The Dispensary

14/11/2025

14/11/2025

WOULD YOU LIKE TO LEARN THE THERAPEUTIC ART OF WEAVING?

Weave into Winter workshops with Penny
At the BeeArc Hives of Activity, The Reading Room Goathland.

Are you interested in the therapeutic art of weaving?
Would you like to learn a new skill & create something beautiful?
We have a variety of looms from hand looms to large rug-making looms.
All materials provided – or bring your own if you wish.
Booking essential*
Saturday 22nd November
Saturday 29th November
Saturday 6th December
10-3pm
Light lunch included.
The Reading Room, The Green, Goathland.
Please note that this venue does not have toilets, but public toilets are located nearby.
£45 per day, you can book for all 3 or individual days.
Please let us know if the cost would be difficult for you, as we want to make the workshops accessible to as many people as possible.
Please contact Penny on 07901572244 for more details and to book.
New Year Weaving get-togethers - If you are already a weaver & would like to gather with other weavers, or need help with a loom, we will be organising get-together sessions in the new year. Please let Penny know if you are interested.

14/11/2025

TODAY! Come and join us at The Dispensary, with Kaz from FULL POWER CACAO and Liz Cooper , nutritional adviser , sample a delicious Full Power Cacao drink & chat to Liz about the nutritional benefits of cacao! Free and no need to book, just call in anytime between 10-1 or 1.30 to 3.30pm. We look forward to seeing you :)

14/11/2025

Check out our new Sweet Cecily's indulgent Christmas Gift Box £38 - includes Rose Water Toner, lip balm, Frankincense & Seabuckthorn Night Cream and Mulled Wine Spices, all our products are handmade with Love here in Whitby, to care for your skin naturally .... Give a special gift this Christmas !

12/11/2025

Some days we are helped; some days we are called upon to help.

Feel confident to step up in a crisis with CPR and defibrillator training, on offer as part of the Festival Events below (see www.whitbychocfest.org.uk for full Event Listings).

No need to book - just turn up for the training at:

💓Whitby Pavilion Cinema as part of the W***y Wonka Weekender: Saturday 15th November 1:00 - 2:00 pm AND
Sunday 16th November 5:00 - 6:00 pm

💓YHA Whitby as part of the Cacao & Chocolate Wellness Showcase: Sunday 16th Nov 4:00 pm approx

💓 Eighteen91 as part of the Family Fun Afternoon: Saturday 22nd November, during the Event 2:00 - 5:00 pm

❤️It's free, easy, suitable for all ages and could help save a life.

12/11/2025

🚨 Only 2 days until you can revel in the warmth and goodness of the first Festival event: a special ✨Cacao Tasting✨ at The Dispensary on Friday 14th Nov at 10:00am AND 1:30pm.

No need to book and no charge: just choose someone to bring with you and make the most of the expertise and delicious, healthful, sustainable pure cacao (and you'll be supporting Whitby Defibrillator Project).

Full details at www.whitbychocfest.org.uk

🎁 While you're in Skinner Street you can take some Christmas shopping worries off your list with a Festival shopping trail here and in neighbouring Silver Street:

The Pot and Pineapple Whitby
The Whitby Witch
Faceted Fancies Jewellery Design (at The Reading Room)

And enjoy lunch or a welcome treat at

Cranberry Swamp
Rusty Shears
Lush Coffee Whitby

❤️❤️More shopping trail ideas to follow - Follow this page to see!❤️❤️

Support the businesses that support Whitby Defibrillator Project: see the Directory at www.whitbychocfest.org.uk for all our Festival businesses.

11/11/2025

As part of the great Whitby Hot Chocolate Festival, Liz Cooper will be giving a talk on the health benefits of cacao at 2pm at the YHA Whitby cafe bar Chocolate Festival event this Sunday 16th November. Liz has been a registered nutritional therapist since 2010, and is also a breathwork and meditation practitioner, a forest bathing guide and an accredited health coach. Join Liz as she uncovers the health benefits of cacao and why it’s more than just chocolate, in this enriching and energising talk on behalf of The Dispensary. We will be there with free samples of cacao to give out for people to take home, and stalls selling Full Power Cacao & Sweet Cecily's chocolate flavour lip balms, plus lots more locally handmade natural skincare gifts :)

11/11/2025

Hope to see you at our Cacao tasting event at The Dispensary this Friday 14th November ! Also we'd love to see you at the YHA Chocolate Festival event this Sunday 16th at 2pm , when nutritional adviser Liz Cooper will be giving a talk on the benefits of Cacao, and we'll have free samples of FULL POWER CACAO for people to take home. We'll also have a stall selling FULL POWER CACAO & a stall selling Sweet Cecily's chocolate flavour lip balms and other lovely natural skincare from Sweet Cecily's which is handmade here in Whitby! Pick up some Christmas gifts & support the wonderful Whitby Hot Chocolate Festival , raising awareness of & funds for more local defibrillators. Hope to see you soon!

11/11/2025

EVENT IS FRIDAY 14TH NOVEMBER - SORRY -POSTER SAYS DECEMBER...
As part of the wonderful Whitby Hot Chocolate Festival we are excited to be hosting a cacao tasting event with Kaz from Full Power Cacao & Nutritional Adviser Liz Cooper, this Friday 14th November at The Dispensary shop, 25 Skinner Street, Whitby! It's free and there's no need to book, just call in between 10am and 1pm or 1.30pm to 3.30pm, sample delicious Full Power Cacao drink and chat to Liz about the nutritional benefits of cacao :) We're delighted to be stocking Full Power Cacao ( as seen on Dragon's Den) at The Dispensary. Looking forward to seeing you! We'll also be at the Hot Chocolate event at the YHA this Sunday, come & see us :)

07/11/2025

A big thank you to everyone who came and shared in a wonderful bee-themed evening we held last night as part of the Whitby Lit Festival Fringe Events. We heard some beautiful poems about bees, some written by our lovely guests at the event, we hosted tastings of our gorgeous local honeys on delicious locally baked sourdough bread by Solange Bakery, we had tastings of our fragrant locally produced Whitby Teas and our guests heard about the many benefits of propolis, an amazing substance produced by honeybees. Guests were able to late -night shop, taking away honey, Sweet Cecily's gifts, BeeVital products, Whitby Tea Company loose leaf teas and even late night Whitby Sea Salt vinegar shopping :) Before they left guests were gifted a free mystery book. All in all we had an incredible evening, thanks to lovely Bernadette, Andy, Liz and all our guests for making it so memorable!

04/11/2025

A LITERARY EVENING WITH THE BEES! THURSDAY 6TH NOVEMBER
We are proud to be part of Whitby Lit Fest! As part of the festival's fringe events DROP IN TO OUR FREE Honeybee Poems & Prose evening at
The Dispensary, 25 Skinner Street, Whitby. Thursday 6th November.
Any time between 6.30p.m. to 8.30p.m. no need to book...
Bring your favourite bee poems & prose along to share, sample our lovely local honeys & breads with the opportunity to buy
& find out about propolis ( an amazing substance that honeybees make.)