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Sid’s Supper Fundraiser

Community centre hosts locally-sourced seasonal three-course meal to help improve café facilities.

Donna Vincent

St Sidwell’s Community Centre is hosting a supper fundraiser on Saturday 20 September, using locally-sourced ingredients to cook a seasonal three-course meal from scratch.

The supper offers an opportunity to dine with other community centre supporters, sharing food family style in its café.

Each ticket purchased will help to raise funds to improve the café’s facilities and buy new cooking equipment.

Dietary requirements can be catered for with advance notice.

St Sidwell's Community Centre café St Sidwell’s Community Centre café

St Sidwell’s Community Centre, which opened in 2001, is an independent, entirely secular charity which welcomes everyone regardless of background, ability or circumstance and offers a range of activities, events and services for the local community.

It runs a community café, a bakery and cookery school and free English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes.

The centre also manages a large community garden, where events are held and organic fruit and vegetables are grown for use in the café, offers meeting rooms for hire to local groups and acts as a local heritage hub for Exeter city centre’s eastern quarter.

There are volunteering and work experience opportunities across all areas of the centre’s work.

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Sid’s Supper Fundraiser takes place on Saturday 20 September 2025 in the St Sidwell’s Community Centre café.

Doors open at 6pm, with the first course from 6.30pm.

Tickets cost £30, with an option to donate more, and can be booked via the St Sidwell’s Community Centre website.

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