Welcome to Love Topsham

Love Topsham was created in 2017 by volunteers wanting to keep the town a special place. Our aim is to work together to protect, safeguard and celebrate all that makes Topsham unique. Our successes have included putting the sparkle into the town’s Christmas Lights, installing picnic benches and flower barrels, running the town calendar, promoting our independent businesses, holding new residents’ meet-ups and encouraging people to join Topsham’s many clubs and societies, local charities and good causes.

Perhaps Topsham’s biggest asset is its people: proud of the town and contributing to it as well. Whether by shopping locally, running a group, joining in town events, operating a business, or even just sitting back and enjoying the view, its people are what makes Topsham special.

Love Topsham celebrates all that, as our mission statement says, by operating alongside residents, businesses and local groups to promote and enhance Topsham as a destination, a hometown and a workplace.

Jane Greenslade, Carolina Hobbs, Ned Hoste, Marcus Parry, Jane Thompson plus all our wonderful volunteers

3 simple ways you can support Love Topsham

For a regular donation of just £4 per month (about the cost of a cup of coffee), you can really help Love Topsham’s work in the town. From flower barrels to picnic benches, summer music to Christmas lights, plus running the town calendar, producing a monthly newsletter and supporting our many independent traders, we rely on your donations to continue our work to keep Topsham vibrant and attractive for everyone.

To support us, please set up a monthly standing order for a minimum of £4 per month to:

Love Topsham Community Interest Company

30-97-77 | 22515168

If you are a local trader (or a holiday let with up to four properties), you can support Love Topsham and its work for a minimum of £12 per month; for microbusinesses (traders without a shop front) the minimum charge is £8 per month. For this you will get:

  • Your own page on the Love Topsham website and/or a link to your website or Facebook page;
  • Help to create a short social media post on our growing social media platform;
  • A listing in our online Business Directory or Accommodation page, linked to by organisations such as Visit Exeter;
  • Promotion as a Featured Businesses on our social media and in our monthly newsletter;
  • Meet-ups with other Love Topsham Business Supporters.

Your support means we are able to promote the town and community by:

  • Putting Topsham on the map with publicity, advertising, social media work and one-off events;
  • Driving footfall for local shops through street musicians and events such as the Big Switch-on at Christmas;
  • Making Topsham a better place with our flower barrels, picnic benches, Christmas trees and Christmas lights;
  • Sending out monthly newsletters to over 1400 recipients (and rising!);
  • Helping under-the-radar businesses through social media promotion and events;
  • Working with local groups to promote what’s happening in the town.

To support us, please set up a monthly standing order for a minimum of £12 per month (£8 for microbusinesses) to:

Love Topsham Community Interest Company

30-97-77 | 22515168

Once you have done this, please send your business name, contact details and any social media links to lovetopsham@gmail.com and we’ll do the rest!

This year, all individual donations will go to our Topsham Twinkle fund, to replace some of our Christmas lights that no longer twinkle as they should.

We kindly request that individual donations are for a minimum of £5, otherwise a large proportion of the donation will be used up in bank charges rather than the Twinkle fund!

Please set up a BACS payment to:

Account Name: Love Topsham Community Interest Company

Sort Code: 30-97-77 Account Number: 22515168

Please add the reference: Twinkle 2026

This is our preferred payment method as we can apply your full payment to our activities.

If you have any problems, please email lovetopsham@gmail.com.