Community links

NISA MAKING A DIFFERENCE LOCALLY

WHO WILL RECEIVE THE £500?
 Click on the link above to place your vote for your favourite good cause

The organisation with the most votes at 5pm on Wednesday 29th February 2012 will receive £500 from the NISA MADL community pot, which you as customers help to top up by buying specially marked products in-store. Thank you!!

Help us to support Future Roots

Last year we raised £2,000 for Riding for the Disabled Association groups in Milton Abbas and Henstridge, and the year before we raised £2,500 for Dorset children's hospice Julia's House.

Dike & Son's chosen good cause for this year is Future Roots, an initiative that helps people to get back in touch with the countryside and farming. The project uses the environment and activity of a working farm to enable people from young children to the elderly to discover new skills, learning and confidence, as well as learn about where their food comes from.

Funds raised over the year in-store at Dike's of Stalbridge will help pay for local primary schools to enable whole classes to spend a day at the farm near Holwell, as well as providing the opportunity for schools to borrow an incubator so that pupils can watch chicks being hatched out in the classroom. To find out more, please visit their website, www.futureroots.net

 

 

 

Our reusable bags raise £1,000 for Stalbridge School!

CASH FLOAT: Dike & Son director Andy Dike presents Stalbridge Primary School head teacher Michael Allen (left) with a thousand
£1 coins raised from selling our reusable jute bags. Year 5 swimmers Hollie Allen, Dylan Stockley, Sam Ball and Rachel James celebrate the huge boost to funds for the school pool. See full story on our News Page...

Charities benefit from our bins

Unwanted books, CDs, and DVDs and videos can now be recycled in our car park in the big red recycling bin for the British Heart Foundation. And you can put all your tidy and clean items of clothing into our clothes bin to raise money for the Somerset and Dorset Air Ambulance.

In 2011, the Air Ambulance bin raised £2,000!! So keep your unwanted clothes coming!

Our collecting boxes at the kiosk raised the following:
£123.62 RSPB
£119.37 McMillan
£226.33 Poppy Appeal.
£14.64 Marie Curie Dafodils

We're supporting our community

Since opening our new store, we have helped numerous good causes and organisations, both local and national, to the tune of over £10,000 to date, including:

Blackmore Vale Lions Link to site
British Red Cross Link to site
Cancer Care
Cancer Research UK Link to site
Combat Stress Link to site
Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance Link to site
Dorset Arts Weeks Link to site
Dorset County Cricket Club Link to site
Dorset Gardens Trust Link to site
Dorset Wildlife Trust Link to site
Finlay Gibson (London Marathon)
Future Roots Link to site
Gillingham Hockey Club Link to site
Guggleton Gallery Link to site
Help for Heroes Link to site
Henstridge Women's Institute
Henstridge United Football Club
Henstridge Youth Facilities
Hill View Riding Centre (Breast Cancer Care and Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance)
Julia's House Children's Hospice Link to site
Keith Wise (charity cycle across America)
Macmillan Cancer Trust Link to site
Marie Curie Cancer Care Link to site

Parish Church of St Gregory, Marnhull
Phoenix Medieval Society
Port Regis Gymnastics Club
Riding for the Disabled (Henstridge & Milton Abbas) Link to site
Royal National Lifeboat Institution Link to site
Save the Children Link to site
Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association (SSAFA) Forces Help Link to site
St Gregory's Primary School, Marnhull Link to site
St John Ambulance Link to site
St Margaret's Hospice Link to site
St Nicholas C of E Primary School, Henstridge Link to site
Stalbridge C of E Primary School Link to site
Stalbridge Cricket Club Link to site
Stalbridge Indoor Bowls Club
Stalbridge Library Link to site
Stalbridge Players Link to site
Stalbridge Pre-School Link to site
Stalbridge Church of England Primary School Link to site
Stalbridge Toddler Group Link to Facebook Page
Stourton Caundle Events Committee
Stourton Caundle Strawberry Fayre Link to site

Sturminster Newton Boxing Club Link to site
Sturminster Newton Fire Station
Sturminster Newton Scout Group
Sturminster Newton Young Farmers Link to site
The British Retinitis Pigmentosa Society
The Choral Scholars of King's College, Cambridge Link to site
The Dorset Federation of Young Farmers Clubs Link to site
The Eve Appeal (Gynaccology Cancer Research Fund) Link to site
The Poppy Appeal Link to site
Traidcraft Link to site
Two Castles Youth Band
Wessex Heartbeat Link to site
Wincanton Choral Society
World Scout Jamboree
Yeatman Hospital
Yeovil Opportunity Group Link to site
Zest for Zimbabwe

Other Community links

Stalbridge Parish Church www.stalbridgeparishchurch.co.uk

Stalbridge Surgery www.stalbridgesurgery.co.uk

Stalbridge Town Council www.stalbridgetowncouncil.gov.uk

Stalbridge Community Office http://www.stalbridgetowncouncil.gov.uk/11/co.shtml

Stalbridge C of E Primary School www.stalbridge.dorset.sch.uk

Sturminster Newton High School www.mysnhs.net

Harts of Stur Seriously Good Cookware – A fourth generation family department store in the Heart of Dorset, stocked full of inspiration. Our specialist website, www.hartsofstur.com, is one of the leading retailers of quality, branded cookware and kitchen essentials in the country, being both comprehensive and competitive, and backed up by the same quality of service for which our store is famous.

We are proud sponsors of the Market Place at the 7th Stock Gaylard Oak Fair, which takes place on Saturday 27th August 2011, from 10am-5pm, a truly special country event celebrating all things woody and local. Find rural crafts, delicious local food and drink, children's games and activities, Adam's Axmen, heavy horse logging, falconry, tree climbing and trailer rides round the deer park. See the Stock Gaylard website for more info. (And if one day is not enough for you, they have lovely yurts you can stay in!)

Community events

If you have a community event you'd like to publicise, please email your information to info@dikes-direct.co.uk