Ceilidh For Ukraine

Event information

Blue Jewel Ceilidh Band will be playing a ceilidh on Friday 26th June 2026, at Hunts Cider, near Stoke Gabriel, the fifth such event to raise funds for Ukrainian Action, a fantastic charity which is sending convoys of trucks with humanitarian aid from the UK to Ukraine, with the war sadly now into its fifth year.

Blue Jewel Ceilidh Band (whose members are from Totnes and Stoke Gabriel) will be providing fabulous music and calling the dances.

A number of men from Stoke Gabriel and nearby have been drivers on Ukrainian Action convoys taking trucks full of aid supplies from South Devon to Poland, where Ukrainian volunteers take them on to their final destinations near the front line. Since March 2023 Team Devon has grown to 25 drivers, and has driven 56 vehicles to Poland or Ukraine, 23 of which have been donated by Team Devon members. They have raised over £140,000 for Ukrainian Action, including over £16,000 by harvesting, processing and selling firewood in Stoke Gabriel and nearby. You can read more about this wonderful local action for Ukraine, and donate, at www.justgiving.com/page/uateamdevon.

Stoke Gabriel resident Neil Millward, who is one of the convoy drivers, and is organising the ceilidh, said “It’s going to be another fun evening - great music and dancing - and the proceeds will help the long suffering people of Ukraine.”

Friday 26th June 2025, 7.00pm (dancing starts at 7.30pm)

Venue: Hunts Cider Barn, Broadleigh Farm, Coombe House Lane, Stoke Gabriel, Totnes TQ9 6PU

Tickets £25 Premium, £10 adults, £5 children, free for anyone from Ukraine.
*** NB - Please only buy tickets if you are coming to the ceilidh! *** If all you want to do is donate money to Ukrainian Action, please go to this website, where you can donate and read more about the Ukrainian Action charity: www.justgiving.com/page/uateamdevon.