Devons Festival Of Heroes

Name: Devons Festival Of Heroes
Start: 2025-05-18T11:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-05-18T17:30:00+01:00
Location: Cullompton Community Association

Schedule

Sun May 18 2025 at 11:30 am to 05:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Cullompton Community Association | Cullompton, EN

Hello! On the 18th May 2024, our world turned upside down in a heart beat.
It was a Saturday, at approximately 5.05pm that I received a phone call from my husbands phone which I knew was not good as he would have been on his way home from work riding his motorbike on the lane between Dunkerswell and Broadhembury.
We are forever grateful to the police, the paramedics and of course the two wonderful locals that found him, but also to the air ambulance as if it wasn’t for the crew that arrived both by road and then aircraft, flying him to Southmead Hospital Bristol where he spent nearly five weeks in an induced coma, he would not have survived - but he did against low odds having sustained a broken collarbone, broken shoulder blade, twenty broken ribs, a collapsed lung , three blood clots and muscle loss due to being in a coma for so long.
Now nine months on, he is still on this long road to rehabilitation but it could have been a very different story.
On behalf of myself and my family, we are forever grateful and although every day I spent at the hospital thanking all the staff from the health workers, the physios, the nurses, the consultants and the list goes on, they all said the same thing …I am only doing my job. They don’t get it! It’s not a job - they are miracle workers, they are heroes and although this doesn’t seem enough, the least I can do is organise a family fun day in Cullompton to say thank you , predominately raising money for the Devon Air Ambulance but also raising awareness for young carers which is hugely important to me having had to give up my job to become a carer ( not a young one!😀)
We are grateful to the Iain Emmett and the CCA committee for generously allowing us to use the land so put the date in your diary - Sunday 18th May 2025 !
Please share widely and continue to follow ethe creation of DEVONS FESTIVAL OF HEROES ! Thank you 🤩
Details - A fantastic family fun day awaits you at the CCA Cullompton raising money for the Devon Air Ambulance ! We will have plenty to keep all ages entertained with stalls, fair, live music, catering and a raffle plus much more ! We are also raising awareness for young carers.
We already have confirmed FUNLANDS FAIR for the little ones, including rides and bouncy castles, , COME BYE DUCK AND SHEEP HERDING who will be entertaining the crowds with two displays , a petting zoo and a sheep shearing Q&A , a dog show organised by the FOREVER HOUNDS TRUST , the DEVON FREEWHEELERS will also be joining us ! We only been organising this for a week - many more announcements to come ! Thanks to everyone supporting !