Rachael Knight Local Food & Local Events

31/01/2026

Life cafe is open today for waffles, breakfast rolls, homemade cakes and lots more! Come and join us form 10-1pm 💚

30/01/2026

28/01/2026

Flooding is affecting communities across Somerset this week.

Our Village Agents are embedded in local communities and are here to help people affected by floods, with advice, support, and links to local services. If you or someone you know needs support, please get in touch with Thrive. Please follow official guidance from Somerset Council and emergency services if there is an immediate risk.

Contact us: www.thrivesomerset.org.uk

For more information visit the Somerset Council website:

Flooding and Information page https://www.somerset.gov.uk/beaches-ports-and-flooding/flooding-information-and-advice/

Traffic and Travel page https://www.somerset.gov.uk/roads-travel-and-parking/roadworks-and-travel/

If you have access to Facebook check your travel routes with regular updates from Travel Somerset

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28/01/2026

PUBLIC CONSULTATION - LAND TO THE NORTH OF THE A38 AND EAST OF DOSTER’S LANE, MONKTON HEATHFIELD. We are aware that some of our local residents may not have received the Ainscough Strategic Land leaflet sharing details of this new homes planning consultation. If you wish to make representations before 20th Feb when the consultation closes, please use the contact in this link, which also gives further details about the proposal = https://www.alderking.com/consultations/ **We appreciate that people may want to comment here, but these will not be picked up by Ainscough Strategic Land for consideration, and we would urge you to lodge your comments through the link**

28/01/2026

We are urgently trying to find homes for hundreds of free-range hens this weekend - if you're in mid-Devon, Somerset, Bristol, Dorset or Sutton Coldfield and have room for some feathered friends, we'd love to hear from you.

To sign up and save lives, head to our website and click 'adopt' next to your nearest location: https://www.bhwt.org.uk/adopt-hens/adopt-now/

These hens are patiently waiting, unaware that their lives will be transformed in just a few days' time by kindhearted people like you, who know that they have so much more life to give beyond the commercial system.

Please, if you can, book your adoption today.

26/01/2026

⚠️🌧️With the significant amount of rain received, and forecast for the coming week, West Monkton Parish Council would like to make residents aware that in the event of an emergency the Brittons Ash Community Hall (Bridgwater Rd, TA2 8FT next to WM Primary School) is available as a registered place of safety / and a warm hub should anyone need it. 📲Your point of contact is the Parish Clerk, available on 07380 912775. The Parish Council also has a small supply of gel bags and other emergency equipment if people in the community are at imminent risk of flooding. ❗️Please contact the Parish Clerk in any eventuality.

25/01/2026

25/01/2026

24/01/2026

An insight from the Trussell Trust into how donations are managed and distributed to those facing food poverty. Please bring food donations if you can specifically tinned vegetables, tinned fish and long life milk. If you can’t make the coffee morning feel free to drop off donations in the church and we will pass on. Carrier bags also very much needed for distribution.
For more info on the Trussell Trust visit their website trussell.org.uk 🥫🫙🧴📦🧻

20/01/2026

Our Village Agents are hosting four new Talking Cafes in and around the Taunton area.

If you live in the Taunton area and are feeling worried about health, finances, housing or feelings of loneliness or isolation, please pop into one of these Talking Cafes.

� Norton Fitzwarren Village Hall
� Every other Wednesday (2nd and 4th)
� 10am – 12 noon

� Purplespoon Cafe in the Great Western Hotel, Station Approach
� 1st Monday of the month
� 10am – 12 noon

� Taunton Library, Paul Street
� Every other Wednesday (2nd and 4th)
� 10am – 12 noon.

� Monkton Elm Garden Centre (Cafe)
� 1st Wednesday of the month
� 10am – 12 noon.

We host nearly 40 different Talking Cafes across Somerset. Visit our website to find out where your nearest Talking Cafe is: https://thrivesomerset.org.uk/help-advice/

19/01/2026

For Paid & Unpaid Carers