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Welcome to Topsham
– we love it!

Love Topsham is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company entirely run by volunteers, and funded by donations. Our activities include: organising summer music and flowers and bunting throughout the town, holding meet-ups for new residents, campaigns to promote local businesses and traders, and staging the Christmas celebrations – we ‘do the lights’, organise a festive market and arrange a much-loved Children’s Christmas Trail through Topsham.


Topsham is a beautiful Devon estuary town, rich in community activity and independent shops, with a gentle vibe enhanced by our waterside setting and cafe culture.

We’re officially part of Exeter but have a distinctive look and feel, which started with our unique maritime and architectural history.

Today, there are over 50 independent businesses in our town.

Some invoke the glories of the High Street, like our charming second-hand bookshop and clock repair workshop; others are modern, like the former fire station that is now a craft ale microbrewery and bar, or our organic vegan skincare shop. And don’t forget our Saturday market, which has become a food and craft must-visit.

We are brimful of community groups too.

Whether it’s a book club or a town museum, a repair cafe or a fine arts society, you will find a home for the enthusiasm you already have, and for the passion you may well develop after you move here.

Oh – and year-round Love Topsham operates this website and town calendar too.

So whether you’re a resident, business, group or visitor – welcome!

The Love Topsham Team

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

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4 Simple ways you can support Love Topsham

For as little as a cup of coffee per month you can help Love Topsham’s work in the town. From Christmas Lights to Flower Barrels, from Summer Music to Picnic Benches.

Residents and Visitors: for a regular donation we request a minimum of £36 per year or £3 a month via standing order.

Just click on the button below, fill in the simple form and email back to us at lovetopsham@gmail.com

Become a business supporter and your business will benefit from:

  • Your own page on the Love Topsham website. You supply the content, we build your page
  • Your business will be one of the Featured Businesses on the homepage
  • The opportunity for us to promote you or your event to the town on our social media

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

  • Putting Topsham on the map with publicity, advertising, social media work, one-off events, and supporting the community wherever possible;
  • Making Topsham a better place through the likes of flower barrels, participating in community activities, picnic benches on the Quay, and the spectacular Christmas Lights;
  • Running the town website, lovetopsham.co.uk, listing businesses that support Love Topsham with links and commendations;
  • Driving footfall for shops through street musicians in summer and approaching Christmas, plus newsletters and occasional door-drops to 5,000 letter boxes, and always urging residents and visitors to always shop in the town;
  • Helping under-the-radar businesses through social media promotion and events;
  • We work with local groups to promote what’s happening in the town, being careful to avoid political or divisive issues.

Micro-Businesses (a part-time business or, for example, class teachers who work in Topsham occasionally): To receive a Love Topsham card (and a second card free for any named person in your household), we request a minimum donation of £72 for 2026 (preferred) or £6 a month.

Business Supporter: To receive a Love Topsham card (and a second card free for any named person in your household or who works in your business), we request a minimum donation of £120 for 2026 (preferred).

Just click on the button below, fill in the simple form and email back to us at lovetopsham@gmail.com

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 for Topsham

To join our band of happy volunteers

Please subscribe to the Love Topsham Newsletter, and when you see a call for volunteers, please drop us an email here

lovetopsham@gmail.com

and we’ll get back to you.

Any problems with signing up please contact us at donations@lovetopsham.co.uk  and we will be back in touch  as soon as we can to help you.

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