Family Life

An Arctic zoo, charity giving and a children’s TV favourite all feature at Living Coasts over the Christmas period.

Santa is bringing his toy zoo to Living Coasts. A special Grotto will be surrounded by snow scenes filled with cuddly Arctic animals, including Arctic fox, reindeer, snowy owl, Arctic hare and polar bear. Eskimos – themselves an endangered species – will also feature.

The Grotto will be open every weekend in December from 11.00 am to 3.00 pm as well as Monday 17th to Friday 21st December. It costs £4.95 for children (this does not include entry to Living...

Arts education charity Daisi will be drawing on its team of more than 150 professional artists and its links with schools across the county once more to put together a very special project, which is part of a longer-term partnership with Exeter Northcott Theatre.

In all, The Snail and the Whale exhibition will show the work of children between the ages of five and eleven from several schools across Devon, exploring the story and recreating the magical world of The Snail and the Whale .

Last year, Daisi staged an exhibition to run alongside Exeter Northcott's 2011 Christmas...

Taking place in aid of The Children’s Society on Sunday 23rd December at 4.30pm, this year’s combined Crib Service and Christingle at the Exeter Cathedral is a first.

The Cathedral Choristers will be singing and children are invited to dress up - angels, kings, shepherds, animals, Marys and Josephs will be very welcome!

This child and family friendly service includes a short play performed by Cypex, the Cathedral’s young people’s club, some well-known carols and the carol Long ago in Palestine with words and music written especially for the service by Chryssa and John...

200 children aged between five and 15 years of age from across 20 Exeter school’s came together recently to celebrate the world of wildlife around them.

The conference, organised by Devon Wildlife Trust, was staged at the city’s St Peter’s Church of England School and took place on Friday 9th November. Its theme was ‘the bigger picture’ and asked students to think about how taking small, local steps to help wildlife can lead to big and impressive results.

The conference featured TV naturalist Nick Baker, who gave an inspirational launch address spelling out just...