CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: Urgent! East Coker Scouts want your jumble

CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: Urgent! East Coker Scouts want your jumble

Posted: 24th March 2018
THE East Coker Scout Group is holding a fundraising jumble sale on Saturday (March 24, 2018) – but is in desperate need of some ….. jumble! People with any unwanted items can drop them off at the village hall in East Coker in the morning before doors open at 2pm for the bargain hunters to move in. “Anyone with things we might be able to sale can come on down to the…

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CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: Holy Trinity Scout Group in Yeovil – 100 years old!

CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: Holy Trinity Scout Group in Yeovil – 100 years old!

Posted: 14th January 2018
THE Holy Trinity Scout Group in Yeovil has been celebrating its 100th anniversary with a special day of commemoration. A church service was held on Sunday (January 14, 2018) at the Holy Trinity Church on Lysander Road which was attended by Scout members past and present and family and friends. A new flag was presented to the Scout group to signify its centenary and will…

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CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: Yeovil Lions Club members receive top award

CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: Yeovil Lions Club members receive top award

Posted: 5th December 2017
THREE long-standing members of the Yeovil Lions Club have been presented with a prestigious award during the fundraising group’s annual Christmas meal. The Melvin Jones Fellowship Award is the highest award given to any members of Lions International around the globe. The awards are presented in recognition of dedication, contribution, service to the community…

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CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 80 years young for Yeovil Camera Club

CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 80 years young for Yeovil Camera Club

Posted: 24th September 2017
THE Yeovil Camera Club celebrated its 80th anniversary as part of the Super Saturday day of events in the town centre. Club members put up a small exhibition of their photographs in the Vicarage Street Methodist Church Hall at the bottom end of the Quedam Shopping Centre on Saturday (September 23, 2017) and they were out and about with their cameras during the day to…

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CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: Former Yeovil Town favourite is new chairman of Lions Club

CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: Former Yeovil Town favourite is new chairman of Lions Club

Posted: 14th July 2017
FORMER Yeovil Town defender Paul Thorpe has been elected as the new chairman of the Yeovil Lions Club. Paul, a real fans’ favourite for his no-nonsense approach to the game and his never-say-never will-to-win, played around 150 games for the Glovers in the 1980s and scored more than a dozen goals for the club. Supporters will remember him as a tough-tackling defender who…

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CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: Yeovil Round Table goes snooker loopy with Dennis Taylor

CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: Yeovil Round Table goes snooker loopy with Dennis Taylor

Posted: 20th November 2016
SNOOKER legend Dennis Taylor was the guest speaker at the annual Yeovil Round Table charity luncheon. The luncheon – held at the Manor Hotel in Yeovil on Friday (November 18, 2016) – saw around £20,000 raised for local charities. The Round Table members earlier gave out cheques to nine charitable organisations – Fiveways School £5,000; The Lord’s Larder £1,000; Yeovil…

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CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: Castaway Theatre Group donates to charity

CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: Castaway Theatre Group donates to charity

Posted: 28th September 2016
TALENTED young performers and their leaders at the Yeovil-based Castaway Theatre Group have certainly hit the right note with a trio of local charities and organisations by presenting cheques worth £2,500. The money was raised from Castaways’ fabulous Showcase show held on Sunday, September 18, 2016, along with some of the proceeds from the group’s amazing production of…

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CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: Mulled wine is a roaring success for Ilminster Lions

CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: Mulled wine is a roaring success for Ilminster Lions

Posted: 4th February 2016
MEMBERS of the Ilminster Lions Club have presented a £600 cheque to the organisers of the town’s festive lights committee. The Lions raise the money each year on the ever-popular Victorian Evening which is held to coincide with the switching-on of the Christmas lights which begins the countdown to December 25. They raise the money by serving up delicious warm mulled wine…

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CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: Rockets and bangers sparkle for local good causes

CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: Rockets and bangers sparkle for local good causes

Posted: 4th January 2016
CHEQUES totalling £8,000 were presented this evening (Monday, January 4, 2016) to two deserving good causes – thanks to the proceeds of a spectacular fireworks display in Yeovil. Members of the hard-working Yeovil Round Table and Yeovil Lions Club charitable organisations raised the money by holding their annual fireworks event in November last year at Yeovil Showground…

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CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: New member joins Ilminster Rotary

CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: New member joins Ilminster Rotary

Posted: 28th December 2015
THE Rotary club of Ilminster has been delighted to welcome its latest member, Nicola Della Valle, who was inducted by District Governor Bob Acland. A long standing resident of the town, Nicola is a keen supporter of the popular Warehouse Theatre and is involved in a number of other local activities, including the Ilminster Experience. Club president Linda Piggott said:…

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