Our Annual Gift Jamboree Returns!
Coming together in community, we will put together boxes of gifts to be given to refugees and asylum seekers over the Christmas period.
This year we won’t need to wrap all the presents, so we will focus more on making cards to go with the gifts.
We will be drawing the prizes for our fantastic raffle.
We will introduce the new team that will be running Beyond Borders from January.
We would welcome your help with the following:
- Bringing unwrapped gifts (see guidelines in image above)
- Bringing cakes / snacks for the evening
- Bringing (folded) boxes to hold gifts for distribution
- Coming early to help set up (doors open from 5.30pm)
If you are unable to attend, you can still drop off gifts between 1 – 5 December at either the Albert or Bay Horse Pubs.
We look forward to seeing you at our final event of the year!
Beyond Borders Fundraiser
Southcombe Barn, Widecombe-in-the-moor TQ13 7TU
Sunday 30 November, 10am – 4pm
~ Xmas Art Sale ~ Wood Fired Sauna ~
~ Yoga ~ Sound Bath ~
~ Tea, Cake and Mulled Wine ~
Join us on the moors this winter as we gather as a local community to raise funds to support and welcome displaced communities. Everyone is invited to join us at Southcombe Barn for a day filled with nature, conversation, movement, creativity, and delicious cakes and drinks. Art prints will be on sale in the studio. There will also be ticketed activities on the day which are available to book through the link below – no need to book for tea, cake and enjoyment!
- Dartmoor based yoga teacher Harriet Herb will lead two 75minute sessions of embodied vinyasa flow at 10.30am and 2pm.
- Vashti will offer two 45minute gong baths at 12pm and 2.30pm.
- Sauna sessions can be booked to begin on the hour and will last 55 minutes.
We’ll gather in the gallery for delicious organic cakes baked by Briar Bakery,
herbal tea from the Apothecary garden at Southcombe, and mulled wine.
We hope you can join us for a fun weekend to raise important funds!
Please park by the school or in the car parks in the village
by Cafe on the Green.
We are a short walk away.
Parking at the house is strictly reserved for those with access needs.
Tickets for the yoga, sound session and sauna are on sale from eventbrite
A weekend of fundraising on 29 – 30 November
at brilliant venues including Rafikis, Catherine Waters Antiques,
Wintertide, Briar Bakery, Southcombe Barn and more coming!
Funds from these activities will be split equally
Beyond Borders Totnes and MAP (Medical Aid for Palestinians)
Please email Vashti if you are able to volunteer with the following:
- Tending to the teas and coffees at Southcombe Barn on Sunday 30 November
- Taking cash donations in buckets at Wintertide, Buckfastleigh on Saturday 29 Nov
Playback Theatre South West
in collaboration with Beyond Borders Totnes
11 November 2025, 8pm (doors open 7.45pm)
No need to book, all welcome!
BBT TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
& DREAMING WHAT’S NEXT
Monday 8 Sept, 7 – 9pm
St John’s Church Bridgetown
You are warmly invited to join us for an evening of celebrating, remembering and gratitude as we honour what we have done together over these past ten years. We will also be brain-storming and imagining how to take forward what we have learned and accomplished.
Here are some of the areas of our work that we can ponder together:
Providing food boxes, Welcome Boxes, clothes/furniture/toys/bicycles/etc
Welcoming and befriending, outings, activities
Training and integration support
Co-ordination of formal language classes & informal language support
Transport for health and leisure activities
Fund raising for Family Reunions, education, travel, one-off needs
Awareness raising through films, talks, Playback Theatre
We will be joined by colleagues from agencies and organisations we partner with.
Please come with your ideas and inspiration, as well as your party clothes!
Wednesday 18 June Totnes Cinema
7pm for 8pm
A Refugee Week screening of the Ken Loach film: The OLD OAK
RedEarth Playback Theatre
in collaboration with Beyond Borders Totnes
Tuesday 17th June 8pm
When Support Mattered : Part of Refugee Week
“Community as Superpower”
Bogan House, 43 Totnes High St
ALL WELCOME
PLAYBACK THEATRE
Tuesday 11th March 8pm
“Uprooted”
Bogan House, 43 Totnes High St
ALL WELCOME
PAST News & Events
a sample selection of activities from the past year for you to get the flavour of the different kinds of initiatives undertaken and possibilities for involvement….
Beyond Borders Totnes & District 