DEVON AND SOMERSET STAGHOUNDS and THE EXMOOR PONY SOCIETY Showground, Court Hill, Exford £15/car on the gate from 8am Exmoor Ponies, Horses and Sheep on Show, Craft, Produce and Local Trade Stands Falconry Display, Family Dog Show, Stag Horns, Inter-Hunt Relay, Pony Club Show Jumping Gymkhana, Parade of Hounds Enquiries: [email protected] www.exfordshow.com Exmoor is a special place to many and the Show seeks to celebrate this. Local food and drink is avail- able on site….and the very special local ice-cream. The setting is truly breath-taking, looking north over the Exe Valley toward Dunkery and south to Molland Common via Withypool Hill. Rather aptly, the show shares the field with an ancient burial mound, Herne’s Barrow. According to ancient myth, Herne the Hunter was a ghostly apparition who appeared sporting a set of stag’s horns growing from his head and rattling chains….….. We are not sure whether this barrow belongs to the same Herne or whether we would want it to! All are welcome. If you love Exmoor and its people, even if you do not share their love of horses or livestock, the show is still worth a visit…. why else would it have been going for over a century! We are very grateful to the Branton and Jowell families for allowing us to use their land for the show. RIVERSIDE CARAVAN & CAMPING PARK Bar & Restaurant Open Every Day Breakfast: Mon-Sat: 9am-12noon Evening Meals: Fri & Sat: 5-8pm Sunday Carvery: 12-3pm Booking Advisable All Welcome Variety of Accommodation Also Available to Book 01769 579269 North Devon Hospice Two Moors Festival 1st-10th October 2021 It's all change for this year's Nightwalk on Satur- Whilst we have been rather quiet over the last day 11th September, we're going to RHS few months, we have been busy behind the Rosemoor! To join us for this special edition, you scenes, and we are delighted to announce the can sign up or register your interest for volunteer- launch of our new website. We hope you enjoy ing via the website. the fresh design and find it easy and enjoyable to www.northdevonhospice.org.uk 01271 615027 use, whether you are looking for concert infor- mation, booking tickets, or wishing to support us Special birthday! as Friend or Sponsor. Do take a look at Saturday September 4th 2021 2 pm – 4.30 pm. www.twomoorsfestival.co.uk. Let’s join together to show how much we have As the world tentatively reopens and we redis- appreciated the Millennium Green in Landkey cover our freedoms, live music has been return- during this time of pandemic lockdowns. ing and we at the Two Moors Festival are deter- The News is that the Green is celebrating its 21st mined to bring you a world class festival once birthday. It was a Millennium project; the mazzard again this October and hope trees were planted in December 1999, and the that you will be able to join us in rest of the Green was opened officially in Sum- the autumn. mer 2000. This celebration wishes to welcome Tamsin Waley-Cohen the planters of the mazzard trees (some of whom Artistic Director were children at the School) to join us and see the outcome of their efforts twenty-one years on. Torrington Cavaliers Mayflower 400 Bonfire This free family event will allow villagers to join in This event was originally planned for 2020 but has to enjoy a day of celebration to learn more about been postponed until Saturday 28th August from 4pm. Tickets already purchased will be valid for the Millennium Green, it’s upkeep and plans for the new date. Bonfire tickets are available online the future. There will be stalls, refreshments, from www.torrington-cavaliers.co.uk, or by calling events including a Birds of Prey flying display and 01158077900 where you can buy over the phone children’s games/quizzes related to the Green’s or for a limited time at Duffy's Home Hardware, Birds, Mazzards and Traditional Wildflower Torrington. Shuttle buses available from Meadow. Bideford and Barnstaple. The only ac- Join us for a village get together and meet new cess to the main bonfire site is by pre- people who also enjoy this fantastic local facility. purchased ticket. Porlock Open Gardens Weekend Enjoy a cream tea for Children’s Hospice 14th and 15th August People are invited to tuck into a cream tea and Over 25 private gardens to explore. There is a raise a few pounds for Children’s Hospice South great variety including large and small, with ex- West (CHSW). The Big South West Cream Tea tensive views and intimate spaces, formal and takes place over the August Bank Holiday week- natural, floral and productive but with one thing in end. CHSW is asking supporters to join in by hold- common – on the whole they are not normally ing their own cream tea with friends and family. open to the public. £7.50 for a weekend ticket “And if you are able to raise £30 or more, we’ll available from SPAR, Squires, Porlock Visitor send you a special CHSW 30th anniversary med- Centre (open 2pm–4pm each day) 01643 863150 al! The charity has everything you need to hold a Email [email protected] cream tea fundraiser. Register your event to re- ceive your free fundraising pack, which includes MISSION:UNBREAKABLE invites, recipe, signs, donation form, bunting, Provisional date: Saturday 10th Octo- thank-you cards and more,” said Bernadette ber. We are hoping that we will be able Chambers. to hold Mission: Unbreakable this year, so please Join The Big SW Cream Tea Facebook event at do put the provisional date in your diary. www.facebook.com/events/2998303993722242 Chimney sweeping Plantwise Nurseries A361 N Molton Junction Open Every Day 11am til 4.30pm 07434 793896 plantwise@southmolton or find us on Hetas and APICS registered Facebook Brush & vacuum Fruit, Flowers & Great range of Foliage Colourful Plants, Certificate issued Insured ready to plant NOW! Shrubs & Bulbs ready to plant NOW! Call: Taylor Made Projects Trees for all types of gardens Loads of Terracotta on 01271 328685 & locations Pots & Compost. Devon launches Natural Capital Challenge Fund A new Natural Capital Challenge Fund has been launched by Devon County Council to help the SATURDAY Devon economy to build back better and encour- from 8am-1.30pm age the green sector in the county. 07549 177104 Total funding of £300,000 is available to provide one off grant support for Devon-based business- es, social enterprises, charities, and community S Molton Memory Café has reopened! groups to create employment and training oppor- It now meets TWICE a month on the first and tunities in the natural capital economy. third Thursdays of the month in the Garden DCC is inviting applications from projects to help Room at the Amory Centre from 10.30 – 12.30. encourage additional investment in this sector We are asking people to phone and book a place and aid recovery from the impacts of the pan- at the moment due to COVID restrictions on num- demic. Applications must be submitted by 5pm bers in the meeting room. on Friday 20th August and funding must be spent The Memory Cafe is for men and women living by the end of March 2023. The trial project, which with memory loss or dementia, and their loved is offering maximum grant awards of up to ones caring for them. It is a free, friendly gather- £50,000, could support a range of initiatives such ing where people come to make friends, have fun as improvements to biodiversity, tree planting, and eat cake over a cuppa, as well as getting in- sustainable use of materials, reducing emissions, formation on other support available in the area. and increasing protection from flooding. The contact details have changed and are now: The scheme will also contribute towards the re- [email protected] sponse to the Climate Emergency to help reduce Tel: 07949397330 carbon emissions in Devon to net zero by 2050. For more information and to download the appli- ‘Capturing S Molton in Words & Images' cation pack visit www.devon.gov.uk/economy/ As part of the Arts Destination South Molton natural-capital-challenge-fund Deep Roots Festival, filmmaker Gordon McKer- row was invited to knit together word, image and South Molton in Bloom sound contributions from South Molton people Judging day finally came on 13th July and we evoking something that their town and area sug- were so lucky with the weather. The sun brought gested to them. His task now is to create an im- out the best in our town! The judge and I were pressionistic film portrait inspired by what was bowled over by the community spirit. It was thrill- written, painted, recorded or videoed by others. ing to see how everyone had joined in, be it by As a playwright, filmmaker and audio-visual pro- way of baskets, window dressings, planting up ducer, Gordon has created productions for the frontages, financially supporting us or just cheer- BBC, English heritage, The National Trust, The ing us on. He met Colin from Men's Shed and British and Natural History Museums as well as loved the sponsor signs. The extensive art and regional and local bodies. He is a three times photographic display in the Pannier Market was winner of the Interpret Britain Awards. The final admired: this will remain up for everyone to see. film, incorporating contributions from townsfolk, All the beds looked great and I would like to will be launched during our final weekend of thank all the group for their hard work and com- Deep Roots Festival on Saturday 25th Septem- mitment to doing their very best for the town.