: The Reverend Canon Eric Woods DL
Telephone: 01935 812452
Email: vicar@sherborneabbey.com
Associate Vicar,
Chaplain of the Gryphon School and Chaplain to St Paul’s
The Reverend Jono Tregale
Telephone: 01935 815820
Email: jono@tregale.co.uk
Assistant Curate
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The Reverend Dr Richard Wyld
Telephone: 01935 389962
Email: rickwyld4@hotmail.com
Chaplain: The Reverend Jane Craw
Telephone: 01963 251527
Details of all services can be found on the website: www.sherborneabbey.com
Contact The Parish Office (see previous entry for details.)
Associate Priests
The Reverend Ross Collins - Priest Missioner
Telephone: 07738 478 548
Email: rossnfcollins@btinternet.com
ST PAUL’S@THEGRYPHON
Chaplain: The Reverend Jono Tregale
(Contact details as above)
Details of all services can be found on the website: www.stpaulssherborne.org.uk
Administrator: Mrs Sarah Fricker
Address: St Paul's Church, St Paul's Close, Sherborne, Dorset. DT9 4DU
St Paul’s Church Office hours: Monday 9.30am – 12.30pm, Tuesday 11am –
3pm, Wednesday 1.30pm – 3pm, Thursday 9.30am – 12.30pm
Telephone: 01935 816444
Email: stpauls-sherborne@btconnect.com
SHERBORNE ABBEY BELL RINGERS
Tower Captain: David Fifield
Email: captain@sherborneabbeybellringers.com
Website: www.sherborneabbeybellringers.com
Meet Tuesdays at the Abbey 7.30 pm – 9.00 pm for bell ringing.
The Reverend Jane Craw – Chaplain to St Mary Magdalene, Castleton
Telephone: 01963 251527
Email: jane@jubileecottage.plus.com
The Reverend Lesley McCreadie – Chaplain to St James, Longburton
Telephone: 01963 210548
Email: Revdlesley@aol.com
Benefice Chaplains
The Reverend Sister Isabel Keegan FJ
Telephone: 01935 817718
Email: revik@hotmail.co.uk
The Reverend Sister Ann-Marie Stuart FJ
Telephone: 01935 817718
Email: mail@revams.plus.com
SHERBORNE ABBEY SHOP
Manager: Philip Prout
1 Abbey Close, Sherborne, Dorset. DT9 3LQ
Telephone: 01935 815191
Email: shop@sherborneabbey.com
Website: www.sherborneabbey.com
Opening times: Monday to Saturday 10.00 am-5.00 pm. Manned by volunteers.
We sell cards, CDs, jewellery, books, gifts and there is a children’s section.
The three Anglican Churches in Sherborne all exist primarily for the worship of
God and to teach and encourage people in the Christian faith. The Abbey and
Castleton are much used for baptisms, weddings and funerals. In addition, the
Abbey is a major tourist attraction. It regularly hosts concerts and recitals. It
has its own Annual Music Festival. Nearby in the Close are the Parish Office and
the Parish Shop. The Digby Memorial Church Hall in Digby Road is widely used
by the parish and by community groups, trade fairs, etc. Meanwhile the St
Paul’s congregation now meets for Sunday worship at The Gryphon School and
the St Paul’s building is used mainly for community use.
DIGBY MEMORIAL CHURCH HALL
Manager: Philip Prout
Telephone for bookings: 01935 815944
Email: shop@sherborneabbey.com
Website: www.sherborneabbey.com
SHERBORNE ABBEY St Mary the Virgin
Contact: Mrs Linda Woods
Position: Parish Secretary
Address: The Parish Office, 3 Abbey Close, Sherborne, Dorset. DT9 3LQ
Tel: 01935 812452 (strictly office hours only)
Monday to Friday: 9.00 am to 12.30 pm and 2.00 pm to 4.30 pm
Email: parishsecretary@sherborneabbey.com
FRIENDS OF SHERBORNE ABBEY
Clerk to the Friends: Mrs Linda Woods
Telephone: 01935 812452 (strictly office hours only)
LILLINGTON CHURCH St Martin of Tours
Rector: Canon Eric Woods
CASTLETON CHURCH St Mary Magdalene
Vicar: Canon Eric Woods
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Address: The Parish House, Westbury, Sherborne, DT9 3EL
Email: sherbornerc@btinternet.com
Websites : www.sherbornetown.com/directory/sherborne_catholic_church.aspx
http://www.plymouth-diocese.org.uk/content/parishes/dorset/sherbornesacred-heart-and-st-aldhelm.ashx
Sundays: Masses: 1st Mass Sat. 6pm; Sunday 10.30am
Holydays: Masses: 10am; 6.30pm
Weekdays: Masses: See weekly bulletin
Confessions: Saturday 5.30pm and by appointment
LONGBURTON CHURCH St James the Great
Rector: Canon Eric Woods
Chaplain: The Reverend Lesley McCreadie
Telephone: 01963 210548
METHODIST AND UNITED REFORMED
CHEAP STREET CHURCH
Minister: The Reverend Tom Carmichael
Telephone: 01935 817583
Address: 73 Granville Way, Sherborne, Dorset.
DT9 4AT.
Website: www.yeovilblackmorevalemc.org.uk/our-churches/cheap-street/
SHERBORNE COMMUNITY CHURCH
Name: Rev Andrew Robinson
Telephone: 01935 814491
Address: 5 Wydford Close, Sherborne DT9 6XX
Email: minister@sherbornecommunitychurch.org.uk
Cheap Street Church is a joint
Methodist and United Reformed
congregation. The church is set
back slightly from the main
shopping street in Sherborne, in its
own grounds. It has its own hall
which is used by various
community groups.
It is also home to our weekly
coffee mornings and our monthly
'Sticky Church'.
SHERBORNE COMMUNITY CHURCH
Contact Name: Pete Bryer
Position: Elder (Leader)
Address: 7 Tinneys Lane, Sherborne DT9 3DY
Email address: pabryes@fzs.com
Website: www.sherbornecommunitychurch.org
Sherborne Community Church is a small friendly local church where
everyone is welcome and meets at the West End Hall, Littlefields Sherborne on
SUNDAY MORNINGS at 10.30 Morning worship, a time of praise and celebration
followed by a message and of course refreshments after. All ages are welcome
and children can be catered for during the service.
Our Sunday Morning Service starts
at 10.30am and we have occasional evening services. Our regular weekly
services begin at 10.30am and last for about an hour.
The services are normally led by our Minister, the Reverend Tom
Carmichael or by one of our team of Ministers, accredited Local
Preachers, Supernumerary Ministers or visiting preachers from the local
area.
SHERBORNE CHURCHES TOGETHER
Name:
Telephone:
Our worship ranges from the traditional Methodist service to occasional Songs of
Praise and Taize services.
SOCIETY OF FRIENDS
Name: Juliet Woodley
Position: Clerk:
Telephone: 01935 474072
Sherborne contact: Kevin Waterfall
Telephone: 01935 812779.
Email: kevin.waterfall@btinternet.com
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
Church of Sacred Heart & Saint Aldhelm
Parish Priest: Mgr Canon Robert Draper, V.G.
Deacon: Reverend Jonathan Simon
Telephone: 01935 812021
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west to Holwell in the east. The parishes are clustered into different benefices
or groups, each with its own incumbent or priest-in-charge.
PARISH CHURCHES
BENEFICE OF WRIGGLE VALLEY
THREE VALLEYS CHURCHES
St Mary Magdalene Batcombe, St Michael Beer Hackett, All Saints Bishops
Caundle, St Mary the Virgin Bradford Abbas, St Peter & St Paul Caundle Marsh,
St Peter Chetnole, Clifton Maybank, St Lawrence Folke, St Mary the Virgin
Glanvilles Wootton, St Mary the Virgin Hermitage, St Nicholas Hilfield, Church of
the Assumption Holnest, St Laurence Holwell, St Andrew Leigh, St Thomas a
Beckett Pulham, St Hippolytus Ryme Intrinseca, St Mary Magdalene Thornford &
St Andrew Yetminster.
THREE VALLEYS TEAM
Address: St Andrew’s Church Hall, Church Street, Yetminster,
Sherborne, Dorset, DT9 6LG
Telephone: 01935 872600
Email: rector3valleys@gmail.com
Email: office@threevalleysteam.org
Website: www.threevalleysteam.org
Team Rector: The Reverend Tony Gilbert
Address: The Rectory, Church Road, Thornford, Sherborne, Dorset, DT9 6QE
Tel: 01935 873044
Team Vicar: The Reverend Simon Brignall
Tel: 01935 872237
Caundle Marsh
Clergy:
The Reverend Anne Budgell
Tel: 01963 23428
Email: budgells@hotmail.co.uk
The Reverend Michael Anderson
Tel: 01300 345375
Retired Clergy and Licensed Lay Ministers
The Reverend Prebendary John Parfitt
Tel: 01935 873260
The Reverend Tony Durkin Tel: 01935 872117
Norman Crabb
Website: www.sherbornedeanery.co.uk
The Sherborne Deanery, which is part of the Salisbury Diocese, surrounds the
ancient abbey town of Sherborne in north-west Dorset. The parishes within the
Deanery, with the exception of Sherborne itself, are all based around rural
village communities. The area extends from Sandford Orcas on the Somerset
border in the north, to Maiden Newton in the south, and from Corscombe in the
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John Strover Tel: 01935 872437
Keith Budgell Tel: 01963 23428
Colin Stobart Tel: 07989 162305
THE MELBURY TEAM
Churches St Peter & St Paul Cattistock, Chilfrome, Corscombe, East
Chelborough, St Osmund Evershot, Frome St. Quinton, Frome Vauchurch,
Halstock, Maiden Newton and valleys, St Mary the Virgin Melbury Bubb, St
Osmund Melbury Osmond with Melbury Sampford, Rampisham, Toller
Fratrum, West Chelborough and Wraxall.
Churches from St Nicholas Sandford Orcas, St Michael Over Compton, St
Nicholas Nether Compton, Trent, All Saints Poyntington and St Cuthbert Oborne,
and St Andrew Trent.
BENEFICE OF QUEEN THORNE TEAM
Name: The Reverend Viven Enever
Telephone: 01935 851118
Email: trentrectory@gmail.com
Address: The Rectory, Trent, Sherborne. DT9 4SL
Name: The Reverend Ruth Wylde
Email: revruthwylde@gmail.com
Address: 32 Abbots Way, Sherborne. DT9 4DT
Website: http://www.sherbornedeanery.co.uk/queenthorne.htm
THE MELBURY TEAM
Name: The Reverend Graham Perryman
Position: Team Rector
Telephone: 01300 320284
Address: The Vicarage, Tollerford Lane, Higher Frome Vauchurch,
Dorchester, DT2 0AT
Website: http://melburyteam.wordpress.com/team-churches/
Team Vicar: David Harknell
Assistant Priest: Linda Wilcock
Licensed Lay Minister: Janet Danks
Licensed Lay Minister: Paul Rendell
BENEFICE OF SPIRE HILL
Churches St Peter Purse Caundle, St Mary Stalbridge and St Peter Stourton
Caundle.
Name: The Reverend William Ridding
Telephone: 01963 362859
Address: The Rectory, Stalbridge Sturminster Newton, Dorset DT10 2LR
Email rector@stalbridgeparishchurch.co.uk
Associate Priest: Reverend Anne Budgell
Licensed Lay Minister: Keith Budgell
Email: budgells@hotmail.co.uk
Website: http://www.achurchnearyou.com/
HILFIELD PRIORY
A Franciscan Initiative for Peace and the Environment
‘At Hilfield Friary in Dorset, UK, the brothers of the Society of St Francis have
established a project which brings together both a commitment to peace and
justice between people and also a care for our natural environment. Rooted in
the life and spirituality of St Francis of Assisi we are working to share the Gospel
greeting of peace with those whom we meet and to find that harmony between
ourselves and the world around us which we believe is God’s desire for all.
Hilfield is a place where others can come to join us in seeking peace,
reconciliation and the integrity of creation.’
BENEFICE OF QUEEN THORNE
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Name: Brother Samuel SSF
Telephone: 01300 341741
Address: The Friary, Hilfield, Dorchester DT2 7BE.
Email: hilfieldproject@franscans.org.uk
Email: samuelssf@franciscans.org.uk
WAR MEMORIALS
2. Our collection-point at the back of the Abbey.
3. Our collection-point at Waitrose.
4. Does your own parish church have a regular collection-point? Maybe YOU
could get involved.
COMMERCE & TOURISM
MARKETS AND FAIRS
Market days for the general market are Thursday and Saturday when there
are market stalls located at the bottom of Cheap Street in the Parade area.
FREE NAME SEARCH
Farmers’ Markets on the 3rd Friday of
the month which takes place on the
Parade in Cheap Street.
The Country Market takes place every
Thursday from 9.15am-11.15am in the
Digby Memorial Church Hall in Digby
Road Sherborne.
Traditionally on the first Monday after
10th October ‘the street of Sherborne
come alive with dozens of food and trade
stalls, music and a funfair for the annual
Pack Monday Fair.’
SHERBORNE FOOD BANK
Name: Linda
Telephone: 07854 163 869
Twitter: #feedsherborne
Email: sherborne.foodbank@gmail.com
Website: www.sherbornefoodbank.org
CASTLETON STEAM AND WATER WHEEL CENTRE
Name: Geoff Ward
Telephone: 01963 250206
Email: geoffreyward624@aol.com
Address: Castleton, Sherborne, Dorset
Website: http://www.castletonwaterwheelmuseum.org.uk/
Parking on site.
Lots of room for picnics.
Open from 11am-4:30pm.
The Food Bank exists to feed the hungry of Sherborne and the surrounding
communities. This includes the catchment area of the Gryphon School, the
Sherborne Deanery of Salisbury Diocese and the Bruton and Carey Deanery of
Bath and Wells Diocese.
Referrals are accepted from any and all statutory and established voluntary
bodies including the local clergy. If you know of anyone, individual or family,
who are hungry and need food, simply contact one of the numbers above and a
brief call will secure delivery of a food parcel either to the address of the
recipient or to an agreed point for collection. We aim to respond within one day
of referral.
If you wish to join our group of volunteers you will be most welcome.
Keep an eye out for:
1. Our collection-point at Sainsburys store in Sherborne.
Sherborne Steam & Waterwheel Centre is run by a local group of volunteers
who over the past 25 years have rescued the waterwheel and its house from
serious neglect.
The wheel, 26 feet in diameter having steel rims, 72 steel buckets, and a cast
iron rim-gear, is unique in having three leats providing water in high breast shot
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Our four priorities - business support, regenerating town centres,
facilitating inward investment and improving infrastructure.
The economic regeneration team was formed in 2012 as a single structure
serving Weymouth & Portland and West Dorset councils' work to support the
local economy.
The service aims to provide a strategic framework for the development of the
local economy, focussing on: Economic growth; low levels of average earnings;
responding to current economic climate issues; building on the success of the
2012 Games; improving the economic and visitor profile of the area, whilst
reaping community benefits through more and better jobs for our residents.
The Economic Regeneration service will develop an account management
approach to towns and major population centres, establishing regular meetings
with Chambers and other business representative and organisations, enabling
issues raised to be addressed collectively with other council services. This
approach will enable quicker response time to be achieved by reducing the time
spent on processing economic and business enquiries, which is considered to a
major barrier between the public and private sector in managing a response in
time of a recession and it's recovery from it.
Our strategy
array; it also has a system of ventilated buckets invented by William Fairbairn in
the early part of the 19th century. It was installed to provide clean water for the
inhabitants of Sherborne in 1869 and ran until 1959.
At the time when rescue work began there had already been substantial
damage to the wheel through immersion in water and debris some of which
unfortunately is permanent. The wheel was so seriously corroded that it is has
had to be rebuilt at a cost of £60,000. We have now raised this money through
the generosity of donations from visitors and substantial grants from the
following organisations: Sherborne Town Council; West Dorset District Council;
Simon Digby Memorial Trusts; Garfield Weston Trust; Manifold Trust; Pilgrim
Trust; Prism Grant Fund; Awards for All; Wessex Watermark Award, Sherborne
& District Society (local branch of CPRE).
In 1876 a Hindley Steam engine was installed to boost the output of the
waterwheel and we now have a similar
engine which has been refurbished and is in
a new Hindley Museum building funded by
Chalk and Cheese, the European Agricultural
Fund for European Development 2007-2013,
Headley Trust and the Leisure Development
Fund. In addition we have another Hindley
steam engine, rather smaller - the engines
will be running under steam in 2013
We are extremely grateful for your support.
Come along and see the new waterwheel and the Hindley steam engines under
steam on open days please phone 01963 250206 for details.
The strategy for the service is aligned to the four
corporate aims for the economy for both councils:
Facilitating inward investment to create more, better paid
jobs
Regenerating and supporting vibrant town centres
Improve infrastructure to allow businesses to grow
Supporting businesses through the recession and recovery
BUSINESS SUPPORT
Name: Trevor Hedger
Position: Senior Economic Regeneration Officer at West Dorset District and
Weymouth & Portland Borough Councils
Address: West Dorset District Council, South Walks House, South Walks Rd,
Dorchester DT1 1UZ
Telephone: 01305 252378
Email: T.Hedger@westdorset-weymouth.gov.uk
Economic Regeneration Officer for the shared service partnership supporting
West Dorset District and Weymouth & Portland Borough Councils, currently
supporting and acting as link officer for 2 Business Improvement Districts
(Weymouth and Dorchester) having supported both through successful ballots in
2013.
Lead officer for the partnership and the Dorset inward investment team of local
authority officers for the Dorset LEP and leading relationships with both UKTI
Trade and UKTI IST.
Member of the DorMen management group and one of the team who led the
creation of the DorMen mentoring service.
THE BUSINESS SUPPORT TEAM
Simon King (Senior Economic Regeneration Officer)
Trevor Hedger (Senior Economic regeneration Officer)
Gareth Jones (Economic Regeneration Officer)
Mark Taylor (Economic Regeneration Officer - Skills,
Education, Training)
Lloyd Savage (Assistant Regeneration Officer)
NORTHERN DORSET LOCAL ACTION GROUP
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Name: Sarah Harbige
Position: LEADER Programme Manager
Address: c/o Economic Development, Environment and Economy, Dorset County
Council, County Hall, Dorchester, DT1 1TE
Telephone: 01305 228699
Mobile: 07825 072963
Website: www.dorsetlocalactiongroups.org.uk (website under development)
WHAT IS NORTHERN DORSET LOCAL ACTION GROUP (LAG)
The Local Action group has been funded under the LEADER programme to
allocate money to local businesses and communities to carry out projects.
There are 3 Objectives:
To create jobs
Help businesses grow
Support rural economy
Website: The new website will be ready in April as www.dorsetleader.org.uk but
the link below will also eventually point to the home page
Web: |Twitter: follow@DorsetLAG
The Northern Dorset Local Action group will deliver the LEADER programme
around the Sherborne area, North and East Dorset and Christchurch. Funded by
the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), LEADER grants
will help rural businesses and communities create jobs and economic growth in
the countryside from 2015 to 2020.
What area is covered?
The Local Action Group welcomes members from all walks of life with experience
to support, develop and select projects that come forward for funding. Local
people decide where financial support would make the most difference to the
economic, social and environmental development of their area.
All LEADER projects will need to demonstrate that they contribute to the local
economy according to the priorities of the programme and Local Development
Strategy. Enquiries are welcome at anytime for projects that will increase
productivity or create jobs in farming, forestry, rural services, tourism, culture
and heritage and in micro and small businesses.
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How long does the project last & how much is available?
Being launched nationally on the 14th October 2015 and hope to accept
applications by mid October 2015
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Finish by 2020 or when the money runs out!
Money allocated to North Dorset LAG 1.971 million Euros
Individual projects between £4000 and £150,000
40% -65% of total costs dependent on project and applicants
Projects to add economic value to a farming enterprise through
diversification;
Projects to improve routes to market for local products and strengthen the
supply chain;
Projects which best use of under-utilised assets, e.g. redundant buildings to
provide affordable workspace
What is funded?
(1) Farming
These grants will support a wide range of farm investments.
They are particularly for businesses that want to invest in innovative
business practices and
new technologies to help them become more sustainable and productive.
The types of projects we want to fund:
Projects to improve the processing, marketing and distribution of local
products; that improve the links and networks for local products and raise
their profile, that improve consistency of supply and quality of product to
access larger markets including food and drink networks of suppliers and
farmers markets
We also want to hear from collaborative farm projects to increase
productivity and that introduce new technologies across several farms.
(4) Culture & Heritage
We want to help develop stronger and better connections
between the cultural sector and tourism.
Projects will need to focus on the promotion, enhancement and maintenance
of cultural heritage assets and events, where this promotes growth in the
tourism economy and creates a sense of local identity through raised
awareness of their importance; or helps protect cultural heritage features
against damage and degradation.
the construction and / or restoration of buildings and other physical assets;
the enhancement, restoration of the cultural and natural heritage of villages
and rural landscapes and high nature value sites; the conservation of small
scale built heritage; enhancement of cultural and community activities and
venues providing cultural and heritage activity; events linked to cultural
activity.
(2) Forestry
Funding under LEADER will aim to deliver permanent new supply chains and
jobs that, at the same time, restore regular management to local woods and
encourage a greater degree of added value to the timber output.
Projects that develop the supply chain for local woodland products, including
their promotion and development;
Projects that bring unmanaged areas of woodland back into management
and supply a local market. This includes collaborative forestry projects that
increase productivity.
(5) Tourism
Invite projects which enhance and promote what we have to
offer all year round; particularly along and around our trails
and around the inspiring built and natural environment.
Projects that add value to the area’s trails and secure and maintain the
network of businesses surrounding them; Projects that improve tourism
facilities, especially to the promotion of local food and cultural activities e.g.
Farm shops, farmers markets, restaurants, food events etc. Collaborative
projects and joint promotion which encourage tourists or visitors to move
between destinations. Projects to improve the diversity and quality of
tourist accommodation alongside trails. Conversion projects should not
affect the local housing supply.
(3) Rural Business
We want to help micro and small businesses in all sectors and
farm diversification projects achieve growth and long-term
sustainability.
Our key sectors are:
• Local products, including food and drink;
• Creative Industries;
• Tourism
Support for new business start-ups, new businesses should look to extend
the breadth and vitality of the rural economy and help improve the business
start-up and survival rates. We particularly want to support sustainable
projects in the north west of the LAG;
Projects which encourage innovation and help existing businesses to grow;
(6) Rural Services
We want to encourage rural communities to find innovative solutions
to some of the difficulties facing their residents, especially the lack
of access to services. We particularly want to hear from strong
community partnerships with projects that make a contribution to
growing the local economy.
Innovative projects that set up, improve or expand essential rural services
for the local community, e.g. equipment and IT solutions, community hubs
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for social and economic use, social enterprises supplying and sharing rural
services and facilities. Projects that develop community infrastructure and
access to key services, which may include tourism projects that increase
services for the local community and contribute to village renewal;
Small-scale village infrastructure projects, including amenity buildings and
village access; for example footpaths and cycle ways.
community councils or other associate members to the benefit of their rural
shopkeepers and communities. We are also active lobbying parliament and
government departments to keep the interests of our shopkeepers to the fore
when new legislation or programmes are being planned.
Supporting
We provide practical help to shopkeepers to improve their businesses in a
variety of ways. Our web site and our journal, Rural Retailer, provide up-to-date
guidance on what is happening in our industry and advice on issues such as
displays, ranging and legislation. We provide training and support for rural
retailers, with the help of our county members and our grocery industry
partners
How are projects funded?
Completion of an outline application form- checked for eligibility &
quality by programme team
Passed to executive committee for final agreement
Full application submission within 40 days of agreement
Given project officer to help, support applicant to carry out
recommendations made by executive committee
Appraised externally by sector expect
Rural payments to check
Back for approval by executive committee
Payment in arrears quarterly
Can’t fund anything that’s happened
Or anything paid for in cash
SHERBORNE CHAMBER OF TRADE AND COMMERCE
Nicky King: representing the Tourism Forum on the LAG and Owner of
Eastbury Hotel & The Three Wishes.
The Sherborne Chamber of Trade and Commerce has a membership of over 130
local businesses and exists to promote both them as well as Sherborne in
general. As a modern market town Sherborne thrives on a mixture of local,
regional and national trade. Sherborne is one of the most picturesque towns in
the South West and has a steady influx of visitors.
THE RURAL SHOPS ALLIANCE
Telephone: 01305 752044
Email: info@ruralshops.org.uk
Website: http://www.ruralshops.org.uk/
The Rural Shops Alliance is a national trade association working to support the
owners of independent rural shops.
We represent over 8,000 such businesses in the United Kingdom.
The objectives of the RSA are:
To act as the national voice for rural retailers
To campaign on their behalf
To advise and help them to become more competitive, to the benefit of
the communities that they serve
Listening
The retail industry is always changing and so it is very important that we keep
closely in touch with the concerns and issues of the people we represent. Our
consultants spend a lot of time out in shops, advising but also listening. In
addition, we have a Steering Group, made up of shopkeepers, that meets
regularly to provide their input to our work. We regularly ask our large panel of
retailers for their experience and views on issues of the day.
Campaigning
It is crucial to our work that our views are communicated in the right places. We
have good contacts in most counties, where we work with county councils, rural
Benefits to Sherborne
The Chamber of Trade contributes to the general ambience of the town and
organises:
Supporting hanging baskets & flower tubs
Illuminated Christmas trees in the town centre
Festive shopping days, Independents week, Festive Prize Draw, Business
Breakfasts
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The Chamber also contributes towards various local activities. Recent examples
include:
Sherborne in Bloom
Paddock Garden
School links
The Chamber also represents local businesses at the Remembrance Day service
and Cheap Street Church Christmas Tree Festival.
We hold Breakfast meetings where a speaker will give a talk on local topics or
items of particular interest to business owners & their colleagues, as well as the
chance to meet and catch up with Sherborne business faces.
All members are encouraged to participate in Chamber activities, and
prospective members are welcome to attend. Come along and meet other local
businesses in an informal and friendly atmosphere!
To make sure
members are kept
informed and to allow
members to feed back
to the executive, each
executive member has
approximately 10
members they look
after, pass on
information on
specifics or there to
channel questions or
items members would
like to see the chamber move forward with
COT Executive members 2014/15
Andrew Maddock (chair)
Paul Arthur
Hannah Wilkins
Sally Westlotorn (Hon. Secretary
James Oliver
Jane Wood
Sarah Davis
Lilly Brett. Sarah Sim, Margaret Balfour. Sue Smith (vice chair), Nick Hunt
(treasurer) The Current 2014/15 Exec with the standing down President Thelma
Drabik (after 20 years)
This hopefully gives you an idea of the purpose the Chamber and some of the
behind-the-scenes activity that is undertaken by a group of people who are
dedicated to the future of Sherborne. It is vital that all businesses in Sherborne
participate and have a voice in the running of our very special town. Please join
the Chamber and help to make the town a continuing success.
Benefits to Members
As well as playing your part in keeping the town alive, membership gives your
business a voice on local issues. The Chamber is involved, on an ongoing basis,
in discussions with West Dorset District Council and Sherborne Town Council
over matters ranging from car parking rates to the future development of
Sherborne. We are keen to promote the town and local businesses wherever
possible. For example, the Western Gazette newspaper has a monthly
‘Chamber Page’ giving members an opportunity to raise local awareness for
their latest news and events.
We also help produce the Sherborne Shopping Guide which has entries for most
of the local businesses, along with a useful map, and is provided free of charge
to visitors. We are planning to be involved in the production of a new edition to
distribute to local residents, businesses and more widely across the region
thanks to the Tourist Information Centre.
Membership of the Chamber costs only £50+VAT per year, which represents
fantastic value for money. The Chamber has a Co-ordinator to contact the
co-ordinator or any of the executive members
SHERBORNE CHAMBER OF TRADE PRESIDENT
Name: Sally-Ann Kodurand
Position: President
Telephone: 01935 813691
Address: c/o Mogers Drewett Solicitors, Spring House, East Mill Lane, Sherborne
DT9 3DP
Email: sakodurand@md-solictors.co.uk
Sherborne Chamber of Trade have a website site
http://www.sherbornechamber.co.uk the site is a mine of useful information
and has a section for events and announcements to keep you up-to-date.
We also have a monthly email newsletter designed to keep members and
interested parties informed of issues and events in the town.
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ages and pockets. We hold a very popular Epiphany Party each New Year and
many other social events during the course of the year such as skittles, boules,
barbecues and joint meals - usually with a continental theme.
SHERBORNE TOURIST INFORMATION CENTRE
Address: Digby Road, Sherborne DT9 3NL
Telephone Number: 01935 815341
Fax Number: 01935 817210
Email address:
Sherborne.tic@westdorset-weymouth.gov.uk
Website: www.visit-dorset.com
Sherborne Tourist Information Centre is one of four district council-run TICs in
West Dorset, the others being located in Dorchester, Bridport and Lyme Regis.
The TIC offers a wide range of free information and leaflets and many services
for local residents and visitors to the area, including an
accommodation booking service, local transport information and ticket sales for
local events and attractions. The TIC sells a range of publications, maps, local
guidebooks and souvenirs.
SHERBORNE CHOJNA TWINNING
ASSOCIATION
Name: Jeremey Barker
Telephone: 01935 813221
Email: barker.jeremy@tiscali.co.uk
Chojna is a small town in
western Poland in the West
Pomeranian Voivodeship. It lies
approximately 60 kilometres (37
miles) south of Szczecin. Chojna is
located near two border crossings
(Bad Freienwalde andSchwedt) on
the Oder River with Germany. It
participates in the EU
Douzelage town twinning initiative.
Sherborne & Chojna: Links with
Poland have led to an informal
twinning with Chojna, an ancient
walled town 40km south of Szczecin
on the Baltic and about the same
distance from Berlin in
Germany.
SHERBORNE TWINNING ASSOCIATION
Contact Name: Mrs Holly Quick
Position: Secretary
E-mail address: mail@hollyquick.demon.co.uk
Sherborne has been twinned with Granville since 1982. Over the years very
many lasting family friendships have been formed as a result of our annual
group visits when we stay in each others’ homes and learn about one another’s
cultures. The ability to speak French whilst an advantage is not essential and
Town Twinning is for all ages and pockets.
THORNFORD TWINNING ASSOCIATION
Name: Trevor Rogers
Position: Chairman
Address: The Old School, Thornford,
Sherborne, Dorset DT9 6QE
Telephone: 01935 873017
E-mail address:
trevorjrogers@aol.com
Website:
http://www.twinning.org.uk/thornfo
rd.
Granville Normandy
Sherborne, through its Twinning Association, is twinned with Granville in
Normandy and San Gimignano in Tuscany. Over the years, we have made many
lasting friendships by means of our annual group exchange visits, when we stay
in family homes and learn more about each other's cultures. The inability to
speak French or Italian is no barrier to getting involved and twinning is for all
The twinning link with Hudimesnil in
the department of Manche in
Normandy was set up in 1995.
There is normally a visit each way,
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each year, with the French visiting Thornford in August when they complete in
an onion competition and in other classes of the villages Horticultural Show. We
visit Hudimesnil every November for their Marche Noel (Christmas Market). We
hold a walking event every second year in alternate countries.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
Telephone: 01202 296000
www.westdorsetaa.org.uk
ARTHRITIS CARE HELPLINE
Telephone: 0808 8004050
www.arthritiscare.org.uk
CRISIS SUPPORT & HELPLINES
BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF COUNSELLING & PSYCHOTHERAPY
Telephone: 01455 883300
www.bacp.co.uk
ASTHMA UK HELPLINE
Telephone: 0800 1216244
www.asthma.org.uk
BABY LOSS SUPPORT GROUP - DORSET
Telephone: 01305 255822
www.dchft.nhs.uk/forgetmenot
BABY LOSS SUPPORT GROUP – YEOVIL
Snowdrop – 01935 384303
BLISS
National charity supporting parents with sick and premature babies
www.bliss.org.uk
BREAST CANCER CARE
Telephone: 0808 800 6000
www.breastcancercare.org.uk
BRITISH DYSLEXIA ASSOCIATION
Telephone: 0333 4054567
www.bdadyslexia.org.uk
CASUALTY – YEOVIL HOSPITAL
Telephone: 01935 384355
www.yeovilhospital.nhs.uk
AGE UK
Telephone: 0800 1696565
www.ageuk.org.uk
CHILDLINE
www.childline.org.uk
SEXUAL HEALTH ADVICE LINE
Telephone: 0300 1237123
www.nhs.uk.choices
CHILD BENEFIT ENQUIRIES
Telephone: 0300 2003100
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www.nidirect.gov.uk/child-benefit-office
WEST DORSET WOMEN’S REFUGE
Telephone: 01305 262444
www.raglan.org/our-homes/supported-housing/properties/west-dorsetwomens-refuge
THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS
Telephone: 0845 1232304
www.tcf.org.uk
Advice and support for parents and family members following a child’s death
CONTRACEPTION HELPLINE UK
www.nhs.uk/livewell
EPILEPSY HELPLINE
Telephone: 0808 8005050
www.epilepsy.org.uk/onfo/support/helpline
SUDDEN INFANT DEATH HELPLINE
Telephone: 0808 8026868
www.lullabytrust.org.uk
FAMILIES ANONYMOUS
Telephone: 0845 1200660
Help and support for families with drug users
www.famanon.org.uk
EDP DRUG & ALCOHOL SERVICES (DORSET)
Telephone: 01305 760799
www.edp.org.uk
GAMBLERS ANONYMOUS
www.gamblersanonymous.org.uk
FREE DENTAL ADVICE
Telephone: 0845 0631188
www.dentalhealth.org
GAS EMERGENCY SERVICES
www.nationalgrid.com/uk/gas/safety
DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION
Telephone: 0370 0002288
www.gov.uk/dfe
HELP THE AGED SENIOR LINE
Telephone: 0808 8006565
www.ageuk.org.uk
DISABILITY BENEFITS UK
Telephone: 08444 111444
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/getting-advice
HOMELESS
Telephone: 0207 78404430
www.homeless.org.uk
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HELPLINE
Telephone: 0808 2000247
www.nationaldomesticviolencehelpline.org.uk
INCOME TAX HELPLINE
Telephone: 0845 3000627
www.nidirect.gov.uk/income-tax-helpline
DORSET AIDS SUPPORT
Telephone: 01202 311166 (24 hours)
www.bodypositivedorset.org
INLAND REVENUE – EMPLOYERS’ HELPLINE
Telephone: 0300 2003200
www.gov.uk/government/organisations/hm-revenuecustoms/contact/employer-enquiries
DORSET POLICE HQ
Telephone: 101 or 01202 222222 (outside Dorset)
www.dorset.police.uk
INLAND REVENUE – NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE
Telephone: 0800 9172368
www.gov.uk/pay-and-work-rights-helpline
VICTIM SUPPORT DORSET
Telephone: 01202 606200
www.dorset.police.uk
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JOBCENTRE PLUS
Telephone: 0345 6043719
www.gov.uk/contact-jobcentre-plus
NSPCC
Telephone: 0808 8005000
www.nspcc.org.uk
LEARNDIRECT
www.learndirect.com
NHS DIRECT (HELPLINE now closed)
Telephone: 111
24 hours a day advice and health information.
NATIONAL ASSOCATION FOR CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS
Telephone: 0800 3583456
www.nacoa.org.uk
LEGAL AID AGENCY
Telephone: 0300 2002020
www.gov.uk/government/organisations/legal-aid-agency
LONE PARENT SUPPORT
Telephone: 0800 0185026
www.gingerbread.org.uk
Advice and support for anyone raising a child single handedly.
ORGAN DONATION
Telephone: 0300 1232323
www.organdonation.nhs.uk
MANKIND
Telephone: 01823 334244
www.mankind.org.uk
Helpline for men suffering domestic violence
PARENTING & FAMILY SUPPORT-FAMILY LIVES
(Formerly PARENTLINE PLUS)
Telephone: 0808 8002222
www.familylives.org.uk
MENINGITIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION
Telephone: 080 8800 3344
www.meningitis.org
PRE-SCHOOL LEARNING ALLIANCE
Telephone: 0121 6430063
www.pre-school.org.uk
MENTAL HEALTH HELPLINE
Telephone: 0300 5000927
www.nhs.uk/conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/pages/mental-healthhelplines
PROSTATE CANCER UK
Telephone: 0800 0748383
www.prostatecanceruk.org
QUIT – SMOKER HELPLINE
Telephone: 0207 5532100
www.quit.org.uk
NATIONAL BLOOD SERVICE
Telephone: 0300 1232323
www.blood.co.uk
RAPE CRISIS
Telephone: 0808 8029999
www.rapecrisis.org.uk
NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR ONE PARENT FAMILIES
Telephone: 0800 0185026
www.patient.co.uk/national_council_for_one_parent_families
NATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HELPLINE
Telephone: 0808 2000247
www.nationaldomesticviolencehelpline.org.uk
RELATE - YEOVIL
Telephone: 0300 1001234
www.relate.org.uk
Relationship guidance, support and advice
THE NATIONAL MENINGITIS TRUST
Telephone: 0800 88003344
www.meningitis/contact
SAMARITANS – YEOVIL
Telephone: 01935 476455
www.samaritans.org/branches
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SAMARITANS
Telephone: 08457 909090
www.samaritans.org
SEXUAL HEALTH INFORMATION LINE
Telephone: 0300 1237123
www.patient.co.uk/support/sexual-health-line-england
SHELTER
Help with Housing Problems
Telephone: 0808 8004444
www.shelter.org.uk
TALK TO FRANK
(National Drugs Helpline)
Telephone: 0300 1236600
www.talktofrank.com
TAX CREDIT HELPLINE
Telephone: 0345 3003900
www.gov.uk/contact-the-tax-credit-office
COUNCIL SERVICES
WHO’S RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT
VETERANS UK
Telephone: 0808 1914218
www.gov.uk/government/organisations/veterans.uk
County Council, District Council and Town/ Parish Councils
VICTIM SUPPORT
Telephone: 0845 3030900
www.victimsupport.org.uk
Dorset County Council 01305 251000
West Dorset District Council 01305 251010
Sherborne Town Council 01935 812807
Website: www.sherbornetown.co.uk
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ESTATE MANAGEMENT - District Council
HIGHWAYS MAINTENANCE – County & Town/ Parish Council
ALLOTMENTS – District Council and Town/Parish Councils
HOUSING AND HOUSING BENEFIT - District Council
BEACHES AND MOORING - District Council
INDUSTRIAL & CRAFT UNITS - County & District Council
BUS SHELTERS - District Council and Town/Parish Councils
LEISURE CENTRES & POOLS - District Council and Town/Parish Councils
BY-LAWS - District Council and Town/Parish Councils
LIBRARIES & ARCHIVES – County Council
CAR PARKS - District Council and Town/Parish Councils
LICENSING OF VILLAGE HALLS, Entertainment, Taxis, Pubs and Markets
CARE AND PROTECTION OF CHILDREN – County Council
– District Council
CARE FOR ELDERLY PEOPLE - County & District Council
LOCAL ECONOMY SUPPORT AND DEVELOPMENT - County, District and
CARE FOR PEOPLE WITH A DISABILITY - County Council
Town/ Parish Councils.
CEMETERIES - District Council and Town/Parish Councils
LOCAL PLANNING & BUILDING AND DEVELOPMENT CONTROL - District
COAST PROTECTION - District Council
Council
COMMUNITY SAFETY – County, District and Town/Parish Councils.
LOCAL LAND CHARGES AND SEARCHES - District Council
CONCESSIONARY TRAVEL & PUBLIC TRANSPORT SUPPORT – County &
MEALS ON WHEELS - County Council
District Council
MINERALS & QUARRIES - County Council
CONSERVATION/LISTED BUILDINGS - County & District Council
MUSEUMS & ARTS - County, District and Town/ Parish Councils.
COUNCIL TAX & BUSINESS RATE COLLECTION - District Council
MAINTENANCE OF PUBLIC RIGHTS OF WAY – County Council and Town and
COUNTRY PARKS AND COUNTRYSIDE MANAGEMENT - County, District and
Parish Council
Town/Parish Councils.
PARKS & OPEN SPACES e.g. Flower Displays, play areas & sports fields -
CYCLE ROUTES - County & District Council
District Council and Town/Parish Councils
ELECTORAL REGISTRATION - District Council
PROTECTING & ENHANCING DORSET’S ENVIRONMENT - County, District
EMERGENCY PLANNING – County & District Council
and Town/ Parish Councils.
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH e.g. Pest Control. Noise & Nuisance Control &
PUBLIC AND COMMUNITY TRANSPORT SUPPORT - County, District and
DOG FOULING – District Council
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PUBLIC CONVENIENCES - District Council and Town/Parish Councils
VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS - County, District and Town/Parish Councils.
RECYCLING - County, District and Town/Parish Councils.
WAR MEMORIALS - District Council and Town/Parish Councils
WATER COURSES - County & District Council
REFUSE COLLECTION - District Council. Refuse collection day in central
WASTE DISPOSAL & RECYCLING - County & District Council
Sherborne is every Monday and every 2 weeks, again on a Monday, for the
YOUTH CLUBS – County Council
recycling.
COUNCILS - TOWN, PARISH, DISTRICT
AND COUNTY
REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES -County Council.
Registrar available in Sherborne Town Council Offices on Tuesday’s and Friday’s
ROAD CLEARANCE e.g. Fly Tipping - County & District Council
ROAD SAFETY – County Council
SCHOOLS, SCHOOL TRANSPORT & OTHER EDUCATION - County Council
STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR DORSET - County Council
STREET CLEANING & LITTER - District Council and Town/Parish Councils
STREET LIGHTING AND FURNITURE - County, District, and Town/Parish
Councils.
THEATRES - District Council
TOURISM - County & District Council
SHERBORNE TOWN COUNCIL OFFICES
Telephone: 01935 812807
The Manor House, Newland, Sherborne DT9 3JL.
Web Address: www.sherbornetown.com
Opening times of the council offices in Newland
Monday – Thursday: 10.00am – 4.00pm,
Friday: 10.00am – 1.00pm.
TRADING STANDARDS & CONSUMER PROTECTION- County Council
TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT & TRANSPORT PLANNING – County Council
TREE PROTECTION - County & District Council
VILLAGE HALLS & COMMUNITY FACILITIES - County, District and
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SHERBORNE TOWN COUNCIL TOWN CLERK
Contact Name: Trevor Savage
Address: The Manor House, Newland, Sherborne DT9 3JL
Telephone: 01935 812807
Email address: t.Savage@sherborne-tc.gov.uk
THE MANOR HOUSE, NEWLAND
The Manor House in Newland is the home to the Town Council.
It also houses the Northern Area office of West Dorset District Council,
Sherborne Citizens Advice Bureau, Sherborne Area Partnership, Artslink, and
Magna Housing Agency.
SHERBORNE TOWN COUNCIL
PUBLIC AMENITIES
The Town Council takes care of public amenities including
Terrace Playing Fields
(Rugby, Football and Cricket Pitches, Tennis, Play Area, Dog Walk and
Jubilee Copse)
The building was purchased by the Town Council from West Dorset District
Council who had taken control of it in 1974 following the re-organisation
directed by the Local Government Act 1972.
Its origins date back to the 15th or 16th century but it was never a Manor
House. It was previously occupied by the Durnfords family, Mr Okes a coach
master, Mr Beale the Master of the Bristol and Weymouth Wagons, and the
Madame Vantini School for Young ladies. It is believed that the name Manor
House was falsely attributed by the misuse of headed note-paper by a previous
occupant.
The Council Chamber in the Manor House is available for Civil Ceremonies.
If you are interested in using it as a venue for a wedding or civil
partnership, please contact the Registrars Office on 01305 225153 for
further details on pricing and availability.
The Terrace Playing Fields
If you would like to view the room, please call 01935 812807.
Paddock Garden
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Newland Gardens
The Cemetery at Lenthay Road
Pageant Gardens (with bandstand)
Allotments
at Lenthay Road, Westbridge Park, Harbour Road, Bristol Road and
McCreery Road
The Quarr Nature Reserve
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Cllr Jon Andrews
(East Ward)
The Stores, Simons Road, Sherborne DT9 4DW
Telephone: 01935 812332
Mobile: 07828323189
Email: andrej676@hotmail.co.uk
Membership of Town Council Committees
Portfolio Holder for Playing Fields and Recreation Areas
Representative on External Bodies
The Rendezvous Executive Management Committee
The Digby Hall, Hound Street
Cllr David Birley
(West Ward)
DEPUTY MAYOR 2015/2016
4, The Old Green, Sherborne DT9 4DW
Telephone: 01935 509610
Mobile: 07860 110289
Email: davidpfbirley@hotmail.co.uk
Deputy Portfolio Holder for Finance
Representation on Outside Bodies:
Dorset Association of Parish & Town Councils - Central Area Committee
Sherborne Artslink
Sherborne Chamber of Trade
See Venues to hire for full details on pages 169
For information email Judith Simpson, Facilities Officer,
j.simpson@sherborne-tc.gov.uk
SHERBORNE TOWN COUNCILLORS
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Cllr James Carey
(East Ward)
The White House, Priestlands, Sherborne DT9 4HW
Telephone: 01935 812262
Email: james.carey@hotmail.co.uk
Deputy Portfolio Holder for Properties
Representation on Outside Bodies:
Dorset County Council Ancient Monuments Liaison Officer
Cllr Dominic Charles Elliott
(East Ward)
MAYOR 2015/2016
St Peters, Oborne Road, Sherborne DT9 3RX
Telephone: 01935 813698
Mobile: 07850714978
Email: nicelliot@aol.com
West Dorset District Councillor for Sherborne East
cllrd.elliott@westdorset-dc.gov.uk
Portfolio Holder for Staff Matters
Dorset Association of Parish & Town Councils – Larger Councils Committee
Tree Liaison Officer,
Sherborne Area Youth Centre Management Committee,
Sherborne Parochial Charities &
Sherborne Douzelage and Twinning
Cllr Anthony Cook
(West Ward)
Chantry Cottage, North Wootton, Sherborne DT9 5JW
Telephone: 01935 812924
Mobile: 07966391279
Email: tony1cook@btinternet.com
Portfolio Holder for Finance & Resources
Sherborne Area Partnership Executive Committee (Treasurer)
Friends of Sherborne Learning Centre Management Group
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Cllr Matthew Hall
(West Ward)
24 Hunts Mead, Sherborne DT9 6AJ
Telephone: 01935 813949
Mobile: 07921846082
Email: mnwh@icloud.com
Gryphon Leisure Centre Management Committee
Cllr Susan Greene
(East Ward)
Little Orchard, Priestlands, Sherborne DT9 4HW
Telephone: 01935 813467
Email: info@sherborne-tc.gov.uk
Deputy Portfolio Holder for Plans Committee
Rights of Way – Footpaths Liaison Officer, Public Transport (DCC),
Friends of the Quarr,
Waste Management,
West Dorset District Council Community Justice Panel
Cllr Jill Hogben
(West Ward)
4 Roberts Court, Sherborne DT9 6AJ
Telephone: 0753 1198791
Email: hogbenj@gmail.com
Plans Committee
Portfolio Holder for Staff
Representation on Outside Bodies
Sherborne Parochial Charities
Sherborne CAB Management Committee
Sherborne Tourism Forum
Friends of the Yeatman Hospital
Cllr Anne Hall
(West Ward)
24 Hunts Mead, Sherborne DT9 5AJ
Telephone: 01935 813949
Mobile: 07512782390
Email: annemaryhall@icloud.com
Plans Committee
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Cllr Katharine Pike
(West Ward)
6 Acreman Place, Sherborne DT9 3PB
Telephone: 01935 389064
Email: info@sherborne-tc.gov.uk
Portfolio Holder for Properties
Portfolio Holder for Plan Committee
Dorset County Council Ancient Monuments Liaison Officer &
Sherborne & District CPRE Society
Cllr Robin Legg
(East Ward)
90 Newland, Sherborne DT9 3DT
Telephone: 01935 815379
Email: robin.legg@btinternet.com
Plans Committee
COUNTY COUNCIL
DORSET COUNTY COUNCIL
Telephone: 01305 251000
Address: County Hall, Colliton Park, Dorchester, Dorset
Cllr Juliet Pentolfe
(East Ward)
1 Pencarrow, The Avenue. Sherborne DT9 3AJ
Telephone: 01935 816671
Email: Juliet.pentolfe@hotmail.co.uk
Plans Committee
Deputy Portfolio Holder for Playing Fields and Recreation Areas
DISTRICT COUNCIL
WEST DORSET DISTRICT COUNCIL
Telephone: 01305 251010
Address: West Dorset District Council, South Walks House,
South Walks Road, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 1UZ (use DT1 1EE for sat nav)
PARISH COUNCILS
DORSET ASSOCIATION OF PARISH AND TOWN COUNCILS
Telephone: 01305 260972
Address: Colliton Annex, Colliton Park, Dorchester DT1 1XJ.
Website: www.dorset-aptc.gov.uk
Representation on Outside Bodies
County Primary School
Sherborne Area Over Fifties Club
Sherborne Senior Lunch Club
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PARISH PLANS
PARISH COUNCILS
Name: Simon Thompson
Position: Community Action Manager
Telephone: 01305 216412
Mobile: 07974 723087
Email: simon.thompson@dorsetcommunityaction.org.uk
Web Address:
http://www.dorsetcommunityaction.org.uk/parishandneighbournood_plans
Address: Dorset Community Action, The Coach House, Acland Road, Dorchester,
Dorset DT1 1EF
DCA has helped many neighbourhoods and villages develop Parish or
Community Led Plans.
BATCOMBE PARISH
See High Stoy Parish Group
BISHOPS CAUNDLE PARISH COUNCIL
Name: Sue Harris
Position: Parish Clerk
Address: Warrbridge Cottage, Waterloo Lane
Stourton Caundle, Sturminster Newton DT10 2JF
Telephone: 01963 362864
Email: bishopscaundle@dorsetparishes.gov.uk
BRADFORD ABBAS PARISH COUNCIL
Name: Patricia Chapman
Address: 3 Churchwell Lane, Bradford Abbas, DT9 6RQ
Telephone: 01935 473833
Email: bradfordabbaspc@hotmail.co.uk
BUCKLAND NEWTON PARISH COUNCIL
Name: Mrs Sarah J Mitchell
Address: Hartmoor Farm, Pulham, Dorchester, DT2 7EZ
Telephone: 01258 817288
Email: mitchellsarahj@hotmail.co.uk
Parish plans determine the future of communities and how they can change for
the better. They are documents that set out a vision for the future of a parish or
neighbourhood and outlines how that can be achieved in an action plan. The
parish plan process may include: a village appraisal – a household questionnaire
to assess needs and aspirations of local people; participatory appraisals –
hands-on interactive workshops; business surveys; the creation of a simple
action plan for the community or a Parish Council deciding to develop a
“Neighbourhood Plan”.
CAM VALE GROUP PARISH COUNCIL
Parishes of Holnest, Leweston, Lillington AND Longburton
Name: Carinna Vickers
Address: Wriggle House, Church Street Yetminster DT9 6LG
Telephone: 01935 873510
Email: camvale@dorset-aptc.gov.uk
Website: www.camvaleparishcouncil.co.uk
CASTLETON PARISH
See YEO HEAD GROUP Parish Council
CAUNDLE MARSH PARISH MEETING
No information recorded on the
www.dorsetforyou.com website for Caundle Marsh
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CHETNOLE & STOCKWOOD PARISH COUNCIL
Name: Mrs Sue Woodford
Address: Charing Cross House, Chetnole Sherborne, Dorset DT9 6PL
Telephone: 01935 872089
Email: Chetnole-pc@btconnect.com
HIGH STOY PARISH GROUP
Parishes of Batcombe, Hermitage and Hilfield
Name: Kerry Straughan
Address: Redford Farmhouse, Melbury Bubb
Dorchester, Dorset. DT2 0NH
Email: harrystraughan@talktalk.net
CLIFTON MAYBANK PARISH MEETING
Name: Mrs J E T Mellish
Position: Parish Clerk and Chairman
Address: Huish Farm, Bradford Abbas, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 6RE
HILFIELD PARISH
See High Stoy Parish Group above
HOLNEST PARISH
See Cam Vale Parish Council
EVERSHOT PARISH COUNCIL
Name: Christina Jones
Address: 21, The Common, Evershot, Dorchester, Dorset DT2
Email: christinahair60@yahoo.com
Website: www.evershot.org
HOLWELL PARISH COUNCIL
Name: Keith Budgell
Address: 7 Fox’s Close, Holwell, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 5LH
Email: holwell@dorsetparishes.gov.uk
FOLKE PARISH COUNCIL
Telephone: 01935 873510
Email: folke@dorset-aptc.gov.uk
LEIGH PARISH COUNCIL
Telephone: 01935 873510
Email: leigh@dorset-aptc.gov.uk
GOATHILL PARISH
LEWESTON PARISH
GLANVILLES WOOTTON PARISH MEETING
North Dorset
Name: Mr. M Sandy
Address: Hill View, Glanvilles Wootton, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 5QH
Telephone: 01963 210256
LILLINGTON PARISH
LONGBURTON PARISH
MELBURY BUBB PARISH MEETING
www.dorsetforyou.com website for Melbury Bubb
HAYDON PARISH MEETING
www.dorsetforyou.com website for Haydon
MELBURY OSMOND PARISH COUNCIL
Name: Michael Kowalewski
Address: The Old School House, Melbury Osmond
HERMITAGE PARISH
See High Stoy Parish Group below
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Dorchester DT2 0LU
Email: melburyclerk@btinternet.com
NETHER COMPTON PARISH
See Queen Thorne Group Parish Council
Address: 6 Sarum, Thornford, Sherborne DT9 6SU
Telephone: 01935 873547
Email address: thornhackett@dorsetparishes.gov.uk
TRENT PARISH
See Queen Thorne Group Parish Council
NORTH WOOTTON PARISH MEETING
Name: Tony Cook
Address: Chantry Cottage, North Wootton
Sherborne, Dorset. DT9 5JW
Telephone: 01935 812924
Email: tony1.cook@btinternet.com
YEOHEAD & CASTLETON PARISH COUNCIL
Parishes of Castleton, Goathill, Oborne and Poyntington
Name: Mrs Rose Edwards
Address: Townsend Cottage, Poyntington, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 4LF
Telephone: 01963 220491
Email: rose.ned@btinternet.com
Website: http://www.yeoheadpc.co.uk/
OBORNE PARISH
YETMINSTER AND RYME INTRINSECA GROUP PARISH COUNCIL
Telephone: 01935 873510
Email: tom.vickers@virgin.net
Website: www.yetminsterparishes.gov.uk
OVER COMPTON PARISH
See Queen Thorne Parish Group Parish Council
POYTINGTON PARISH
PURSE CAUNDLE PARISH COUNCIL
Name: Kimberley Smith
Address: Gospel Ash Farm, Milborne Port, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 5DU
Telephone: 01963 250120
QUEEN THORNE PARISH GROUP
Parishes of Nether Compton, Over Compton, Sandford Orcas and Trent.
Name: Mrs Rose Edwards
Address: Townsend Cottage, Poyntington, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 4LF
Telephone: 01963 220491
Email: queenthorne@outlook.com
SANDFORD ORCAS PARISH
See Queen Thorne Parish Group Parish Council
THORNFORD
See Thornhackett below
THORNHACKETT GROUP PARISH COUNCIL
Parishes of Thornford and Beer Hackett.
Name: Peter Routledge
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ENVIRONMENT, RECYCLING & UP
CYCLING
During the winter season there are indoor meetings when we invite speakers
from outside to talk on a wide range of subjects.
We have an Association Apiary at Trent with the specific aim to give new
beekeepers or anyone interested in taking up beekeeping the opportunity to
experience and to gain confidence in looking after bees. New beekeepers can
also call on a "mentor" who will be willing to give assistance if needed.
Membership of the Association entitles you to the county magazine "Honeycraft"
and the BBKA News both published quarterly and importantly third party
insurance for your bees.
There is also a small library of books and videos which are available to
members.
BEEKEEPERS’ ASSOCIATION
Name: Mr. A. Blundell
Telephone: 01963 250811
I will collect swarms, offer advice on any bee keeping matter such as starting a
hive and deal with wasps.
Westbridge Park Allotments
Norman Crabb
SHERBORNE BEEKEEPERS’ ASSOCIATION
Name: Michael Towers
Telephone: 01963 220362
Name: Roger Kipling
Address: Lyes House, Hummer, Trent, Sherborne, Dorset. DT9 4SH
Telephone: 01935 850926
Email: rogerkipling@lyeshouse.co.uk
BTCV - BRITISH TRUST FOR CONSERVATION VOLUNTEERS
E-mail address: dorset@btcv.org.uk
Website: www.btcv.org/dorset.
The organisation aims to create a more sustainable
future by inspiring people and improving places.
Resources available: Speakers and trainers on
conservation, youth work, management and mental
health. Minibus and tools for use with conservation
volunteers.
Website: http://www.bbka.org.uk/local/sherborne/
Sherborne Beekeepers (SBKA) is a group of
mainly amateur beekeepersThe membership
extends to the numerous villages around
Sherborne. The members' experience of
beekeeping varies between those who are just
starting to those who have kept bees for 30 years
or more.
Our aim is to foster each other in our efforts to maintain and to improve the
standard of beekeeping and generally to portray the wholesome image of
beekeeping to the public.
During the beekeeping season there are regular monthly visits to apiaries.
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COMMUNITIES LIVING SUSTAINABLY IN DORSET
Name: Candida Blaker
Position: Programme Manager Communities Living Sustainably
in Dorset,
Mondays – Thursdays.
Tel: 01305 216414
Mobile 07917 476196
Website: www.clsdorset.org.uk
COMMUNITY LAND TRUST FUND
COMMON GROUND
Director: Adrian Cooper
Telephone: 01300 320013
Address: Common Ground, Lower Dairy, Toller Fratrum, Dorchester
Dorset DT2 0EL
Twitter : @C om monG roundO rg
http://www.sustainabledorset.org.uk/funding/community-land-trust-fund
Deadline for Applications:
Tuesday, June 4, 2019
The Community Land Trust Fund is a specialist fund to support the development
of community-led affordable housing projects in England and Wales. We
support emerging and established Community Land Trusts (CLTs) to form and
build permanently affordable housing to benefit their local communities. We
believe that there are extraordinary benefits from putting citizens at the centre
of housing development: CLTs offer a unique way to address housing need
whilst also building sustainable, vibrant communities.
Contact Name: Kate O’Farrell
Position: Information Officer
Address of Organisation: Common Ground, Gold Hill House, 21 High Street,
Shaftesbury, Dorset, SP7 8JE
Email Address: info@commonground.org.uk
Website: www.commonground.org.uk
The CLT Fund was first launched as a pilot in 2008, to provide funding and
expert support to fledgling CLTs from initial feasibility through to the
construction of affordable homes. After a successful five years we remain
committed to ensuring the CLT market continues to grow and as a result we are
re-launching the Fund Spring 2014 for 5 more years of operation.
The Organisation covers England and aims to link nature and culture working to
inspire, inform and involve people in learning about and taking more
responsibility for their own locality. ‘We champion popular involvement and
excite celebration as starting points for local action to improve the
quality of ordinary places and everyday lives.’ Resources available: Books,
leaflets, slide packs and exhibitions for hire.
We provide funding and expert support to fledgling Community Land Trusts
from initial feasibility – where communities are identifying a need and thinking
about a solution – through to financing the pre-planning stage and the
construction of affordable homes,
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COMPOST BINS (WDDC)
Dorset Waste Partnership
SHERBORNE AND DISTRICT SOCIETY
Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE)
Name: Peter Neal
Position: Chairman
Email: peter.neal2@hotmail.co.uk
Website: www.dorset-cpre.org.uk
Name: Dave Levi
Recycling Officer
Email: D.Levi@dorsetwastepartnership.gov.uk
Telephone: 01305 225002
Address: - Poundbury West Industrial Estate, Dorchester, Dorset. DT1 2PG
The Sherborne and District Society is the local group for the Campaign to
Protect Rural England (CPRE). Its responsibility is the town of Sherborne and
the surrounding villages and countryside. Its aims are wise conservation, the
encouragement of sympathetic design and the avoidance of needless ugliness.
The Society shares the aims of The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) which
exists to promote the beauty, tranquility and diversity of Rural England by
encouraging the sustainable use of land and other natural resources in town and
country.
Website: https://www.dorsetforyou.com/dorset-waste-partnership
Information on recycling, reuse and waste reduction, available to talk to groups
ranging from Schools and Scouts to WIs and Community Groups or provision of
static displays.
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Aims
da21 is an independent charity. We work cooperatively with local people,
communities, businesses, educational bodies, local government and other
organisations to encourage sustainable living in Dorset. (Charity Number:
1102528, Company Number: 4988176). We currently have 8 trustees on our
board and 4 members of Staff.
Our objectives are: (1) To promote sustainable development and the prudent
use of natural resources; (2) To advance education and research about
sustainable development and the protection of the environment
We do this by: (1) Raising public awareness and understanding about
sustainability (2) Support or initiate projects which demonstrate sustainability
(3) Influence decision makers to take sustainability into account throughout
their decision making
About
We use the Brundtland definition of sustainable development: "development
that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of
future generations to meet their own needs" Find out how to get involved
and support our work.
da21
Name: Andrew Barker
Position: Chair of trustees of da21
Name: Mark Worcester
Position: Treasurer of da21
Address: PO Box 5789, 1a Acland Road, Dorchester Dorset DT2 8ZR
Email: office@da21.org.uk
Website: www.sustainabledorset.org.uk
The Organisation is a community-based charity whose aims are to promote and
encourage initiatives on sustainable living and action on Climate Change with
community groups, individuals and other 3rd sector organisations.
Resources available. Library of sustainability information.
Speakers and materials on Sustainability and Climate Change.
Access to funding and networks.
Quarterly Dorset-wide newsletter.
DORSET AREA OF OUTSTANDING NATURAL BEAUTY (AONB)
PARTNERSHIP
Contact Name: Tom Munro
Position: Dorset AONB Team Manager
Address: Dorset AONB Partnership, PO Box 7318 Dorchester Dorset DT1 9FD
Email Address: dorsetaonb@dorsetcc.gov.uk
Website: www.dorsetaonb.org.uk
The Organisation aims to conserve and enhance the natural beauty and heritage
of the Dorset AONB and seeks to ensure that the Dorset AONB is able to provide
ongoing opportunities for people and communities. Resources Available – ANOB
Statutory Management Plan, AONB Literature, AONB Display Material. The team
can provide illustrated talks on AONB and their work, a sustainable development
fund for projects that help conserve and enhance the AONB.
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DORSET CENTRE FOR RURAL SKILLS
Contact Name: Rob Buckley
Position: Director
Address: West Farm Barn, West Farm, Farrington, Blandford, Dorset, DT11 8RA
Email Address: info@dorsetruralskills.co.uk
Website: www.dorsetruralskills.co.uk
The Organisation aims to keep rural skills alive.
Position: Chairman
Email Address: info@dorsetcoppicegroup.co.uk
Website: www.dorsetcoppicegroup.org.uk
The Organisation aims to raise public awareness of the valuable tradition of
coppicing by highlighting the link between the use of locally produced wood
products and the resulting conservation.
Resources: Woodland Directory and leaflets.
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT TEAM
Name: Danny Alder
Position: Senior Ecologist
Address: Environment Directorate, County Hall, Dorchester, Dorset. DT1 1XJ
Telephone: 07803 238447
Working Pattern is Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 8:30-4:45pm and
Friday until 2:00pm.
Danny says ‘although my role in DCC is largely taken up with ecology and
planning matters on DCC sites I am also keen to help promote sustainable
woodland management within the local community alongside the Town and
Parish councils. I note the question in the consultation booklet which mentions
renewable energy and would be interested to find out from you how much
interest there is in Sherborne for developing a sustainable woodfuel supply. As
you know we worked closely with the Town Council in planting the Community
Woodland at the Quarr Local Nature Reserve in the 1990's (I was on the
practical team who worked with the local community then). I still occasionally
advise the Friends of the Quarr’.
DORSET COMMUNITY RENEWABLES
Name: Keith Wheaton-Green Associates
Email Address: wheaton-greens@tiscali.co.uk
Website link:
http://www.sustainabledorset.org.uk/organisations/dorset-communityrenewables
The Organisation aims to maximize the generation of electricity and heat from
renewable Dorset resources by providing free advice, consultancy, project
development and installation services. Main focus over the last few years has
been with Hydropower and wind turbines u p to 15kw. Resources available:
Gives talks/presentation to groups interested in aspects of renewable energy.
DORSET COUNTY COUNCIL SUSTAINABILITY TEAM
Contact Name: Kate Hall
Position: Sustainable Development Manager
Address: Dorset County Council, County Hall, Colliton Park, Dorchester, Dorset,
DT1 1X3
Email Address: k.m.hall@dorsetcc.gov.uk
Website: https://www.dorsetforyou.com/climatechange
DORSET COPPICE GROUP
Contact Name: Dave Partridge
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The primary purpose of the Sustainability Team is to develop and deliver a
strategic approach to sustainable development issues across Dorset and within
the County Council. As such the team takes forward key areas of work on
sustainable development, sustainable and community energy, climate change
and sustainable schools. The team comprises (as of 9 Feb 2015) the following
officers:
Kate Hall, Sustainable Development Manager
Antony Littlechild, Corporate Sustainability Officer
Pete West, Renewable Energy Development Officer
Jon Bird, Energy Efficiency Development Officer
Rupert Lloyd, Climate Change Adaptation Officer (Communities Living
Sustainably in Dorset)
Alison Jay, Eco Schools Officer (Communities Living Sustainably in Dorset)
strategies and has a core membership of 20 members including representatives
from Dorset County Council, all of the Dorset’s district/borough councils, the
unitary authorities of Poole and Bournemouth, as well as other stakeholders
across the community and business sectors.
The working groups are responsible for delivering the priority action areas in
each strategy and as such address sustainable energy in the public, community
and domestic sectors as well as planning and bioenergy. Each working group is
responsible for developing and delivering annual action plans and again includes
representatives from Dorset’s local authorities and community and business
sectors. The Dorset Energy Partnership produces annual progress reports.
DORSET CYCLES
Telephone: 01963 363476
Address: High Street, Stalbridge, Dorset DT10 2LL
Resources available:
Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole Renewable Energy Strategy to 2020
Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole Energy Efficiency Strategy (2009)
County Council Carbon Management Action Plan
County Council environmental policies: energy, water, waste, transport and
procurement.
County Council annual environmental and sustainability reports
Local Climate Impacts Profile 2009
Comprehensive Climate Change Risk Assessment 2010
DORSET CYCLISTS NETWORK
Contact Name: Michael Evans
Position: County Chairman
Email Address: chairman@dcn.org.uk
SHERBORNE AREA CYCLIST NETWORK
Contact: Mark Brettell
Email: sher@dcn.org.uk
Website: www.dcn.org.uk
The Organisation aims to promote cycling in the county of Dorset and represent
the interests of cyclists.
Resources available – leaflets and spare newsletters available on request, free
of charge. Sustainable website – other cycling events can be added free of
charge, Experienced cyclists sometimes available to accompany those who may
be nervous about getting back on their bikes.
DORSET ENERGY PARTNERSHIP
Contact Name: Kate Hall, Chair, Dorset Energy Partnership Executive
Email Address: k.m.hall@dorsetcc.gov.uk
Website: https://www.dorsetforyou.com/dorset-energy-partnership
https://www.dorsetforyou.com/395102
The Dorset Energy Partnership (formerly Dorset Energy Group) is an active
group of organisations set up to develop and deliver the Bournemouth, Dorset
and Poole Renewable Energy Strategy to 2020 and the Bournemouth, Dorset
and Poole Energy Efficiency Strategy (2009).
The Partnership comprises an Executive and five working groups. The Executive
is responsible for the overall direction, delivery and monitoring of both
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DORSET ENERGY GROUP (DEG)
Contact Name: Andrew Barker
Email Address: Andrew@da21.org.uk
Website: www.dorsetforyou.com/index.jsp?articleid=387640
The Dorset Energy Group (DEG) is the body that co-ordinates and monitors the
delivery of the key actions laid out in the Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole
Renewable Energy Strategy.
The aims of the executive group are to:

To co-ordinate, guide and support the implementation of the strategy in
conjunction with key partners.

To establish working groups as required to progress the strategy and to
oversee their operation.

To review and monitor the overall progress of the strategy and the
achievement of its mission, aims and action plan.

To accommodate new requirements resulting in changes in by national,
regional and local policies concerning renewable energy.

To organise an annual conference or other appropriate means of
engagement with all key stakeholders.

To agree and monitor the annual work programme of the Renewable
Energy Development Officer and other staff that may be appointed.
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To organise a briefing of all councilors in Dorset, at least, annually.
Email Address: chris.doyle@environment-agency.gov.uk
Website: www.environment-agency.gov.uk
‘Our vision is a better environment in England and Wales for present
and future generations.’
SHERBORNE AREA ENVIRONMENT FORUM
Dormant – contact us if you would like to be involved in re-starting it
The Environment Forum was set up in 2008 under the auspices of the
Sherborne Area Partnership to:
Enable members to share views on environmental issues
Respond to consultations on environmental legislation affecting local
people
stimulate and support local people who want to improve and enhance
their environment
Work on environmental projects in partnership with Sherborne in Bloom
It links with and participates in the Dorset Community Sustainable
Energy Group
Contact: 01935 816961 for more information
DORSET WASTE PARTNERSHIP
Name: Dorset Waste Partnership
Address of Organisation: Grove House, Millers Close, Dorchester,
Dorset, DT1 1SS
Email Address: enquiries@dorsetwastepartnership.gov.uk
The Dorset Waste Partnership (DWP) brings together waste, recycling and street
cleansing services from the seven Dorset councils (not including Bournemouth &
Poole). It aims to promote waste reduction & reuse, increase recycling &
composting and reduce the impact of landfilling. Resources available – Displays,
presentations, expert speakers on all waste issues.
ENVIRONMENT AGENCY
FARMING AND WILDLIFE ADVISORY GROUP (FWAG) DORSET
Telephone: 01305 228912
Address: FWAG South West, Dorset History Centre, Bridport Road, Dorchester,
Dorset DT1 1RP
Website: www.fwagsw.org.uk
The Organisation is the leading independent supplier of conservation advice in a
business context, to farmers and landowners.
Resources available – meeting room, distribution of relevant materials and
speakers.
Contact Name: Chris Doyle
Position: External Relations officer
Address: Rivers House, Sunrise Business Park, Higher Shaftesbury Rd,
Blandford, Dorset, DT11 8ST.
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Email address: Mary.Brodie@gmx.co.uk
Website: http://quarrlocalnaturereserve.org
The Quarr is a Local Nature Reserve owned and maintained by Sherborne Town
Council with the help and advice from the Friends of the Quarr, a small group of
local enthusiasts. Once a quarry which supplied stone for buildings in the town
and then a general recreation area, the Quarr is now managed for the benefit of
nature/ wildlife but it continues to be a popular local open space for a variety of
activities.
FEDERATION OF CITY FARMS AND COMMUNITY
GARDENS
Address: The Green House, Hereford Street, Bristol BS3
4NA
Telephone: 0117 923 1800
Fax: 0117 923 1900
Email: admin@farmgarden.org.uk
Website: https://www.farmgarden.org.uk
Our Work- We directly support our members through
practical advice, site visits, information resources, training
opportunities and networking events.
- We represent the interests and views of our members to
regional, national and international bodies, which helps
raise the profile of the whole community farming and
gardening movement.
- We work in partnership with other organisations to create positive action on
crucial issues. Partnership working also allows us to help members bring further
benefits to their local communities.
Community farming and gardening - in both urban and isolated rural areas builds the capacity of local people to enrich and improve their own lives.
Many people assume that city farms and community gardens are simply nice
places to visit where plants are grown and animals kept. But that is far from the
whole picture.
Not only do these community projects create a patch of welcoming green space
to visit, but also offer an amazing array of benefits and opportunities which can
include education programmes, play schemes, healthy living initiatives, work
and skills training, social enterprises, volunteer opportunities, environmental
schemes, horticultural therapy groups, facilities for people with disabilities…the
list goes on.
FURNICARE
Telephone: 01935 433416
Address: FurniCare Yeovil, South Somerset Association for Voluntary &
Community Action Ltd (SSVCA), 32 Goldcroft, Yeovil BA21 4DH
Email: furnicareyeovil@btconnect.com
Web Address: www.furnicare.co.uk
Telephone: 01935 433416
Opening Hours: Tuesday to Friday 9am – 4pm
FurniCare was formed in 1992 to sell good quality used furniture, PAT tested
electrical appliances and general household items at reasonable prices to people
on lower incomes living in South Somerset and surrounding areas. A delivery
service is available.
FRIENDS OF THE EARTH
(WEST DORSET)
Contact Name: Kirsten Juniper
Email: juniperkirtsen@hotmail.com
http://www.sustainabledorset.org.uk/organisations/friends-earthwest-dorset
The Organisation aims to support the aims of Friends of the Earth
and campaign on environmental issues, especially as they affect
West Dorset and adjacent areas.
Membership and buying furniture at FurniCare
To become a member of FurniCare you will need to bring proof of either a net
household income of less than £25,000 per annum or proof of a means tested
benefit or credit such as: Income Support, Incapacity Benefit, Jobseekers
Allowance, Housing Benefit, Working Tax Credit, Pension Credit or Employment
Support Allowance (ESA). Please call us on 01935 433416 for more information
and to check if you qualify. Membership costs £3.00 per year.
FRIENDS OF THE QUARR
Contact Name: Mary Brodie
Position: Secretary
Address: c/o 32 Kings Road Sherborne DT9 4HU
Our showroom, based in Yeovil, displays a large selection of furniture (including
Sofas and Beds), electrical items (including all white goods) which are P.A.T.
tested and all general household items.
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Donating to FurniCare
Do you have good quality furniture or household appliances which you no longer
need?
We always need a constant supply of furniture and electrical appliances to meet
the needs of our clients.
If you live in South Somerset or the surrounding areas, contact us by telephone
or email and we can discuss your donations and arrange a collection date with
you.
Please remember we could not run our project without donations from the public
and we are very grateful for any donations however small.
We are registered for Gift Aid which means if you are a tax payer we can claim
25p back from the Inland Revenue for every £1 that we are able to sell your
furniture for.
FurniCare is a managed project of South Somerset Association for Voluntary &
Community Action Limited (SSVCA).
NFU Mutual provides insurance’s, investments, pensions for all types of
business, personal and motor.
HOPE 2 CYCLE
Email: sherborne@hope2cycle.org.uk
Address: Sherborne Workshop, The Old Parcel Office, Sherborne Railway
Station, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3NB
Opening Hours
Tuesday 10:00am – 5:00pm
Wednesday 10:00am – 5:00pm
Thursday 10:00am – 5:00pm
GREENPEACE
WEST DORSET GREENPEACE
A friendly active group, new supporters always welcome. We meet on the
second Wednesday of the month in Dorchester or Bridport, check under
Upcoming events for venue.
HILFIELD
Address of Organisation: The Friary, Hilfield, Dorchester, Dorset, DT2 7BE
Email Address: hilfieldproject@franciscans.org.uk
Website: www.hilfieldproject.co.uk
The project aims to nurture and share the Franciscan values of peace, justice
and the integrity of creation, as a resource for all who are inspired by St Francis
and bring together people of different faiths – and no acknowledged faith - to
work for a more gentle and respectful care for the earth.
Resources available - meeting rooms, self-catering accommodation, information,
speakers, woodland and meadows.
NATIONAL FARMERS UNION MUTUAL
Name: Shelley Goodfellow
Telephone: 01935 813285
Address: Roberts Court, Digby Road, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3LB.
Email: Sherborne@nfumutual.co.uk
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SHERBORNE STOP THE LITTER CAMPAIGN
Name: Anthony Vosper
Telephone: 01935 814840
Email: awvosper@btinternet.com
Organised litter picks meeting monthly on a Tuesday at four different
locations throughout Sherborne from 1000 -1200 hours.
See Sherborne Matters for dates and meeting locations.
I would like to thank all our loyal volunteers for turning out and supporting the
campaign month by month. There is no doubt that our efforts are paying off and
SOUTH WESSEX WASTE MINIMISATION GROUP (SWWMG)
Contact Name: Tessa Bowering
Position: Secretary
Address: c/o The Environment Agency, Rivers House, Sunrise Business Park,
Higher Shaftesbury Road, Blandford, Dorset
DT11 8ST
Mobile: 07770 476629
Email Address:
tessa.bowering@environment-agency.gov.uk
Website: www.swwmg.co.uk
The Organisation: The South West Waste
Minimisation Group was established to
develop and promote the use of the best
practical techniques for the profitable and
economic minimization of wastes arising from
the South Wessex businesses, to secure
environmental and financial benefits.
The group is free to join.
the town is definitely looking better for it.
Nationally, litter is huge, expensive and wasteful problem. "Keep Britain Tidy"
published the following statistics in November:2.25m items dropped in the UK every day.
200m cigarette butts thrown away every year.
60% increase in fast food litter as a proportion of the total over the past
decade.
63,000 fines for littering handed out in England in 2012.852,000 incidents of fly
tipping in 2013/2014, up 20% within the year.
£1bn approx annual cost of cleaning up the street
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SUSTAINABLE DORSET
Sustainable Dorset is the website of Dorset Agenda 21 (da21) a county-wide
sustainability charity. The aim of the website is to promote the tremendous
amount of work taking place in Dorset, encourage wider participation, and to
provide a background to community, statutory, and business organisations and
projects happening in the county
Website: http://www.sustainabledorset.org.uk/
The Network now passes within one mile of half the population and as it
continues to grow so does its popularity - over 386 million walking and cycling
trips were made on the Network in 2008 alone. Working in partnership with
hundreds of local authorities, and many other organisations and funders, just
over 12,000 miles of routes and links were completed by December 2007. The
routes are free to use and open to all, making them a great way for you and
your family to stay fit and healthy while enjoying a breath of fresh air.
SUSTAINABILIITY SOUTH WEST closed on 31st March 2014
The website http://www.sustnav.org.uk/ is SustNav’s Legacy offering the
opportunity to use SustNav's free resources to boost the efficiency, resilience
and broader benefits of what you do.
This website will remain live until 31st March 2017. All of the information and
tools on this site are free for public use and individuals, community
groups, businesses and organisations are encouraged to use the resources and
to upload them to their own sites so they can continue to be accessed by as
many people as possible as part of SustNav's legacy.
Sustrans provides creative, innovative and practical solutions to the transport
challenges affecting us all. By working with communities, local authorities and
many other organisations, we create change by putting people at the heart of
activities, enabling many more people to travel in ways that benefit their health
and the environment. Information on all our projects across the UK is available
on the website.
TRANSITION TOWNS – SHERBORNE
There isn’t currently a Transition Towns project in Sherborne. There is a
vacancy for someone to pick up the baton. Find out how by visiting the website.
Aims
Transition Sherborne Area (a transition town in West Dorset) is positively
committed to tackling the twin challenges of climate change and fossil fuel
depletion at the community level. At its heart, the transition process conveys
that, with the right approach, a world beyond peak oil can be better than the
one we find ourselves in today. We aim to do this by exploring and living in
more sustainable, less carbon intensive and healthier ways. We are engaging
our community (Sherborne town and the surrounding area) in dialogue, holding
a number of events and exploring local solutions to the challenges we all face.
Transition is fluid! It is about local people doing local things.
SUSTRANS
Contact Name: Anne Ecclestone
Position: Liaison Ranger
Address: 22 Colliton Street, Dorchester. DT1 1XH
Email Address: anne@harborow.demon.co.uk
Website: www.sustrans.org.uk
Sustrans was founded in 1977, by a group of people in Bristol keen to work
towards a future in which people travel in ways that benefit their health and the
environment. The first route was the Bristol & Bath Railway Path, a 17-mile
traffic-free trail along a disused railway. In September 2005 Sustrans wished
the National Cycle Network a happy 10th birthday, commemorating the day in
1995 when a cheque for £43.5 million was deposited into the Sustrans bank
account - a Millennium Commission Lottery Grant to develop the National Cycle
Network.
The general aim behind the Transition Movement is to provide a local response
to the twin issues of Oil Scarcity and Climate Change, while building Resilience –
three topics that are likely to have a major impact on our lives this century.
Website: http://www.transitionnetwork.org/
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WASTE AND RESOURCES ACTION PROGRAMME (WRAP)
Contact Name: Kate Bagshaw
Position: National Campaigns Manager
Address: The Old Academy, 21 Horse Fair, Banbury, Oxon, OX16 0AH
Telephone: 01295 819619
Email Address: media.enquiries@wrap.org.uk
Website: www.wrap.org.uk
The Organisation is part of a major UK government funded programme
established to accelerate resource efficiency. Its focus is on creating stable and
efficient markets for recycled materials and products and removing barriers to
waste minimization, re-use and recycling.
WESSEX ORGANIC MOVEMENT (WORM)
Contact Name: Clem Martin
Address: Frog Lane Farm, Motcombe, Shaftesbury, Dorset, SP7 9NY
Email Address: clem@froglanefarm.co.uk
Website: http://www.sustainabledorset.org.uk/organisations/wessex-organicmovement-worm
The Organisation aims to raise awareness about organic food and farming and
create links between local consumers and producers.
WILDLIFE TRUST - DORSET WILDLIFE TRUST
Name: John Gaye
Telephone: 01258 821499
Headquarters Address: Brooklands Farm, Fortson, Dorchester, Dorset DT2 7AA
Office: 01305 264620
Email mail@dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk
Website: www.dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk
Dorset Wildlife Trust is part of The Wildlife Trusts Partnership; a nationwide
network of 47 local wildlife trusts working for a better future for wildlife. Dorset
Wildlife Trust was founded in 1961 and has grown to an annual turnover of over
£2 million. The Trust has 40 nature reserves, covering 1,300 hectares of wildlife
habitat
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worldwide have already joined this grassroots online movement, whose
members recycle items they no longer have a use for - from monitors to high
chairs, rubble to jaffa cakes - by giving them away for FREE via online message
boards. North Dorset freecycle is now up and running and awaiting new
members. Come and find us at: www.freecycle.org and see what you could rehome today. While you're there have a look at what's on offer, it might be just
what you've been looking for. The not-for-profit freecycle network was started
in 2003 in Tucson, Arizona to help reduce waste and prevent the surrounding
desert landscape being taken over by landfills. It is now both a global and a
local movement - because people usually have to meet to exchange goods,
groups have grown up in 2400 towns and cities across the world.
SWAP WEBSITES
Waste Directory from http://www.swwmg.co.uk/directory.
The websites below offer contacts for a variety of recycling and waste
management opportunities:
Materials you can recycle : www.dorsetforyou.com/recyclingforbusiness
www.wasterecycling.org.uk
Associated Polymer Resources (Plastics recycling
specialists): www.assoc-polymer-resources.co.uk
Blackmore Computers: www.blackmore.it
Bournemouth & West Hants Water: www.bwhwater.co.uk
Canford recycling centre: www.commercialrecycling.co.uk
Carbon Trust: www.carbontrust.co.uk
Eco Food Recycling - commercial food waste collection service
: www.ecofoodrecycling.co.uk
The Elvis & Kresse Organisation www.eako.co.uk
Environment Agency www.environment-agency.gov.uk
Envirowise: www.envirowise.gov.uk
Government Office of the South West: www.oursouthwest.com
HSM UK : Balers, Waste Compactors, Industrial Shredders : www.hsmuk.co.uk
Mil-tek - a international supplier of waste solutions www.miltek-uk.co.uk
Netregs: www.netregs.gov.uk
Orwak Environmental Services (Balers
and Compactors) www.orwak.co.uk
Perrys Recycling www.perrys-recycling.co.uk
South West Regional Assessment Centre www.swrac.co.uk
www.swapz.co.uk
Swap site offering many goods and services.
www.swapcycle.co.uk
www.swapitshop.com
Goods for exchange.
www.whatsmineisyours.com
www.bigwardrobe.com
Clothes and accessories
www.swishing.org
Information on how to organise a clothes swap party.
www.seedypeople.co.uk
For gardeners who have seeds to swap.
www.readitswapit.co.uk
Book-swapping site
www.u-exchange.com
Houses all over the world available for holiday exchanges.
www.letslinkuk.net
Community networks which link people who want to swap their skills and goods.
www.staffshare.co.uk
Lets businesses swap staff members’ times with specialists in other firms.
www.dorsetfreecycle.com or www.freecycle.org
Get rid of your junk and save the world - without leaving home. Join your local
North Dorset Freecycle Network and give it away. Nearly a million people
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HEALTH & WELLBEING
Email: Keith.Harrison@dorsetccg.nhs.uk
This section contains
NHS information including surgeries
Information for groups and organisations in the Sherborne Area.
NHS YEATMAN HOSPITAL
Telephone: 01935 813991
Address: Hospital Lane, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3JU
Minor Injuries Unit Opening Times
Monday to Friday 09.00-18.00
(Last appointment at 17.30)
Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holidays 10.00-16.00
(Last appointment at 15.30)
The Yeatman Hospital provides a Minor Injuries Unit with a range of day surgery
and community services such as physiotherapy, mental health, the Reablement
Service and elderly care rehabilitation.
NHS & DOCTOR INFORMATION
NHS – Help out of hours
Telephone: 111
NHS - Emergency
Telephone: 999
NHS Direct
Telephone: 0845 46 47
FRIENDS OF THE YEATMAN HOSPITAL
Contact: The Secretary
Address: Friends of the Yeatman Hospital, Yeatman Hospital, Hospital Lane,
Sherborne, Dorset. DT9 3JU
Email: contact@friendsoftheyeatman.co.uk
Website: www.friendsoftheyeatman.co.uk
For more details see further on in this section and/or Leisure Activities
NHS YEOVIL DISTRICT HOSPITAL
Address: Higher Kingston, Yeovil, Somerset BA21 4AT
Telephone: 01935 475122
Website: http://www.yeovilhospital.nhs.uk
CASUALTY – YEOVIL
Telephone: 01935 384355
Yeovil District Hospital is an acute district hospital working to care for
approximately 185,000 people, primarily in south Somerset, North and West
Dorset and parts of Mendip.
We have 345 beds and a private patients’ wing, the Kingston Wing. We provide
a full-range of clinical services, including general medicine, cardiology, general
surgery, orthopaedic surgery, trauma and paediatrics, with an emphasis on
enhanced recovery – this means we help people to recover as quickly as
possible so they can return home. Most of our services are provided from the
Hospital site, although we offer an increasing number of clinics in South
Petherton Hospital and at the Yeatman Hospital, Sherborne.
Yeovil Hospital is also part of an innovative local partnership developing plans
for an integrated health and care system, working alongside GPs, NHS
commissioners, and the local authority. These plans have seen the partnership
recognised as an NHS England ‘vanguard site’, pioneering new ways of working
which could change the way the entire NHS operates.
NHS DENTIST
Address: Sherborne Dental Centre, Yeatman Hospital, Hospital Lane, Sherborne,
Dorset DT9 3JU
Telephone: 01935 817827
NHS available at OPTICIANS
Matthews Opticians - Sherborne
Telephone: 01935 813355
Address: 1 Tilton Court, Digby Road, SHERBORNE, Dorset DT9 3NL
Scrivens Opticians
Address: 62 Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3BJ
Telephone: 01935 812971
Vision Express
Address: 57 Cheap Street Sherborne Dorset DT9 3AX
Telephone: 01935 812105
DORSET COUNTY HOSPITAL
NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
Telephone: 01305 251150
Address: Williams Avenue, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 2JY
Website: http://www.dchft.nhs.uk/
NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT DONOR LINE
Telephone: 0300 123 23 23
Website: www.uktransplant.org.uk
Website: www.blood.co.uk
NHS DORSET CLINICAL COMMISSIONING GROUP
Name: Keith Harrison
Position: PPI Development Worker
Telephone: 07825 691508
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NHS ORGAN DONOR REGISTRATION
Telephone: 0300 123 23 23
Lines open 24 hours a day
Website: https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk
Address: NHS Blood and Transplant, Organ Donation and Transplantation
Directorate, Fox Den Road, Stoke Gifford
BRISTOL, BS34 8RR
Telephone: 0117 975 7575
Fax: 0117 975 7577
PATIENT PARTICPATION GROUPS (PPG) IN THE SHERBORNE AREA
GP SURGERIES / MEDICAL CENTRES
THE APPLES MEDICAL CENTRE
Address: East Mill Lane, Sherborne. DT9 3DG
Reception Hours: Monday-Friday 8.00am-6.00pm
Telephone: 01935 812633
Prescriptions: 01935 816595
Fax: 01935 817484
Email: reception@gp-j81029.nhs.uk
Website: www.sherborneapples.co.uk
Sherborne Apples Forum (Patient Participation Group)
Telephone: 01935 812633
Email: reception@gp-j81029.nhs.uk
Web page: www.sherborneapples.co.uk/pages/Sherborne-Apples-Forum
Sherborne Apples Forum is the name of the Patient Participation Group for
the Apples Medical Centre. This group meets quarterly with the Practice
Manager to provide an opportunity for patients to support the Practice to
improve its services by helping with patient surveys, promoting self-care,
helping to communicate between the Practice and its patients etc.
Please contact the surgery if you would like further details of how you can sign
up to be informed of, or involved in, Patients Group activities.
Newland Patients Group
Telephone: 01935 813438
Web page: www.newlandsurgery.co.uk/ppg
Newland Patient Participation Group meets every 2 months with the
Practice Manager to provide an opportunity for patients to support the Practice
to improve its services by helping with patient surveys, promoting self-care,
helping to communicate between the Practice and its patients etc.
Please contact the surgery if you would like further details of how you can sign
up to be informed of, or involved in, Patients Group activities.
NEWLAND MEDICAL PRACTICE
Telephone: 01935 813438
Prescriptions: 01935 814486. Repeat prescription hours are Monday – Friday
08:30 – 11:00.
Address: Newland Surgery, Grove Medical Centre, Wootton Grove, Sherborne,
Dorset DT9 4DL
Website: www.newlandsurgery.co.uk
BUTE HOUSE
Telephone: 01935 810900
Address: Bute House Surgery, Grove Medical Centre, Wootton Grove,
Sherborne, Dorset DT9 4DL
Website: http://www.butehousesurgery.co.uk
YETMINSTER HEALTH CENTRE
Telephone: Reception 01935 872530
Dispensary: 01935 872955
Address: Yetminster Health Centre, Church Street, Yetminster, Dorset DT9 6LG
Opening Times: Monday – Friday 8.30am - 6.30pm
Email: info@yetminsterhc.com
Website: www.yetminsterhc.com
Bute House Patients Group
Please contact the surgery 01935 810900 if you would like further details of
how you can sign up to be informed of, or involved in, Patients Group activities.
Yetminster Patients Group
Please contact the surgery 01935 872530 if you would like further details of
how you can sign up to be informed of, or involved in, Patients Group activities.
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DCC ADULT SOCIAL CARE DAY SERVICES
The Shielings Day Centre, The Avenue, Sherborne, DT9 3AJ
Telephone: 01935 816321
ASHLEY ELM HOUSE
Address: Ashley Elm House, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3JE
Telephone: 01935 816552
Website: http://www.dorsetmentalhealthforum.org.uk/mental-health-servicesdorset.html
An Adult mental health service for ages 18yrs – 65yrs which is based in the
community.
AGE UK DORCHESTER
Name: Peter Lindsley
Position: Information and Advice Service Manager.
Telephone: 01305 269444
Address: Rowan Cottage, 4 Prince of Wales Road, Dorchester DT1 1PW
Email: peter@ageukdorchester.org.uk
Website: www.ageukdorchester.org.uk
AGE UK - Nail Cutting Service
Are painful feet making you feel unsteady on your feet? Healthy, comfortable
feet are essential especially for older people. Never ignore minor foot and nail
problems as they can get worse. We have a nail cutting service available to
older people. You may smile but toe nails can be a real nuisance as you get
older and they are not always easy to cut on your own. Long toenails can
cause falls and possible hospitalisation as a result.
The service is available in Weymouth, Portland, Purbeck, Sherborne and West
Dorset for people over the age of 50. Please contact: Debbie on 07971
338991 for appointments in Sherborne and West Dorset.
HEALTH & WELLBEING
Advice and groups in the Sherborne Area
AA
Telephone: 01904 644026
Fax: 01904 629091
Website: www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk
AA holds weekly meetings in Sherborne on Wednesday evenings.
The Roman Catholic Church Hall, Westbury, DT9 3RA
Start time: 19.30
Disabled Access: Full wheelchair access.
Meeting Guide: ALL meetings, unless otherwise stated, are 'Closed' meetings
and restricted to alcoholics and those who have a desire to stop drinking.
Open (O) AA Meetings are open to ALL who may or may not have an alcoholic
problem.
There are also 2 each week in Yeovil on Tuesdays and Thursdays and are also
held in Gillingham, Shaftesbury and Sturminster Newton.
ALZHEIMER’S SOCIETY
SOUTH AND EAST SOMERSET ALZHEIMER’S SOCIETY
(including WEST DORSET)
Name: Jo Malyon
Position: Service Manager
Telephone: 01202 716393 or 01305 259740
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Mobile: 07595 968477
Address: The Lodge, Aldernay Hospital, Ringwood, Poole. BH12 4NB
Email: dorset@alzheimers.org.uk
Website: www.alzheimers.org.uk.
We are the leading support and research charity for people with dementia, their
families and carers. National Dementia Helpline 0300 222 1122 Open 9am 5pm Monday to Friday and 10am - 4pm Saturday and Sunday
Memory Cafe alternate Thursdays 10am - 12 noon at the Catholic
Church Hall, Westbury, Sherborne DT9 3RA.
If you have dementia, or are caring for someone with dementia, you'll be
welcomed at Sherborne Memory Cafe. Come along and meet others in a similar
situation, in a relaxed social setting. Friendly Alzheimer's Society staff and
volunteers will be on hand to give you information and support and there are
refreshments and optional activities.
Singing for the Brain alternate Thursdays 10am - 12noon at the Catholic
Church Hall, Westbury, Sherborne DT9 3RA.
Singing for the Brain is a therapeutic activity for people in the early to moderate
stages of dementia and their carers, bringing people together in a friendly and
stimulating environment.
Many of our 20,000 members have personal experience of dementia, as carers,
health professionals or people with dementia themselves, and their experiences
help to inform our work. The Society provides reliable and up to date
information to help you with every aspect of living with dementia: from
understanding diagnosis and assessment to dealing with the financial challenges
you may encounter. Our range of over a hundred factsheets and other
publications on dementia provide the answers to many of the common questions
we have been asked over the years.
and group outings, our services provide both practical support and an essential
point of human contact.
ARTHRITIS CARE – Local Contact
Name: Mrs E Hoskins
Address: 1 Churchwell Street, Bradford Abbas,
Sherborne, Dorset. DT9 6RG
Helpline: 0808 800 4050
Website:
http://www.organisation.me.uk/companyarthritis-care-in-sherborne-223
Website: www.arthritiscare.org.uk
Arthritis Care exists to support people with
arthritis. We are the UK’s largest charity working with and for all people who
have arthritis. We are a user led charity which means people with arthritis are
at the heart of our work – they form our membership, are involved in all of our
activities and direct what we do.
BEARCAT COLLECTIVE
The advisers on Alzheimer's Society national dementia helpline can ensure you
receive all the information you need. You can also access a wide range of
information through this website, and learn from the experiences of other carers
or people with dementia through our online support network, Talking Point.
Alzheimer's Society members receive a monthly magazine, 'Living with
dementia', which provides information about all the latest news and
developments in the field of dementia.
Via the website you can also search our Dementia Catalogue for specific
dementia-related topics from a database of over 11,500 published items.
Name: Samantha Jane Barry
Email: mail@bearcatcollective.co.uk
Website: www.bearcatcollective.co.uk
BearCat is a not for profit collective of artists and musicians,
bringing affordable, hands-on, family fun, education and entertainment
for all ages to village halls, shows, fetes & festivals across Wessex
Local support
Alzheimer's Society staff and volunteers provide both local information and over
2,000 services across England, Wales and Northern Ireland to people affected
by dementia in their communities. Our local services include day care and home
care for people with dementia, as well as support and befriending services to
help partners and families cope with the demands of caring. From Alzheimer's
Café's and innovative 'Singing for the Brain' sessions to memory-book projects
BearCat Collective provides a forum for exchange of mutual support, ideas,
crafts, produce, art, poetry, spoken word, music and song. Events where all feel
equally welcomed, safe, provided for, educated and entertained. Find us in
village halls, community venues and fetes. Everyone can take part regardless
of financial means.
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Heart Matters – a free service for keeping your heart healthy, including
a magazine that’s packed with great ideas and support.
Keeping Young Hearts Beating – a programme for local schools, youth groups
and nurseries – including Arties Olympics, Ultimate Dodgeball and Jump Rope
for Heart.
Health at Work – turn your work place into a more active, energised
environment with this free package of practical tools and resources to promote
better health in your organisation.
How can we become a Heart Town or City?
We're looking to work with communities across the country to help us save
lives. Call us on 0300 330 3322 if you'd like to find out how your town or city
can get involved.
CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU
Telephone: 0344 245 1291
Address: The Manor House, Newland, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3JL
Website: www.westdorsetcab.org.uk
Follow us on Twitter @WestDorsetCAB
BRITISH HEART FOUNDATION
Dorchester, Sherborne & Districts Citizens Advice is a free, impartial,
independent and confidential service which offers information and advice
through face-to-face, phone and e-mail services, and online via
Adviceguide.org.uk. No one knows when they might have a problem they
cannot sort out whether it is to do with managing money, benefits, employment
or housing and we see more clients coming through the door with more and
more complicated questions. We also use clients’ stories anonymously to
campaign for policy changes that benefit the population as a whole.
Telephone: 01202 716820
Address: PO Box 7130, Poole, Dorset BH12 9FJ
Just a few hours of your life can save someone else's. Contact me to discuss our
exciting volunteering opportunities.
Heart Towns and Cities is a scheme where entire communities come together to
join the fight against heart disease.
Heart Towns and cities benefit from our range of resources and education
programmes so that everyone can take practical steps to improve their heart
health.
Heart Towns and Cities also host a wide range of events and activities, such as
Heart Town bike rides, walks or runs - uniting the community for one day to
fundraise for our Mending Broken Hearts Appeal.
The Citizens Advice Bureau helps people resolve their legal, money and other
problems by providing free information and advice and by influencing
policymakers. Sherborne Citizens Advice Bureau is a registered charity reliant
on volunteers and needs to raise funds to provide these vital services. The
majority of our advisers are trained volunteers, helping people to resolve
their problems.
Visit us at The Manor House, Newland, Sherborne DT9 3JL
COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH TEAM
ASHLEY ELM HOUSE
Address: Ashley Elm House, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3JE
Telephone: 01935 816552
Website: http://www.dorsetmentalhealthforum.org.uk/mental-health-servicesdorset.html
An Adult mental health service for ages 18yrs – 65yrs
which is based in the community.
What are the benefits?
Everyone in your community can learn practical steps on how to improve their
heart health. By living within a Heart Town or Heart City you can benefit
from our wide range of resources and education programmes, including:
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CRUSE BEREAVEMENT CARE YEOVIL, SHERBORNE & DISTRICT
support packages, Cruse can help find the appropriate solution for your
organisation.
Telephone: 01458 898211
Email address: somerset@cruse.org.uk
Website: www.cruse.org.uk
We offer: someone to talk to (a free, confidential one-to-one support service),
information on a wide range of issues arising from bereavement, training in
bereavement care + support.
DORSET ADVOCACY
Contact Name: Michael Pochin
Position: Development Manager
Address: 13 -15 Jubilee Court, Paceycombe Way, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 3AE
Email address: enquiries@dorsetadvocacy.co.uk
Website: www.dorsetadvocacy.co.uk
Twitter address: @dorsetadvocacy
Facebook Page: Dorset Advocacy
Dorset Advocacy helps people to speak up so that they get the support, services
and opportunities they are entitled to.
Cruse Bereavement Care is here to support you after the
death of someone close. If someone you know has died
and you need to talk
Face-to-face and group support is delivered by trained
bereavement support volunteers across the UK. We also
offer information, publications, and support for children.
Bereavement support for young people
Many children and young people experience the death of a parent, caregiver,
sibling, friend or grandparent. Even very young children can be deeply affected
by the death of someone close. Children and young people react differently
depending on their age and understanding but all should be supported to
understand and express their grief.
What is Advocacy?
Advocates are trained to help you to get your views across. We can help in a
range of ways, including:
Supporting people who wish to complain about the local National Health
Service
Disabled people and people with learning disabilities who want access to
better services or opportunities
Speaking up for carers who need more support in their role
Information and support to help you apply for, or appeal decisions
relating to, continuing Healthcare funding.
Supporting older people who are affected by cancer, and their carers
Supporting families in the Armed Forces
Cruse can provide information and support to Military families following
bereavement, including practical information,
dealing with the media and what support the
bereaved can expect from the Armed Forces and
others following a death in Service.
Cruse is delighted to be expanding its work with the
Military Family; following an award of over half a
million pounds by the Ministry of Defence
Please contact the office if you would like to know more.
DORSET BLIND ASSOCIATION
Bereavement at work
For many employers, it can be difficult to know how to respond when an
employee is bereaved, and what can be done to ensure that the impact on both
the individual and the organisation is minimised. With one in ten people in the
UK likely to be affected by bereavement at any one time, employers can benefit
from planning ahead. Whatever the need, be it training, consultancy or on-site
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volunteers to do this. We provide practical help and support for people with
sight and/or hearing loss to help you lead a full, independent, healthy, and
socially active life
We are a local, independent charity supporting people with sight loss throughout
the County. We were established in 1918 and celebrated our 90th Anniversary
during 2008. We do not receive any fixed central or local government funding
and rely entirely on a combination of voluntary donations, membership fees,
grants we are able to obtain and income from our transcription services.
Our general Service Provision Policy is to provide practical help and assistance
for anyone suffering from sight loss, which enables those people to maintain
full, healthy, independent and socially active lives for as long as possible,
notwithstanding the impact of their sight loss.
We are always looking for new and innovative ways to deliver our services to
help ensure that our services are accessible as possible. Our main emphasis is
to provide help and support directly into the community rather than expecting
service users to come to us. We currently have a core staff of twelve (mix of
full time and part time) and are supported by almost 400 volunteers – a
fantastic endorsement, we think, that the public of Dorset recognise the
importance of the work we do and want to help and support that.
DORSET CLINICAL COMMISSIONING GROUP
DORSET BLIND ASSOCIATION – HOME VISITING
Contact Name: Leah Cross
Position: Home Visiting Coordinator
Address: 17 Bournemouth Road, Lower Parkstone, Poole BH14 0EF
Mobile: 07789997620
Email address: info@dorsetblind.org.uk
Website: www.dorsetblind.org.uk
Name: Keith Harrison
Position: PPI Development Worker
Telephone: 07825 691508
Email: Keith.Harrison@dorsetccg.nhs.uk
Website: www.dorsetccg.nhs.uk
Home Visiting
Our Home Visiting Service provides visits by trained and vetted volunteers to
members in their own homes. The service is very flexible and is adapted to each
individual member’s needs. Examples of the type of help given include taking
people for short walks, assisting with forms and general paperwork,
sorting/reading mail, tidying kitchen cupboards, writing Christmas cards and
general friendship. The service aims to improve the quality of life for people
enabling them to maintain their independence.
Younger members can also access this service upon request. In recent months
we have enabled several younger people on ‘Direct Payments’ to successfully
appeal against their awards, and to achieve significant increases in the amounts
they receive. We are always happy to try and help others in this way.
We are committed to working with blind and partially sighted people in Dorset.
We have introduced a home visiting service for North Dorset to help those
experiencing isolation and assist with certain tasks. Our priority is to recruit
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Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group (Dorset CCG) is responsible for the
management of Primary Care services across Dorset, Poole and Bournemouth.
This comprises 100 GP surgeries which are grouped into thirteen locality areas.
Sherborne is included in the North Dorset locality and is represented at Board
level by Dr Rob Childs (Bute House Surgery, Sherborne) and Dr Simone Yule
(Abbey View Surgery, Shaftesbury). The locality employs a Development
Worker, Keith Harrison to support its Patient Participation Groups and help GP
surgeries work in partnership with their local communities.
Name: Helen Smith
Email: help@dorsetmesupport.org.uk
Website: www.dorsetmesupport.org.uk
Dorset ME Support Group is a voluntary based registered charity supporting
both adults and children suffering from CFS/ME in Dorset.
We help to reduce the impact of the illness by raising funds to employ
specialists to assist members. Trustees and Volunteers are committed to
members with their support and guidance in many ways.
Local management of NHS Primary Care services.
Responsible for GP surgeries and related community health care.
For further information about Patient Participation Groups please contact Keith
Harrison, PPI Development Worker.
DORSET MENTAL HEALTH FORUM
ADULT & COMMUNITY SERVICES
Address: Dorset Mental Health Forum, 29-29A Durngate Street, Dorchester
Dorset, DT1 1JP
Tel: 01305 257172
Fax: 01305 261049
Email: admin@dorsetmentalhealthforum.org.uk
Website: http://www.dorsetmentalhealthforum.org.uk/index.html
The Dorset Mental Health Forum is a local peer led charity. We exist to improve
the lives of everyone affected by mental illness by promoting well-being and
recovery. We were established in 1992 and employ people with lived experience
of mental health problems whenever possible. Our main office premises are
situated in Durngate Street in the market town of Dorchester.
We believe that people with lived experience of mental health problems have a
wealth of specialist knowledge and valuable expertise. We believe in the
effectiveness of partnership working in the design and provision of mental
health services. Everyone has an equal right to enjoy all of the opportunities life
can provide and that is why we promote the principle that hope, mental health
and well-being are essential to all.
Telephone: 01935 601499
(Sherborne Local Office)
Dorset County Council Adult & Community Services provide information &
signposting for those providing help, care & support to a relative, friend or
neighbour including carer’s assessments, accessing services, short & long term
respite and personal budgets.
Dorset County Council Adult & Community Services – The Care Act is built
around people’s needs and what they want to achieve in life. It seeks to
rebalance the focus of care and support towards promoting well-being and
preventing or delaying needs, putting people at the heart of the system.
Information and advice about care and support for adults can be found at
www.mylifemycare.com
DORSET ME SUPPORT GROUP
EDP DRUG AND ALCOHOL SERVICES
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We are a registered charity set up in 1951 to maintain community interest and
support for the Yeatman Hospital, and to supplement services provided by the
Hospital for the benefit of patients Funds are raised from membership
subscriptions, donations and fund raising events. There are currently over 1700
members. New members are most welcome. Our officers include a chairman,
vice-chairman, treasurer, secretary, membership and publicity secretaries
together with an elected committee who serve a term of 3 years. Ex-officio
members include the hospital matron, a local doctor who is chairman of the
Sherborne Medical Forum and a member of Sherborne Town Council. The
Friends run a Trolley Shop at the Hospital on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.
Volunteers help on approximately one afternoon a month for about one hour. A
team of Friends also tend the garden at The Willows.
Name: Theresa Oliveira Meneses
Telephone: 07809 387943
Email: theresaoliveirameneses@edp.org.uk
Website: www.edp.org.uk
EDP Drug and Alcohol Services are a registered charity who offer support
around problematic drug and/or alcohol use to individuals and families across
Devon and Dorset, in the community and in prison. Our ethos is to engage
people in positive change and we undertake a number of activities to support
this, including group work, 1-1 appointments, First Aid / Overdose Awareness
training, drop-in access, needle exchange/harm reduction services, relative
support, UK SMART Recovery groups, housing support and street homeless
outreach.
THE FOOD FRIENDLY CLUB
Name: Tony Gibbons
Telephone: 01308 868700
Email: tony.gibbons01@sky.com
The Friendly Food Club programme supports and encourages families on low
incomes to take more control over the food they buy, eat and so often waste.
Our workshops develop basic, transferable cooking skills, address budgeting
issues arising from low income, lack of confidence and minimal cooking
facilities, whilst developing a more informed approach to supermarket sales
marketing methods.
Working with Children’ Centres and Primary and Secondary schools, our family
workshops help and encourage parents to work with their kids, have some fun
in the kitchen and encourage an interest in food & cooking from the earliest
age. Friendly Food Clubs themselves are made up of local parents, trained by
TLC to develop and deliver healthy eating projects targeted precisely at the
needs and wishes of their community.
Address: Friends of the Yeatman Hospital,
Yeatman Hospital, Hospital Lane, Sherborne,
Dorset. DT9 3JU
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FOUR LEAF CLOVER CLUB
FUTURE ROOTS
Address: Rylands Farm, Boys Hill, Holnest, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 5PS
Telephone: 01963 210703
Email: info@futureroots.net
Website: www.futureroots.net
Future Roots offers a ‘care farm’ near Holnest to provide the opportunity for
people to enhance their wellbeing through countryside activities. We use a
Resilience Model to structure practical activities which have proven to be
effective in ensuring progression. We cater for all ages and our programmes are
designed to include everyone.
Contact: Centre Manager
Address: 1 Abbey Road, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3LE
Email: admin@sherbornecentreforwellbeing.org.uk
Website: www.sherbornecentreforwellbeing.org.uk
FOUR LEAF CLOVER CLUB
This project is a community resource centre run by its members in the heart of
Sherborne. It provides supported employment, volunteer opportunities, informal
training and social facilities.
The centre is open every day except Sundays and provides wireless internet
access. The popular Zest Cafe is open Tuesday - Saturday from 10am – 3pm
where you can choose from a diverse and healthy menu and either eat in or
takeaway. The centre not only provides a service for people recovering from
mental health problems but also offers inclusive access to the whole community.
GP REFERRAL -
SHERBORNE SCHOOL SPORTS CENTRE
Contact: Craig Hardaker
Telephone: 01935 810548
Email: chardaker@sherborne.org
Website: www.sherbornesports.co.uk
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Twitter@sherbornesports
25m Pool
Fully Equipped Gym
Fitness Classes
6 weeks membership
On PAYG
discover, or rediscover, the joy and fun of parenting. We are self funded and
governed but work in partnership with Home-Start UK.
Get Support Everyone needs a bit of help sometimes! Through a network of
trained parent volunteers we support parents in West Dorset who are finding it
difficult to cope. If you have a child under 5 and would like some nonjudgemental, practical support to help build your family's confidence and
ability to cope - please get in touch.
Give Support
Could you make a difference to local, young families by supporting us? Many
parents need help, friendship, advice or support during those early years when
children are young. Your experience as a parent can really help others. We are
always keen to hear from anyone who is interested in finding out more about
Family Volunteering, being a Trustee or Fundraising.
INTERCOM TRUST
Supporting LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL & TRANS PEOPLE & COMMUNITIES
IN THE SOUTH WEST
Healthwatch Dorset – your local health and care watchdog.
Need information about a local health or social care service (doctor, dentist,
hospital, care home etc)? Want to know how to raise a concern or a complaint?
Want to tell us what you think about local services – good or bad? We can help.
Call us on 0300 111 0102 (calls cost the same as 01 or 02 numbers) or use
our website www.healthwatchdorset.co.uk or write to us (free) at Freepost
RTJR-RHUJ-XBLH Healthwatch Dorset, 896 Christchurch Road, Bournemouth
BH7 6DL. You can also find us at your local Citizens Advice Bureau.
HOME-START WEST DORSET
Name: Jacqui Battle
Position: Community Support Worker, Dorset
Telephone: 01202 201041
Telephone: 0800 612 3010
Email: helpline@intercomtrust.org.uk
Write: HAS Team, Intercom Trust, PO Box 285, Exeter, EX4 3ZT
Website: www.intercomtrust.org.uk
Intercom is a lesbian gay bisexual and trans community resource in Cornwall,
Devon, Dorset and Wiltshire, providing help against homophobic and
transphobic prejudice, crime and discrimination (including bullying, harassment,
abuse, attacks, and threatening behaviour), helping to develop the LGBT
communities, providing professional training and consultancy, and working in
partnership with local government, the police, health, etc.
Name: Helen Horsley
Position: Senior Organiser
Email: helen@homestartwestdorset.co.uk
Address: Paceycombe House, (Suite B) Paceycombe Way,
Poundbury, Dorchester DT1 3WB.
Telephone: 01305 265072
Website: www.homestartwestdorset.co.uk
Home-Start
We are a local charity which gives friendship, advice and practical support to
families who live in West Dorset. We help parents, with a child under 5,
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Other Sources of LGBT Community Help
THE SOMERSET GAY HEALTH PROJECT
Helpline is 01823 327078
It is normally staffed in office hours.
FFLAG (FAMILIES AND FRIENDS OF LESBIANS AND GAY MEN)
THE BEAUMONT SOCIETY SOUTH WEST
Immense help to countless LGB people and our families over the last ten years
and more Helplines are run by parents who have lesbian daughters and/or gay
sons. Glad to be called by anyone who is LGB and is having family difficulties
about coming Out, or who has an LGB family member, and who needs help or
information, or would just like to talk about LGB and family issues.
Telephone: 0845 652 0311.
Help line on Trans issues
Telephone: 01398 371142
Email: Nicky (at) nacks.freeserve.co.uk.
HELP AND CARE
BRISTOL LESBIAN AND GAY SWITCHBOARD
Telephone: 0117 922 1328
Telephone: 0300 111 3303
Address: The Pokesdown Centre, 896 Christchurch Road, Bournemouth,
Dorset, BH7 6DL
Email: contact@helpandcare.org.uk
Website: www.helpandcare.org.uk
Provides a one-stop information and support service for carers of all ages who
live in Dorset. Services include a confidential listening ear; signposting to other
organisations; getting the right benefits; information, training courses and
special carers events.
THE LONDON LESBIAN AND GAY HELPLINE
Telephone: 020 7837 7324.
is open as far as possible 24/7 (seven days a week, 24 hours a-day)
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HOSPICES
Leonard Cheshire Foundation, established in 1948, is one of the largest
voluntary organisations in the UK and provides high quality services for people
with disabilities. The following is a range of typical client requirements that a
Care at Home Service could meet: help getting up and going to bed; dressing,
washing and bathing; shopping and cooking; household duties; respite care
(including night care); short or long-term support; social care and
companionship. Care at Home Services are generally available to people of all
ages with physical disabilities/mental health problems/learning disabilities,
carers of people with disabilities, people living alone or with carers.
Registered Charity No 218186.
ST MARGARET’S SOMERSET HOSPICE
Address: Little Tarratt Lane, Dorchester Road, Yeovil Somerset BA20 2HU
Telephone: 01935 709480
Website: http://www.somerset-hospice.org
WELDMAR HOSPICECARE TRUST
Information and Education
Telephone: 01305 269898
Address: Hammick House, Bridport Road, Poundbury Road, Dorchester, Dorset
DT1 3SD.
Email: info@weld-hospice.org.uk
Website: www.weld-hospice.org.uk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weldmar
JOSEPH WELD HOSPICE
Telephone: 01305 215300 or 07818 689694
Address: Herringston Road, Dorchester DT1 2SL
Website: www.weld-hospice.org.uk
Leonard Cheshire Disability is the UK’s leading charity supporting disabled
people. Every year, we support thousands of people in the UK and around the
world with physical and learning disabilities to fulfil their potential and live the
lives they choose. We work for a society in which every person is equally
valued. We believe that disabled people should have the freedom to live their
lives the way they choose - with the opportunity and support to live
independently, to contribute economically and to participate fully in society.
NAOMI HOUSE
Telephone Hospice Office: 01962 760060
Address: Stockbridge Road, Sutton Scotney, Winchester, Hampshire SO21 3JE
Emails: supporterteam@naomihouse.org.uk
admin@naomihouse.org.uk | care@naomihouse.org.uk
Website: www.naomihouse.org.uk
MACMILLAN CANCER CARE
LEONARD CHESHIRE
DORSET CARE AT HOME SERVICE
Name: Jane Simkin
Position: Macmillan Patient Information Project lead
Telephone: 07770967052
Email: jane.simkin@dchft.nhs.uk
Website: www.macmillan.org.uk
Macmillan Patient Information Project is funded by Macmillan Cancer Support
and hosted by Dorset County Hospital. The aims of the project are to network
and scope PAN Dorset identifying the current provision of health information &
support and how the public would like to be provided with information & support
when living with and beyond cancer.
Name: Christine Foster
Position: Service Manager
Telephone: 01202 739538
Fax: 01202 742196
Address: Leonard Cheshire - Dorset Care at Home Service, Mount Road,
Parkstone, Poole, Dorset BH14 0QW.
Email: admindcahs@leonardcheshire.org
Website: www.leonard-cheshire.org
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MENCAP
Venue: We meet on the ground floor of the Youth Centre which is wheelchair
friendly. (Sherborne Youth Centre, Tinney’s Lane, Sherborne, DT9 3DY.)
Transport: This can be arranged using the Sherborne Voluntary Ambulance.
There is an escort and costs £1 for a door-to-door service.
‘Open Gate is a club where adults with a learning disability can meet, socialize,
make friends and be themselves. The club is run by a team of volunteers who
have been formally vetted. We aim to provide a 1:4 ratio of support. Members
requiring more specialist support are welcome with their carer.
We have an organised activity for an hour followed by the opportunity to have
refreshments. There are various activities which include bingo, quizzes, crafts,
games and more. Activities are designed to help build friendships, socialize and
have fun. Those not wishing to participate in the activity are free to relax in a
social setting.
Address: Hillcrest House, Church Hill, Stalbridge, Sturminster Newton, Dorset
Telephone: 01963 363861
Web Address: www.mencap.org.uk
Mencap is the voice of learning disability. Everything we do is about valuing and
supporting people with a learning disability and their families and carers.
OSTEOPOROSIS DORSET
MY HEALTH MY WAY
Name: Anya De Iongh
Telephone: 0303 303 0153
Email: info@myhealthdorset.org.uk
Website: www.myhealthdorset.org.uk
Telephone: 01202 443064
Address: 11Shelley Road, Bournemouth Dorset BH1 4JQ
Email: mail@osteodorset.org.uk
Website: www.osteodorset.org.uk
Osteoporosis Dorset has relentlessly campaigned for the last two decades to
improve bone health in the County. The charity has played a key role in raising
awareness.
It has a track record of providing health care professionals and the public with
‘free’ high quality evidence-based information via a concerted programme of
‘activity’. This has played a key role in raising awareness and increasing public
interest in falls and bone health.
Our peer support programmes have the potential to heighten motivation,
improve function, adherence to treatment, resulting not just in better clinical
outcomes but the development of a network of social support and lifelong
friendship.
My Health My Way is a free NHS service that can provide support for people in
order to become more active in managing their health condition and risk factors
such as diet and exercise. Support is provided through a choice of courses, oneto-one help from health coaches, a dedicated website and web-based tools.
Patients are supported in developing skills to reduce the impact of symptoms.
Support is available for any Dorset resident who is registered with a Dorset GP
Practice.
THE SHERBORNE OPEN GATE CLUB
Name: Mrs Christine Stevens
Telephone: 01935 815399
Email: opengateclub@yahoo.co.uk
Open: 7 – 9pm. First and Third Thursday every month except August.
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OUTREACH GROUP SHERBORNE
THE RENDEZVOUS YOUNG PEOPLE’S ADVICE CENTRE
Address of organisation: Pine Trees Bungalow, The Hayes, Long Street,
Sherborne DT9 3ED
Telephone: 01935 811229
Position: Manager
Sherborne DT9 3BJ
We are a group that encourages and enables adults with a learning disability to
access their own local community and become valued members and
contributors. We also work to promote members independent living skills and
social skills.
P.O.P.P. WAYFINDERS
(Partnership for Older People Programme)
Name: Tricia Dawson
Telephone: 07971 338690
Email: tricia.dawson@helpandcare.org.uk
Website: www.dorsetforyou.com/popp
The role of P.O.P.P. Wayfinders is to provide support to older people who may
require information or activities to maintain health their and independence.
RENDEZVOUS Opening Hours
1 – 2pm
Appointments only
2pm – 7pm
Drop in
Tuesday
CLOSED
Wednesday
12.30 – 2.30pm
Young Parents Group
1 – 2pm
Appointments only
2pm – 7pm
Drop in
Monday
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Thursday
Friday
1 – 2pm
2pm – 7pm
1 – 2pm
2pm – 7pm
Appointments only
Drop in
Appointments only
Drop in
ST JOHNS’ HOUSE (ALMSHOUSE) SHERBORNE
Name: Jackie Griffin
Telephone: 01935 813245
Address: Half Moon Street, Sherborne, Dorset
LUDBOURNE HALL SHERBORNE
Telephone: 01935 816382
Address: South Street, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3 LT
RESIDENTIAL care in Sherborne
THE ABBEYFIELD SHERBORNE SOCIETY SHERBORNE
Name: Sarah Edwards
Telephone: 01935 812761
Address: Abbeyfield House, Coldharbour, Sherborne, Dorset
THE OLD VICARAGE LEIGH
Name: Natalie Adams
Telephone: 01935 873033
Address: Leigh, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 6HL
ABBEYVIEW NURSING & RESIDENTIAL HOME
Name: Jo Eliis
Telephone: 01935 813222
Address: Fairfields, Bristol Road, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 4HD
RETHINK MENTAL ILLNESS
EASTBURY HOUSE SHERBORNE
Rethink Mental Illness is a national charity that believes a better life is
possible for millions of people affected by mental illness. We directly support
people across England and also offer information and advice.
Locally in West, North & East Dorset we are commissioned by DCC, Dorset
Healthcare NHS Trust & Dorset CCG to provide Carers Support, Early
Intervention in Psychosis, Community and West of Dorset Recovery House
Services.
For more information about Rethink Mental Illness go to www.rethink.org
EASTBURY HOUSE RESIDENTIAL HOME SHERBORNE
Name: Pat Appleyard
Telephone: 01935 812132
Address: Long Street, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3BZ
Website: www.eastburyhouse.co.uk
THE HAYES RESIDENTIAL HOME SHERBORNE
Name: Ann Aylott
Telephone: 01935 814043
Address: Culverhayes, Long Street, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3ED
RIVERSIDE NURSING HOME SHERBORNE
Name: Mary Tovey
Telephone: 01935 817229
Address: Westbury, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3QZ
SHERBORNE FOOD BANK
Name: Linda
Telephone: 07854 163 869
Twitter: #feedsherborne
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Email: sherborne.foodbank@gmail.com
Website: www.sherbornefoodbank.org
We benefit from the generosity of at least twenty-five contributing groups in
and around Sherborne including churches, schools and the collection boxes at
Sainsbury's, Waitrose, Sherborne Abbey Church and other locations. Care
professionals and volunteers such as doctors, health visitors, social workers,
CAB staff, teachers and others identify people in crisis and refer them to the
Food Bank.
The Food Bank exists to feed the hungry of Sherborne and the surrounding
communities. This includes the catchment area of the Gryphon School, the
Sherborne Deanery of Salisbury Diocese and the Bruton and Carey Deanery of
Bath and Wells Diocese.
Referrals are accepted from any and all statutory and established voluntary
bodies including the local clergy. If you know of anyone, individual or family,
who are hungry and need food, simply contact one of the numbers above and a
brief call will secure delivery of a food parcel either to the address of the
recipient or to an agreed point for collection. We aim to respond within one day
of referral.
If you wish to join our group of volunteers you will be most welcome.
Keep an eye out for:
1. Our collection-point at Sainsburys store in Sherborne.
2. Our collection-point at the back of the Abbey.
3. Our collection-point at Waitrose.
4. Does your own parish church have a regular collection-point? Maybe YOU
could get involved.
SPORTS CENTRES
THE GRYPHON SPORTS CENTRE
Telephone: 01935 814011
Fax: 01935 817570
Address: Gryphon Sports Centre, Bristol Road, Sherborne, Dorset, DT9 4EQ.
Email: gryphonleisure@westdorset-weymouth.gov.uk
Website: https://www.dorsetforyou.com/gryphon-sports-centre
OXLEY SPORTS CENTRE
SHERBORNE LIBRARY
Oxley Sports Centre, Bradford Road, Sherborne,
Dorset, DT9 3DA
Telephone: 01935 818270
Email: info@oxleysc.com
Telephone: 01935 812683
Address: - Hound Street, Sherborne, Dorset.
The Library provides a range of health related services including Reading On
Prescription which helps you to understand and manage your health and
wellbeing using self-help reading. The scheme is endorsed by health
professionals.
Telephone: 01935 810548
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Email: gym@sherborne.org
Stroke co-ordinators are available to support stroke survivors and their families
/ carers to adjust to life after stroke. They provide support and information and
enable timely access to health, social and voluntary services in the community
of benefit to the individual’s own circumstances.
Provide information, advice and signposting to other services for people affected
by stroke, their carers and families. Longer term emotional and social support to
reduce isolation and ensure inclusion as individual requires is also available.
Home visits are offered to assess initial needs and information requirements.
ST PAUL’S CHURCH
Telephone: 01935 816444
Address: The Church Office, St Paul's Church, St Paul’s Close,
Sherborne Dorset DT9 4DU
Website: www.stpauls-sherborne.org.uk
The Church provides a playgroup, lunch club for older people, operates a
Foodbank and offers pastoral care to any member of the local community.
Adult and Community Services Dorset County Council Area
Telephone: 01305 221016
Address: County Hall, Colliton Park, Dorchester, DT1 1XJ
Email: dorsetdirect@dorset.gov.uk
Offer assessment and care planning for people following stroke.
Provide/arrange packages of care to meet needs if person meets eligibility
criteria. Care is means tested. The team offer advice and support for applying
for Disabled Facilities Grants for home adaptations and signpost to other
agencies or services as needed.
St Paul’s Church is an all-age friendly church holding its services at The
Gryphon School every Sunday at 1030am but throughout the week we run
many community activities at our church building on the St. Paul’s estate.
On Mondays we run a lunch club (Meet & Eat) followed by an over 50s social
club (Tea & Chat) and on Wednesdays is our Baby and Toddler group (Tums,
Tinies & Tots). Occasional youth events take place on Fridays and Saturdays
(Edge Plus).
SUE RYDER CARE
SHERBORNE CHILDREN’S CENTRE
Telephone: 01935 389914
Address: Tinney’s Lane, Sherborne, Dorset, DT9 3DY
Email: sherbornecc@dorsetcc.gov.uk
Website: www.dorsetforyou.com/415938
Sherborne Children’s Centre aims to offer advice and support for families and
their children, giving them the best possible start in life. We have an activity
room that is used on a daily basis for our groups and includes a sensory area,
heuristic play materials, books and much more. We also have our own very well
resourced outside play area.
We are able to offer one to one support for families and work closely with many
other professionals, local organisations and groups throughout the area.
Sherborne Children’s Centre is part of the West Dorset Children’s Centre
Cluster, and located in Tinneys’ Lane.
We can offer advice on Parenting, Budgeting, Cooking, Healthy Eating and
Living and provide sessions and courses in and around the community for
Families with children under the age of eight to attend.
Contact Name: Kim Macinnes
Position: Shop Manager
Address: 4 Church Lane Sherborne DT 93BP
Email: kim.macinnes@suerydercare.org
We are a busy, friendly charity shop next to the Abbey selling both donated and
new goods. The profits go towards palliative, holistic care for people with life
changing and life shortening conditions through Sue Ryder Cares` Hospices,
Care Homes and Home Care Services.
SHERBORNE STROKE CLUB
Name: Tracie Palmer
Position: Stroke Co-ordinator for Blandford / Shaftesbury / Sherborne /
Gillingham/ Sturminster Newton / Wool area
Telephone: 01202 732739
Email: Tracie.palmer@stroke.org.uk
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THE GREEN SHED
Website: www.depressionalliance.org
CALM
CALM is the Campaign Against Living Miserably, for men aged 15-35.
Website: www.thecalmzone.net
Bipolar UK
A charity helping people living with manic depression or bipolar disorder.
Website: www.bipolaruk.org.uk
Samaritans
Confidential support for people experiencing feelings of distress or despair.
Phone: 08457 90 90 90 (24-hour help line)
Website: www.samaritans.org.uk
Sane
Charity offering support and carrying out research into mental illness.
Phone: 0845 767 8000 (daily, 6pm-11pm)
SANE mail email: sanemail@org.uk
Website: www.sane.org.uk
Name: Barry Watts
Email: barry.watts@dhft.nhs.uk
Website: www.dorsetldpb.org.uk/local-stuff/sherborne.htm
Situated at Castle Gardens Centre, Sherborne, this community project offers
occupational therapy for adults with learning difficulties including wood and
plant pot recycling, compost making and more.
Mind
Promotes the views and needs of people with mental health problems.
Phone: 0300 123 3393 (Mon-Fri, 9am-6pm)
Website: www.mind.org.uk
The Mental Health Foundation
Provides information and support for anyone with mental health problems or
learning disabilities.
Website: www.mentalhealth.org.uk
Young Minds
Information on child and adolescent mental health. Services for parents and
professionals.
Phone: Parents' help line 0808 802 5544 (Mon-Fri, 9.30am-4pm)
Website: www.youngminds.org.uk
MENTAL HEALTH HELPLINES
Whether you're concerned about yourself or a loved one, these help
lines can offer expert advice.
PAPYRUS
Young suicide prevention society.
Phone: HOPE line UK 0800 068 4141
(Mon-Fri 10am-5pm & 7pm-10pm. Weekends 2pm-5pm)
Website: www.papyrus-uk.org
Depression, anxiety, obsession and mental health
Rethink Mental Illness
Support and advice for people living with mental illness.
Website: www.rethink.org
Abuse (child, sexual, domestic violence)
NSPCC
Children's charity dedicated to ending child abuse and child cruelty.
Phone: 0800 1111 for Childline for children (24-hour help line)
Depression Alliance
Charity for sufferers of depression. Has a network of self-help groups.
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0808 800 5000 for adults concerned about a child (24-hour help line)
Website: www.nspcc.org.uk
Website: www.b-eat.co.uk
Learning disabilities
Refuge
Advice on dealing with domestic violence.
Phone: 0808 2000 247 (24-hour help line)
Website: www.refuge.org.uk
Mencap
Charity working with people with a learning disability, their families and carers.
Phone: 0808 808 1111 (for information on their services)
Website: www.mencap.org.uk
Addiction (drugs, alcohol, gambling)
Alcoholics Anonymous
Phone: 0845 769 7555 (24-hour help line)
Website: www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk
Obsessions
OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) Action
Support for people with obsessive compulsive disorder includes information on
treatment and online resources.
Phone: 0845 390 6232 (Mon-Fri, 9.30am-5pm)
Website: www.ocdaction.org.uk
Narcotics Anonymous
Phone: 0300 999 1212 (daily until midnight)
Website: www.ukna.org
OCD UK
A charity run by people with OCD, for people with OCD includes facts, news and
treatments. Phone: 0845 120 3778 (Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm)
Website: www.ocduk.org
Gamblers Anonymous
Website: www.gamblersanonymous.org.uk
Alzheimer's
Alzheimer's Society
Provides information on dementia, including factsheets and help lines.
Phone: 0300 222 1122 (Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm. Weekends, 10am-4pm)
Website: www.alzheimers.org.uk
Panic and anxiety
No Panic
Voluntary charity offering support for sufferers of panic attacks and OCD. Offers
a course to help overcome your phobia/OCD includes a help line.
Phone: 0844 967 4848 (daily, 10am-10pm)
Website: www.nopanic.org.uk
Bereavement
Cruse Bereavement Care
Website: www.crusebereavementcare.org.uk
Parenting
Family Lives
Phone: 0808 800 2222 (daily, 7am-midnight)
Website: www.familylives.org.uk
Crime victims
Find your local help line at:
Rape Crisis
Phobias
Anxiety UK
Charity providing support if you've been diagnosed with an anxiety condition.
Phone: 08444 775 774 (Mon-Fri, 9.30am-5.30pm)
Website: www.anxietyuk.org.uk
Phone: 0808 802 9999 (daily, 12pm-2.30pm, 7pm-9.30pm)
Website: www.rapecrisis.org.uk
Victim Support
Phone: 0845 30 30 900 (Mon-Fri, 9am-8pm. Weekends, 9am-7pm)
Website: www.victimsupport.org
Relationships
Relate
Phone: 0300 100 1234 (for information on their services)
Website: www.relate.org.uk
Eating disorders
Beat
Phone: 0845 634 1414 (Mon-Thurs, 1.30pm-4.30pm)
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HOUSING
HOUSING APPLICATIONS
Telephone: 01305 756045 check phone number
To join the Dorset Home Choice Housing Register go to
http://homechoice.dorsetforyou.com/DorsetHomeChoice/Content.aspx?wkid=4
To join south somerset Housing register go to
http://www.homefindersomerset.co.uk/Data/ASPPages/1/30.aspx
Dorset Home Choice gives you more
choice about where you want to live.
Prize Winning Garden of Jeff Congrave by Keith Lane
Dorset Home Choice is East Dorset District Council, Christchurch Borough
Council, North Dorset District Council, Purbeck District Council, West Dorset
District Council and Weymouth & Portland Borough Council in partnership with
Bournemouth & Poole Borough Councils have developed a Dorset Wide Home
Choice CBL scheme.
THE ABBEYFIELD SOCIETY
Name: Sarah Edwards
Position: House Manager
Address: Abbeyfield House
Coldharbour, Sherborne, Dorset, DT9 4HA
Telephone number: 01935 812761
New applicants can register with the scheme, by completing one common
application form. Once registered applicants will be able to bid for properties,
across all areas within the partnership where they are eligible.
Email: abbeysarah101@aol.com
Website: www.abbeyfield.com
We are a charitable social landlord, The
Abbeyfield Society and we provide supported
sheltered housing to over 55’s. We recently
accepted an application from a lady of 92 who
was affected by the tax on spare bedrooms, as
she was in a 3 bed property where she lived
alone for 9 months following the death of her
husband. They had brought up their family
there, however the local housing association could not offer her suitable
alternative accommodation, so she came to us and is happily re-housed in a
caring environment.
Applicants will need to choose one authority as their managing local authority (if
they wish to apply to more than one of the partners, this is usually the authority
they either live in or wish to live in.
If this is your first visit to this website and you are not already on the Dorset
Home Choice housing register you will need to register before you can bid for
properties.
You may also want to look at the Scheme Guide to familiarise yourself with
the bidding process and details of the Housing Allocation policies that are in
place.
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Feeling secure and stable in your home is your right. If you’re at risk of losing
that security, through financial problems or legal dispute, you shouldn’t have to
face that alone.
This is why First Point exists. We are a homelessness prevention service
If you currently live in a home provided by a social landlord and are
looking for a new home then mutual exchange using Exchange
Locata might be for you.
If you are an existing social housing tenant we have provided further
information on fixed term tenancies and affordable rents.
You should be able to find all the information you need on this website, but if
you have any questions about Home Choice please contact your relevant local
authority.
providing housing related support across the county of Dorset. If you live in the
area, aged 18-65 and are facing housing problems, we’ll do everything we can
to help you back on your feet and onto the right path to a stable future in your
home.
Can-do and Person Centred
DORSET FIRST POINT – HOUSING ADVICE
Because no two people or problems are the same we tailor bespoke support
plans for everyone we work with. We can offer practical help with:
Rent arrears
Benefit claims (including support with appeals)
Budgeting and household debts
Advocacy with landlords or other agencies.
Moving on from hospital, supported housing, or other accommodation to
Contact: Sally Cake
Telephone: 01305 216230
Email: sally.cake@thelifeyoutrust.org.uk
Website: http://lifeyouwant.org.uk/service/dorset-first-point/
somewhere more appropriate to your needs
We’re Here to Help
To see what we can do for you, give us a call on the number below or send us
Drop-in service every Friday morning from 10am – 12 noon at the
an email with your name and contact details and we’ll arrange for someone to
Rendezvous, Under Cheap Street Church, Sherborne.
get in touch.
FREE Housing advice for any age
You can be referred to us by another agency if you have one working with you,
or get in contact directly by completing our First-Point-Referral-Form and
“First Point Dorset gave me hope when I had none.” – John, service user
returning to us by email, fax or post.
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The Home Office has the duty to provide assistance to asylum seekers through
the National Asylum Support Service (NASS).
HOUSING ADVICE CENTRE
(West Dorset)
Address: South Walks House, South Walks Road, Dorchester, DT1 1UZ
Telephone: 01305 251010
Fax: 01305 251481
Email: housingadvice@westdorset-dc.gov.uk
The Housing Advice Centre is an advice centre for all housing issues and refers
service users to varying support services if needed.
Housing Advice also offer the Rent Deposit and Rent in Advance Scheme for
private rentals which the public can apply for.
The centre is open 9.30am -4pm Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and
Wednesday afternoons 2pm-4pm. Telephone advice is available from 8.30am5pm Monday to Thursday and Friday 8.30am-4.30pm.
Anybody facing immediate homelessness outside these hours can contact a
housing advisor via an emergency phone line on 01305 251010.
NASS support usually includes a weekly cash installment for basic essentials
such as: Food, toiletries, and clothing. Housing, Help with asylum application
costs (but not legal expenses), Maternity payments, including a milk allowance
and a one-off maternity payment.
Local Authorities administer the various benefits asylum seekers are entitled to
and also make provisions for temporary accommodation.
Contacts Details
Tel: 0845 602 1739
See their website www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk
Refugee Council
Address: PO Box 68614, London E15 9DQ
Tel: 020 7346 6700
Fax: 020 7346 6701
Website: www.refugeecouncil.org.uk
The Refugee Council is the largest organisation in the UK working with asylum
seekers and refugees.
Paul Derrien
Housing Enabling Team Leader
Address: West Dorset District Council, South Walks House, South Walks Road,
Dorchester DT1 1UZ
Weymouth & Portland Borough Council, Council Offices, North Quay, Weymouth
DT4 8TA
Direct line: 01305 252447
Email: p.derrien @westdorset-weymouth.gov.uk
Migrant Helpline
Address: Charlton House, Dour Street, Dover, Kent CT16 1AT
Telephone: 01304 203977
Website www.migranthelpline.org.uk
Migrant Helpline is a charity involved with providing advice and support for
asylum seekers and refugees entering and living in the UK, facilitating the
integration of asylum seekers and refugees into the community and promoting
awareness of asylum issues.
HOUSING SURGERY IN SHERBORNE
HASTOE HOUSING ASSOCIATION
Name: Mandella Wisbey
Position: Regional Manager
Telephone: 01305 216948 or 07912 390822
Address: South West Regional Office, Fleur de Lis, Middlemarsh, Poundbury,
Dorchester, DT1 3GX.
Telephone: Lo-call: 0845 601 8865 or 01305 250103
Fax: 01305 250106
Email: southwest@hastoe.com
Website: http://www.hastoe.com/
SERVICE NOW WITHDRAWN
Please phone Housing Advice on 01305 251010.
HOUSING APPLICATIONS
Asylum seekers & refugees
If you are an asylum seeker, refugee or someone acting on their behalf, you will
find the following agencies are able to offer advice and support.
HOUSING 21
Address Napier Court, Westbridge Park, Sherborne
Telephone: 0870 192 4186
National Asylum & Support Service
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Website: http://www.housingcare.org/housing-care/facility-info-6116-napiercourt-sherborne-england.aspx
MAGNA SHELTERED HOUSING IN SHERBORNE AREA
Chrysanthemum Row/Newland Flats is situated in historic town of
Sherborne and is in walking distance of the town centre and local amenities. The
scheme consists of six 19th century houses and modern flats. There is a large
communal room which is used for bingo and other activities. There is an active
residents' social club which also organises weekly afternoon tea, fortnightly fish
and chip lunches, monthly shopping to Yeovil and a variety of social evenings
and trips. All schemes have a guest room is available for residents' relatives.
LETTINGS-PRIVATE SECTOR
DORSET LETTINGS
Telephone: 01935 815300
Address: Dorset Lettings (Sherborne) Limited, Long Street, Sherborne, Dorset,
DT9 3BS
Fax: 01935 814151
Email: sherborne@dorsetlettings.co.uk
Clovermead is situated in Yetminster just outside of the historic town of
Sherborne; there is a shuttle bus service to Sherborne as well as Yeovil. The
scheme consists of 24 flats with a communal room, which is used by the
residents on a regular basis for bingo, coffee mornings and other activities. This
site is also involved with the local senior citizens club
STOCKWOOD LETTINGS
Telephone: 01935 816209
Address: 5 Tilton Court, Digby Road, Sherborne Dorset DT9 3NL
Website: http://www.stockwoodlettings.co.uk/
Granary Orchard is situated in the attractive village of Trent, 4 miles from the
historic town of Sherborne; there is a post office and local stores next to the
scheme and a regular shuttle service to Sherborne. The scheme consists of 12
bungalows and 1 first floor flat with an unusual communal room as it was
originally a conservatory. Residents from this site generally join in with the
activities from local larger sites. A guest bedroom is available for relatives of
residents
HAMPTONS INTERNATIONAL LETTING AGENTS
Telephone: 01935 250154
Address: 1 Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset, DT9 3AX
Website: http://www.hamptons.co.uk/
MAGNA HOUSING ASSOCIATION
SHERBORNE AREA OFFICE
Telephone: 01935 389687
Address: Magna Housing c/o the Manor House, Newland Sherborne,
Dorset DT9 3JL
Open 9.30am-3.30pm THURSDAYS only
Durrant Close is situated within the historic town of Sherborne with attractive
communal gardens and is only a short walk from the town centre. The scheme
consists of 46 homes in the form of bungalows and flats with a very active
communal room, which is used regularly for coffee mornings and other
activities. There are also trips available for residents to take part in.
Manor Court is situated in the historic town of Sherborne and is within short
walking distance of the town centre and local amenities. The scheme consists of
45 homes in the form of houses, flats and bungalows and contains a large
communal room, which is used on a regular basis for bingo, coffee mornings
and many other activities. The residents’ social club also organises trips to
various attractions.
Richmond Green is situated within the historic town of Sherborne and is within
short walking distance of the town centre. The scheme consists of 49 homes in
the form of bungalows and flats; there is a large communal room which is used
for coffee mornings, bingo and other activities. The residents can also use a
community bus for shopping trips to Sherborne once a month.
Keith Lane
MAGNA RESIDENT COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT MANAGER
Name: Ken Bodycombe
Telephone: 01305 216095
Address: Hollands House, Dorchester
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Half Acres is situated in the historic town of Sherborne and is within short
walking distance of the town centre and local amenities. Half Acres is our
biggest scheme in Sherborne with 54 homes in the form of bungalows and flats.
There are also large communal gardens. The site also boasts a communal room
which has its own organ and darts board, the residents also have regular coffee
mornings, bingo and other activities; they also have regular trips to various
attractions.
members of Town and Parish Councils, voluntary organisations and anyone else
interested in housing issues.
Contact: Nigel Engert on 01935 816961
YARLINGTON HOUSING GROUP
Telephone: 01935 404 500
Address: Yarlington Housing Group, Lupin Way, Yeovil, Somerset BA22 8WN
Website: www.yhg.co.uk/
NIGHTSTOP DORSET
Telephone: 01305 753 675
Address: Action for Children
c/o Inspirations, 2 Poundbury Business Centre, Poundbury,
Dorchester, Dorset DT1 3WA
Email: simon.keys@actionforchildren.org.uk
SHELTER
Name: SHELTER – Help with Housing Problems
Telephone: 0808 8004444
OBORNE HOUSE – YOUNG PEOPLE
Managed by Bournemouth Churches Housing Association, 21 Christchurch Rd,
Bournemouth BH1 3NS
Telephone: 01202 410500
Website: www.bcha.org.uk
Check details with rendezvous
RAGLAN HOUSING ASSOCIATION
Telephone: 0800 011 6420
Website: www.raglan.org
FOSTERS FIELD RESIDENTS’ ASSOCIATION (FFRA)
Contact Name: Nigel Parkinson
Position: Chairman
Email address: nigelparkinson@me.com
A Residents’ Association for the 96 homes at Fosters Field completed in 2006
providing a social programme, support for the housebound and care for the
environment of the development.
LEISURE ACTIVITIES / GROUPS
SHELTER EMERGENCY HOUSING ADVICE
Shelter Emergency Housing Advice Helpline
Telephone: 0808 800 4444
Website: www.shelter.org.uk
Shelter is a charity that works to alleviate the distress caused by homelessness
and bad housing.
SHERBORNE ARTSLINK
Name: Helen Chaloner
Position: Director
Telephone: 01935 815899
Address: The Manor House, Newland, Sherborne,
Dorset DT9 3LL
Email: info@sherborneartslink.org.uk
Web Address: www.sherborneartslink.org.uk
SHERBORNE AREA HOUSING FORUM
Meets bi-monthly and brings together representatives from WDDC, Magna and
other Housing Associations with properties in the Sherborne Area, elected
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Website:www.sherbornebradfordabbascameraclub.org
We are people who enjoy looking for, seeing and taking photographs, and
discussing them. We are a friendly mix of film and digital photographers, some
veterans, some beginners. As well as the regular club programme, we often get
involved in community activities in and around Sherborne.
Sherborne ArtsLink is a registered charity delivering a broad spectrum of arts
tuition, education and creative opportunities to everyone in Sherborne and the
surrounding area. From art classes, theatre outings and film screenings to fun
workshops across all media for children, young people and families. ArtsLink
brings the best of the arts to the community.
BRIDGE - SHERBORNE BRIDGE CLUB
Name: John S. Elce
Telephone: 01963 210303
Website: sherbornebridgeclub.org
Sherborne Bridge Club runs duplicate bridge games in the Terrace Club House of
Sherborne Town Football Club, just south of
the City, on Monday afternoons and Tuesday
evenings all year.
Rubber Bridge is played in the Club House of
the Sherborne Bowls Club (opposite
Sainsburys) on Thursday afternoons between
the end of September and the end of April.
The Club
prides
itself on its friendly atmosphere. Visitors are
always welcome; please contact the
Secretary for further information. The Club
is affiliated to the English Bridge
Union and Dorset County Bridge
Association
We meet at
Village Hall
second and
(except
usually put
months.)
8pm-10pm in Bradford Abbas
(opposite the Church) on the
fourth Tuesdays in each month
May, June, July, August, but we
on an exhibition in one of these
We are in
new
subscription
meeting to
need of, and would welcome,
members. The annual
is £12 and we pay 50p each
cover coffee/tea/biscuits.
CAMPAIGN
FOR NUCLEAR
DISARMAMENT
www.cnduk.org
South Somerset Peace Group
Email:
dumpling@devondainty.wanadoo.co.uk
BRISTOL CND
Telephone: 075 2729 5109
Email: bristolcndchair@gmail.com
DOWN MEMORY LANE
CAMERA CLUB - SHERBORNE
BRADFORD ABBAS CAMERA CLUB
Email:
Gillian@sherbornebradfordabbascameraclub.
org
World War 2 Bombing in Sherborne.
Come along to our new reminiscence group and have a chat about bygone days.
Sherborne Library on the last Friday of each month from 2.00pm-3.00pm.
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For further information contact Sherborne Library on 01935 812683
PROMOTING CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY AND GOOD CITIZENSHIP,
PROMOTING VOLUNTEERING
As an ongoing basis the Douzelage runs European studies courses for Gryphon
students Also the Douzelage is continuing to fund voluntary organisations to
take part in DCA led training courses for the voluntary sector.
Our partner towns are: Agros Cyprus, Altea Spain, Bad Kötzting Germany,
Bellagio Italy, Bundoran Ireland, Chojna Poland, Granville France, Holstebro
Denmark, Houffalize Belgium, Judenburg Austria, Asikkala Finland, Köszeg
Hungary, Marsaskala Malta, Meerssen Netherlands, Niederanven
Luxembourg, Oxelösund Sweden, Preveza Greece, Prienai Lithuania,
Sesimbra Portugal, Sherborne United Kingdom, Sigulda Latvia, Siret
Romania, Skofja Loka, Slovenia, Susice Czech Republic, Tryavna, Bulgaria,
Türi Estonia, Zvolen Slovakia
DOUZELAGE - SHERBORNE DOUZELAGE
Name: Mary Clothier
Telephone: 01963 251255
Email: marydmc38@googlemail.com
Name: Clifton Jelbert
Position: Chairman
Telephone: 01935 389757
Email: c.jelbert@metronet.co.uk
Web Address:
http://www.sherbornetown.com/directory/sherbornedouzelage.aspx
The Douzelage is a unique European organisation which Promotes for the public
benefit educational, sporting, cultural and employment links within Europe
generally and specifically with the Douzelage towns of the European Union.
Douzelage alliance was brought into being in 1991 and we have 27 such
member towns, one in every European country. Despite our number of towns,
we retain our “Douze” as the EU retains its twelve stars (the number of original
members) on its flag. We aim to build enjoyable and worthwhile relationships
between the very different member towns, their individuals and groups of
people with common interests. This is achieved through a programme of events,
taking advantage of European funding schemes, as well as providing
opportunities and contacts for activity groups between towns. If you are
interested to make friends or find people of like interests across Europe then
please contact one of the people below. You are most welcome to join us in our
activities.
Sherborne douzelage is a registered charity No. 1147562, whose Key Objectives
are:
ADVANCING EDUCATION AND HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE TO DEVELOP
THEIR SKILLS,
CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES AND ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN
SOCIETY,
EMBROIDERERS
WEST COUNTRY EMBROIDERERS’
SHERBORNE & DISTRICT BRANCH
Name: Mrs Ann Emery
Telephone: 01963 370343
Meets the second Monday of the month in the Digby Hall, Hound Street, (next to
the library) from 9.30pm–3.30pm. Bring a packed lunch. Meetings included
sewing, sometimes with a tutor or a speaker. The group also have associated
events like Garden Parties. Members can also learn to embroider.
EMBROIDERERS
THE BLACKMORE VALE BRANCH OF THE EMBROIDERERS’ GUILD
Chairman: Jan Pineau
Telephone: 01935 823921
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Email: janpineau44@gmail.com
Secretary: Karen Hart
Telephone: 01258 861909
Email: karenjhart@hotmail.com
Programme Secretary: Liz Dixon
Telephone: 01985 248350
Email: dragonflyliz@btinternet.com
Facebook: Blackmore Vale Embroiderers Guild
Website:
http://blackmorevalebranchembroiderersguild.b
logspot.co.uk/
We are a branch of the Embroiderers’ Guild in
Dorset and we have a large number of members interested in all types of
embroidery, sewing, quilting, knitting, crochet and textile art. We have a biannual exhibition in conjunction with Dorset Arts Week. We meet in Bradford
Abbas Village Hall, Church Road, Bradford Abbas, DT9 6RF from 9.30am-4pm on
the third Saturday of the month apart from February which is 2nd Saturday of
the month. There is a garden party in August. Every month there is a workshop
with a well-known tutor. Beginners upwards are welcome.
As a ‘welcome’ to the Society new members may discuss their research for an
hour with an experienced family historian.
Entrance to the Research Centre is free to members of the Society; nonmembers pay a day visitor’s fee of £2."
EAST AFRICAN WOMEN’S LEAGUE
Name: Sue Pelly
Telephone: 01963 210411
FAMILY HISTORY FIRST WORLD WAR
To apply, call in to the Centre for an application form, or download one from our
website and then post to: SDFHS Subscriptions, PO Box 4502, Sherborne, DT9
6YL or email to sdfhs@btconnect.com.
The Society always welcomes new Volunteers, who can either work at the
Society’s Research Centre in Sherborne, or remotely from home. Volunteers,
who will need to be computer-literate, play a huge part in welcoming visitors to
the Family History Centre and in caring for and adding to the Society’s records
and databases. Please contact the Centre Manager if you are interested.
"When are we open and is there a charge?
Day time - Monday, Friday and Saturday, 10.00am - 1.00pm, Thursday
10.00am to 4.00pm.
Evening - Third Tuesday of every month from 7.00pm to 9.00pm.
FAMILY HISTORY
SOMERSET & DORSET FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY
Registered Charity Number: 1010351
Name: Barry Brock
Position: Centre Manager
Telephone: 01935 389611
Address: The Parade, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3BJ
Email: sdfha@btconnect.com
Website: www.sdfhs.org.
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SomersetDorsetFHS.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheSDFHS
The Society helps people to research their family history and can be found at
the Family History Centre on The Parade in the heart of Sherborne (between
Sherborne Museum and Connell’s Estate Agents). Membership costs only £18
per annum, and benefits include:

Help from the Society's experienced family historians.

Four free copies each year of the Society’s award-winning Journal The
Greenwood Tree.

Talks and workshops at the Centre.

A well-stocked bookshop.

An extensive family, local and military
history library.
FREE NAME SEARCH
FLORAL EVENING
SHERBORNE FLORAL EVENING
Name: Mrs J. Bishop
Telephone: 01935 812722
We have demonstrations and practice and meet at the Youth Centre in Tinneys
Lane every 4th Thursday, except August, November & December at 7.30pm.
November is an open meeting and all are welcome. Visitors are very welcome to
come along on the night.
Website: http://dorsetflowerclubs.wordpress.com/
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Website:
http://www.nafas.org.uk/flower_club/Sherborne+Floral+Evening+Group
Affiliated to NAFAS (National Association of Flower Arrangement Societies)
Website: www.nafas.org.uk
NAFAS
Flower arranging clubs and societies banded together as the National
Association of Flower Arrangement Societies in 1959. The Association has since
been a unifying and guiding mainstay to thousands of
men, women and juniors whose love of flowers has
opened up a whole new world of creativity. In 1984
NAFAS was granted charitable status in recognition of its
education activities. With over 65,000 members, it ranks
among the most notable specialised National Associations.
authors, illustrators, poetry readings, local history and more. See the noticeboard in the library for forthcoming events
Also see www.dorsetforyou.com/libraries/Library-events
POETRY EVENINGS
A poetry group meet on Thursday evenings on a fortnightly basis between
7.00pm and 9.30pm at Sherborne Library. If you would like to join in the
creative fun contact Sherborne Library for details on 01935 812683
FRIENDS OF THE QUARR
Contact Name: Mary Brodie
Position: Secretary
Address: c/o 32 Kings Road Sherborne DT9 4HU
Telephone: 01935 814029
Email address: Mary.Brodie@gmx.co.uk
Website: http://quarrlocalnaturereserve.org
The Quarr is a Local Nature
Reserve owned and
maintained by Sherborne
Town Council with the help
and advice from the Friends of
the Quarr, a small group of
local enthusiasts. Once a
quarry which supplied stone
for buildings in the town and
then a general recreation
area, the Quarr is now
managed for the benefit of
nature/ wildlife but it
continues to be a popular
local open space for a variety
of activities
Address: Friends of the Yeatman Hospital, Yeatman
Hospital, Hospital Lane, Sherborne, Dorset. DT9 3JU
A garland of fresh flowers representing England, Scotland,
Ireland and Wales surrounds the tomb of the unknown
warrior for WW1 Commemoration Service in Westminster
Abbey. Arranged by Margaret Scott, Sheila Hadlow, Sheila Hand and Linda
Lyons, NAFAS members
GARDENING- SHERBORNE AND DISTRICT GARDENERS’ ASSOCIATION
Contact name: Malcolm Saunders
Position: Secretary
Telephone: 01935 389867
The Sherborne and District Gardeners' Association was formed in 1942. Its aim is to
encourage people to enjoy their gardens and
what they grow in them. Monthly meetings
are held on every second Thursday of the
month.
Spring and Summer Shows are organised.
Members are interested in all aspects of
horticulture. Speakers cover a wide range
of subjects, with illustrated talks, and
practical demonstrations. Visits to famous
gardens are arranged. Two
shows are held each year - the spring and summer. New members always
welcome.
FRIENDS OF SHERBORNE LIBRARY
Run in conjunction with Sherborne Library.
£5 annual subscription or £8 if both at same
address.
‘The Friends’ put on events in the Library such
as talks with questions and refreshments.
Admission is free for ‘Friends’ and open to the
public by tickets. There are talks by local
We are a registered charity set up in 1951 to maintain
community interest and support for the Yeatman Hospital,
and to supplement services provided by the Hospital for
the benefit of patients Funds are raised from membership
subscriptions, donations and fund raising events. There are
currently over 1700 members. New members are most
welcome. Our officers include a chairman, vice-chairman, treasurer, secretary,
membership and publicity secretaries together with an elected committee who
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serve a term of 3 years. Ex-officio members include the hospital matron, a local
doctor who is chairman of the Sherborne Medical Forum and a member of
Sherborne Town Council. The Friends run a Trolley Shop at the Hospital on
Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. Volunteers help on approximately one
afternoon a month for about one hour. A team of Friends also tend the garden
at The Willows.
do fund-raising for local, national and overseas charities and the charity
changes from year to year and is chosen by the current president.
THE SHERBORNE & DISTRICT MACHINE KNITTING CLUB
– ALL KNIT SHERBERTS Email: info@allknitsherberts.co.uk
The All Knit Sherberts started life as the Sherborne and District Machine Knitting
Club. Based in the historic town of Sherborne, Dorset, UK, the club’s aim is to
offer friendship, help and advice for anyone wishing to take up machine knitting
or, for those machine knitters who would like to develop further their skills in
this interesting and versatile craft. Many of our present members are very
experienced and are very willing to share their knowledge with those who wish
to join us. Please check the Events page of our web site for our forthcoming
programme/club nights and feel free to Contact us if you would like to know
more about joining. Club night is the 2nd and 4th Thursday in the month held in
the Sherborne Primary School SCAPA Room, Harbour Way, Sherborne, Dorset.
We are, of course, members of the Guild of Machine Knitters.
HISTORY - SHERBORNE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Name: Bob Edward
Position: Vice President
Telephone: 01935 816650
Name: Nigel Parkinson
Position: Secretary
Telephone: 01935 814286
Meetings are held at The Digby Hall, Hound Street, Sherborne, Dorset,
DT9 3AA, approximately once a fortnight during the winter months. Lectures
commence at 8pm preceded by coffee from 7.20pm.
Website: http://www.sherbornehistoricalsociety.co.uk/
Membership Secretary: Shelia Leaning
Telephone: 01963 370899
Email: shs7membershipsec@gmail.com
A society for those interested in history - both local and worldwide
Founded in 1957, Sherborne Historical Society is a group of people who are
interested in history, both local and worldwide. It meets regularly in the winter
months to provide lectures from distinguished speakers and offers field trips in
the summer months. Membership: The annual membership subscription for
the year ending 31st August 2014 is £15.00 (no charge for students in
secondary, higher or further education). The subscription is payable to the
Sherborne Historical Society.
Visitors: Visitors are welcome to attend lectures provided that the capacity of
the hall is not exceeded, when members will have priority. A fee of £5.00 is
payable per person per lecture (students, as above, no charge)
SHERBORNE AREA OVER 50’s GROUP
INNER WHEEL CLUB OF SHERBORNE
Convener: Peter Rhodes
Position: Chairman
Address: 35 Abbotts Way, Sherborne DT9 6DU
Telephone: 01935 816946
Email: prhodes123@btinternet.com
The group meets quarterly in the Digby Hall, Hound Street (next to the library.)
Sherborne Area Over 50s Group is an action group working to improve the
quality of life for local older people.
Inner Wheel is an international organisation and is involved in many charities
nationwide. Inner Wheel Club of Sherborne takes members mainly from the two
Rotary Clubs in Sherborne and is for ladies such as wives or sisters with a
relative who is a Rotarian and is for fun and friendship. Ladies join Inner Wheel
by invitation. The group meets on the 3rd Thursday of the month at The
Sherborne Hotel for a social evening often with a speaker. There is a big
programme of events and for more details do contact Jackie above. Inner Wheel
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The Group provides a quarterly newsletter; information on local services;
consultation and campaigning opportunities; representation on key planning
groups. Sherborne Area Over 50s group is one of 16 senior forums in Dorset
working together as the Dorset Association of Senior Forums.
The Recycling Scheme initiated by members will collect your garden waste and
take it to the Recycling centre in West Mill Lane. The group are also looking for
more drivers willing to help with the scheme.
Chairman: Dave Bowes
Telephone: 01935 389272
Name: Glenys Bowes
Position: Secretary
Telephone: 01935 389272
Website: http://branches.britishlegion.org.uk/branches/sherborne
Meets at 7.30pm on every fourth Monday of the month at the Weavers,
Westbury, Sherborne, Dorset, DT9 6BB.
Membership is open to everyone. If you have an interest in the objectives of the
Legion and want to help and support for those who have served and their
families, come and join us. We welcome men and women of all ages, whether
they have served in the Armed Forces or not.
ROTARY CLUB OF SHERBORNE CASTLES
Secretary: Steve Harvey
Email address:
www.rotaryclubofsherbornecastles.org.uk
One of two Rotary clubs in Sherborne and 1,840 in the UK and Ireland- the
largest humanitarian service organisation. We provide friendly help to worthy
local bodies through fundraising and donation and the provision of manpower
support. We help build goodwill and peace in the world.
ROTARY CLUB OF SHERBORNE
Contact Name: Chris Smallbone
Position: Secretary
Address of organisation: Buffers, 2 Kenelm Close, Bradford Road, Sherborne
DT9 6BL
Email address: chrissmallbone@btinternet.com
Website: www.sherbornerotaryclub.org.uk
Rotary is the largest humanitarian service organisation in Great Britain and
Ireland for professional and business people who want to make a better world,
and who are dedicated to providing friendly help to local and international
communities.
SHERBORNE IN BLOOM
Contact: Gillian Gunner
Position: Team Leader
Telephone: 01935 817365
Email: gilliangunner@gmail.com
Website www.sherborneinbloomteam.com
Sherborne in Bloom is a community project whose objective is to enhance
our town with blooms for the benefit of us all.
Sherborne in Bloom is a team effort and we welcome help from all willing
friends. Here are some of the ways you could contribute:
Help with gardening at adopt-a-plots
Help with admin: paperwork, phone calls, delivering leaflets
Odd jobbing: sweeping, weeding, tidying up, litter-picking
Sponsor a plot: make a financial contribution to planting around the town
…or anything else you would like to offer to do
We currently have just over 200 friends and the list is growing.
PAST ROTARIANS OF DORCHESTER & SHERBORNE
Name: Richard Collins
Email: rjcoll4@hotmail.com
Unfortunately the Dorchester and Sherborne club closed in May this year due to
the inability to recruit new members and the age of the membership. As at
present there is no club in area. If you are interested in re-starting the club
please contact Richard.
ROYAL BRITISH LEGION
SHERBORNE & DISTRICT BRANCH
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Being a friend of Sherborne in Bloom costs nothing. You can do as much or as
little as you like. All we ask is that you support us in our venture and promote
the In Bloom idea in whatever ways you can.
As a friend, we will keep you up-to-date with news and developments and you
will be invited to meetings to discuss and vote on future activities.
To become a friend of Sherborne in Bloom simply go to the website, fill in a
form and click ‘Send’. The information will be emailed privately to us and
nothing will appear on this website. We will reply promptly with further details
and information.
group visits when we stay in each others’ homes and learn about one another’s
cultures. The ability to speak French whilst an advantage is not essential and
Town Twinning is for all ages and pockets.
SHERBORNE CHOJNA TWINNING ASSOCIATION
Name: Mike Morton
Telephone: 01935 813221
Email: domimorton@yahoo.co.uk
U3A (THE UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE)
SHERBORNE STOP THE LITTER CAMPAIGN
Name: Anthony Vosper
Telephone: 01935 814840
Email: awvosper@btinternet.com
Name: Gerry Holdstock
Telephone: 01963 362001
Email: gerry_holdstock@btinternet.com
U3A stands for the University of the Third Age, which is a self-help organisation
for people no longer in full time employment providing educational, creative and
leisure opportunities in a friendly environment. It consists of local U3As all
over the UK, which are charities in their own right and are run entirely by
volunteers. Local U3As are learning cooperatives which draw upon the
knowledge, experience and skills of their own members to organise and provide
interest groups in accordance with the wishes of the membership.
Organised litter picks meeting monthly on a Tuesday at four different
locations throughout Sherborne from 1000 -1200 hours.
See Sherborne Matters for dates and meeting locations.
I would like to thank all our loyal volunteers for turning out and supporting the
campaign month by month. There is no doubt that our efforts are paying off and
the town is definitely looking better for it.
Nationally, litter is huge, expensive and wasteful problem. "Keep Britain Tidy"
published the following statistics in November:2.25m items dropped in the UK every day.
200m cigarette butts thrown away every year.
60% increase in fast food litter as a proportion of the total over the past
decade.
63,000 fines for littering handed out in England in 2012.
The teachers learn and the learners teach. Between them U3As offer the chance
to study over 300 different subjects in such fields as art, languages, music,
history, life sciences, philosophy, computing, crafts, photography and walking.
A typical U3A has about 250 members but could be as small as 12 and as large
as 2000. The U3A approach to learning is – learning for pleasure.
There is no accreditation or validation and there are no assessments or
qualifications to be gained.
WEST END FRIENDSHIP CLUB
Name: Mrs Pat Doyle
Telephone: 01935 812856
The club meets on the first Wednesday of every month in the West End Hall
from 2.00pm onwards. All welcome – men and women – all ages. We have
speakers, games, bingo, refreshments, tea and homemade cakes and a raffle.
The Club recently celebrated 25 years of companionship.
SHERBORNE TWINNING ASSOCIATION
Name: Mrs Holly Quick
Position: Secretary
Telephone: 01935 817073
Email: mail@hollyquick.demon.co.uk
Sherborne has been twinned with Granville since 1982. Over the years very
many lasting family friendships have been formed as a result of our annual
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BT
UK Operator: Dial 100
Fault Management: 0800 800 151
Website: https://www.bt.com
WOMEN’S INSTITUTES
There are Women’s Institutes in Alweston, Bradford Abbas,
Glanvilles Wootton and Holnest, Hermitage and Hilfield,
Leigh, Melbury Osmond, Oborne and Poyntington,
Sherborne, Thornford and Trent.
CEMETERY – SHERBORNE
Telephone: 01935 812807
Address: Lenthay Road, Sherborne.
Meeting times and venues as detailed below.
ALWESTON – Village Hall second Thursday of the month
at 7.30pm
BRADFORD ABBAS – Village Hall third Tuesday of the
month at 7.30pm
GLANVILLES WOOTTON & HOLNEST – Glanvilles Wootton Village Hall first
Thursday of the month at 7.30pm
HERMITAGE AND HILFIELD – Village Hall first Tuesday of the month at
7.30pm
LEIGH – Village Hall last Tuesday of the month
MELBURY OSMOND – Village Hall second Wednesday of the month at 7.30pm
POYNTINGTON & OBORNE - Village Hall last Wednesday of the month at
7.30pm
SHERBORNE WEST END – West End Community Hall third Wednesday of the
month at 2.30pm.
THORNFORD - Village Hall second Wednesday of the month at 7.30pm
TRENT - – Village Hall third Thursday of the month at 7.30pm
For details about any please contact
DORSET COUNTY FEDERATION OF WOMEN’S INSTITUTES
Address: County House, 58 Icen Way
Dorchester Dorset DT1 1EW
Telephone: 01305 266366
Email hq@nfwi.org.uk
Website: http://www.thewi.org.uk/
Telephone: 01305 251000
Address: County Hall, Colliton Park, Dorchester DT1 1XJ
Website: https://www.dorsetforyou.com
DORSET PROBATION SERVICE
Telephone: 01305 224786
Community Service Work
Telephone: 01202 307287
Website: http://www.ddccrc.co.uk/
DRY CLEANERS SHERBORNE
Barkers Dry Cleaners, South Street, Sherborne DT9 3LX
Telephone: 01935 816070
Gibbs Dry Cleaners, 39a Cheap Street Sherborne DT9 3PU
Telephone: 01935 812143
Guarantee Laundries Ltd, Coldharbour House, Coldharbour, Sherborne
DT9 4 AW
Telephone: 01935 812118
ELECTRIC/GAS – SSE SOUTHERN ELECTRIC
Electric 24-Hour Emergency: 0845 770 8090
Information about special services for the elderly, disabled or chronically sick
Careline: 0800 622 838
WOMANKIND
Website: http://www.womankind.org.uk/
LOCAL SERVICES
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General Enquiries: 0800 980 8476
Meter Reading: 0800 107 3205
Website: www.southern-electric.co.uk
Electricity – pay as you go emergency 0800 986 0414
Gas – pay as you go emergency 0800 980 0427
Telephone: 01935 872059
Email: gloster135@btinternet.com
LIBRARY - DORCHESTER
Name: Katherine Hudson/Sharon Holmes (job share)
Position: Service Manager Reading and Learning
Telephone: 01305 228527
Address: Library HQ, Colliton Park, Dorchester DT1 1XJ
Email: readingcommunitymanager@dorsetcc.gov.uk
Website: www.dorsetforyou.com/libraries
The service provides a library service that is easily accessible with a
comprehensive stock facilitating access to information. It is encourages reading
for recreation and learning and providing opportunities for formal and informal
learning
GAS EMERGENCY SERVICES
Telephone: 0800 111 999
GAS SUPPLY – BRITISH GAS
General Enquiries: 0800 048 0202
Meter Reading Line: 0800 107 3205
Address: British Gas, PO Box 227, ROTHERHAM S98 1PD
Email: customerservice@britishgas.co.uk
Website: www.britishgas.co.uk
THE PENSION SERVICE
Telephone: 0845 60 60 265
Website: https://www.gov.uk/contact-pension-service
JOB CENTRE PLUS - EMPLOYMENT
Telephone: 0845 604 3719
Address: Federated House, 29/31 Hendford, Yeovil
Website: https://jobsearch.direct.gov.uk
POLICE
Telephone: 101
Address: Digby Road, Sherborne DT9 3NL.
Email: enquiries@dorset.pnn.police.uk
Website: https://www.dorset.police.uk/default.aspx?page=5599
LAUNDRETTES SHERBORNE
Telephone: 01935 816040
Address: Unit 3, Westbridge Park, Sherborne, Dorset
LIBRARY - SHERBORNE
Telephone: 01935 812683
Address: - Hound Street, Sherborne, Dorset.
POST OFFICE – MAIN - SHERBORNE
Telephone: 01935 812136
Address: 47 Cheap Street, Sherborne
HOME LIBRARY SERVICE SHERBORNE
Name: Margaret Messenger
Position: Project Manager
Contact via Library 01935 812683
HOME LIBRARY SERVICE
Name: Jenny Gloster
Address: 22 Stoney Acres, Yetminster, DT9 5LT
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Monday – Thursday 10.00am – 4.00pm,
Friday – 10.00am – 1.00pm.
Brian Haigh
WEDDINGS
PUBLIC TOILETS
Located in Old Market Car Park and Digby Road
PLACES IN THE SHERBORNE AREA LICENCED
TO HOLD WEDDING CEREMONIES
REFUSE COLLECTION DAY in central Sherborne is every Monday for the black
dustbin bags and every 2 weeks, again on a Monday, for the recycling.
The Council Chamber, located in Sherborne Town Council’s beautiful 15 th
century offices at the Manor House in Newland, is available for Civil
Ceremonies. If you are interested in using it as a venue for a wedding or
civil partnership, please contact the Registrars Office on 01305 225153 for
further details on pricing and availability.
Address: The Manor House, Newland, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3JL
If you would like to view the room, please call 01935 812807
Email: j.simpson@sherborne-tc.gov.uk
RECYCLING FACILITES
at West Mill Lane Sherborne offers recycling for hardcore, soil and rubbish,
non-ferrous metals (i.e. non-magnetic stuff) fridges and freezers, ferrous
metals, textiles such as clothing and shoes, small electrical goods, TVs, cookers
with cables taken off, wood, cardboard, tyres, glass (including clear, brown and
green), plastic bottles, aerosols, paint, waste oil, green waste, car batteries,
spent batteries, florescent tubes and bulbs, There is also a resell area. The site
offers a CA (Civic Amenity) and facilities for businesses and has a weighbridge.
OPENING TIMES
1 April to 31 October 9am to 6pm Monday to Sunday
1 November to 31 March 9am to 5pm Monday to Sunday
CLOSED Christmas Day, Boxing Day & New Year's Day
SHERBORNE TOWN COUNCIL OFFICES
Telephone: 01935 812807
The Manor House, Newland, Sherborne DT9 3JL.
Web Address: www.sherbornetown.co.uk
Opening times of the council offices in Newland
The Eastbury is a truly magical setting for a wedding day. With a backdrop of
the beautiful walled garden, in our Restaurant or in your own Marquee, an
exquisite menu created by multi-award winning chefs, a passionate team of
wedding planners headed up by Nicky King who owns The Eastbury, and
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gorgeous bedrooms for you and your guests to enjoy after the reception you
have the perfect romantic Dorset wedding venue.
Position: Manager
Telephone: 01935 814680
Address: Raleigh Hall, (next to the Digby
Memorial Hall) Digby Road, Sherborne,
Dorset DT9 3NL.
Open from 10am to 1.30pm
The Lunch Club serves 2 course lunches
every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
and is open at 10.00 am to 1.30 pm. We
cater for all residents of the Sherborne
area who are 55 years old and over.
Coffee and teas are served in our relaxing
lounge area, where you can chat to
friends and other members.
Address: The Eastbury Hotel, Long Street, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3BY
Telephone: 01935 813131
Email: relax@theeastburyhotel.co.uk
Website: http://www.theeastburyhotel.co.uk/dorset_wedding_venue.html
Sherborne Castle is a wonderful stately venue for Civil Marriage Ceremonies,
Civil Partnerships and Wedding Receptions. Built by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1594,
with lake and gardens landscaped by ‘Capability’ Brown, the Castle and Gardens
provide both a beautiful and historic setting for a stately home wedding.
Within the Castle two rooms are licenced for ceremonies; the Solarium – Sir
Walter Raleigh’s original front parlour and the Tudor Entrance Hall. The
beautiful 18th lakeside Orangery is also licenced.
Custodians Robert and Julie Smith
Address: Sherborne Castle, New Road, Sherborne Dorset DT9 5NR
Telephone: 01935 812072
Email: weddings@sherbornecastle.com
Website: www.sherbornecastle.com
We believe we offer an
excellent
service,
and
exceptional value to all our
members, coffee and tea is
only 50p and our 2 course
lunch just £4.00, we don’t
believe you could get better
value anywhere else in
Sherborne. Once a month
we have reduced price
chiropody service for our
members.
WESSEX WATER
Water Supply: 0345 600 4600
Sewerage & Floodline (in a property) 0345 850 5959
Website: http://www.wessexwater.co.uk/
WEST DORSET DISTRICT COUNCIL
Telephone: 01305 251010Fax: 01305 251481
Address: West Dorset District Council, South Walks House,
South Walks Road, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 1UZ (use DT1 1EE for sat nav)
Website: https://www.dorsetforyou.com
To become a member costs
£3 per year, but the criteria for this service is that members have to partake of
lunch a minimum of once a week.
If transport is an issue there is a service available which collects residents
directly from their home and takes them to the lunch club, and back home again
when the club closes.
Why not come and visit us, and discover for
yourselves exactly what we can offer you. You do not
have to become a member to try out our service.
PLEASE NOTE: Lunch orders have to be placed by
11.30 a
LUNCH CLUBS
ABBEYFIELD LUNCH CLUB
Telephone: 01935 812761
Address: Abbeyfield House, Coldharbour, Sherborne
THE SENIOR LUNCH CLUB
Name: Mrs Lydia Cook
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Abbeyfield Lunch Club takes place Monday – Sunday. Limited places available so
you must always ring in advance
ST JOHN’S ALMSHOUSE LUNCH
Telephone: 01935 813245
Address: St John’s House, Half Moon Street, Sherborne
Takes place every Monday. Please ring to book
THORNFORD LUNCH CLUB
Name: Helen
Telephone: 01935 872 706
Address: Thornford Village Hall, Pound Road, Thornford
Thornford Lunch Club takes place fortnightly on 1st & 3rd Thursday of the month.
Need to book. Term Time only
ST PAUL’S MEET AND EAT LUNCH CLUB
Telephone: 01935 816444
Address: St Pauls Church Hall, St Pauls Close, Sherborne
Website: http://www.stpauls-sherborne.org.uk/
Takes place most term-time Mondays. There are limited places available so
please ring to book.
TUESDAY LUNCH CLUB
(The Royal Voluntary Service)
Name: Mrs Rabiah Jackson
Telephone: 01935 389212
Mobile: 07502130241
Email: jacksuri@btinternet.com
Address: Digby Hall, (next to the Library),
Hound Street, Sherborne.
Takes place every Tuesday.
Transport is available
WRIGGLE VALLEY LUNCH CLUB
Name: Connie Wallis
Telephone: 01935 872946
Address: Leigh Village Hall, Chetnole Road, Leigh DT9 6HJ
Takes place every 3rd Tuesday of the month at 12pm
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MEDIA
www.sherbornetown.com
SHERBORNE MATTERS
Editor : Sarah Hill
Telephone : 01963 365135
Email : shill@bvmedia.co.uk
Send your stories and photos to Sarah Hill, news editor.
Free monthly newsletter for Sherborne and area.
Pick up your free copy from any of the following places:
Abbey Bookshop, Simons Road Stores, Castle Gardens, Sherborne Town Council
Offices, Waitrose, Sainsburys, Sherborne Golf Club, Budgens Garage, The
Grange at Oborne, Leigh Garage & Shop, Chetnole Inn, Three Elms at North
Wootton, Bishop Caundle Community Shop, Yetminster, Thornford Stores,
BLACKMORE VALE MAGAZINE
Local News Reporter
Name: Dee Adcock
Telephone: 01963 365125
Email: deeadcock@bvmedia.co.uk
THE CONDUIT MAGAZINE
Name: Franchesca Dening
Telephone: 01935 424724
Address: Greenacres, Higher Farm, Mudford, Yeovil, Somerset BA21 5TD
Email: info@theconduitmagazine.co.uk
Web Address: www.theconduitmagazine.co.uk
BLACKMORE VALE MAGAZINE
Editor: Tim Lethaby
Telephone: 01963 365100
Address: High Street, Stalbridge, Sturminster, Newton, Dorset DT10 2LH
Email: tlethaby@bvmedia.co.uk
Website: www.blackmorevale.co.uk
COMMUNITY WEBSITE DESIGN
Name: Gillian Gunner
Email: gilliangunner@gmail.com
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RADIO – LOCAL STATIONS
DORSET EVENING ECHO
Telephone: 01305 261100
www.dorsetecho.co.uk
News desk: 01305 830999
THE DORSET BROADCASTING ACTION GROUP (DorBAG)
Address: DorBAG, C/o Burton Bradstock Post Office, 75 Mill Street, Burton
Bradstock, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 4QZ
E-mail: dorbag@dorbag.org.uk
Website: www.dorbag.org.uk
Description:
The Dorset Broadcasting Action Group was formed to persuade
the BBC to provide Dorset with proper local news services on Radio and on
Terrestrial Television for the whole county, and received by the whole county.
a) Oliver Letwin MP is Chairman of DorBAG, which has on its Executive
Committee representatives from many councils, Dorset Chamber of
Commerce, Dorset WI Federation, DAPTC, Dorset LEP, interested parties
and technical experts. The committee meets approximately 3 to 4 times
per annum with the BBC (& Ofcom as appropriate).
ABBEY 104
Telephone: 01935 80 46 69
Email: studio@abbey104.com
Website: www.abbey104.com
Abbey 104 Studio, Coombe works
Coombe, Sherborne, DT9 4AU
b) After many years of campaigning, in July 2013, Radio Solent finally
reinstated BBC Radio Dorset – at least a breakfast programme each
week day (0630 to 0900 on 103.8FM). Dorset also has a “Big Breakfast
Brunch” on Saturday mornings (0800 to 1100, again on 103.8FM).
c)
To accommodate the launch of the new breakfast programme, the BBC
installed some 9 staff in the updated Dorchester studio (it was almost
empty before then). It also includes a manager for the first time!
d)
Sadly, it has been reported that these programmes do not reach all, or
part of, Sherborne at this time. However, the BBC has recently advised
that, provided the forthcoming BBC Charter Review (due 2015/2016)
does not prevent it, they plan to upgrade the programme for a full day,
albeit shared with Radio Solent, and very importantly, with upgraded
transmitter(s) to reach the entire county. This is very welcome news,
but it will be two or three years before it happens.
e)
BBC Radio Dorset
Telephone: 01305 269654
Website: www.bbc.co.uk/news/England/dorset/
More positive news - we are told that they will be adding the local
breakfast radio programmes to their online web site
(www.bbc.co.uk/Dorset). In addition, the breakfast programme will be also
available on Freeview. Both are due in 2014! This will enable listeners in
Sherborne to hear it!
HEART
(Formerly Orchard FM)
Telephone: 01823 338448
Website: www.heart.co.uk/somerset
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THE BREEZE
(Formerly Mid West Radio)
Telephone: 01935 84 84 88
Address: The Breeze, Yeovil Innovation Centre, Barracks Close, Copse Road,
Yeovil, Somerset BA22 8RN
Email: swnews@thebreeze.com
Website: www.thebreeze.com
An internet radio station that involves volunteers in making programmes is keeping
farmers in touch. Dorset and Somerset Farm Radio – www.farmradio.org.uk – is the
brainchild of Trevor Bailey and John Holman, of Somerset’s rural media charity,
Trilith, which is best known for its preservation and showing of old film footage in our
village halls. The idea for Farm Radio arose after John and Trevor heard from farming
families that the closure of virtually all of Dorset’s livestock markets had led to the
loss of business and social contact. This was made worse by massive changes in
farming and pressure on family farms. Says Trevor:
“We wanted to find a way of helping farming families keep in touch with
their own kind and with developments and other people’s experiences in
agriculture.”Each month a new edition of Farm Radio is available to listen to online
at any time. All previous programmes also remain on the site. Professional farming
journalists and local volunteers from farming backgrounds make the programmes,
which range from up-to-the-minute farming issues and stories about farmers and
their approach to the future to poetry, music and sheer fun. Farm Radio aims to take
a positive view of farming.
Farm Radio has also developed links with County Limerick in Ireland and is about to
launch a children’s version of the website, Future Farming Voices.
• Anyone with a farming background or interest who would like to work in their own
community as a correspondent should contact Trilith on 01747 840750 or 840727.
WESSEX FM
Telephone Studio: 01305 250300
Telephone General Enquiries: 01305 250333
Address: Poundbury House, Poundbury West Industrial Estate, Dorchester,
Dorset DT1 2PG
Email: news@wessexfm.com
Website: http://www.wessexfm.com/
REMOUS
ONLINE RADIO
Name: Alan Bunter /Keith Sparkes
Telephone: 01963 250920
Fax: 01963 251054
Address: Wyvern Buildings, Glovers Close, North Street, Milborne Port,
Sherborne, Dorset DT9 5EP
Email:info@remous.com
Website: www.remous.com
FARM RADIO
www.farmradio.org.uk
Telephone: 01747 840727 or 01963 33113
Address: Farm Radio, The Balsam Centre, Balsam Park, Wincanton, Somerset
BA9 9HB
Email: info@farmradio.org.uk
SHELLEYS THE PRINTERS
Name: Glenn Coombs
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Telephone: 01935 815364
Address: Western Ways Yard, Bristol Road, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 4HR
Email: shelleys@shelleys01.ndo.co.uk
Website: www.shelleystheprinters.com
THE WESTERN GAZETTE
Telephone: 01935 700500
Address: Western Gazette Media, Yeovil Innovation Centre, Barracks Close
Copse Road, Yeovil, Somerset BA22 8RN
Email: sherborne@westgaz.co.uk
Website: www.westerngazette.co.uk
SHERBORNE TIMES
Editor: Lesley Lison
Telephone: 07903 008925
Email: editor@sherbornetimes.co.uk
Website: www.sherbornetimes.co.uk
Follow us at: @sherbornetimes
Sheri Willis
Sherborne Reporter
The Western Gazette
Email sheri.willis@westgaz.co.uk
Follow me on Twitter @WGSheriWillis
THE TALKING NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION
Telephone: 01435 866102
Address: National Recording Centre Heathfield East Sussex TN21 8DB
Email: info@tnank.org.uk
Direct line: 01935 709748
Mobile: 0782 443 1547
TUDOR DISTRIBUTION
Name: Adam Perkins
Telephone: 01202 813630
Address: Unit 85, Condor Close, Woolsbridge Industrial Estate, Three Legged
Cross, Wimborne, Dorset BH21 6SU.
Email: mail@tudordistribution.co.uk
Website: www.tudordistribution.co.uk
Service offering door-to-door distribution of leaflets and magazines in the
Sherborne area
SHERBORNE AREA PARTNERSHIP WEBSITE
http://www.sherbornetown.com/sites/SherborneAreaPartnership.aspx
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OLDER PEOPLE
SHERBORNE GOOD NEIGHBOURS
Contact Name: David R. Smith
Address: Fortunes Fold, Long Street, Sherborne DT9 3DE
Position: Chairman
Email address: drysmith@btinternet.com
Good Neighbours provides neighbourly help for those who need it, e.g.
shopping, light DIY, essential transport, visiting lonely etc.
Help is available by ringing 01935 815806, 814490, 815127 & 817453 - 48
hours notice, please.
Transport is charged at 40p per mile, min £1.
For all latest news and minutes of recent forums for Tourism, Housing and
Health and Social Care
THE SENIOR LUNCH CLUB
Position: Manager
Telephone: 01935 814680
Address: Raleigh Hall, (next to the Digby Memorial Hall) Digby Road, Sherborne,
Dorset DT9 3NL.
Open from 10am to 1.30pm
The Lunch Club serves 2 course lunches
every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
and is open at 10.00 am to 1.30 pm. We
cater for all residents of the Sherborne
area who are 55 years old and over.
Coffee and teas are served in our relaxing
lounge area, where you can chat to friends
and other members.
As well as Sherborne Area Action Plan 2014-2017
SHERBORNE AREA ACTION PLAN FOR 2014-2017
was published in March 2014 following a wide-ranging consultation with
local people and organisations that took place between November 2013
and February 2014.
See the Summary of Priorities for the number of votes given to each
of the actions in the new Plan by the many people and organisations
who took part in the consultation.
See Summary of Responses to read the suggested amendments and
additions to the Plan that were received during the consultation period.
Our Management Committee has agreed that we will designate a small
number of Priority Actions for each 6 month period.
We believe we offer an excellent service,
and exceptional value to all our members,
coffee and tea is only 50p and our 2 course lunch just £4.00, we don’t believe
you could get better value anywhere else in Sherborne.
Once a month we have reduced price chiropody service
for our members. To become a member costs £3 per
year, but the criteria for this service is that members
have to partake of lunch a minimum of once a week.
If transport is an issue there is a service available which collects residents
directly from their home and takes them to the lunch club, and back home again
when the club closes. Why not come and visit us, and discover for yourselves
exactly what we can offer you. You do not have to become a member to try out
our service.
PLEASE NOTE: Lunch orders have to be placed by 11.30 am
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TEA & CHAT
Tea & Chat, a group for over 60s at St Paul’s Church
on Monday afternoons from 2-4pm
St Paul’s Close, Sherborne DT9 4DU
Contact: Sarah Fricker 01935 816444
Line Dancing, Games, Speakers, Games, Crafts & Outings
SHERBORNE AREA OVER 50s GROUP
PROBUS - CASTLE PROBUS LADIES CLUB
Name: Anne Bugler
Position: Membership Secretary
Telephone: 01935 873235
Email: ericbugler237@btinternet.com
A friendly and welcoming group with a wide variety of speakers interspersed
with a number of very enjoyable social events.
The Club meets every other Tuesday from 10am – 12 noon at the Cheap Street
Church Hall, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3BT.
PROBUS - CASTLETON PROBUS CLUB
Hon. Secretary: Tony Sparshott
Tel: 01935 817972
Meets at the Eastbury Hotel, Sherborne
fortnightly on Thursdays from 10.30-12.30.
Convener: Peter Rhodes
Position: Chairman
Address: 35 Abbotts Way, Sherborne DT9 6DU
Telephone: 01935 816946
Email: prhodes123@btinternet.com
PROBUS – SHERBORNE PROBUS CLUB
Secretary: Keith Phillips
Telephone: 01935 475148
Email: keithcphillips@btinternet.com
The Club meets at the Slessor Club, Sherborne, DT9 3BY
fortnightly on Wednesdays.
The Club is part of the Nationwide Probus Clubs. Each club is individually
constituted. The objective of the clubs is to provide the opportunity for retired
professionals and businessmen to meet and listen to talks on a wide variety of
subjects so maintaining their interests and making new friends.
The group meets quarterly in the Digby Hall, Hound Street (next to the library.)
Sherborne Area Over 50s Group is an action group working to improve the
quality of life for local older people.
The Group provides a quarterly newsletter; information on local services;
consultation and campaigning opportunities; representation on key planning
groups. Sherborne Area Over 50s group is one of 16 senior forums in Dorset
working together as the Dorset Association of Senior Forums.
The Recycling Scheme initiated by members will collect your garden waste and
take it to the Recycling centre in West Mill Lane.
The group are also looking for more drivers willing to help with the scheme.
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TEA & CHAT
Tea & Chat, a group for over 60s at St Paul’s Church on Monday afternoons
from 2-4pm at St Paul’s Close, Sherborne DT9 4DU
Contact: Sarah Fricker 01935 816444
Line Dancing, Games, Speakers, Games, Crafts & Outings
PROBUS - CASTLE PROBUS LADIES CLUB
Name: Anne Bugler
Position: Membership Secretary
Telephone: 01935 873235
Email: ericbugler237@btinternet.com
A friendly and welcoming group with a wide variety of speakers interspersed
with a number of very enjoyable social events. The Club meets every other
Tuesday from 10am – 12 noon at the Cheap Street Church Hall, Sherborne,
Dorset DT9 3BT.
PROBUS - CASTLETON PROBUS CLUB
Hon. Secretary: Tony Sparshott
Tel: 01935 817972
Meets at the Eastbury Hotel, Sherborne fortnightly on Thursdays from 10.3012.30.
PROBUS – SHERBORNE PROBUS CLUB
Secretary: Keith Phillips
Telephone: 01935 475148
Email: keithcphillips@btinternet.com
The Club meets at the Slessor Club, Sherborne, DT9 3BY
fortnightly on Wednesdays. The Club is part of the Nationwide Probus Clubs.
Each club is individually constituted. The objective of the clubs is to provide the
opportunity for retired professionals and businessmen to meet and listen to
talks on a wide variety of subjects so maintaining their interests and making
new friends.
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PARISH INFORMATION
THORNHACKETT PARISH COUNCIL
Parishes of Thornford and Beer Hackett.
Contact Name: Mr. Peter Routledge
Telephone: 01935 873547
Email address: thornhackett@dorsetparishes.gov.uk
Contact Name: Mrs. J. Rogers
Position: Chairman
A Parish Plan has been completed. The Parish Council meets 6 times per year at
the Village Hall in Thornford.
CHETNOLE
CHETNOLE CHURCH ST PETERS
Name: Anthea Thompson
Telephone: 01935 872236
Address: Church Warden
CHETNOLE GARDENERS’ CLUB
Name: Christopher Goodbody
Telephone: 01935 872842
CHETNOLE AREA NEWSLETTER
THE WRIGGLE VALLEY MAGAZINE
Name: Stuart Grant
Telephone: 01935 873261
THORNFORD PLAYGROUP
Name: Becs Batson
Telephone: 01935 873142
THORNFORD SHORT MAT BOWLS
Name: Carole Gibson
Telephone: 01935 872008
WRIGGLE VALLEY PLAYERS
Name: John House
Telephone: 07970 819861
New members always welcome.
THORNFORD TWINNING ASSOCIATION
Contact Name: Trevor Rogers
Position: Chairman
Address of organisation: The Old School, Thornford, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 6QE
E-mail address: trevorjanerogers@gmail.com
The twinning link with Hudimesnil in the department of La Manche in Normandy
was set up in 1995. There is normally a visit each way, each year, with the
French visiting Thornford in August when they complete in an onion competition
and in other classes of the villages Horticultural Show. We visit Hudimesnil
every November for their Marche Noel (Christmas Market). We hold a walking
event every second year in alternate countries
CHETNOLE & STOCKWOOD PARISH COUNCIL
Name: Mrs Sue Woodford
Telephone: 01935 872089
Address: Charing Cross House, Chetnole, Sherborne DT9 6PL
Email: chetnole-pc@btconnect.com
Meetings: Every other month starting in January at the Chetnole Village Hall
THORNFORD & BEER HACKETT
THORNFORD ART GROUP
Name: Diana Sandom
Telephone: 01935 872942
THORNFORD VILLAGE HALL BOOKINGS
Name: Amber
Email: bookings-thornfordvillagehall@yahoo.co.uk
THORNFORD CRICKET CLUB
Name: Peter Sunderland
Telephone: 01935 873025
THORNFORD WOMEN’S INSTITUTE
Name: Felicity Chadwick
Telephone: 01935 872503
THORNFORD HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
Name: Joy Coffin
Telephone: 01935 872351
THORNFORD AND BEER HACKETT ALLOTMENT ASSOCIATION.
Name: Dick Gayner
Email: dickgayner@hotmail.com
CONTACT – MONTHLY THORNFORD NEWSLETTER
Name: Lyn Oerten
Email: mary-thornfordcontact@googlemail.com
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PARISH AND CHURCH NEWSLETTERS
Telephone: 01258 817401
Email: lyddenvale@btinternet.com
THE WHITE HART VALE COMMUNITY MAGAZINE
Covering Alweston, Bishops Down, Bishops Caundle, Caundle Marsh, Folke,
Glanvilles Wootton, Haydon, Holnest, Holwell, North Wootton and Pulham
Editor: Sharon Curtis
Email: whitehartvalemag@aol.com
THE PENNANT
(Bradford Abbas)
A newsletter for Bradford Abbas, Clifton Maybank. Beer Hackett & Thornford
Name: Mrs Lynne Penny
Email: bradfordabbaspennant@hotmail.co.uk
Website: http://bradfordabbasclub.co.uk
THE BENFICE OF SPIRE HILL CHURCH AND COMMUNITY MAGAZINE
Covering Purse Caundle, Stalbridge, Stock Gaylard and Stourton Caundle
Contact: The Reverend William Ridding
Telephone: 01963 362859
Email: williamridding@gmail.com
Website: www.spirehillparishes.co.uk
THE WRIGGLE VALLEY MAGAZINE
A newsletter for Batcombe, Chetnole with Melbury Bubb & Stockwood,
Hermitage, Hilfield, Leigh, Ryme Intrinseca & Yetminster.
Name: Gordon Ratcliffe
Telephone: 01935 872996
Address for copy: 1 Cloverhay, Yetminster, Dorset
Email: wrigglevalleymag@aol.com or gojan@btinternet.com
Website: http://wrigglevalleymag.blogspot.co.uk/
The WVM, now in its 27th year, started as a Church magazine for The
Wriggle Valley Benefice. It gradually evolved into a much loved monthly
community news magazine for the area around the villages Batcombe,
Chetnole, Leigh, Hermitage, Hilfield, Ryme Intrinseca and Yetminster, also
the hamlets Melbury Bubb, Stockwood and Hamlet. Approximately 70
unpaid volunteers [management committee, village reps and distributors]
combine efforts to produce WVM throughout the year, delivering almost
1300 copies through the individual letter boxes of homes and businesses in
the Wriggle Valley, free of charge, rain or shine.
THE CHIMES
Newsletter for Melbury Bubb, Melbury Osmond, Evershot, Cattistock,
Corscombe, & Frome St. Quentin
Editor: Graham Browne
Email: g.r.browne@outlook.com
Trades adverts
Name: Trixie Young
Email: meadowview@mypostoffice.co.uk
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CONTACT
THORNFORD NEWSLETTER
Thornford & Beer Hackett Newsletter
Name: Lyn Oerten
Email: mary-thornfordcontact@googlemail.com
LONGBURTON & DISTRICT NEWS
Name: Richard Robbins
Telephone: 01963 210515
Email: news@randprobbins.myzen.co.uk
LYDDEN VALE NEWS
Newsletter for Glanvilles Wootton, Pulham, Buckland Newton, Holnest, Long
Burton & Caundle Marsh
Name: Carole Spencer
Position: Editor
Telephone: 01300 345770
Name: Diana Wells
Position: Treasurer
Telephone: 01300 345434
Name: Tamsin Yeatman
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POLITICS
LORD-LIEUTENANT OF DORSET
Mr Angus Campbell
Correspondence to:
The Clerk to the Lieutenancy, County Hall, Colliton Park
Dorchester DT1 1XJ
Tel: 01305 224194
CONSERVATIVE PARTY
Name: Peter Shorland
Telephone: 01935 816060
Email: cllrp.shorland@westdorset-dc.gov.uk
Address: Silvercroft, 25 Granville Way, Chatsworth Park,
Sherborne, Dorset DT94AS
HIGH SHERIFF OF DORSET
Mrs Jane Stichbury
Correspondence to: The Under Sheriff, Shrievalty of Dorset, Poole and County
Bailiwicks, Under Sheriff's Office
40 High West Street, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1UR
Tel: 01305 251007
SHERBORNE LABOUR PARTY
Name: Rob Bygrave
Telephone: 01935 814122
LIBERAL DEMOCRAT PARTY
Name: Robin Legg
Telephone: 01935 815379
Email: robin.legg@btclick.com
Address: 90 Newland, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3DT
POST OFFICES
Support your local Post Office
THE GREEN PARTY
Name: Susan Greene
Address: Little Orchard, Priestlands, Sherborne, Dorset. DT9 4HW
Telephone: 01935 813467
The Parliamentary Candidate for the General Election for the Green Party for
west Dorset
Email: SherborneTownCouncil@sherborne-tc.gov.uk
LOCAL MP
Name: Rt. Hon Oliver Letwin MP
Address: House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA
Oliver holds regular surgeries in the constituency. If you have a problem that
you would like to raise with him then telephone his secretary, Angela Charles on
01308 456 891 or contact her by email: charlesa@parliament.uk.
Bradford
Abbas Post
by Brian
Haigh at
Find all details
for Office
post offices
online
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BISHOPS CAUNDLE
Bishops Caundle Post Office and Community Stores,
High Street, Bishops Caundle Sherborne Dorset DT9 5ND
Email: bishopscaundleshop@gmail.com
Website: www.bishopscaundleshop.co.uk
MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (MEPs)
Six Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) were elected to serve the
whole of the South West region of England, which includes Dorset. They are:
William (The Earl of) Dartmouth (UK Independence Party)
Ashley Fox (Conservative Party)
Julia Reid (UK Independence Party)
Julia Girling (Conservative Party)
Clare Moody (Labour Party)
Molly Scott Cato (Green Party)
Contact details for the MEPs for the South West Region can be found on
the European Parliament website. http://www.europarl.org.uk/
BRADFORD ABBAS
Bradford Abbas Post Office and Village Store,
Church Road, Bradford Abbas, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 6RF
Telephone: 01935 507008
Email: info@bradfordabaaasvillagestore.co.uk
Website: www.bradfordabbasvillagestore.co.uk
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BUCKLAND NEWTON
SHERBORNE
Sherborne Main Post Office and Shop, 47 Cheap Street, Sherborne DT9 3AL
Telephone: 01935 812136
Website: www.sherbornetown.com/businesses/post-office/616.aspx
Post Office in the Village Hall.
Monday - 9.00am to 12.00 noon
Tuesday - 9.00 am to 12.00 noon
Friday - 9.00 am to 12.00 noon
SHERBORNE SORTING OFFICE
Telephone: 01935 812224
CHARLTON HORETHORNE
Mobile Post Office
Monday’s, Tuesday’s and Thursday’s
Parking space on B3145 at Charlton Horethorne
THORNFORD
Name: Elwood Post Office and Stores, Longford, Road, Thornford, Sherborne,
Dorset DT9 6QQ
Contact: Bruce Auckland
Telephone: 01935 872317
CHETNOLE
Mobile Post Office
Chetnole Village Hall, Chetnole, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 6NU
Current Account - Servicing
Wednesday: 09:30 - 12:30
YETMINSTER
Name: Yetminster Post Office and Shop, 2 Sunnyside, High Street, Yetminster,
Sherborne Dorset DT9 6LF
Telephone: 01935 873477
KINGS STAG
King Stag Post Office @ The Green Man Pub, Kings Stag, Sturminster Newton,
Dorset DT10 2AY
Telephone: 01258 817338
Website: www.thegreenmanofkingsstag.co.uk
LEIGH- Leigh Post Office and Shop @ Bridge Garage, Leigh, Sherborne, Dorset
DT9 6HW
Telephone: 01935 872323 – check phone number
Website: www.leighvillage.org.uk/?page_id=59
MELBURY OSMOND
Melbury Osmond PO, Yeovil, Dorset DT2 0LU
Current Account - Servicing
Thursday: 09:00 - 13:00
MILBORNE PORT
Milborne Port Post Office, High Street, Milborne Port, Sherborne Dorset DT9 5AQ
Telephone: 01963 250220
Website: www.milborneport.com/businesses/post-office/616.aspx
NORTH WOOTTON
North Wootton Post Office @ Three Elms Inn, North Wootton, Sherborne, Dorset
DT9 5JW
Telephone: 01935 812881
Website: www.thethreeelmsinn.co.uk
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SCHOOLS & EDUCATION
RESIDENTIAL HOMES
SKILLS AND LEARNING
Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole
Seewww.dorsetforyou.com/adultlearning/venues/sherborne-youth-centre for
courses in Sherborne.
THE ABBEYFIELD SHERBORNE SOCIETY SHERBORNE
Name: Sarah Edwards
Telephone: 01935 812761
Address: Abbeyfield House, Coldharbour, Sherborne, Dorset
SHERBORNE LEARNING CENTRE
Name: Ian Hedley
Telephone: 01935 814582
Address: Sherborne Learning Centre, Simons Road, Sherborne DT9 4DN
Website: www.sherborne-lc.org.uk
Sherborne Learning Centre is a centre for children and young people in North
Dorset who are not in school. We provide a full curriculum that is designed to
meet their needs. We are not a school but we do provide a rich education and
do prepare young people for the next stages in their lives by helping them gain
skills, confidence and qualifications.
ABBEYVIEW NURSING & RESIDENTIAL HOME
Name: Jo Eliis
Telephone: 01935 813222
Address: Fairfields, Bristol Road, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 4HD
EASTBURY HOUSE SHERBORNE
Name: Pat Appleyard
Telephone: 01935 812132
Address: Long Street, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3BZ
THE HAYES RESIDENTIAL HOME SHERBORNE
Name: Ann Aylott
Telephone: 01935 814043
Address: Culverhayes, Long Street, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3ED
PRIMARY & SECONDARY SCHOOLS
BISHOPS CAUNDLE
All Saints Church of England Primary
Head teacher: Anne Crumpler
Address: Bishops Caundle, Dorset DT9 5NQ
Email:office@bishopscaundle.dorset.sch.uk
Website: http://bishopscaundle.eschools.co.uk/
RIVERSIDE NURSING HOME SHERBORNE
Name: Mary Tovey
Telephone: 01935 817229
Address: Westbury, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3QZ
BRADFORD ABBAS
St Mary’s Church of England Primary
Head teacher: Miss Emma Gunnill
Address: Mill Lane, Bradford Abbas, Sherborne,
Dorset DT9 6RH
Telephone: 01935 476515
Email: info@bradfordabbasprimary.co.uk
Website: www.bradfordabbasprimary.co.uk
ST JOHNS’ HOUSE (ALMSHOUSE) SHERBORNE
Name: Jackie Griffin
Telephone: 01935 813245
LUDBOURNE HALL SHERBORNE
Telephone: 01935 816382
Address: South Street, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3 LT
THE OLD VICARAGE LEIGH
Name: Natalie Adams
Telephone: 01935 873033
Address: Leigh, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 6HL
BUCKLAND NEWTON
Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Head teacher: Nicola Ralph
Address: Buckland Newton, Dorchester, Dorset DT2 7BY
Telephone: 01300 345393
Email: office@bucklandnewton.dorset.sch.uk
Website: www.bucklandnewton.dorset.sch.uk
SHERBORNE
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Abbey Church of England Primary
Head teacher: Mrs Ann-Marie Kampf
Telephone: 01935 812318
Address: Lenthay Road, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 6AQ
Email: headteacher@sherborneabbey.dorset.sch.uk or
office@sherborneabbey.dorset.sch.uk
Website: www.sherborneabbey.dorset.sch.uk
THORNFORD
Church of England Primary
Head teacher:
Address: Boot Lane, Thornford, Sherborne, Dorset, DT9 6QY
Telephone: 01935 872706
Email: office@thornford.dorset.sch.uk
Website: www.thornford.dorset.sch.uk
SHERBORNE
Primary School
Head teacher:
Address: Harbour Way Sherborne Dorset DT9 4AJ
Telephone: 01935 812619
Fax: 01935 817943
Email: office@sherbornepri.dorset.sch.uk
Website: www.scherbornepri.dorset.sch.uk
Sherborne Primary School has approximately 300 pupils on roll and serves the
community to the North and East of the town centre. All at the school are
committed to educate each pupil to his or her full potential within a happy and
secure school environment. Visits to the school are welcomed.
TRENT
Young’s Endowed Church of England Primary
Head teacher: Sarah Patterson
Address: Trent, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 4SW
Telephone: 01935 850496
Email: office@trentyoungs.dorset.sch.uk
Website: www.trentyoungsschool.co.uk/
YETMINSTER
St Andrew’s Church of England Primary
Head teacher:
Address: Stonyacres, Yetminster, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 6LS
Telephone: 01935 872430
Email: office@yetminster.dorset.sch.uk
Website: www.standrewsyetminster.org.uk
OUT OF SCHOOL CHILDCARE
SHERBORNE CARE AND PLAY ASSOCIATION
Address: C/O County Primary School, Harbour Way, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 4AJ
Telephone: 01935 810001 or 812619
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
SHERBORNE
ST ANTHONY’S LEWESTON
Head teacher: Mr. Adrian Aylward
Address: Leweston School, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 6EN
Leweston Nursery (ages 3 months – 4 years)
Leweston Junior Department (ages 4 -11 years)
Leweston Senior School (ages 11 – 18 years)
Telephone: 01963 210691
Email: admin@leweston.dorset.sch.uk
Website: www.leweston.co.uk
The Gryphon School
Head teacher: Mr. Steve Hillier
Telephone: 01935 813122
Address: Bristol Road, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 4EQ
Email: office@gryphon.dorset.sch.uk
SHERBORNE PREPARATORY SCHOOL
Head teacher: Peter Tait
Telephone: 01935 812097
Address: 39 Acreman Street, Sherborne, Dorset. DT9 3NY
Email: info@sherborneprep.org
Website: www.sherborneprep.org
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SPORTS
SHERBORNE SCHOOL (BOYS)
Head teacher: Ralph Barlow
Telephone: 01935 812249
Address: Abbey Road, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3 AP
Email: enquiries@sherborne.org
Website: www.sherborne.org
ARCHERY – BALLANDS BOWMEN
& BALLANDS JUNIOR AC
Hon. Secretary: Andrew Rees
Website: http://ballandsbowmen.co.uk
Formed in 1970, the club takes its name from Ballands House, Penselwood,
Somerset, where it was founded by the late Major Robin Archer. Field archery is
the focus of this top UK archery club whose members have a history of
achievements at National, European and World level. Club facilities in Wincanton
& Penselwood, Somerset and Mere, Wiltshire. Beginners and established archers
welcome.
ARCHERY – YEO BOWMEN ARCHERY CLUB
Name: Jo Moody
Position: Club Secretary
Yeo Bowmen Archery Club was formed in 1963, and is based at
Johnson Park (Yeovil Sports & Social Club), Coronation Avenue, Yeovil,
Somerset. BA21 3DX
Email: the-secretary@yeobowmen.co.uk
Website: http://www.yeobowmen.co.uk/
SHERBORNE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
Headmistress: Mrs Jenny Dwyer
Telephone: 01935 812245
Address: Bradford Road, Sherborne, Dorset, DT9 3QN
Email: office@sherborne.com
Website: www.sherborne.com
BADMINTON – GRYPHON BADMINTON CLUB
Name: Robin Bugden
Address: The Gryphon Leisure Centre, Bristol Road, Sherborne, DT9 4 EQ
Telephone: 01935 841734
Email: robin.bugden@btinternet.com
Website: http://www.westfieldgryphons.co.uk/
SHERBORNE INTERNATIONAL
Head teacher: Mrs Mary Arnal
Address: Newell Grange, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 4EZ
Telephone: 01935 814743
Email: reception@sherborne-international.org
Website: www.sherborne-international.org
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members and some social members - new members are welcome. In 2015 our
enrolment evening is the 19th march at which cheese and wine are provided.
The club plays around 150 competitive games in both Bowls Dorset and Wessex
league organisations and is affiliated to Bowls England through the County
Organisation. The club welcomes touring teams and can provide a two course
meal or afternoon tea. There is a club night every Wednesday throughout the
bowling season all players are welcome. The Club house has a bar and well
equipped kitchen and is used for bridge, whist and social functions. The green is
open for play from 10.30 am to dusk on every day through the playing season
for members.
BOWLING - INDOOR SHORT MAT BOWLING
Name: Mr. John Tuffin
Telephone: 01935 814014
Venue: The West End Hall, Sherborne.
All ages welcome – coaching will be given. Operates on Mondays afternoons
from 2pm-4.30pm, the same on Thursday afternoon and Friday evenings 7pm 9pm. Yearly membership and the minimal green fee charge. Refreshments
included.
BOXING - STURMINSTER NEWTON AMATEUR BOXING CLUB
Address: Unit 9 Richmar Trading Estate, Butts Pond, Sturminster Newton,
Dorset DT10 1AZ
Email: sturabc@aol.co.uk
Website: http://www.sturabc.co.uk
We endeavour through the Olympic sport of amateur boxing to promote fitness,
discipline, friendship, fair play, respect and confidence, increasing quality of life
by providing a constructive alternative to anti social behaviour such as drug and
alcohol abuse for the local youth living in North Dorset. We also provide positive
role models and social inclusion through interaction with our coaching staff and
other young boxers. We operate child safety policies and have our own child
welfare officer - Caroline Hinkes. We are now taking the first steps to gain the
nationally recognised clubs for sports kite mark.
BOWLING - THORNFORD SHORT MAT BOWLING CLUB
Name: Carol Gibson
Telephone: 01935 8720087
BOWLING – YETMINSTER SHORT MAT BOWLS CLUB
Chairman Pat Sims
Telephone: 01935 873374
Secretary: Pat Smith 01935 872553
Matches take place at 7.00 pm on Wednesday evenings and 2.00 pm on
Thursday afternoons in St Andrews Hall. We look forward to welcoming you.
BOWLING - SHERBORNE BOWLING CLUB
Name: Mr. Philip Lock
Position: Chairman
Telephone: 01963 250433
Email: philip.g.lock@btinternet.com
The Club on its present Green started in 1984
and is located in the south east corner of
Culverhayes Car Park in Sherborne. The
bowling season runs from the third week in
April to the third week in September and new
members are always welcome. Coaching is
provided by four qualified coaches on Monday
and Friday mornings commencing at 10.30am.
The club has approximately 100 playing
CANOEING/KAYAKING
SUTTON BINGHAM & DISTRICT CANOE CLUB
Name: Nick Prince
Position: Secretary
Email: secretary@sbd.cc
Website: www.sbd.cc
Sutton Bingham and District Canoe Club aims to promote the sport and
recreation of canoeing in a safe and enjoyable way, to provide opportunities for
those wishing to try the sport for the first time and encourage those already
partaking in the sport, to achieve their full potential. The club provides canoeing
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and kayaking opportunities for all ages and skill groups. We are a family
friendly sociable club that is accessible to all. Membership is open to all and you
are more than welcome to come along to any of the reservoir sessions to see
what we do. We are affiliated to Canoe England (BCU), have achieved BCU
Canoe England Top Club accreditation, have been awarded Club Mark by Sport
England which is recognition of high standards of safety, coaching and club
management and we are a Community Amateur Sports Club. Lots more
information can be found on the website.
Email: woec@dorsetcc.gov.uk
Website: dorsetforyou.com/woec
“Rock climbing, scrambling and abseiling and loads more”
CRICKET - SHERBORNE CRICKET CLUB
Name: Paul Hancock
Position: Hon Secretary
Address: Sherborne Cricket Club, The Clubhouse, The Terraces,
Sherborne, Dorset
Email: paulhancockisgood@hotmail.co.uk
Web Address: http://sherborne.play-cricket.com
CHEERLEADING
CROQUET
Lytes Cary Croquet
Name: Mrs. Sue Lloyd
Address: 1 Bineham Court, KNOLE, Somerset
TA10 9JE
Telephone: 01458 241528
Email: lytescary@swfcroquet.org.uk
Montacute Croquet
Name: Mr Brendon Owen
Address: 34 Bishopston, Montacute, Somerset TA15 6UU
Telephone: 01935 823793
Email: montacute@swfcroquet.org.uk
Members of the South West Federation of Croquet Clubs
Email: karlenesebay@aol.com
Distinction cheerleading Group - for girls aged 6 + - Great way to make new
friends, keep fit. Learn gym moves. Enter competitions and attend shows. A
really fun session. 1-3pm Juniors from 6 years, 3-5pm Seniors Every Sunday at
the YMCA Saw Mills Dorchester
INDOOR CLIMBING AND BOULDERING
OXLEY SPORTS CENTRE
Oxley Sports Centre, Bradford Road,
Sherborne, Dorset, DT9 3DA
Telephone: 01935 818270
Climbing Wall
Junior and adult sessions are available.
Now including a brand new bouldering wall
please contact Yeovil Mountaineering Club www.yeovil-mc.spruz.com for more
details
CYCLING - DORSET CYCLISTS NETWORK
Contact Name: Michael Evans
Position: County Chairman
Email Address: chairman@dcn.org.uk
CLIMBING – OUTDOOR
WEYMOUTH OUTDOOR EDUCATION CENTRE
Address: Knightsdale Road, Weymouth, Dorset DT4 0HS
Telephone: 01305 784927
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Telephone: 01963 370990
Email: atytheridge@hotmail.co.uk
Website: www.pevlingsfarm.co.uk
Riding lessons for all ages, tiny tots to OAP's. Pony days, hacking, jumping,
school groups catered for. 'Take Back the Reins' course for new and lapsed
riders.
CYCLING - SHERBORNE AREA CYCLIST NETWORK
Contact: Mark Brettell
Email: sher@dcn.org.uk
Website: www.dcn.org.uk
The Organisation aims to promote cycling in the county of Dorset and represent
the interests of cyclists. Resources available – leaflets and spare newsletters
available on request, free of charge. Sustainable website – other cycling events
can be added free of charge, Experienced cyclists sometimes available to
accompany those who may be nervous about getting back on their bikes.
FENCING
WEST DORSET FENCING CLUB
Email: sa.parker@btinternet.com
Website: www.westdorsetfencingclub.org
DORSET ROUGH RIDERS
Telephone: 07514 105166
Email: membership@dorsetroughriders.co.uk
Website: www.dorsetroughriders.com
DIVING
The Old Harbour Dive Centre
Telephone: 01305 760888
Email: info@oldharbourdivecentre.com
Website: www.oldharbourdivecentre.co.uk
FISHING - FLOWERS FARM TROUT LAKES
Telephone: 07968 05 9987
Address: Flowers Farm, Hilfield, Dorchester,
Dorset DT2 7BA
Email: flowersfarmlakesltd@gmail.com
Website: flowersfarmtroutlakesltd.webs.com
Facebook @ flowers farm trout lakes ltd
EQUESTRIAN
PEVLINGS FARM – RIDING STABLES AND LIVERY
Name: Alison Tytheridge
Address: Cabbage Lane, Horsington, Templecombe, Somerset BA8 0DA
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FLYING
BLACKMORE VALE MODEL FLYING CLUB
Contact: Mark
Email: clubsec@bvmfc.co.uk
Website: www.bvmfc.co.uk
Location: Henstridge (Dorset/Somerset border)
Types of Flying: RC FW Heli Sil
Members: 25
Flying Site: Grass field with mown strip
Restrictions: No flying - Tue/Thur/Fri/Sat
afternoons, Sun mornings
Training Facilities: Trial flights, Buddy Box
Instructors/Examiners: 3 Instr.
BMFA Proficiency Scheme or Similar: Yes
BMFA Affiliated: Yes. Club No. 527
GOLF - FOLKE GOLF CENTRE
Address: Folke Lane, Alweston, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 5HR
Email: info@folkegolfcentre.co.uk
Web Address: http://folkegolfcentre.co.uk
A family-run nine hole golf course with spectacular views across the Blackmore
Vale boasting first class facilities, offering you a superb round of golf whatever
your age or ability.
FOOTBALL - SHERBORNE TOWN FOOTBALL CLUB
Telephone (Match Days Only): 01935 816110
Address: Raleigh Grove, Terrace Playing Fields,
Sherborne, Dorset DT9 5NS
Email: info@sherbornetownfc.com
Secretary Dave Thurgood
Email: secretary@sherbornetownfc.com
Chairman Stephen Paradise
Email: chairman@sherbornetownfc.com
Web Address: http://www.sherbornetownfc.co.uk
Sherborne Town Football Club was founded 1894
GOLF - SHERBORNE GOLF CLUB
Telephone: 01935 814431
Address: Higher Clatcombe, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 4RN
Email: SGCOffice@sherbornegolfclub.co.uk
Web Address: http://www.sherbornegolfclub.co.uk
Sherborne Golf Club was founded in 1894. Golfers have been enjoying our
course and peaceful location on the Dorset/Somerset border for over a hundred
years. Part of the original course was designed by James Braid, but it has been
continually improved and extended over the years. Sherborne Golf Club is proof
that a course does not have to measure in excess of 6500 yards in order to
leave you breathless, it is a test for even the very best of golfers.
The stunning setting alone is enough to leave you needing to catch your breath
with views over the Blackmore Vale to the south and Glastonbury Tor and
beyond to the north. A warm welcome is extended to members, visitors,
societies and corporate clients at Sherborne Golf Club.
Admission Prices
First team (F.A Vase and Cup prices in brackets): Adults: £7.00 | Concessions:
£4.00 | League £4.00
Concessions: £4.00 | Reserves: £4 | Concessions: £3.00
Season-tickets: £80
Midweek games: Wednesday (7.45pm kick-off)
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MOTOR SPORTS - CLAY PIGION KART CLUB
Address: Warden Hill, Dorchester, Dorset DT2 9PW
Email: ianrennison@btconnect.com
Website: www.claypigeonraceway.com
GYMNASTICS/TRAMPOLINE
GRYPHON WEST GYM CLUB
Telephone: 01935 429602
Email: thefivebells@tiscali.co.uk
Website: www.grphonwest.org.uk
Established in 1998, Gryphon West Gym Club are Yeovil & Sherborne's premier
Sports Acro club and participate in local, regional and national competitions and
displays in Acro Gymnastics and Tumbling.
HOCKEY - YEOVIL & SHERBORNE HOCKEY CLUB
Name: Jo McDermid
Position: Secretary
Telephone: 01749 813301
Mobile: 07850132327
Email: jomcdermid.yshc@btinternet.com
Web Address: http://www/yshc.co.uk
We are a thriving club which runs 5 men’s teams, 4 ladies teams and a
successful junior section - new players always welcome. Yeovil and Sherborne
Hockey Club now train and play at YRC, Chilton Grove, Yeovil, BA21 4AW and
not at the Gryphon,
NETBALL
Website: www. http://yeovilnetballclub.co.uk/
MARTIAL ARTS
SOUTH WEST MARTIAL ARTS
Telephone: 07921 393425
Email: info@swmartialarts.com
Website: http://swmartialarts.com/
RUGBY FIVES ASSOCIATION
Name: Mr. P. W. Dunscombe
Address: 0117 9245314
Address: 15 Archfield Road, Cotham, Bristol BS6 6DB
Email: peterdunscombe@gmail.com
RUGBY - SHERBORNE RUGBY CLUB
President: Simon Mottram,
Telephone: (H) 01935 812003 (M) 07989 995510
Email: simonmottram@msn.com
Chairman: Mike Trew
Telephone: (H) 01935 814741 (M) 07808 096810
Email: Mike.Trew@molsoncoors.com
Hon Secretary: Neil Cromarty
Telephone: (H) 01935 389592 (M) 07711 149363
SHINDO WADOKAI
Name: Sensei Pete Fawbert
Telephone: 07769215881(please call after 6pm)
Email: sensei_pete@shindowadokai.co.uk
Website: http://www.shindowadokai.co.uk/
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Email: njcromo@gmail.com
Web Address: http://www.sherbornerugby.co.uk or
http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/sherbornerfc
Contact Information Ground Address:
Gainsborough Park, The Terrace Playing Fields, Sherborne DT9 5NS
Correspondence Address: Sherborne RFC, PO Box 6008, Sherborne DT9 5NS
Sherborne RFC is a young, vibrant club, having only been established in 1980.
Renowned as a friendly and hospitable club, Sherborne's emphasis on
enjoyment, involvement and good sportsmanship is reflected in the youngest of
our teams. Today Sherborne Rugby Football Club has approaching 400
registered members and players. Some three quarters of who are within the
junior section. With such numbers of juniors coming through the system the
future of the game in Sherborne looks very secure.
The strategy of the club is to foster family involvement. As a result of this clear
focus, the playing base and membership has increased tremendously in recent
years with the consequence that the club has outgrown its current limited
facilities that is available to them from September until the following May.
During this period junior and senior players, family members, coaches and
numerous volunteers are involved in weekly fixtures, training and the running
and development of the club. For the remainder of the year the club's
administration is still held at the Club in partnership with the Tennis and Cricket
Clubs, with training being organised in a variety of other local venues, including
the Astroturf at Sherborne School & Sherborne School for Girls.
SAILING – SUTTON BINGHAM SALING CLUB
Address: Sutton Hill, Yeovil, Somerset BA22 9QP
Telephone: 01935 862933
Website: http://www.suttonbinghamsc.net/
Sutton Bingham Sailing Club is a friendly club based at Sutton Bingham
Reservoir, Near Yeovil, Somerset. We have a varied program, with competitive,
close racing opportunities for the confident sailor, a vibrant youth sailing
program, plenty of space and freedom to sail recreationally and a regular
programme of Royal Yachting Association training courses to develop your
sailing and get you confidently out on the water.
SHOOTING - SHERBORNE TOWN RIFLE CLUB
Name: Mr. I. M. Speight
Telephone: 01963 370835
Email: isp8@lineone.net
The Club meets at the Sherborne School Rifle Range in Acreman Street on
Thursday evenings from 7.00pm – 9.00pm.
SHOOTING – SOUTHERN COUNTIES SHOOTING LTD
Website: www.southerncountiesleisure.com
SHOOTING – BRIDPORT SHOOTING CLUB
Telephone: 01300 341838
Website: www.bridportshootingclub.co.uk
Sherborne Rugby Club - YOUTH SECTION
Sherborne RFC provides coaching and playing facilities
for players from 6 years upwards. Our players are recruited
from all backgrounds and cultures and we welcome
newcomers every Sunday! The club’s youth section is one
of the biggest and most active in the local area with upwards
of 150 children playing rugby every Sunday morning!
All young players, of all abilities, are most welcome.
Training starts at 10:30 each Sunday around finishes
around 12:00. The kitchen is always open for hot
drinks and bacon rolls!
SKITTLES - SHERBORNE & DISTRICT SKITTLES LEAGUE
Name: Mr. M. Hooper
Position: President
Telephone: 01935 814289
Long established league stemming back to the early
1900s with skittles being played in local pubs and clubs
within a five-mile radius of the town excluding Yeovil.
The Sherborne and District Skittles League currently
have 14 teams (10-a-side). Anyone can play and set up
a team but need at least 10 players and two reserves.
Applications in writing to the secretary or chairman.
RUNNING – DORSET DODDLERS
Email: Sandra at secretary@dorsetdoddlers.org
Website: www.dorsetdoddleers.org
SKITTLES - SHERBORNE & DISTRICT LADIES
Name: Mrs Molly Hooper
Telephone: 01935 814289
The Dorset Doddlers have been running around in circles since 1983. Our main
training session meets at 1900 at Sturminster Newton Leisure Centre on
Thursday evenings. All abilities are very welcome to join us as we have a
number of different pace groups.
TEAM DORSET ATHLETICS
Website: http://www.teamdorsetathletics.co.uk/
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Intermediate Iyengar Yoga 7:00pm-8:30pm – A more advanced
Iyengar Yoga session.
Wednesday
South West Martial Arts Taekwondo & Kickboxing Academy
Little Dragons 5:00pm-5:30pm
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Taekwondo 5:30pm-7:00pm
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Kickboxing 7:00pm-8:00pm
This is an external course so if you would like more information then
please visit www.swmartialarts.com
Thursday
Fudoshin Jujitsu 6:30pm-8:30pm – this is for children from the age
of 11+ who would like to come and take part in the Japanese style of
fighting.
Friday
Trampolining 4:15pm-5:15pm (Beginners/Intermediate Class),
7:00pm-8:00pm (Advanced Class) - This is a great way for children
from the age of 4 (and at school) and adults to have a go at learning
new skills on the trampoline safely with a qualified coach. There will also
be badges awarded to those who complete the different trampolining
levels.
South West Martial Arts Taekwondo and Kickboxing Academy
Taekwondo 6:00pm-7:00pm
Kickboxing 7:00pm-8:00pm
please visit www.swmartialarts.com
Saturday
Gymnastics 12:00pm-1:00pm – The qualified coaches from Gryphon
West Gym Club will be on hand to teach children from as young as 4
(and at school) new skills to become brilliant gymnasts.
THE GRYPHON SPORTS CENTRE
Telephone: 01935 814011
Fax: 01935 817570
Address: Gryphon Sports Centre, Bristol Road, Sherborne, Dorset, DT9 4EQ.
Email: gryphonleisure@westdorset-weymouth.gov.uk
Website: https://www.dorsetforyou.com/gryphon-sports-centre
This busy dual use facility, run by West Dorset District Council in partnership
with The Gryphon School, attracts a large number of users in the evenings and
weekends. The centre has a main sports hall, an aerobics/dance studio and a
fully air conditioned fitness suite. Outdoor facilities include six tennis courts
or five netball courts, plus a fully floodlit AstroTurf pitch.
The centre also offers a range of adult and children's clubs and courses,
including exercise to music classes. Many of the activities are pay as you play,
although some are course-based and have to be booked and paid for in
advance. The Gryphon Sports Centre is used for just about everything from
badminton, five-a-side football, gymnastics and short mat bowls competitions to
hosting children's birthday parties, and as a venue for competitions and training
courses.
Monday
Trampolining 4:15pm-5.15pm – This is a great way for children from
the age of 4 (and at school) to have a go at learning new skills on the
trampoline safely with a qualified coach. There will also be badges
awarded to those who complete the different trampolining levels.
Junior Football 4:15pm-5:15pm – Our resident football coaches from
PAMFA will be helping the children from the age of 4 (and at school) to
learn and improve their football skills that they can use at the end of the
session when they play some small sided matches.
Exeter City Football Development Academy 6:00pm-9:00pm –
please contact Kevin Wagland on kevin.wagland@exetercityfc.co.uk
Tuesday
Badminton Coaching 6:00pm-7:00pm – This is for children from the
age of 11+ who would like to learn or improve their shots and abilities
on the badminton court
Beginners/Improvers Iyengar Yoga 5:45pm-6:45pm – This is a
great way for adults to relax and unwind at the end of a busy day.
Iyengar Yoga has an emphasis on breath control, the performance of
posture and the development of strength, mobility and stability.
Charlotte Walpole
Duty Manager/Head Centre Assistant
Telephone: 01935 814011
Email: c.walpole@westdorset-weymouth.gov.uk
*Gryphon Sports Centre, Bristol Road, Sherborne Dorset DT9 4EQ
A service provided by
West Dorset District Council, South Walks House, South Walks Road,
Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 1UZ
Weymouth & Portland Borough Council, North Quay, Weymouth, Dorset, DT4
8TA
@ www.dorsetforyou.com/gryphon-sports-centre
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Coffee Pod with a wide range of refreshments available (high chair available, open
to non-members)
Birthday Parties
Hosted activities including kayaking, hamster balls and bouncy castle
SPORTS CENTRE - OXLEY SPORTS CENTRE
Dorset, DT9 3DA
Telephone: 01935 818270
‘The Oxley Sports Centre, in partnership with Sherborne Girls, offers a superb
facility and environment for families and friends to participate in many leisure
activities. The centre has free parking and is located opposite Sherborne Girls,
within easy reach of the town centre.’
Facilities are available to hire, please contact the centre for more information
Social Football, Social Badminton and Social Squash is available for all to come
and try. Play with like minded people in a fun and relaxed group environment.
All weather pitch
5 a-side and 11a-side Football, Hockey, Tennis (summer term only)
Sports Hall
5 Badminton Court size hall, Tennis, Short Tennis, Indoor Hockey, Volleyball,
Table Tennis,
Netball, Basketball
Telephone: 01935 810548
Email: gym@sherborne.org
Twitter@sherbornesports
6 Lane, 25 Meter Swimming Pool
General Swimming, Members only sessions, Swim Fit, Swimming Lessons, Aqua,
Galas
Climbing and Bouldering Wall
Junior and adult sessions available
2 Squash Courts
Social Squash, Racket Ball
Dance Studio
Exercise classes*
Fitness Suite
Membership and pay as you go options available
Studio Cycling Zone
Studio Cycling fitness classes
Conference facilities –
Lecture facilities with interactive white board
Treatment Room
Bowen Therapy and Massage
SQUASH - OXLEY SPORTS CENTRE
Dorset, DT9 3DA
Telephone: 01935 818270
SWIMMING
WILD SWIMMING IN DORSET
Website: www.wildswimming.co.uk
SWIMMING - APOLLO SWIMMING CLUB for the physically disabled
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Name: Colin Vickery
Address: The Apollo Swimming Club Secretary, c/o 66 Bicknell Gardens, Yeovil,
Somerset BA21 4LU
Telephone: 01935 479992
Email: info@apolloswimmingclub.org.uk
Website: www.apolloswimmingclub.org.uk
The Club recognising the immense value of swimming and sailing for physical
rehabilitation of the disabled shall encourage, promote and develop these
activities amongst the physically disabled of Yeovil and District. We currently
meet at Yeovil's Goldenstones Pool on Saturday mornings and at Sherborne
Boys School on Tuesday Evenings. We also have a sailing dinghy that we use on
Sutton Bingham Reservoir on Thursday evenings during the summer months.
We have our own minibus which we use to pick up members from their homes
and transport to the pools and the aforementioned events but we have too
many members requiring transport for one bus so we also hire transport from
the Council Voluntary service. Transport is undoubtedly the clubs largest
running expense.
SHERBORNE TENNIS CLUB
Name: Russell Willson
Position: Chair
Telephone: 0844 844 9870 to chat about your tennis needs
Head Coach: Matt Long
Telephone: 07403 025 881
Deputy Head Coach: Stu Wilson
Telephone: 07825 660781
Address: Terrace Playing Fields, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3AP
Web Address: www.sherbornetennis.com for information, application forms &
email contact.
The members play more tennis here than at any other club in the area. Our
members are of all ages & abilities playing at all levels in match tennis and
regular social tennis and have a coaching team second to none. We have about
120 Senior Members and 170 Junior Members.
Sherborne Tennis Club is in a lovely setting with:
Eight porous tarmac all weather courts (five of which are floodlit.)
Two Mini-Red tennis courts for 5-8 year old kids
A practice wall
A modest timber club-house with a veranda
We currently have a membership of just over 160 and a committee of 12
elected people and many other volunteer helpers such as lifeguards and drivers
etc. Although members pay a small amount for their membership and pool
sessions and we raise as much as we can with stalls at local fetes etc, we
heavily rely on grants and donations.
Members are referred to us by medical authorities and comprise of both people
who have a permanent disability and those who have sustained an injury from
which they will eventually recover. What is really nice is when someone who has
joined the club with a temporary disability makes friends and enjoys the
activities so much that when they've made a full recovery they become an
associate member and help life guarding/driving or something similar.
Sherborne Tennis Club has a comprehensive coaching programme to appeal to
players of all abilities from the age of 5 years upwards. All sessions are
conducted by a qualified member of the coaching staff under the leadership of
the Head Coach, Matt Long.
ADULT SQUAD LESSONS
These are an ideal way to meet other members while improving your skills.
They are organised throughout the year following the pattern of the school
terms.
Ladies’ Mornings
Adult Evening Squads
Team Training sessions
TENNIS - ALWESTON TENNIS CLUB
Name: Brenda Newcombe
Telephone: 01935 389375
A small friendly club playing several times per week in Alweston on hard courts.
Social play only, we are unable to offer coaching facilities for beginners.
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www.sherbornesports.co.uk/activity-price-list/
JUNIOR MINI TENNIS RED/ORANGE/GREEN SQUAD (5 – 10 Years)
Mini Tennis is exactly what the name suggest, the game modified for younger or
inexperienced players, in which all the skills and tactics of the real game and
learned and used. The three colour-coded stages start with Red, where children
play either indoors or outdoors on shortened courts with mini rackets and
sponge balls. For Orange and Green, they progress onto larger courts until they
are playing the full game.
WALKING
DORSET WALKING AND SOCIAL GROUP
Website: http://www.meetup.com/Dorset-walking-and-social-group/
JUNIOR DEVELOPMENT & PERFORMANCE SQUADS (8 – 18 Years)
The junior squad structure gives everybody the opportunity to reach their full
potential in a fun environment. Here they will also be advised about club and
county teams, tournaments and LTA ratings. Sessions are mainly on weekdays
after school on the Club's courts and participation requires commitment for at
least one term. In addition, free group coaching sessions are offered each
Saturday morning to all players who are members of the Club and already
involved in squad coaching. Players not involved in squad coaching are welcome
to attend on a pay-as-you-play arrangement at a cost of £4 per session.
TABLE TENNIS
SHERBORNE SPORTS CENTRE
www.sherbornesports.co.uk/activity-price-list/
DORSET YOUNG WALKERS
Telephone: 07765 497997
Email: dywa@hotmail.com
Website: www.dorsetyoungwalkers.org.uk
U3A Groups
There are three Table Tennis groups, each meeting weekly on different days at
the Youth Centre in Tinneys Lane, Sherborne. Each group plays for 1½ hrs.
VOLLEY BALL
WEST DORSET RAMBLERS GROUP
Website: www.westdorsetramblers.org.uk
U3A
Website: www.u3asites.org.uk/code/u3asite.php?site=73&page=1770
We have six groups for walkers and three for hikers. They all meet monthly at
various locations, the walkers walk about 4 or 5 miles, and the hikers 6 to 12
miles.
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The Sherborne to Nether Compton Circular Off Road Cycle Route is 14
miles. A short circular bicycle route starting in Sherborne it soon reaches into
quiet countryside roads, well defined bridleways and tracks.
The Sherborne to Cattistock Cycle Route is 35 miles and is a long circular
bicycle ride suitable for keen cyclists, due to the hills and length of the ride. It
goes through a number of pretty Dorset villages.
SHERBORNE AREA PARTNERSHIP
WALKS AND CYCLES SERIES
Your set of Walks and Cycles leaflets are available FREE
from The Tourist Information Centre in Digby Road and
Sherborne Town Council Offices in Newland.
Sherborne Area Partnership has produced a series of Walks and Cycles leaflets
for the area. Walking and cycling are great ways of discovering the area whilst
taking in the wonderful views.
The Oborne to Sandford Orcas Walk is 7.4 miles on quiet country lanes
taking you through the villages of Oborne, Sandford Orcas and Poyntington.
The Sherborne to Longburton & Lillington Walk is 6.4 miles following a
circular route through the villages of Longburton and Lillington. Mainly on tracks
and across fields and through a number of wooded areas.
The Sherborne to North Wootton & Sherborne Park Walk is 6.3 miles. It is
an easy circular walk through the hamlets of North Wootton and Haydon taking
in the historic Sherborne Park.
TRANSPORT & ROADS
AIRPORT & AIRLINE INFORMATION
www.baa.co.uk
The Sherborne to Quarr Coombe Walk offers three different routes of
varying lengths, mainly on old tracks, quiet lanes and footpaths.
AIRPORT – BRISTOL
Telephone: 0871 3344444
Website: www.bristolairport.co.uk
AIRPORT – BOURNEMOUTH
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Telephone: 01202 364000
Website: www.flybournemouth.com
AIRPORT – EXETER
Telephone: 01392 367433
Website: www.exeter-airport.co.uk
AIRPORT – SOUTHAMPTON
Telephone: 0870 0400009
Website: www.southamptonairport.com
BUSES AND COACHES
FIRST BUSES
Telephone: 0845 6064446
NATIONAL EXPRESS
Telephone: 0870 5808080
Brian Haigh
TRAVEL LINE
Telephone: 0871 2002233
HIGHWAYS AGENCY INFORMATION LINE
Telephone: 0845 7504030
www.highways.gov.uk
WILTSHIRE AND DORSET BUS COMPANY
Website: www.wdbus.co.uk
HIGHWAYS- DORSET COUNTY COUNCIL
Name: Nigel Hamer
Telephone: 01305 225310
Email: n.hamer@dorestcc-gov.uk
BERRYS COACHES
Telephone: 01923 331356
Email: info@berryscoaches.co.uk
Web Address: www.berrycoaches.co.uk
MINIBUS HIRE SHERBORNE AREA YOUTH CENTRE
Name: Kate Osman
Telephone: 01935 814202
Address: - DCC Youth and Community Services, Tinneys Lane, Sherborne,
Dorset, DT9 3DY
Available for hire for community groups. Drivers need to have D1 on driving
licence. If a Dorset County Council employee is using the bus then need to have
taken the minibus test.
COACH HIRE – WEDDINGS –
Name: Lewis Coaches Ltd
Address: The Garage, Marsh Lane, Henstridge, Somerset BA8 0TG
Telephone: 01963 363787
NORDCAT/SCAT BUS
(North Dorset Community Accessible Transport)
For all NORDCAT bookings and enquiries please telephone between 9.00am and
2.00pm Monday to Fridays only.
Telephone: 01258 473154.
Address: Unit 4A Butts Pond Industrial Estate Sturminster Newton, Dorset DT10
1AZ
Email: info@nordcat.org.uk
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ROADS
Highways Report faults to CLARENCE 0800 232323
SHERBORNE AREA TRANSPORT ACTION GROUP (STAG)
Name: Mike Keatinge
Telephone: 01935 389377
Address: Highbank, Marston Road, Sherborne. DT9 4BL
Email: mike@keatinge.mail1.co.uk
ROAD SAFETY TRAINING
Telephone: 01305 224558 ext 4558
Address: Road Safety Environmental Directorate Country Hall, Colliton Park,
Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1XJ
Email: roadsafety@dorsetcc.gov.uk
The Road Safety Team delivers driver and rider training programmes,
as well as Bikeability cycle training.
THE RURAL DORSET WHEELS 2 WORK (RDW2W)
Address: SturQuest Office, The Exchange, Old Market Hill,
Sturminster Newton, Dorset DT10 1 FH
Email: info@rdw2w.co.uk
Website: www.rdw2w.co.uk
The Rural Dorset Wheels 2 Work (RDW2W) scheme is for people aged 16 and
above who need affordable transport to enable them to access education,
employment and training or simply for getting around.
Unlike other moped schemes, the RDW2W scheme is a ‘loan to own’ scheme
whereby at the end of the payment period, you will own the moped rather than
having just rented it, with the option to keep it, sell it back to the scheme (if in
very good condition) or sell it privately to finance your next vehicle.
All are welcome at our quarterly meetings to consider mainly rail, bus and cycle
issues affecting Sherborne and the surrounding villages.
Dates are advertised locally.
SOUTH SOMERSET COMMUNITY TRANSPORT
Transport by minibus or volunteer driver for people without access to their own
vehicle within, to or from South Somerset (including medical/hospital
appointments).
On completion of your CBT, you will take delivery of a brand new 50cc, or if
over 17, a 125cc moped (cost of 125cc will be extra.)
Telephone: 01935 477399 or 411572
TRANSPORT - SHERBORNE GOOD NEIGHBOURS
Telephone: 01935 815806, 814490, 815127 & 817453
Good Neighbours offer assistance to all, of any age, who would welcome some
neighbourly help including transport for shopping and essential trips. This is a
service for the disabled/mobility impaired and elderly. Volunteer drivers own
vehicles serving Sherborne and its immediate surroundings.
On receipt of your final payment you will receive the log book and the moped
will be yours!
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SHERBORNE VOLUNTARY AMBULANCE
TRAINLINE
Website: www.trainline.com
NATIONAL RAIL ENQUIRY
Telephone: 08457 48 49 50
TRAVELINE: 0871 200 22 33
WEBSITES
www.traveline.org.uk
www.transportdirectinfo
www.gettingabout.info
www.dorsetforyou
www.nationalrail.co.uk
YEO VALLEY HEALTH TRANSPORT
Telephone: 01258 473154
Email: yeovalleyhealthtransport@gmail.com
Website: yeovalleyhealthtransport.org.uk
‘Yeo Valley Health Transport has a good team of volunteers, in addition to our
administrator and a steering group.
Yeo Valley Health Transport is a service we, or someone we care about, will
most likely need at some point in our lives and we need volunteers, drivers and
to join our steering group, to help create a sustainable service that can be relied
upon well into the future.’
Name: Dr Charlie Middle
Telephone: 01935 411066
Address: Bute House Surgery, Wootton Grove, Sherborne
Email: Charliemiddle@aol.com
Sherborne Voluntary Ambulance provides transport for the elderly and disabled.
It takes passengers on outings, shopping trips, lunches and occasional theatre
trips. It is used by a number of clubs and societies.
Sherborne Voluntary Ambulance had a new bus dedicated by Rev. Canon Eric
Woods on Wednesday 16th September. This was a result of fund raising and
some generous donations over a number of years. The previous bus had given
excellent service during the last 10 years. The Sherborne Ambulance is used
seven days a week to transport the elderly and disabled on shopping trips, lunch
clubs and weekend outings.
John Miller is the transport manager and can be contacted on 01935 873784.
The ambulance is available for hire to groups at very reasonable cost. The
committee appreciate the support of passengers who use the bus and
especially the dedication of all our volunteer drivers.
The transport manager is John Miller and bookings can be made with
him by telephoning 01935 873784.
Chairman Sarah Greening.
Picture by Jennie Banks, Western Gazette
SOUTH WEST TRAINS 0845 600 0650
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VENUES FOR HIRE
Telephone: 01935 814011
Email: P.Diffey@westdorset-weymouth.gov.uk
CHEAP STREET CHURCH HALL
Address: Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset
Name: Brian Walker
Telephone: 01935 816266
SMALL MARQUEE FOR HIRE for events, as a trade stand etc.
Daily Rates: Charity £15 per day. Non-Charity £20.
Contact details. Sally Westlotorn,
Address: Sherborne Area Partnership, The Manor House, Newland, Sherborne,
Dorset DT9 3JL Telephone: 01935 816961
Website sherbornetown.co.uk/partnerships
DIGBY HALL
Address: Hound Street, next to the Library, Sherborne
Facilities: Main Hall: 18.25m x 15.5m stage/dressing rooms, modern
sound/lighting system, seats 300 lecture/200 dining.
Small Hall: 9.15m x 6m seats 50 lecture/40 dining. Wingfield Room: 10m x
4.5m seats 45 lecture/30 dining
GARDEN AT DIGBY HALL HOUND STREET
GARDEN AREA: comprises large lawn and purpose built barbecue ideal for
parties, plays receptions, marques and more.
Name: Judith Simpson
Telephone: 01935 812807
Address: The Town Council Offices, The Manor House, Newland, Sherborne,
Dorset DT9 3JL
Email address: j.simpson@sherborne-tc.gov.uk
THE MERMAID INN
Address: - Bristol Road, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 4JD
Function Room
Telephone: 01935 817065
PADDOCK GARDEN
Address: Newland, Sherborne, Dorset
Outside stage and area
Telephone: 01935 812807
Dorset DT9 3JL
PAGEANT GARDENS
Address: Digby Road, Sherborne, Dorset
Bandstand
Gardens
Telephone: 01935 812807
Dorset DT9 3JL
THE DIGBY MEMORIAL CHURCH HALL
Address: Digby Road, Sherborne Dorset DT9 3NL
Main Hall: 2om x 12m 6m x 3m stage (no back stage/dressing rooms) seats
200 lecture/300 standing.
Griffiths Room: 11m x 7m seats 50 lecture
Name: Roy Griffiths
Bookings telephone: 01935 815944
Name: Phillip Prout
Telephone: 01935 812452
GRYPHON CONFERENCE CENTRE
Conference Room seats 140 lecture
School Hall seats 250 lecture
Wessex Room seats 25 lecture/boardroom
Telephone: 01935 813122
PLUME OF FEATHERS
Skittle Alley
Telephone: 01935 816569
SACRED HEART AND ST ALDHELM’S CHURCH HALL
Address: Westbury, Sherborne, Dorset
Main Hall: 12m x 10m 100 people maximum
Meeting Room: 1.3m x 3m
Meeting Room: 2.2m x 3m
Meeting Room 3.3.5m x 3m
GRYPHON LEISURE CENTRE
Dance Studio 13m x 8m, Mirrors
Bookings: Pete Diffey
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Bookings: Miss S M C Marshall
Telephone: 01935 812617
SHERBORNE SCHOOL FOR BOYS
Address: Abbey Road, Sherborne, Dorset
Old School Room: capacity 60 meetings/lecture
Big School Room: capacity 349 lecture/100 dining
Dining Hall: capacity 120/lecture/120 dining
Bow House: capacity 50
Junior Common Room: capacity 500
Powell Theatre, foyer and garden: capacity 220
Enquiries: Lucy Earls-Davis (Events Manager)
Telephone: 01935 812249
SCOUT HUT, BLACKBERRY LANE
Name: Mick Brooks
Position: Chairman
Telephone: 01935 817332
For all hall hire enquiries please use our website
www.groupspaces.com/1stsherbornescoutgroup
Please enquire for details of these facilities (please note that these facilities may
ST PAUL’S CHURCH HALL
Address: St Paul’s Close, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 4DU
Main Hall: 14m x 10m
Upstairs Room: 7m x 5m
Bookings: Sarah Fricker
Telephone: 01935 816444
Email: stpauls-sherborne@btconnect.com
not be available during term time)
SOMERSET AND DORSET FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY
Address: The Parade, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset
Meeting room: 8m x 5m
Bookings: Barry Brock
Telephone: 01935 389611
THE RALEIGH HALL
Address: Digby Road, Sherborne, Dorset (next to the Digby Memorial Hall)
Main Hall: 14m x 11m
Small Lounge: 11m x 4m
Telephone: 01935 814680
The Raleigh Hall is available for hire at very reasonable rates, when not in use
by the Lunch Club. Please email
WEST END COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION HALL
Address: Littlefield, Sherborne, Dorset
VILLAGE AND CHURCH HALL HIRE
simonlydia@towerviewfarm.co.uk and drumalc@aol.com
DORSET VILLAGE HALL ASSOCIATION
Name: Mary Mathers
Telephone: 01929 459217
Email: mary.mathers@btinternet.com
Website: http://www.dorsethalls.net/content/dorset-village-halls-association
SHERBORNE AREA YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTRE
FUNCTION ROOMS AT TINNEYS YOUTH CENTRE
Address: Tinneys Lane, Sherborne, Dorset
Gym: 10m x 10m
Workshop: 8m x 6m
Bookings: Rachel Fraiz-Brown
Position: Area Youth Worker
Telephone: 01935 814202
VILLAGE HALL ALWESTON
Name: Mr & Mrs Rolls
SHERBORNE PRIMARY SCHOOL
Address: Harbour Way, Sherborne, Dorset
School Hall: seats 300 lecture, has staging, piano
Music Room: adjacent to hall seats 30 people
Outdoor Classroom: 17m x 4.5m + 17m x 17m tarmac area in front
Enquiries: Karen Willetts
Telephone: 01935 812616
VILLAGE HALL BRADFORD ABBAS
Telephone: 01935 700 001
Email: bookings@bavh.org.uk
VILLAGE HALL CHETNOLE
Name: Mrs Shirley Madgwick
Telephone: 01935 872838
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VOLUNTARY & COMMUNITY SECTOR ORGANISATIONS
in the Sherborne Area
VILLAGE HALL GLANVILLES WOOTTON
Name: Angela Fripp
Telephone: 01963 210463
VILLAGE HALL LEIGH
Name: Duncan Moore
Telephone: 01963 210154
Email:ducancmoore@aol.com
Website: www.leighvillagehall.co.uk
VILLAGE HALL – MILBORNE PORT
Name: Margaret Davis
Telephone: 01963 250252
VILLAGE HALL OBORNE
VILLAGE HALL POYNTINGTON
Name: Robert Gould
Telephone: 01963 220222
AMNESTY GROUP - DORCHESTER & DISTRICT AMNESTY GROUP
Contact Name: Barry & Christine Tempest
Position: Group Secretary
Telephone: 01305 264056
We campaign on behalf of people world-wide who have been imprisoned or
threatened for peacefully- held beliefs and write letters to governments drawing
attention to these abuses of fundamental human rights. We take no position on
political or religious matters.
VILLAGE HALL THORNFORD
Email:
bookings-thornfordvillagehall@googlemail.com
YETMINSTER JUBILEE HALL
Telephone: 01935 872287
Email: pccsec.yetminster@gmail.com
BRITAIN IN BLOOM - SOUTH WEST ENTRIES
Name: Denise James
Position: Secretary, South West in Bloom
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Email: info@southwestinbloom.org.uk
Website: www.southwestinbloom.org.uk
South West in Bloom is one of eighteen regional/national competitions that
make up Britain in Bloom, the biggest horticultural campaign in Europe. The aim
of the communities that take part each year is to improve and regenerate our
local environments, through the imaginative planting of trees, shrubs, flowers
and landscaping, conservation and recycling projects, and to sweep away the
eyesores that blight our streets, such as litter, graffiti and vandalism.
South West in Bloom organises two Spring Seminars to help entrants share
ideas, and there are a number of key speakers to cover main topics of the
bloom. We produce two Newsletters, in the Spring and Autumn of each year,
and the main Presentation event of the awards for both the South West in
Bloom competition and the It's Your Neighbourhood is held in September.
Sherborne & District Branch meets at 7.30pm on every fourth Monday of the
month at the Weavers in Westbury, Sherborne, Dorset, DT9 6BB.
Membership is open to everyone. If you have an interest in the objectives of the
Legion and want to help and support for those who have served and their
families, come and join us. We welcome men and women of all ages, whether
they have served in the Armed Forces or not.
DEVONSHIRE & DORSET REGIMENT now The Rifles at Winchester.
The Regimental Association of the Devonshire and Dorsetshire
Name: Lt. Col (Ret’d) G S Nicholls
Position: Rifles Secretary Exeter
Telephone: 01392 492434
Britain in Bloom, which is organised by the Royal Horticultural Society.
The competitive element is designed to be fair to everyone, with entries
grouped into categories based on population taken from the electoral roll. (This
figure is obtainable from the Electoral Roll Officer at your local authority). You
will see the categories on the awards list enclosed, together with the additional
awards issued at the judge’s discretion. At the end of the year, the judges select
a number of entries to represent the region in the following year’s national
Britain in Bloom. To help you succeed, you will need to generate funding from
your own funding events, cash or benefits in kind from local business, or by
attracting sponsorship or grants. Being involved in South West in Bloom
promotes a tremendous sense of community, and above all, its fun. Any
parish, town or village can enter into the Britain in Bloom Competition
by contacting Denise James.
DORSET REGIMENTAL CHAPEL
Name: Lt. Col Mike Richardson
Telephone: 01980 618851
THE REGIMENTAL ASSOCIATION OF THE
DEVONSHIRE AND DORSET REGIMENT
Website:
http://www.devondorsetregiment.co.uk/
Our Association exists to preserve the
memory of The Devonshire and Dorset
Regiment and its forebears, The Devonshire
Regiment and The Dorset Regiment, and to
maintain the close comradeship that our
members found during their service in these renowned British Army infantry
regiments. We also give our staunchest support to the new Regiment into
which our Regiment was merged in 2007 - The Rifles, in which the Infantrymen
of Devon and Dorset now serve.
ROYAL BRITISH LEGION
FIRST WORLD WAR
Name: Dave Bowes
Position: Chairman
Telephone: 01935 389272
Name: Glenys Bowes
Position: Secretary
Telephone: 01935 389272
Website: http://branches.britishlegion.org.uk/branches/sherborne
FREE NAME SEARCH
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Dorset Community Action (DCA)
COMMUNITY ACTION MANAGER
Name: Simon Thompson
Telephone: 01305 216412
Mobile: 07974 723807
Email: simon.thompson@dorsetcommunityaction.org.uk
Simon’s role at DCA as Community Action Manager covers a very wide brief but
his main tasks are to promote partnership working in Dorset; support Dorset’s
rural services - shops, post offices, pubs, community buildings and village halls;
helping rural communities assess unmet need, through the production of parish
and neighbourhood plans. Simon also has a strong interest in Affordable
Housing issues and Community Transport provision. As part of DCA’s service
Simon assists voluntary groups to ensure their project succeeds by making
better funding applications and increasing skills and knowledge through regular
training sessions held in Sherborne. Simon also co-ordinates the annual Dorset
Best Village competition.
DORSET COMMUNITY ACTION (DCA)
Telephone: 01305 250921
Address: The Coach House, Acland Road, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1EF
Email: info@dorsetcommunityaction.org.uk
Website: http://www.dorsetcommunityaction.org.uk
Chief Executive: Alex Picot
Telephone: 01305 216415
Mobile: 07827894735
Email: alex.picot@dorsetcommunityaction.org.uk
Dorset Community Action (DCA)
COMMUNITY ADVISOR
WEST DORSET TEAM Including SHERBORNE AREA
Name: Jayme Reaves
Telephone: 01305 216409
Mobile: 07795 442946
Email: jayme.reaves@dorsetcommunityaction.org.uk
Website: www.dorsetcommunityaction.org.uk
DCA on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DorsetCommunityAction
Twitter: @DorsetCA
Jayme’s role as Community Advisor for Dorset Community Action is to support
your charity, social enterprise, and community group to best achieve its goals,
by helping you make informed decisions, connecting you to the people you need
to know, and giving you the skills and knowledge needed to make your project
and organisation a success. That support is comprised of (but not limited to)
advice, training, consultancy and support around project planning, fundraising,
good governance, marketing and communications, and managing relationships
with staff, volunteers and trustees.
Providing local support and advice for Community Groups, Charities and Social
Enterprises. Would you like to get on the right track and make your group or
project more robust and sustainable? Would you like to make better funding
applications? DCA can help you develop the skills and knowledge needed to
make your project and organisation successful in the long term. We can help
you do this through our:
Level 1 information services:
Our FREE ‘What is...’ information services include an ‘assessment of needs’
session of up to one hour, providing next steps and signposting you to further
information. Our Level 1 services are free of charge and can be accessed as
many times as required. These include all of the ‘Information and signposting’
services: micro training, e-bulletins, funding e-bulletins, ‘find a group’ website
search and free grant finder searches.
Level 2: Training, Advice & Guidance Services
Our ‘How do you do it...’ services take you through subject specific toolkits or
training so that at the end of the training, you will have a firm foundation in the
subject with resources and workbooks to support you to complete your project
or develop your service.
Level 3 Consultancy
Is tailored consultancy work or our ‘Doing it....’ service that is undertaken
specifically for you, and will include a variety of tasks from checking of funding
bids, business planning, to setting up legal structures.
Dorset Community Action’s COMMUNITY ADVISORS provide funding support
across the county of Dorset.
To contact your local advisor please contact our Head Office on 01305 250921
or by email: info@dorsetcommunityaction.org.uk
Dorset Community Action offers a Dorset-wide funding service for the Voluntary,
Community and Social Enterprise Sector. They offer advice on potential funding
streams for projects and can assist groups in getting ‘fit for funding’, as well as
helping groups develop sustainable funding strategies. DCA provides monthly
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funding alerts, regular training as well as open access to the Grantfinder
database. There is also a bid checking service available (at a small cost) to
check grant applications before groups submit to funders. DCA works alongside
Dorset’s other Funding Advisers at Dorset County Council and the District
Council’s. For further information please contact our Head Office on 01305
250921 / info@dorsetcommunityaction.org.uk /
www.dorsetcommunityaction.org.uk /
www.facebook.com/dorsetcommunityactionFor further information on
training & events go to www.dorsetcommunityaction.org.uk/training-events.
The Royal Naval Association Sherborne branch was established in 1952 and is
for ex-Naval Personnel. The group meets every second Monday of the month at
the RAF Club in Long Street. There are fund-raising events such as ‘Frog Night’
& Trafalgar Night. With over 20,000 members across 370 branches in the UK
and overseas, we are a family of current and former Naval Service personnel,
relatives and supporters of our country's Royal Navy. Whether we are catching
up with friends at our regular social events; fundraising; advising on welfare
and employment matters, or just providing an arm around the shoulder, our
natural willingness to help others stems from the tradition and camaraderie that
only Naval Service life can instil. Everything we do is inextricably linked to our
core values.
THE ROYAL AIR FORCE ASSOCIATION (RAFA) SHERBORNE BRANCH
Secretary: Clive Wakefield
Telephone: 01963 440303
Email: cliveandelma@hotmail.co.uk
Address: Long Street Sherborne DT9 3BY
Telephone: 01935 812621
The RAF Association (RAFA) is a membership organisation of serving and former
members of the Royal Air Force, their families and dependants and all those
supporting the aims of the Association. It is the largest single-service
membership organisation in the United Kingdom and has roughly 74,000
members and 500 Branches in the UK, Europe and further afield. The
Association provides help and advice, assistance, comradeship and, where
required, welfare and care for the whole RAF family.
The Sherborne Branch belongs to Wales, Midland and South Western Area
Name: Mike Snell
Position: Area Director
Telephone: 01392 462006
Website: www.rafa.org.uk
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT
INSTITUTION
Name: Mr. Nick Kirby
Address: Melbury Bubb House
SOLDIERS, SAILORS, AIRMEN
& FAMILIES ASSOCIATION
ROYAL NAVAL ASSOCIATION
Name: Mr. R. C. Dinsdale
Telephone: 01935 813527
Address: RNA Sherborne Branch, Slessor Club R.A.F.A. Long Street, Sherborne,
Dorset. DT9 3BY
Website: http://www.royal-naval-association.co.uk/branches/no-04area/sherborne/
(SAAFA)
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Name: J. Sherburn
Telephone: 01935 812957
Website: https://www.ssafa.org.uk/
Our lifelong support for our Forces and their families is reflected in everything
we do. So if you need help, we’ll be here for you, through thick and thin, until
the job is done.
Our service covers the whole of Dorset County (except Bournemouth and Poole
which have their own centre). As well as a main office in the county town of
Dorchester we run outreach points in 8 other locations. We attend local events,
shows and public meetings to publicise volunteering and recruit new volunteers,
and we maintain a comprehensive database of volunteering opportunities. The
Centre is accredited by Volunteering England, the national body that sets
standards of service and confidentiality for volunteer centres.
The Volunteer Centre Dorset
Phone: 01305 269214
Email: info@volunteeringdorset.org.uk
Website: www.volunteeringdorset.org.uk
Twitter: @VCDorset
Face Book: Volunteer Centre Dorset
We are a fully accredited Volunteer Centre working with individuals, groups and
organisations in the voluntary sector to promote, support and develop
volunteering in the community across the County of Dorset. We deliver
recruitment services for volunteers and organisations, training events,
recruitment days, networking events, deliver Good practice workshops and
promote opportunities on the national www.do-it.org site. We can also offer a
DBS check service free to volunteers.
Karen Jones
West Dorset outreach for The Volunteer Centre Dorset
Email: k.jones@volunteeringdorset.org.uk
Covering the West Dorset district areas on Monday, Tuesday & Wednesdays
www.volunteeringdorset.org.uk
Drop in session every 2nd and 4th Monday of the month at Sherborne
Library from 2pm to 4pm but please call to check dates and times.
The Volunteer Centre is part of a national network of centres that help voluntary
and community organisations recruit and manage their volunteers, and helps
people interested in volunteering to find interesting and enjoyable opportunities.
We encourage and support volunteering by everyone irrespective of age,
education, background, health or wealth. Volunteering is a way for all citizens to
get involved in their community.
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YOUNG PEOPLE
DORSET ARMY CADET FORCE
DORCHESTER
Name: CEO Major John Bradshaw
Telephone: 01305 263954
Email: wx-dor-ceo@rfca.org.uk
Web Address: www.armycadet.com
874 (SHERBORNE) SQUADRON
AIR TRAINING CORP
Address: Blackberry Lane, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 4DE
Telephone: 01935 389308 (may only be answered on parade evenings)
Email: 874@aircadets.org
DORSET YOUNG ENTERPRISE
Name: Katherine Sawyer
Position: Employability (EEE) & Company Programme West Dorset
Telephone: 07918 561 360
Email: katherine.sawyer@y-e.org.uk
Website: http://www.young-enterprise.org.uk/.
Young Enterprise, South West. The continued uncertainty about the South
West’s economy means it’s essential for business and education to work
together to ensure the next generation has excellent business skills. We are the
leading force in enterprise education in the South West, and we work in
hundreds of schools, colleges and universities across the region to empower
young people with the confidence, ability and ambition to succeed.
THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH’S AWARD
SOUTH WEST
Address: Church Farm Business Park. Unit 12A. Corston. Bath BA2 9AP
Telephone: 01225 874354
E: southwest@DofE.org
Telephone: 01249 701000
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THE RURAL DORSET WHEELS 2 WORK (RDW2W)
Address: SturQuest Office, The Exchange, Old Market Hill,
Sturminster Newton, Dorset DT10 1 FH
Email: info@rdw2w.co.uk
Website: www.rdw2w.co.uk
The Rural Dorset Wheels 2 Work (RDW2W) scheme is for people aged 16 and
above who need affordable transport to enable them to access education,
employment and training or simply for getting around.
Unlike other moped schemes, the RDW2W scheme is a ‘loan to own’ scheme
whereby at the end of the payment period, you will own the moped rather than
having just rented it, with the option to keep it, sell it back to the scheme (if in
very good condition) or sell it privately to finance your next vehicle.
FRESH START
On completion of your CBT, you will take delivery of a brand new 50cc, or if
over 17, a 125cc moped (cost of 125cc will be extra.)
On receipt of your final payment you will receive the log book and the moped
will be yours!
Contact Names: Kate Sandercock and Ian Handscomb
Address: Fresh Start 5 North Square, Dorchester, Dorset. DT1 1HY
Details: 01305 757027
Mobile: 07933112693
Email: freshstart@dorsetyouth.com
Website: www.dorsetyouth.com
A charitable organisation that supports the progression of young people, 15-25,
who are Not in Education Employment or Training or at risk of becoming so. We
cover the shire county of Dorset and offer activities including: volunteering,
workplace training, Accreditation, confidence building and employability skills.
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Space Youth Project runs a monthly youth group for LGBT* young people (up to
age 25) at The Rendezvous is Sherborne. The link to the Sherborne group
is: http://www.spaceyouthproject.co.uk/p/sherbourne.html
We are a charity that supports young people across Dorset who are LGBT* or
questioning their sexuality and/or gender identity. We also do satellite days
where youth workers and volunteers travel to the area to work with local
organisations who are trying to tackle homophobia/biphobia/transphobia as well
as supporting any LGBT* young people who use their service.
As well as face-to-face meetings and groups, we also have a Facebook
community for members of the project so people who find it difficult to attend
groups can still access support from youth workers and peers.
YOUTH RESOURCE SERVICES
THE RENDEZVOUS SHERBORNE) LTD
TAKEPART
Name: Jennie Loader
Sherborne ArtsLink.
surrounding area.
Position: Manager
Sherborne DT9 3BJ
SPACE YOUTH PROJECT
Name: Helen Walsh
Position: CEO
Mobile: 07973 405280
Email: helen@spcaeyouth project.oc.uk
Address: c/o Bournemouth & Poole College, North Road POOLE BH14 0LS
Website: spaceyouthproject.co.uk
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Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
SHERBORNE YOUNG FARMERS
Name: Josephine Mitchell
Position: Chairwoman
Telephone: 01963 210 733
Name: Bethany Mitchell
Position: Secretary
Telephone: 01258 817 28
Meeting every other Thursday at Sherborne Youth Centre at 7.30pm
RENDEZVOUS Opening Hours
1 – 2pm
Appointments only
2pm – 7pm
Drop in
CLOSED
12.30 – 2.30pm
Young Parents Group
1 – 2pm
Appointments only
2pm – 7pm
Drop in
1 – 2pm
Appointments only
2pm – 7pm
Drop in
1 – 2pm
Appointments only
2pm – 7pm
Drop in
DORSET FEDERATION OF YOUNG FARMERS’ CLUBS
Telephone: 01305 263947
Mobile: 0750 1212128
Email: office@dorsetyfc.org.uk
Website: www.dorsetyfc.org.uk
Dorset Young Farmers Clubs are open to everyone aged 10 to 26 whether they
have a farming background or not. There are ten clubs within rural Dorset with
over 400 members. To find out your nearest club and join in the fun please
contact Dorset Young Farmers
There are ten clubs across Dorset - but there are no set boundaries, you can
join whichever club takes your fancy. In the meantime, get in touch and we will
point you to the nearest club to you. And that includes the towns! Just because
you live in Bournemouth or Poole, or can't see a cow or hear a cockerel from
your doorstep, doesn't mean you are not welcome.
SHERBORNE AREA YOUTH COMMUNITY CENTRE
Name: Rachel Fraiz-Brown
Telephone: 01935 814202
Address: Tinneys Lane, Sherborne, Dorset, DT9 3DY
Email: r.fraiz-brown@dorsetcc.gov.uk
Youth Club. Advice and information, art, music and a place to meet up with
friends!
Open on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 7-10pm and Tuesdays 68.30pm.
If you’re interested in having a say about the place you live in, then why not
come to Sherborne Youth Forum (SAYF). Have a say, make a difference, join in
social events and much more!
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BULLYING WEBSITE
http://www.bullying.co.uk/
DORSET ReRun
Address: ReRun – Dorset Runaways Service, The Exchange, Sturminster
Newton, Dorset DT10 1FH
Telephone: 01258 475487
24 hr emergency contact Text or Call: 07958 475075
Website: http://www.rerundorset.org/
Dorset Runaways Service is a free and confidential Outreach service for young
people who are away from home, thinking about running away, being thrown
out of home or finding life difficult to cope with. ReRun is an information, advice
and support service for young people up to age 19 and their families who are in
Dorset and is provided by ReachOut Dorset.
YEOVIL YOUNG PEOPLES WALK-IN CLINIC
Telephone: 01935 384411
DORSET YOUTH ASSOCIATION
DORSET YOUTH ASSOCIATION
Name: Lindsey Halford
Position: Infrastructure Manager:
Address: Dorset Youth Association, County Headquarters, Lubbecke
Way, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1QL
Email: lindseyhalford@dorsetyouth.com
We provide support and information for organisations working with children,
young people and their families across Dorset. The support includes a regular
Information Alert sent by e-mail with a range of information including training
opportunities; relevant conferences; vacancies and volunteering opportunities;
information about what is happening nationally and locally for children and
young people; and an update on the 0-19 VCS Forum.
The 0-19 VCS Forum is a networking opportunity for VCS organisations, with
speakers on relevant topics and some training & development. The meetings
take place 5 times a year. Anyone can sign up to receive the information – just
NIGHT STOP DORSET
Address: Inspirations 2 Poundbury Business Centre, Poundbury. Dorchester
Dorset DT1 3WA
Telephone: 01305 753657
get in touch with an e-mail address.
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Abbeyfield Lunch Club Sherborne
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Abbey View Nursing & Residential Home
Page 94
Addiction
Page 98
Adult & Community Support Services Dorset
Page 28
Adult Education
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After School Club for Children SCAPA Sherborne
Page 36
Age UK Helpline
Page 51
Age UK Dorchester
Page 81
Airport & Airline Information
Page 139
Airports Bristol, Bournemouth, Exeter & Southampton
Page 139
Air Training Corp Sherborne
Page 149
Alcoholics Anonymous Helpline
Page 51
Allotments Sherborne
Page 59
Almshouse Sherborne - St Johns’ House
Page 94,114
Almshouse Sherborne – Lunch
Page 114
Alweston Tennis Club
Page 137
Alweston Village Hall
Page 143
Alzheimer’s Society Dorchester
Page 81,98
Amateur Players of Sherborne
Page 18
Amnesty Group
Page 144
Anxiety UK
Page 98
Apples Medical Centre Sherborne
Page 67
Apollo Swimming Club
Page 136
Archery
Page 128
Army Cadet Force
Page 149
Arthritis Care Helpline
Page 51
Arthritis Care
Page 82
Arts – The Open College of
Page 13
Artslink
Page 10, 103
Artslink Flicks
Page 18
Art Exhibition Sherborne
Page 18
Art Club Sherborne
Page 18
Art Sherborne Positive Street Art
Page 14
Ashley Elm House Sherborne
Page 80
Association of British Correspondence Colleges
Page 13
Asthma UK Helpline
Page 52
Asylum Seekers & Refugees
Page 100
Email: dorsetnightstop@actionforchildren.org.uk
Project for young single homeless people aged 16-25. Accept people with dogs
(if host agrees). Must have a local connection to Dorset.
A – Z INDEX LISTING INDIVIDUAL ENTRIES
0 – 19 VCS Forum
874 (Sherborne) Squadron
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AA
AONB Dorset
Abbey FM Radio Sherborne
Abbey Sherborne Abbey, Castleton & St Paul’s
Abbey Sherborne Abbey Shop
Abbeyfield Society Sherborne
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Athletics
B
BTCV
Baby Changing Facilities in Sherborne
Baby Loss Support Groups
Baby Massage Classes
Baby & Toddler Group Topsy Turvy
Baby & Toddler Under One’s Group
Badminton
Band – Sherborne Town
Batcombe (High Stoy) Parish Council
BBC Radio Dorset
Bearcat Collective
Beaumont Society South West - Trans issues
Beavers
Beekeepers
Beer Hackett Thorn Hackett Parish Group
Bell ringing Sherborne Company of Ringers
Benefice of Queen Thorne
Benefice of Spire Hill
Benefice of the Wriggle Valley
Bereavement
Berry Coaches
The Betjeman Society (Sherborne Branch)
Bipolar UK
Bishops Caundle Parish Council
BLISS
Blackmore Vale Branch of Embroiderers’ Guild
Blackmore Vale Magazine
Blackmore Vale Model Flying Club
Blackmore Vale Scribes
Blind – RNIB Education Centre
Blood and Transplant Donor Line NHS
Boogie Bear Music
Bournemouth University
Bowling
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Boxing
Bradford Abbas Parish Council
Bradford Abbas The Pennant
Bradford Abbas Village Hall Hire
Breakfast Club for Children SCAPA
Breast Cancer Care
Breast Feeding Support Group
The Breeze –Radio
Bridge – Sherborne Bridge Club
Bristol Lesbian & Gay Switchboard
British Assoc. of Counselling & Psychotherapy
Britain in Bloom South West Entries
British Dyslexia Association
British Heart Foundation
Brownies Sherborne & District
Buckland Newton Parish Council
Buses & Coaches
Business Support
Business Support WDDC
Bute House Sherborne
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52
27
38
38
128
24
63
116
82
89
23
66
54
18,41
43
43,123
43,123
83, 98
139
18
97
63
52
105
115
132
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13
67
30,34
10
129
C
CAB
CALM
CPRE Sherborne & District Society
Camera Club – Sherborne Bradford Abbas
Cam Vale Group Parish Council
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Canoeing
Castleton Church
Castleton (Yeohead Group) Parish Council
Castleton Steam & Water Wheel Centre
Casualty Yeovil Hospital
Cemetery Sherborne
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Citizens Advice Bureau Sherborne
Citizen Patrol Schemes Sherborne
Chamber Choir (Sherborne), Sherborne Concerts
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Chamber of Trade & Commerce Sherborne
Chatterbooks Sherborne Library
Cheap Street Church Methodist & United Reformed
Cheap Street Church Hall Hire
Cheerleading
Chetnole & Stockwood Parish Council
Chetnole Parish Information
Chetnole Village Hall Hire
Childbirth – Sherborne National Childbirth Trust
CHILDLINE
Child Benefit Enquiries
Children’s Centre Sherborne
Children’s Clothing Agency TOGS Sherborne
Children’s Swimming Oxleys
Chimes Newsletter
Chojna Twinning Association Sherborne
Churches Together Sherborne
Churches Sherborne Area
Church newsletters for Sherborne area
Church Halls
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Cinema for Juniors
City Farms and Community Gardens
Citizen Advice
Citizen Patrol Schemes
Civil Ceremonies
Clifton Maybank Parish Meeting
Climb aboard Children’s Soft Play Centre
Climbing
Climbing Courses Oxleys
Colleges – Open Learning
Common Ground
Community Church Sherborne
Community Land Trust Fund
Communities Living Sustainably in Dorset
Community Mental Health Team Sherborne
Community Orchestra (Sherborne)
Compassionate Friends
Page 49-50
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Page 41, 118
Page 142
Compost Bins
Conduit Magazine
Concerts Sherborne
Conservative Party Sherborne
Contact newsletter
Contraception Helpline UK
Council Services who’s responsible for what
Council Services Sherborne Town Council
Creche at Oxleys Sports Centre
Credit Union First Dorset
Cricket Sherborne
Crime Victims
CRISIS & SUPPORT HELPLINES
Croquet
Cruse Bereavement
Cub Scouts Sherborne
Cultural & Heritage grants
Cycling – Dorset Cyclist Network
Cycling – Sherborne Area Cyclist Network
Cycling – Hope 2 Cycle
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Page 69
DCA
Page 63, 122-123,146-7
DorBAG Dorset Broadcasting Action Group
Page 116
Dance Academy (Sherborne)
Page 19, 31
TWL Dance (Shaftesbury)
Page 10, 33
Dancers – Yetminster Irish
Page 19
Day Centre – The Shielings Sherborne
Page 67
DEAFAX National Network for Deaf Students
Page 12
Dental Advice – FREE
Page 52
Dentist NHS
Page 79
Department for Education
Page 52
Depression Alliance
Page 97
Devonshire & Dorsetshire Regiment
Page 145
Digby Hall Hire, Hound Street, Sherborne
Page 46, 48,142
Digby Memorial Church Hall Hire, Digby Road
Page 41,142
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Disability Benefits UK
Page 52
Diving
Page 131
Doctors Sherborne
Page 79-80
Domestic Violence Helpline
Page 52
Dorchester Adult Education
Page 10
Dorset Advocacy
Page 84
Dorset AIDS Support
Page 52
Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty AONB
Partnership
Page 69
Dorset Army Cadets
Page 149
Dorset Athletics – Team Dorset
Page 134
Dorset Blind Association
Page 84
Dorset Blind Association Home Visiting
Page 84,85
Dorset Centre for Rural Skills
Page 10, 70
Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group
Page 85
Dorset Community Action DCA
Pages 63, 122-123,146-7
Dorset Community Renewables
Page 70
Dorset Coppice Group
Page 58
Dorset County Hospital Dorchester
Page 79
Dorset County Council Services
Pages 55, 56,70,110,140
Dorset County Council Adult & Community Support Services
Pages 19, 85,96
Dorset County Council Natural Environment Team Page 70
Dorset County Council Sustainability Team
Page 70
Dorset County Council The Shielings Day Centre
& Ashley Elm House
Page 80
Dorset Cycles
Page 71
Dorset Cyclists Network
Page 71,130
Dorset Doddlers
Page 134
Dorset Energy Group
Page 72
Dorset Energy Partnership
Page 70
Dorset Evening Echo
Page 116
Dorset Family Information Service
Page 26
Dorset Federation of Young Farmers
Page 152
Dorset Home Choice
Page 99
Dorset ME Support Group
Page 86
Dorset Mental Health Forum
Page 86
Dorset Opera
Dorset Police HQ
Dorset Probation Service
Dorset Reading Partners
Dorset ReRun
Dorset Rough Riders
Dorset Village Hall Association
Dorset Walking & Social Group
Dorset Waste Partnership
Dorset Wildlife Trust
Dorset Young Enterprise
Dorset Young Walkers
Dorset Youth Association
Douzelage Sherborne
Down Memory Lane Reminiscence Group
Drama Club
Dry Cleaners Sherborne
Duke of Edinburgh’s Award
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East African Women’s League
Eastbury House Residential Care Sherborne
Eating Disorders
Economic Regeneration WDDC
Economic Regeneration Northern Dorset LAG
EDP Drug & alcohol Service (Dorset)
Electricity
Embroiderers
Environment Agency
Environment Forum
Environment SWAP Websites
Epilepsy Helpline
Equestrian
Evershot Parish Council
Exchange Locata for Housing Tenants
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FFLAG
Families Anonymous
Family Friendly Facilities in Sherborne
Family History – Somerset & Dorset Family History
Family Information Centre Dorset
Farming & Forestry Grants
Farm Radio – Dorset & Somerset
Farming & Wildlife Advisory Group Dorset FWAG
Federation of City Farms & Community Gardens
Fencing
Films – monthly Sherborne Artslink Flicks
Film Festival - Sherborne International
Films for Juniors & Saturday Cinema
First Buses
First Dorset Credit Union
First World War Memorials – Names/Help
Fishing
Floral Evening Sherborne
Flying
Folke Parish Council
Folke Golf Centre
Food Bank Sherborne
Food Friendly Club
Football
Fosters Field Residents Association
Four Leaf Clover Club Sherborne
Fresh Start
Friends of the Earth West Dorset
Friends of the Quarr
Friends of Sherborne Abbey
Friends of Sherborne House
Friends of Yeatman Hospital
Friends of Sherborne Library
Furnicare Yeovil
Future Roots
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Page 44, 94
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Page 102
Pages 87,88
Page 150
Page 73
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Page 79, 107
Page 106
Page 73
Page 12,88
Gamblers Anonymous
Page 53,98
Gardening – Sherborne & District Gardeners’ Association
Page 106
GAS Emergency Services
Page 53,111
Gay Health Somerset
Page 89
GP Surgeries & Medical Centres Sherborne Area
Page 80
Gallery – The Jerram Gallery
Page 21
Gallery - Swan Gallery
Page 21
Glanvilles Wootton Parish Meeting
Page 64
Glanvilles Wootton Village Hall Hire
Page 143
Goathill Parish
Page 64
Good Neighbours Sherborne
Page 119
Golf
Page 132
The Green Party Sherborne
Page 124
The Green Shed Sherborne
Page 97
Greenpeace West Dorset
Page 74
Guides Sherborne & District
Page 31
Gymnastics
Page 133
Gryphon Conference Centre Hire
Page 142
Gryphon Leisure Centre
Page 95, 135,142
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Hastoe Housing Association
Hayes Residential Home Sherborne
Health & Social Care Forum (Sherborne Area)
Health Visitors
Healthwatch Dorset
Heart Radio
Help and Care Dorset
Help the Aged
History – Sherborne Historical Society
Hermitage Parish High Stoy
Highchairs – Venues in Sherborne with
High Sheriff of Dorset
High Stoy Parish Group
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Highways Agency Information Line
Highways – Dorset County Council
Hilfield Friary
Hilfield Parish High Stoy
Hockey
Holiday Club for Children SCAPA Sherborne
Holnest Parish Cam Vale Group
Holwell Nursery School
Holwell Parish Council
Home Library Service
Home-start West Dorset
Homeless
Hope 2 Cycle
Hospices
Hospitals
Housing
Housing 21
Housing Advice Centre West Dorset
Housing Applications
Housing Forum (Sherborne Area)
Housing Surgeries in Sherborne
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Indoor Climbing & Bouldering Sherborne
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Indoor Play Areas
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Inland Revenue – Employers Helpline
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Inland Revenue – National Minimum Wage
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Inner Wheel Sherborne
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Intercom Trust - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Trans People
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Irish Dancers
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The Jerram Gallery Half Moon Street
Job Centre Plus
Jungle Jungle Indoor Play Area Yeovil
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Junior Gym Oxleys
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Karting
Kingcombe Centre
Kingston Maurward College
Kingston Nannies – Nanny Agency
Knitting – All Knit Sherberts Sherborne
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Labour Party Sherborne
Page 124
Laundrettes Sherborne
Page 111
Learn Direct
Page 53
Learning Disabilities
Page 98
Legal Aid Agency
Page 53
Leigh Parish Council
Page 64
Leigh Village Hall Hire
Page 144
Leonard Cheshire Dorset Care at Home Service
Page 90
Leweston Nursery
Page 36
Leweston Parish Cam Vale Group
Page 64
LETS South West Dorset
Page 16
LETS Yeovil & South Somerset
Page 16
LETS North Dorset
Page 16
Lettings Private Sector
Page 101
Liberal Democrat Party Sherborne
Page 124
Library Sherborne
Pages 12, 32, 95,104,111
Library – Home Library Service
Page 89
Library Gets Lively Sherborne
Page 32
Library – Story time
Page 32
Lillington Church
Page 41
Lillington Parish Cam Vale Group
Page 64
Litter – Sherborne Stop the Litter Campaign
Page 75, 87
Little Gryphons Nursery
Page 27
Local Action Groups
Page 37
Local Services
Page 110-113
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London Lesbian And Gay Helpline
Lone Parent Support
Longburton Church
Longburton Parish Cam Vale Group
Longburton & District News
Loose Women Oxley’s
Lord Lieutenant of Dorset
Lower Covey Montessori Nursery
Ludbourne Hall Sherborne
Lunch Clubs Sherborne and area
Lydden Vale News
Page 89
Page 53
Page 41
Page 64
Page 123
Page 33
Page 124
Page 36
Page 94
Pages 113-14
Page 123
Montessori Nursery
Motor Sports
Movies– monthly Sherborne Artslink Flicks
Movies - Film Festival - Sherborne International
Movies for Juniors & Saturday Cinema
Museum Association -Sherborne
Music for under 5’s
Music Society Sherborne School
My Health My Way
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NADFAS Sherborne Decorative & Fine Arts Society
NHS Blood & Transplant Donor Line
NHS Dentist
NHS Opticians
NHS Out of Hours
NHS Doctor Information Sherborne Area
NHS Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group
NHS Yeatman Hospital Sherborne
NHS Young Peoples Walk-in Clinic
NORDCAT / SCAT bus
NSPCC
Nannies – Kingston Nannies
Narcotics Anonymous
National Association of Children of Alcoholics
National Blood Service
National Childbirth Trust Sherborne
National Council for One Parent Families
National Domestic Violence Helpline
National Express
National Extension College
National Farmers Union Mutual
The National Meningitis Trust
National Network for Deaf Students DEAFAX
National Rail Enquiries
National Trust Blackmore Vale & Yeovil Association
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MP – Oliver Letwin
Page 124
MEPs
Page 124
ME Support Group
Page 86
Macmillan Cancer Care
Page 91
Magna Housing Association
Page 101-02
Mankind
Page 53
Market Days Sherborne
Page 45
Marquee for hire Sherborne Area Partnership
Page 142
Martial Arts
Page 133
Media
Page 115-119
Medical Centres Sherborne Area
Page 80
Melbury Bubb Parish Meeting
Page 64
Melbury Osmond Parish Council
Page 64
Melbury Team
Page 43
Mencap
Page 91
Meningitis Research Foundation
Page 53
Mental Health Forum Dorset
Page 86
The Mental Health Foundation
Page 97
MENTAL HEALTH HELPLINES
Pages 53, 75-76,97,98
Mermaid Sherborne
Page 142
Methodist & United Reformed Church Cheap Street Page 41
Milborne Port Village Hall Hire
Page 144
Mind
Page 97
Minibus Hire
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Neighbourhood Watch & Citizen Patrol Schemes
Netball
Nether Compton Parish Queen Thorne Group
Netmums.com
Newland Medical Practice Sherborne
Newsletters - Church and Parish
Night Stop Dorset
No Panic
Northern Dorset LAG
North Wootton Parish Meeting
Nursery Little Gryphons
Nursery Kaleidoscope
Nursery School Holwell
Nursery Leweston
Nursery Lower Covey Montessori
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OCD UK
Over 50s Sherborne
Oborne House Sherborne
Oborne Parish Yeo Head Group
Older Peoples’ Activities
Old Vicarage Leigh Residential House
Open Gate Club Sherborne
Open Learning
Opera – Dorset Opera
Opticians NHS
Organ Donor Registration NHS
Osteoporosis Dorset
Outreach Group Sherborne
Over Compton Parish Queen Thorn Group
Oxford University Society Dorset Branch
Oxley Sports Centre
Oxley Sport Centre Children & Parents
Oxleys Creche
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Page 97
P.O.P.P. Wayfinders
Page 93
Paddock Garden Hire, Sherborne
Page 46, 142
Pageant Garden Hire, Sherborne
Page 47, 142
Parenting & Family Support
Page 54
Parents & Toddlers Jigsaw Toddler Group
Page 37
Parents & Toddlers Bumps & Babies
Page 37
Parents & Toddlers Leweston
Page 37
Parents & Toddlers Little Preppers
Page 37
Parents & Toddlers Tuesday Toddlers
Page 37
Parents & Toddlers St Pauls Tums, Tinies & Tots
Page 37
Parents & Toddlers Topsy-Turvy Yetminster
Page 37
Parish Church information
Page 31–35
Parish Council information
Page 51-54
Parish information
Page 122-125
Parish Newsletters
Page 123
Parish Plans DCA
Page 63
Parish Playing Fields
Page 39
Partnership for Older People Programme P.O.P.P
Page 93
Patient Participation Groups PPG Sherborne Area
Page 92
The Pennant newsletter
Page 101
Pension Service
Page 111
Play Areas
Page 39
Plume of Feathers Skittle Alley
Page 142
Poetry Evenings
Page 106
Police
Page 111
Politics
Page 124
Post Offices Sherborne area
Pages 112,124-5
Poyntington Parish Yeo head Group
Page 54
Poyntington Village Hall Hire
Page 144
The Powell Theatre
Page 23
Pre-School Learning Alliance
Page 54
Pre-School – Sherborne Preparatory
Page 37
Primary School - Sherborne – Rooms to hire
Page 143
Printers
Page 117-8
Probation Service Dorset
Page 110
Page 98
Page 108,120
Page 102
Page 65
Pages 119-121
Page 94, 103
Page 91
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Probus
Prostate Cancer UK
Public Amenities
Public Toilets
Purse Caundle Parish Council
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Quakers Society of Friends
Queen Thorne Benefice
Queen Thorne Parish Group
QUIT Smokers Helpline
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RDW2W – moped scheme
Radio – Local Radio
Rail Travel
Railways Sherborne
Rainbows Sherborne & District
Raglan Housing Association
Raleigh Hall Hire, Digby Road, Sherborne
Rape Crisis
Reading Partners Dorset
Recycling Facilities
Recycled Furniture – Furnicare Yeovil
Refuge - Women’s
Regimental Association Devonshire & Dorsetshire
Regimental Chapel – Dorset
Regiments in WW1
Relate Somerset
The Rendezvous Sherborne
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Residential Homes Sherborne & area
Rethink Mental Illness
Reminiscence Group Down Memory Lane
Remous the Printers
RERUN Dorset
Riding Stables
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Rifles at Winchester
Riverside Nursing Home Sherborne
Roads – CLARENCE
Road Safety Training
Roman Catholic Church, Sherborne
Rotary Clubs
Royal Air Forces Association
Royal British Legion Sherborne
Royal Lifeboat Institution
Royal Naval Association
Royal Voluntary Service Lunches Sherborne
Rugby
Rugby Fives Association
Running
Rural Business grants & help
Rural Dorset Wheels 2 Work Scheme
Rural Housing Enabling Officer
Rural Regeneration
Rural Shops Alliance
Rural Skills
Ryme Intrinseca Parish
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SCAPA Sherborne Care & Play Association
SCAT Bus
SSAFA
St Johns’ House (Almshouse)
St Johns’ House (Almshouse) Lunch
St Paul’s Church Sherborne
St Paul’s Church Hall Hire
St Paul’s Meet and Eat Lunch Club
St Paul’s Tea & Chat
St Paul’s @ The Gryphon
St Paul’s Playgroup
Sacred Heart & St Aldhelm RC Church Sherborne
Sacred Heart & St Aldhelm RC Church Hall Hire
Safer Neighbourhoods
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Sailing
Samaritans
Sandford Orcas Parish Queen Thorne Group
Sane
Schools & Education
Scooter Scheme Dorset
Scouts Sherborne
Scout Hut Hire Sherborne
Senior Lunch Club
Sexual Health Advice Line
Shielings Day Centre Sherborne
Shelleys the Printers
SHELTER
Sherborne Abbey
Sherborne Abbey Bell Ringing Sherborne Company
Sherborne
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Area Cyclist Network
Area Environment Forum
Area Over 50s Group
Area Partnership
Area Health & Social Care Forum
Area Housing Forum
Area Transport Action Group
Area Tourism Forum
Area Youth Community Centre
Art Club
Art Exhibition
Artslink
Bradford Abbas Camera Club
Bee Keepers Association
Breast Feeding Support Group
in Bloom
Bowling Club
Bridge Club
Care & Play Association SCAPA
Cemetery
Chamber Choir
Chamber of Trade & Commerce
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Page 54,97
Page 65
Page 97
Page 126-128
Page 117
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Page 143
Page 113
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Page 117
Page 54, 102
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Page 18,41
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Children’s Centre
Page 25,96
Chojna Twinning Association
Page 51,109
Churches Together
Page 42
Community Church
Page 41-42
Community Orchestra
Page 19
Concerts
Page 19
Cricket Club
Page 130
Dance Academy
Page 19 & 31
& District CPRE
Page 68
& District Gardeners’ Association
Page 106
& District Guides, Brownies & Rainbows Page 31
& District Machine Knitting Club – All Knit Sherberts
Page 107
Sherborne & District Royal British Legion
Page 108
Sherborne & District Skittles League
Page 134
Sherborne Douzelage
Page 104
Sherborne Food Bank
Page 44, 94
Sherborne Floral Evening
Page 106
Sherborne Football Club
Page 132
Sherborne Golf Club
Page 132
Sherborne Good Neighbours
Page 119
Sherborne Historical Society
Page 21,107
Sherborne House Trust
Page 23
Sherborne International Film Festival
Page 20
Sherborne Learning Centre
Page 126
Sherborne Library
Pages 12, 32, 95,104,106
Sherborne Local Services
Page 110-113
Sherborne Lunch Clubs
Page 113-14
Sherborne Matters -Free monthly magazine for Sherborne Area
Page 115
Sherborne Museum Association
Page 21
Sherborne NADFAS
Page 23
Sherborne National Childbirth Trust
Page 29
Sherborne Open Gate Club
Page 91
Sherborne Outreach Group
Page 70
Sherborne Poetry Evenings
Page 106
Sherborne Positive Street Art -Old Market Car Park Page 23
Sherborne Preparatory Pre-School
Page 37
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Sherborne Probus Clubs
Sherborne RAFA
Sherborne Rendezvous
Sherborne Rotary Clubs
Sherborne Royal British Legion
Sherborne Royal Naval Association
Sherborne Rugby Club
Sherborne SSAFA
Sherborne School –Rooms to hire
Sherborne School Music Society
Sherborne School Sports Centre
Sherborne Short Mat Bowls
Sherborne Stop the Litter Campaign
Sherborne Stroke Club
Sherborne Tea & Chat at St Paul’s
Sherborne Tennis Club
Sherborne Times
Sherborne Tourist Information Centre
Sherborne Town Band
Sherborne Town Council
Sherborne Town Councillors
Sherborne Town Rifle Club
Sherborne Twinning Association
Sherborne U3A
Sherborne Venues to Hire
Sherborne Voluntary Ambulance
Sherborne West End Friendship Club
Sherborne Young Farmers
Sherborne Young Singers
Shindo Wadokai
Shooting
Sign writing
Singing – Sherborne Young Singers
Singing for Fun
Single Parent Action Network SPAN
Skills & Learning
SPACE Youth Project
Spire Hill Benefice
Page 120
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Page 151-2
Page 108
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Page 147
Page 133-4
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Page 143
Page 19
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Page 129
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Skate Park Sherborne
Skittles
Somerset & Dorset Family History Society
Somerset & Dorset Family History Society Hire
Somerset Gay Health Project
Skills and Learning Dorset
Society of Friends
Somerset Skills & Learning
Sounds Together
South Somerset Community Transport
South West Martial Arts
South West Trains
South West Waste Minimisation Group SWWMG
Spire Hill Benefice
Spire Hill Benefice Newsletter
Sports
Sports Centres Sherborne
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Story time in the Library Sherborne
Stroke Club Sherborne
Sudden Infant Death Helpline
Sue Ryder Care
SUPPORT HELPLINES
Sustainable Dorset
Sustainability South West
Sutton Bingham Sailing Club
Swan Gallery Cheap Street
SUSTRANS
SWAP WEBSITES
Swimming
Swimming Lessons Parent and Toddler Oxleys
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TWL Dance
Table Tennis
Talking Newspapers
Talk to Frank
167
Page 39
Page 134
Page 105
Page 143
Page 89
Page 10,126
Page 42
Page 10
Page 24
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Page 133
Page 141
Page 75
Page 45
Page 100
Page 105-116
95, 135-6
Page 114
Page 23
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Page 96
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Page 76
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Takepart
Page 14, 30,151
Tax Credit Helpline
Page 54
Tennis
Page 137
Theatre – The Powell Theatre Sherborne
Page 23
Three Valley Churches Team
Page 43
Thornford Parish information
Page 122
Thornford Parish see Thorn Hackett below
Thorn Hackett Parish Council
Page 65
Thornford Lunch Club
Page 114
Thornford Playgroup
Page 38
Thornford Twinning Association
Page 51
Thornford Village Hall Hire
Page 144
THRIVE
Page 14
Tinneys
Page 128
Tinneys Function Rooms to Hire
Page 143
Toddler Tunes
Page 34
TOGS Children’s Clothing Agency
Page 34
Toilets Public Sherborne
Page 112
Tourism & Commerce
Page 36-40
Tourism Forum Sherborne Area
Page 9
Tourism grants
Page 49
Tourist Information Centre Sherborne
Page 50
Town Councillors for Sherborne
Page 48-51
Trampoline Club Gryphon West Gym Club
Page 133
Trains
Page 141
Tranistion Towns
Page 76
Transport – Sherborne Good Neighbours
Page 141
Transport Action Group Sherborne Area
Page 141
Transport and Roads
Page 139-141
Transport – Yeo Valley Health Transport
Page 141
Travel Line
Page 139
Trent Parish Queen Thorne Group
Page 54
Tudor Distribution – door-to-door deliveries
Page 118
Tuesday Lunch Club (The Royal Voluntary Service) Page 114
Twinning Association Sherborne
Page 50, 87
Twinning (Chojna) Association
Page 51, 87
Twinning Association Thornford
Page 51, 87
U
U3A (The University of the Third Age) Sherborne
U3A Table Tennis
Under one’s Group, Sherborne
V
Venues for baby changing
Venues with Highchairs in Sherborne
Venues to Hire Sherborne & area
Veterans UK
Vicars
Victim Support Dorset
Village Hall Hire
Voluntary Ambulance Sherborne
Voluntary & Community Sector
Volunteer Centre Dorset
W
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Page 38
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54
42-44
54,
143-44
141
121-125
148
WW1
Page 105
WW2
Page 104
WEA
Page 14
Walking
Page 138
Walks Leaflets Sherborne Area – Free
Page 138-9
War Memorials in Dorset & Somerset
Page 44
Waste & Resources Action Programme
Page 77
Websites Community Design
Page 115
Weddings – Licensed Venues Sherborne Pages 57, 112-113,139
West Country Embroiderers’ Sherborne & District Branch
Page 105
West Dorset District Council Services
Page 55, 56
West Dorset Fencing Club
Page 131
West Dorset Ramblers
Page 138
West End Friendship Club
Page 110
West End Hall Hire Sherborne
Page 143
West End Pre-School
Page 38
168
Wessex FM
Wessex Organic Movement (WORM)
Wessex Water
Western Gazette
Wheels 2 Work Rural Dorset
White Hart Vale Community Newsletter
Wildlife Trust Dorset
Wiltshire & Dorset Bus Company
Women’s Institutes Sherborne Area
Woman Kind
Women’s Refuge West Dorset
Workers Educational Association
World War One Find Relatives Service
World War Two Bombing Sherborne Group
Wriggle Valley Benefice
Wriggle Valley Lunch Club
Wriggle Valley Magazine
Page
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117
77
113
118
Yarlington Housing Group
Page
Yeatman Hospital Sherborne
Page
Yetminster Health Centre
Page
Yetminster Irish Dancers
Page
Yetminster & Ryme Intrinseca Group Parish Council
Page
Yetminster Village Hall Hire
Page
Yeo Head & Castleton Parish Council
Page
Yeo Valley Health Transport
Page
Yeovil District Hospital NHS
Page
Yeovil & Sherborne Hockey Club
Page
Young Farmers
Page
Young Minds
Page
Young Parents Group
Page
Young People
Page
Young People – Air Training Corp
Page
Young People – Army Cadets
Page
Young People – Night Stop
Page
102
66
67
19
Y
Young People – Moped Scheme
Young People – Dorset Young Enterprise
Young People Transport
Young People – The Rendezvous Sherborne
Young People 0 – 19 VCS Forum
Young Peoples Walk-in Clinic Yeovil
Young People Skate Park Sherborne
Young People – Space
Young Singers
Young Walkers – Dorset
Youth Association Dorset
Youth Community Centre Sherborne
123
77
139
87-88
110
27, 52
6
123
82
43
114
123
65
143
65
141
79
133
128
97
29
149-153
149
149
153
Caroline Rowland for Sherborne Area Partnership 2015
169
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Voluntary Groups Information Form

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