Travelling by car to Salcombe Crabfest this Sunday?

Please park in the Town Council Park and Ride car park situated as you come into the town on the Salcombe Road (A381) at the junction of Main Road and Bonfire Hill (pay and display – £3 all day) and use the special Crabfest bus shuttle (free – donations welcome) into town.

Once the Council Park and Ride car park is full, we will operate an overflow car park accessed off the main road (free – donations welcome) and the Crabfest bus shuttle will operate from and to this car park as well.

The bus shuttle will drop festival goers at Creek Car Park on Gould Road providing easy access to the heart of the festival.

The bus shuttle service starts at 0930. BBC1 Saturday Kitchen’s Matt Tebbutt will open the festival at 10.00 at the Chefs’ Demo Tent in Creek Car Park – see you there!

The programme can found for free all over Salcombe, at the event or downloaded from https://salcombecrabfest.co.uk/programme

The Rivermaid (http://kingsbridgesalcombeferry.co.uk/ ) will be doing a special Crabfest Ferry Service.
It will leave Kingsbridge at 09.15 prompt on Sunday 5th May, taking Charlie the Crab and her little nipper, Baby Crab to Salcombe with a return run to Kingsbridge at 1600.
Great to see the ferry back on the water for this special event🦀🙂🦀

If anyone is wondering where all the money goes here is a list of the good causes Salcombe Rotary have supported since the first Crabfest three years ago:

Kaleidoscope Disabled Football
Practice Goal KMU
Young Salcombe Centre
Salcombe Regatta
Salcombe Air Ambulance Landing Lights
Salcombe Minibus
Malborough Air Ambulance Landing Lights
Salcombe Preschool
Salcombe RFC Minis Shirts
New Salcombe/Hope Cove First Responder Car
Salcombe Brownies
Cliff House Trust
Defibrillator Fish Quay 
Defibrillator North Sands
Defibrillator South Sands
Air Training Corps (Tablets)
Hope Cove Lifeboat
Salcombe Town Xmas Lights
Hope Cove Reading Room

In addition to the above local support we have also supported other causes, ROTOPROJ which is a Kingsbridge Estuary initiative that brings up to 600 disabled people from all over the Southwest down to the fair in Kingsbridge on the Sunday morning of fair week, Shelterbox, Chernobyl children’s holiday – there are a large number of children in the area of Chernobyl that are still suffering the effects of radiation and a charity brings over the children for a holiday as well as medical, dental and optical care and Plymouth Hospital ICT.

As an organisation we are always willing to consider any good cause that helps the local community of Salcombe, Malborough and Hope Cove.

Thank you to everyone that has helped us support the above and many more over the years.

This year’s Crabfest will be on Sunday 5th of May – Don’t miss it! If you need a reminder of how fantastic this event is have a look at this video of last year’s event.

The Rotary Club of Salcombe

Collecting for local charities

Santa’s float route Tuesday 18^TH Dec 2018

5:00 – 5:10 pm   Alston Gate  

5:15 – 5:30pm    Cumber Close East

5:35 – 5:40pm    Malborough Park

5:45 – 5:55pm    Jubilee Road

5:55 – 6:05 pm   Collaton Rd

6:05 – 6:10 pm   Lower town

6:15 – 6:25 pm   Malborough green and great park

6:30 – 6:45 pm   Malborough Higher Town (Inc Old Inn & Royal Oak )

6.50 – 7:00 pm   Mcllwraith Road  (Batson High View)

7:05 – 7:25 pm   Bonfire Hill Ember Road

7:30 – 7 -40 pm  Beadon – Longfield Drive Cul-de –sac Beadon Road

7:40 – 7-45 pm   Park Rise Junction  

7:50 – 7:55 pm   St Dunstan’s Road    Camperdown Road Junction

8:00 – 8:10 pm   Salcombe Rugby Club

8:15 – 9:00 pm   Salcombe Fore St (Inc The Fort, Kings Arms, & Vic)

Salcombe Tourist Information and the Salcombe Christmas Lights Committee in conjunction with Salcombe Rotary Club.

After the Christmas Lights switch on at 6pm on Colemans Corner there will be a procession to Whitestrand Car Park where the Rotary Christmas tree will be switched on at 6.25pm.

There will be a Santa’s Grotto, inflatable slide and a number of charity stalls manned by worthy local charities.

This event is sponsored by Salcombe Holiday Homes, Victoria Inn and the Salcombe Harbour Hotel.

The Rotary Santa’s Sleigh will be coming to Malborough and Salcombe on Tuesday December the 18th, the route will be published here and on the Salcombe Rotary Facebook page – Look forward to seeing you then!

It was our great pleasure to meet lots of the local children big and small last night on our way round Malborough and Salcombe, we collected lots of money in our collection boxes and that will be put together with the money collected tomorrow night (Thursday 21/12/2017) at the carol singing on Whitestrands car park in the middle of Salcombe where there will be complimentary mulled wine, hot chocolate and of course mince pies! We start at 6 pm, look forward to seeing you there!

Our headline acts return for another year – David “Fitz” Fitzgerald off the telly will be overseeing the auction and Liz Turner is providing not only all of the food but also one of the auction prizes! Steve Mammat from Actionwest will of course be making his very special Pimms for everyone on arrival and there will be the usual Jazz to accompany the Pimms! As of 25/7/2017 we still have just a few tickets left at £35 each- please send us a message on Salcombe Rotary Facebook page or email John at Cookee@me.com

The auction prizes include:

1. Voucher from Liz and Tim at the Victoria
2. Voucher from Liz Turner for chef services at a dinner party at home in the South Hams for up to 10 (Less ingredients)
3. F1 Memorabilia 
4. F1 Memorabilia 
5. F1 Memorabilia 
6. Crab painting on wood from Gallery worth £240
7. Dinner for 6 at The Church House Inn Rattery with a Magnum of Champagne
8. Spa Day for 2 at The Salcombe Harbour Hotel
9. Sunday Lunch for 4 at The Salcombe Harbour Hotel
10. PC service from Actionwest and a Certificate with free rides from the Kingsbridge and District Light Railway
11. Gastronomic Day for 2 at Soar mill Cove with Tattinger Champagne Flight, Cookery Course and Lunch on 2^nd of December or 24^th of February
12. “Ametsa Experience” at COMO The Halkin
13. One Night for 2 in a Halkin Room at this Chic London Hotel Welcome Drink followed by a Tasting Menu for 2 at Ametsa with instruction by Arzak (London residence of San Sebastian’s 3 Michelin Starred Restaurant). Full English Breakfast and a late 3pm check out.
14. A weekend Car Rental in a Jaguar F Type Sports car
15. 3 X Personal training Sessions with Jason Jackson
16. A Flight in a Vintage Aircraft from historic RAF Bolt Head
17. South Milton Arcade – Open Night for up to 12 guests. A private collection of approx. 24 “free” pinball/arcade machines with a case of chilled beers
18. £200 Voucher for any Plumbing Job by 4 Degrees Plumbing
19. 6 Bottles of Wine “Gerrard Bertrand Gris Rose” from Hallgarten Druit
20. Ice Cream from Langage Farm
21. Dinner for 2 and a Bottle of Champagne with an evening’s access to Home House, London’s most exclusive private members club
22. An accompanied test drive in the Ferrari of your choice – current range as well as an experience in the Maserati Levante S.
23. His and hers package from Will Bees                                                                                        
24. Sweatshirt from Jam Industries

Menu

• Platter of Prawns in marie rose sauce
• Garlic chicken
• Scotch eggs
• Vegetable, herb and cheese frittata
• Crusty cob bread with butter
• Local new potatoes salad
• Summer vine tomatoes and basil
• Couscous with roasted courgettes and squash
• Coleslaw
  And to Follow:
• Strawberries and clotted cream

Liz Turner is catering as last year.