Forthcoming Events

Join us for Tea

At Wimborne St. Giles - Bank Holiday Monday, 30 August from 3:00 to 5:00 pm.
In Church Hourse at the Wimborne Flower Festival - Saturday 11 September. Friends of EDCAB will be one of the organisations serving teas.

Book Sales

Our final Book Sales for the foreseeable future were held during the Wimborne Folk Festival weekend. Thanks for all your support over the years, we hope to be able to restart this activity in the future.

Previous Years' Activities

Click here to visit our archives for previous years

How was the money raised in 2008/9?

We raised just over £8000 during 2008/9.

We are very grateful to all our subscribing members and sponsors (particularly Barclays Bank for their contribution to our Jazz Evening), and to those who donated, or helped with fund raising events during the year.

Here is a breakdown of how the money was raised.

Recent Activities, 2008-2009

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14 January 2009	Bridge Day The Bridge Day hosted by Katie Norman on 14th January was a great success. 48 people played bridge at her home in Sturminster Marshal and all enjoyed themselves immensely. Katie provided a superb lunch and ran a raffle. She was ably assisted by her old CAB colleagues, Chris P, Jan D-C, and Chris I and his wife. The day raised £645 for the CAB funds.
April-June 2009	The Glade, a woodland garden in Ferndown created by Mary and Roger Angus, was again open under the National Garden Scheme on four Sundays in April / May / June. At their invitation, the Friends of EDCAB sold refreshments to the visitors and raised a total of £818, the highest figure in the four years in which the garden has been open. This was partly due to particularly good weather on most of the days, but also to increased publicity, including the garden being featured in a Spring edition of Dorset Life magazine. Here are some photos taken when the garden was open.

8 May 2009	Cranborne Jazz Evening A very enjoyable evening with the Chicago Jazz Aces at Cranborne Village Hall in May raised a total of £1214, including Barclays Bank's generous sponsorship.
	The Band Musical Food The Happy Band! Sponsored t-shirts on Fiona Wilkinson, Derek Gorman, and Joan Taylor
August Bank Holiday Monday 2009	Wimborne St Giles Teas This was the third year this event has been held and money raised exceeded the previous 2 years, netting £304. The weather improved as the afternoon progressed, as did the event in general. As always, there had been a wonderful turn out of Friends and advisers to offer support, so that at first the helpers outnumbered the customers. But before long we were all rushed off our feet; barely able to keep up with demand. Two small complaints were received – some took a dim view that the crusts had been cut off the sandwiches and other thought that there weren’t enough meringues! We’ll try to do better on both counts next year – yes, it will all happen again next year, folks, be there or be square!!