Stowford MillResidents' Association

Beyond the front door

Community life

The groups residents run between them, the get-togethers, and the charitable work we resolved to take on. This is what we do, and who we do it alongside.

Getting together

Groups and social events

Residents run these between them, and anyone on the estate is welcome. Socials and get-togethers are announced in the Stowford WhatsApp group and posted here once there is a date.

  • Stowford Mill Book ClubRunning now
    Jan is the contact for more details, and can be reached through the residents' WhatsApp group.
  • Litter pickingLast Sunday of the month, 10am to 11.30am. Next: Sunday 29 November
    Part community service and part social. The first pick was on Sunday 27 September: we met at 9.40am, signed waivers, collected pickers, gloves and high-vis tops, and Jan gave out the routes. At least six full sacks came back, including more than 70 mini bottles of Rioja from the hedge by The Erme Primary School. Read about the first pick. The second, on Sunday 25 October, covered more of the town with fewer people, cleared every car park along the way and found less litter, helped by £117 of new kit from the Stowford Mill Poker Club. Read about the second pick. Picks are now held on the last Sunday of every month, 10am to 11.30am, so the next is Sunday 29 November. Come when you can; equipment is provided. Message Jan in the residents' WhatsApp group for where to meet, or add the monthly picks to your calendar.

Suggest a group or an event

Our first project

The Ivybridge Food Bank

Once a week we post the food bank's most needed items into the Stowford WhatsApp group. We check our cupboards and see if we can help. Someone heads down to the food bank with the collection on Wednesdays.

It costs nothing but a few minutes and a look in a cupboard, and it goes straight into the town we live in. If you would like to be the person who takes it down one week, tell the committee.

This is the first of several projects we plan to engage with locally.

Offer to help

Ivybridge Food Bank
The Ivybridge Food Bank.

Alongside us

Organisations we work with

Suggest something

What should we do next?

We have said we will take on several local projects, and we have done one. The next one is genuinely open. If there is something in Ivybridge you think a few dozen neighbours could usefully help with, bring it to a meeting or email the committee.

Tell the committee

The association's mark