Following the success of the Gala Week Traditional Afternoon Tea, Budleigh Information Centre invite you to our Winter Treat.

Tickets are £6.50
Wednesday 29th November 2023
Budleigh Public Hall
12.30 pm to 3 pm

Tickets can be purchased at the Budleigh Information Centre or on the door subject to availability.

Your Winter Treat will include a choice of homemade soup, a homemade cheese scone, slice of homemade sponge cake and endless tea or coffee.

Choice of soup will be:
Creamy Leek and Potato
Chunky Roasted Winter Vegetable - a rich tomato based soup with chunky roasted winter vegetables
Lightly Spiced Carrot

Your table will be available to you for the duration of the event, with table service so you can sit back and enjoy good food and great company.​ 

You can reserve your own table, or share a table with others and make some new friends.

Call us to book over the phone, or email us and we'll get back to you.

Tel:  01395 445275       Email:  [email protected]
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Opening Times: 
Mon - Sat  10am - 1 pm 

​We look forward to seeing you!

Budleigh Christmas Late Night Shopping event for 2023 is on Friday 8th December.   The town's shops will be open during the evening from 6 pm to 8.30 pm.

Come along to Budleigh High Street and Fore Street and join in with the carol singing, enjoy the street entertainment on offer and call in to see your friendly local traders who will be open during the evening.

We are hoping for this event to be bigger than ever this year - so save the date in your diary and bring family and friends along.


Opening procession: 
Honiton Twirlstars Majorettes, Santa, Exmouth Town Crier, St Peter's School, local Clubs and Societies.

We would love any clubs or societies to join in the opening procession at 6 pm.  It'll be a great way of starting the evening and an opportunity to promote your club.  If interested in taking part, please call the Budleigh Information Centre on 01395 445275, or be at St Peter's Church by 5.45 pm.

What's On:
The expected schedule for the evening is:

6.00 pm Opening Procession from St Peter's Church to Temple Methodist
6.15 pm Carol singing and service at Temple Methodist car park
6.30 pm Exmouth Fire Engine arrives in Mackerel Square
6.30 pm Twirlstar Majorettes static display outside Rolle flats
6.45 pm  East Devon Rock Choir in the High Street
7.15 pm  East Devon Rock Choir in the High Street

Throughout the evening we also have Buskers and the Exmouth Ladies Acapella Group performing along the street, the Exmouth Town Crier and the Rollocks Atlantic boat postioned up by the taffic light.

Santa will also be there!  After taking part in the procession he'll make his way back to Santa's Grotto at Uphams Antiques in the old Post Office.  Bring the children along to meet Santa and receive a present. Entry will be £2.  

During the evening don't forget to call into the Temple Methodist who will have their Christmas Tree Festival in the Church and Quizzes and other activites for all in the foyer.

Our thanks to all the entertainers who are coming to perform.  Thanks also to James and Matthew Upham for providing Santa's Grotto, Sampson's Butchers for sponsoring the East Devon Rock Choir and Shop Budleigh for organising the Buskers......and a very special thanks to our great traders for keeping their shops open with a warm welcome to all.

Come along and visit the great shops in the town, do a little Christmas shopping and enjoy the festive spirit!  It should be a great night.  See you there!

The Late Night Shopping event for 2023 is being organised by Love Budleigh - Budleigh Information Centre. The Budleigh Information Centre is a self-funding, non-profit Community Interest Company (CIC) which exists to serve and promote Budleigh Salterton, its residents, visitors, businesses and community. 

​​Footpath users please note: as previously notified, from this point onwards some footpaths may be inundated at high tide (though there will be a reduction in the duration for which paths are affected by river flooding). Signage of affected paths are already present around the site. The various footpaths around the site are at different heights relative to sea level and will not all be inundated with the same frequency. Tide timetables are available in the form of QR codes on the signs to enable walkers to plan their routes. The frequency of inundation of both the South West coast path and the riverside path to Otterton will be unchanged. The new footpath on the former tip and the footpath on South Farm Road (which used to flood most years for an extended duration) will now only flood during exceptional flood events, following raising works undertaken by the scheme.
 
What to expect from the transition to intertidal habitat. As the site is successively inundated by waters from the Otter estuary on each high tide, silts will be deposited, and the site will begin its slow transition from low-grade agricultural land to nationally rare and much-needed intertidal habitats, including salt marsh and mudflats. This, in turn, will attract a diversity of wildlife including wintering and wading birds. 
 
This transition will take time. Initially, low-lying terrestrial grasses and plants will die back due to the increased salinity of the estuarine water entering the site. Bare areas will form providing valuable feeding habitat for wetland birds throughout the year. Over time some areas are likely to be colonised by salt-tolerant species, forming areas of saltmarsh. The new habitat will eventually look similar to those already at the estuary mouth. We are not planting in the intertidal area, as experience has shown that natural colonisation is the best way of getting the right growth in the right place. We expect change to be quite rapid over the first two years, and then more gradual as the site and wildlife become ever more natural.
 
This is a very exciting milestone and will increasingly benefit people and wildlife in the Lower Otter Valley.

With carnival week now upon us, the traders were invited by the Budleigh Salterton Carnival to take part in a competition for the best dressed window.

The juding took place on Friday 22nd September at noon, with three local people taking on the difficult task of deciding which window should be crowned the winner.  The windows on display were wonderful and colourful, with obviously lots of effort taken by the various traders taking part.  The high standard made it a difficult choice, but after much deliberation Gilbert Stephens LLP Solicitors were proclaimed the winners of the Chris Coles Memorial Cup, which they will keep for a year. 

Congratulations to the team at Gilbert Stephens LLP Solicitors for coming First, and our thanks to all the other traders who took part and put on such a wonderful display.

The carnival procession will be on Saturday 30th September, starting at 7.30 pm from Seachange then proceeding along Coastguard Road, Marine Parade, Fore Street, High Street, Station Road and finishing at Upper Stoneborough Lane.

Come along and join in the fun!

Sunshine and blue skies, perfect weather for a group of BIC volunteers to visit Budleigh's Lee Ford. Our thanks to our volunteer Karen for organising this event.
 
We had a leisurely stroll around the estate, going through the semi cultivated woodland and then down to the formal gardens. We stopped for a photo opportunity at the pretty pavilion which overlooks the beautiful formal garden and looked rather enviously at the swimming pool. Then we sniffed our way round the rose garden, with a variety of roses and on to admire the vegetables and fruit in the walled kitchen garden and herb garden.  
 
By 11.00 we were ready for our tea. As we walked round the side of the house, we saw a large conservatory overlooking the lawn and pool and thought how nice it must be to sit in there - which was exactly what we were going to do!

The conservatory is full of geraniums, orange trees and bougainvillea, a very Mediterranean feel. The table was laid with bone china and our tea was poured from a huge silver teapot engraved with a picture of the house. A mini scone, luscious lemon cake and indulgent chocolate cake were all homemade and delicious.

As we sat in the sun chatting and finishing the last mouthfuls of cake, we decided this was something we should do more often. A most enjoyable morning, so nice to spend social time with our colleagues. We've resolved to organise another similar get together soon - watch this space for future posts.

The garden at Lee Ford is open on behalf of the National Gardens scheme and is
available for group bookings through NGS Yellow book.

​Vintage & Classic Vehicle event at World of Country Life Exmouth.
Join us on 17th September for our amazing Vintage Classic Vehicle
Rally 2023! 
There will be lots of classic, Ford RS concours and vintage vehicles
visiting the park for the day, and of course, our resident Hall of
Transport featuring vehicles that have appeared in Downton Abbey, Mr
Selfridge & Parade’s End as well as the Reg Imray Motorcycle Collection
and Steam Shed packed full of vintage tractors & steam engines make
this a vehicle lovers’ dream day out! The event proudly supports Action
for Children.
Not forgetting the children’s indoor & outdoor play areas, the
popular Harry the Harvester, the Deer Train Safari and all our
regular daily activities – goat walking, animal bottle-feeding, small
animal handling and the Hawkridge Birds of Prey Flying Display – this
really is a memory-making day out for the whole family – see you there!
And for even more fun for 2023, check out our brand new Rabbit
Warren!
The Vintage Classic 2023 proudly supports Action for Children.
The day is an official Ford RS Owners Club Exeter & East Devon Local
Group event, and features their concours event, sponsored
by Angelwax.
If you would like to exhibit your car on the day, please
visit www.exetereastdevon.rscownersclub.co.uk

Love Budleigh Newsletter - First Edition - including information on our Community Calendar and our self guided walk around Budleigh - 'Blue Plaques and Cool Facts' as well as some upcoming local events.

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A new self guided walk around Budleigh Salterton using the QR code facility on your smart phone.

A relaxing, entertaining and educational stroll around the town finding blue plaques and the stories behind them.

Call into the Budleigh Information Centre for the starting code.