Welcome to the Chideock and Seatown Community Website. This website belongs to ‘the community’ and is all about Chideock, North Chideock and Seatown. We hope these pages will be of interest to both local residents and visitors to our village.
Chideock is an amazingly busy village with lots of groups that anyone can join and lots of entertainment and events that are happening so please take your time to look through our website – not forgetting our stunning Photo Galleries.
If you are a visitor to this beautiful part of West Dorset please check out our Accommodation Guide.
- HARVEST FESTIVAL AT ST.GILES CHURCH SUNDAY 5TH OCTOBER
St. Giles Church
Harvest Festival
At
St Giles Church
Sunday October 5th
Everyone Welcome!
Village Harvest Thanksgiving Service at 11.00 a.m.
followed by Harvest Brunch in the church from 11.45 a.m.
Scrumptious bacon / sausage baps, orange juice and fresh coffee (or tea)
provided by the Friends of St Giles * *
in aid of the new church heating fundDoll’s House raffle to be drawn at around 12.00pm
Come and enjoy the beautiful harvest flower displays!
Please do bring along garden produce and/or tinned/dried goods which
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will be shared between Bridport Food Bank and Community Kitchen
** It would be helpful, for catering purposes, if you could let us know if
you’re coming!
Please text / leave a message on 07891 115386 or email
sallycoade@hotmail.com - COMMUNITY CAFE FRIDAY 17TH OCTOBER IN THE VILLAGE HALL
Chideock Community Café
Held in Chideock Village Hall
FRIDAY 17th October 2025
From 2.30pm until 4.30pm
Come along with friends or to meet some new ones.
Everyone is welcome
Tea/Coffee & Cakes/biscuits available
We look forward to seeing you!!
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QUIZ NIGHT
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CHIDEOCK VILLAGE HALL
FRIDAY 31st October 2025
7.30 pm prompt start!
£10.00 a head INCLUDING SUPPER
B.Y.O. drinks, glasses,
tipples & nibbles
· PRIZES FOR TOP FIVE TABLES · RAFFLE
BOOK YOUR TABLE EARLY TO AVOID
DISAPPOINTMENT! (max 4 people)
CALL OR MESSAGE 07852 332938
IN AID OF ST.GILES’ CHURCH
CONTRIBUTIONS OF FOOD & RAFFLE PRIZES WELCOME
(please tell us when booking)quiz night in the village hall - CHIDEOCK NEWS – OCTOBER 2025
- FILM NIGHT TUESDAY 21ST OCTOBER
CHIDEOCK HALL FILM NIGHT
Tuesday 21st October – 7.00pm for 7.30pm
Coogan brings his signature dry irony to proceedings, but the penguin is the star in Peter Cattaneo’s film about mutual human-animal healing against the backdrop of Argentina’s 1976 military coup.
Argentina’s 1976 military coup d’état, along with the sustained period of violence and forced disappearances that it ushered in, isn’t an obvious historical backdrop for a heartwarming tale of human-animal bonding. But that’s how the timing worked out for Tom Michell, an English teacher stationed at an elite Buenos Aires private school, at the time of the turmoil: With the country in chaos and many of his colleagues in crisis, he was figuring out what to do with the Magellan penguin he had accidentally adopted on a weekend jaunt to Uruguay. His 2016 memoir of that period, “The Penguin Lessons,” was the kind of breezy read that bridges adult and juvenile tastes for animal stories; Peter Cattaneo‘s amiable film adaptation matches the book’s feathery whimsy while reaching for a little more political import.
£5.00 Entry – cash or card payments accepted which includes free tea/coffee & popcorn
wine by glass or bottle, beer, cider & choc ices on sale during interval.
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- W.I. September Meeting: Guide Dogs for the Blind
W.I. September Meeting: Guide Dogs for the Blind
Geoff Hunt and his beautiful guide dog Pringle delighted us all with a heart warming talk about the Charity, Guide Dogs for the Blind. The Charity runs a very comprehensive programme, from the selection of the dogs through a breeding programme to the personal training of each dog with their new owner. A guide dog will usually be a labrador, golden retriever or alsatian but they can be cross bred, for example a labrador/ retriever cross resulting in a taller dog more suitable for a taller owner. The whole process, from birth to retirement of the guide dog, costs £100, 000, with the training itself costing £16,000.
Geoff explained that the dog’s well being is always at the heart of the very intensive training programme. At any stage of training if a dog is deemed unsuitable as a guide dog, they are withdrawn from the programme and are often found alternative work, such as ‘buddy’ dog, sniffer dog or medi dog, as the early basic training is the same. Sometimes they are offered up for adoption and make good pets for people as the initial training has been done. Geoff explained that a lot of time was lost during the covid pandemic as the breeding programme had to be halted and those puppies already in the programme missed out on early socialisation, thus making them unsuitable.
Geoff spoke fondly about his own experience, being accepted as a good match with Pringle and the instant connection they had. He said that Pringle has made a huge difference to his life, giving him confidence to go out and supporting his mental health. In preparation for having a dog he made sure the garden was secure, he had the bed bowls and food ready so that when a dog became available he wasn’t refused. He pointed out that the dog should have a 40 minute walk every day, ideally with a purpose, like an outing to a cafe or shop. Guide dogs should also have 30 minutes of free time daily where they are ‘off duty’: released from the lead or harness, to savour the delights of ‘just being a dog’. Wag wag!
Through Pringle Geoff volunteers for the charity and this has meant he has made new friends. Geoff and Pringle are very well known locally. He invited us to stop and say ‘hello’ if we see them out and about, of course mentioning Chideock WI.
Lynne Hartmann & Julia D-S
Chideock WI meet together at 2.30pm on the first Tuesday of every month at Chideock Vilage Hall. We have a superb committee who arrange excellent talks and events for us and run a variety of clubs which meet throughout the month. We are ALWAYS open to new members.
All women are welcome to join us, just come along.
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