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Thank you to Edenbridge Chamber of Commerce for a donation of £150, and to Highams Farm Biggin Hill, who also kindly donated £150. Emaa Weston hainding over the cheque to Peter Ranken, Chair of Friends of Edenbridge and Westerham Citizens Advice. Also in the photo, Sian Hillier, Chief Officer of Edenbridge Citizens Advice, based at the Eden Centre.
Makers' Market Christmas 2022
A big thank you to everyone who came along to the fabulous Makers’ Market at the Eden Centre to raise funds to help us run our local advice centre - thanks to the stall holders, our volunteers for helping with stewarding, Andy from the Eden Church for running the cafe, the Eden Songsters for entertaining us and everyone who came along to buy the lovely local crafts - as well as Peter from the Friends of EWCA, Anita from the Chamber of Commerce and Sandi & Steph at the Eden Centre for organising the event.
The winners of the March 2022 '100 Club' draw are:
!st Prize - £100 Marnie Woodward
2nd Prize - £50 Chris Prickett
3rd Prize - £25 Daniele Ranken
The Friends are pleased to announce the winners of their '100 Club' grand Christmas draw are:
1st prize of £250 - John and Carole Webster
2nd prize of £150 - Jeff Ayres
3rd prize of £75 - Robert Sharp
Congratulations to them all.
Why not join the '100 Club' for a chance to win £100, £50 or £25 every quarter plus the Christmas draw for only £5 a month for one share. All proceeds go to supporting the running of our advice service..
Check out our website www.fewca.org and click the '100 Club' tab for details on how you can join.
The winners of the March 2022 '100 Club' draw are:
Earlier this year we sent out leaflets to 9,400 homes, resulting in generous donations, new members of the Friends and the 100 Club. Together with the continued support of existing members and donors this has enabled the Friends to make a grant of £3,500 to Citizens Advice with another grant of £3,500 due to follow at a later date.
Future Events
We are pleased to announce a special event the Friends have organised that will be taking place in May to raise the awareness of local makers of craft, food, produce, art, textiles, handmade clothing, ceramics, jewellery, upcycling, plants and music and all things handmade, homemade and handcrafted in the Edenbridge area. Please see our Events page for more information.
Newsletter
We are now sending out quarterly newsletter to all our members and supporters, so why not become a member to make sure you don’t miss out. Our latest edition is available here
We now also have a Facebook page, so please join it and help us publicise events when we start to arrange them. Tap here to view our Facebook page.
Peter Ranken, Chair of the Friends of Edenbridge and Westerham Citizens Advice being presented with a cheque for £200 pounds by Anita Black Chair of the Eden Valley Chamber of Commerce being a donation from the proceeds of the Edenbridge Motor Show. Pictured from left to right with Peter and Anita: Tania Savoia, Citizens Advice Supervisor, Sian Hiller, Chief Officer, Chris Prickett, Adviser, Penny Brook Adviser.
Thanks to everyone who supported our sweets tombola at the Motor Show on 12th September, we raised £104 for Edenbridge and Westerham Citizens Advice.
Grant award for debt advice training
We are also delighted to announce that The Friends have been awarded a £2000 grant by Kent County Councillors, Margot McArthur for Edenbridge and Nick Chard for Westerham from their Covid-19 Local Recovery fund to provide debt advice training for volunteer advisers. For more information, please see our Newsletter.
