CODS (formerly Crediton Operatic and Dramatic Society) has issued an appeal to the people of Crediton for help.

Since it has no theatre in Crediton, it stages its main musical and play each year at Queen Elizabeth’s Academy, where the society spend many hours turning an empty school hall into a theatre - building its own set, erecting raised seating etc for each production.

To do this, the society has amassed a large quantity of building materials, props and pre-constructed structures that it recycles for different uses each year.

For many years it has benefited from the generosity and kind patronage of J G Quicke and partners of Newton St Cyres, who have allowed the society to make use of a cob barn on the farm for storage, but the farm now need to have some work done on the barn, which means that the society must vacate the building by the end of November.

The society believed that it had found an alternative, but that has now fallen through, meaning that it is once again in desperate and urgent need of a storage facility - either long or short-term - in which to house the items that are essential for the society to continue to provide Crediton with drama and music productions of the standard that they are used to seeing.

CODS says its survival as a society depends upon it finding a new home for our materials and equipment.

It has been active in Crediton for 50 years and would like to complete another 50!

If any readers can help, please contact Gill Mackenzie, vice chairman of CODS, on 07531 840032 or email: [email protected] .