Author: Richard Corby

Fundraising Quiz Night

Join us on Friday 21st October 2021 at the Rowena Davey Centre in Great Dunmow for a night of food and fun, all in support of our work within the Uttlesford Community

We’re delighted to be brining back our Autumn Quiz Night after a two year break due to the pandemic. We’re looking forward to seeing friends old and new for a fun night of games, tasty food, drinks and some laughs.

When: Friday 21st October 2022 starting at 7.30 p.m.

Where: Rowena Davey Centre, Chequers Lane, Great Dunmow. Parking on site.

What: A fun quiz night with a two course meal, cash bar, games, prizes and fun

Price: £12.50 per person.

How To Book

Click on the Add to Cart button below. You can choose the number of tickets on the following page.

Alternatively call the office on 01371 878400 to book your tickets and pay by card on the telephone. All tickets must be paid for in advance due to catering.

We will contact you to confirm the number of meat free meals required. We are offering two dinner options:

  • Beef Lasagne with side salad, followed by warm chocolate brownie and icecream
  • Plant based Lasagne, dairy free and egg free, followed by Biscoff Cup Cake.

Please note: Our meals will be prepared fresh on the day. Dinners will be provided by Enterprise East and both options are cooked in an environment that contains allergens including dairy, nuts, wheat and dairy. Please let us know if you have a food related allergy. Thank you.

We hope you can join us for this great change to relax and have some fun in aid of a good cause. See you soon!

Join Good Thing Foundation’s Online Centres Network

If you’re a community organisation that is or wants to support your community members to get online and access the benefits of digital – then joining the Online Centres Network will help you do exactly that

Good Things Foundation’s Online Centres Network is made up of thousands of grassroots organisations that are all working to deliver digital inclusion support in their local communities

If you’re a community organisation that is or wants to support your community members to get online and access the benefits of digital – then joining the network will help you do exactly that. It is free to join and offers a range of free services, such as: 

  • Access to the National Databank
  • Free training and resources
  • Networking opportunities
  • Access to an online learning platform, Learn My Way.

The National Databank is giving free mobile data to people who can’t afford their internet connection. By signing up to the network, you will be eligible to join and start giving out data vouchers. 

The network is open to any organisation that is delivering or wants to deliver digital inclusion support. Find out more and sign up here or contact hello@goodthingsfoundation.org for more information. 

Forget Me Not Cafes in Uttlesford

Uttlesford Community Action Network (UCAN) and Volunteer Uttlesford run weekly dementia support sessions for people living with dementia, their families and carers, and anyone who has experience of dementia

Uttlesford Community Action Network (UCAN) and Volunteer Uttlesford run weekly dementia support sessions for people living with dementia, their families and carers, and anyone who has experience of dementia

Dunmow Dementia Cafe

The Dunmow Dementia Cafe was launched four years ago by UCAN and has gone from strength-to-strength. We have a mix of socials, guest speakers, visiting experts and away days to provide opportunities for those living with dementia and their carers, to support and learn from each other, as well as understand all the help and support that is available.

Our weekly meetings are free to attend and take place at the Rowena Davey Centre, Chequers Lane, Great Dunmow every Monday (not bank holidays) between 10.30 a.m. and 12.00 p.m.

For more information contact Jacqui Davies – jacqui.davies@ucan.org.uk or drop in at the Dementia Cafe – everyone welcome!

Forget Me Not Cafe – Saffron Walden

Join the Volunteer Uttlesford team at the Forget Me Not Cafe every Wednesday in Saffron Walden for companionship, support, activities, information, advice and a cup of tea!

Wednesdays 10.00 a.m. to 12.00 p.m. at Fairycroft House, Audley Road, Saffron Walden.

For more information call 01799 510525 or email saffronwaldendementiacafe@gmail.com

New Family Fun and Friendship group comes to Saffron Walden

Home-Start Essex are launching a new, free to join fun and friendship group this September, supporting local families and helping to reduce isolation

Home-Start Essex are launching a new, free to join fun and friendship group this September, supporting local families and helping to reduce isolation

The group runs for 12 weeks during term time. Every Tuesday 10-11.30am.

There is no criteria to be able to attend, all of the services provided are FREE of charge. Families will also receive lots of free resources and will be invited to attend the free Christmas party!

  • Reduce Isolation
  • Make New Friends
  • Meet Other Parents with Children
  • Support available from a friendly staff team

Where: Salvation Army Hall, Abbey Lane, Saffron Walden, CB10 1AG

When: Every Tuesday during term time between 10.00 a.m. and 11.30 a.m. starting from September

To find out more and how to join, go to the Home-Start Essex website www.home-startessex.org.uk

or call 01245 847410

Host a MacMillan Coffee Morning in September

Each September people all over the UK host their own Coffee Morning and donations raised on the day are made to Macmillan

Macmillan’s Coffee Morning is their biggest fundraising event to support people living with cancer

People all over the UK host their own Coffee Morning and donations raised on the day are made to Macmillan

A Coffee Morning can be whatever you want it to be. It could be at home, on your driveway, a hall or online, whatever suits you best. You can hold a garden get together and throw a barbeque, or treat your colleagues to some homemade bakes, or even get together with friends for a takeaway.

In 2021, MacMillan raised over £11 million and hope to top that this year.

For more information on hosting a coffee morning for MacMillan visit:

https://coffee.macmillan.org.uk/hosting/how-to-host/

Reduced food waste with Too Good to Go!

Too Good To Go is now available in all East of England Co-op Food stores, making it the biggest grocery retailer to be on the app in the region.

Did you know that the UK bins 20 million slices of bread a day? What a waste!

The Too Good To Go app lets you buy and collect ‘Magic Bags’ of unsold food – at a great price – so it gets eaten instead of wasted.

Download the app to help stop food waste: http://ow.ly/7ozS50KnUyg

Struggling to pay your bills? Help is available from Citizens Advice

Uttlesford Citizens Advice has friendly advisers ready to offer advice and support which is always free and completely confidential.

There is help available if you are struggling to pay your bills.

Uttlesford Citizens Advice has friendly advisers ready to offer advice and support which is always free and completely confidential.

Email: help@uttlesfordca.org.uk

or call: 01799 618840

https://www.uttlesfordca.org.uk/…/help-available-if…/

TouchPoint Community Cafe

The community cafe in Stansted will be open again on Thursday 25th August. Come along for relaxed chat, tea, coffee and friendship

The community cafe in Stansted will be open again on Thursday 25th August. Come along for relaxed chat, tea, coffee and friendship

Your first tea or coffee is free, and there is a lovely selection of homemade cakes available to buy.
Hot food is served from 12.30pm-2.30pm. Please email book@thetouchpoint.org or call 07572 114882 to reserve your meal.

If you’re new to the café, why not ask to join one of the chatty tables? These tables have people who are happy to talk and meet new people, just let us know when you order and you can start to get to know each other!


The team can help you to get in touch with the Uttlesford Citizens Advice team if you need support, and there are two community laptops and a private space you can use if you need to fill out forms, apply for jobs or even to make a Zoom call to a loved one.

Thursday 25th August 2022 11 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.

Crafton Green, Chapel Hill, Stansted Mountfitchet, CM24 8AQ

CraftAbility Thaxted need your help and support

CraftAbility are keen to meet people that are interested in supporting their work. This could be to help manage, to assist in the day-to-day administration and organisation; or to help mould the future of the centre as a trustee.

CraftAbility (previously known as Thaxted Disabled Centre) are looking for new volunteers and members

Right now they are keen to meet people that are interested in supporting their work. This could be to help manage, to assist in the day-to-day administration and organisation; or to help mould the future of the centre as a trustee.

To find out more about the part you can play in the continuing success of this much-valued local service email craftabilitythaxted@gmail.com or telephone 01371 830752

Police and Crime Plan. Do you feel safe in Uttlesford?

If you know of a public place in Uttlesford that makes you feel unsafe, you can have your say through the Home Office’s StreetSafe website.

Investing in activities and initiatives that prevent crime from happening in the first place and keeping communities safe, are key priorities in Roger Hirst’s Police and Crime Plan

If you know of a public place in Uttlesford that makes you feel unsafe, you can have your say through the Home Office’s StreetSafe website.

The data received will go to councils and the police, meaning they can work together on the best solutions for issues in Essex. From this, councils can review whether the area needs more streetlights or CCTV, or local officers can look at patrol plans and target hotspots.

Have a say here: https://www.police.uk/pu/notices/streetsafe/street-safe/