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Exeter funeral home makes eggs-tra special donation

A funeral home in Exeter has helped bring Easter joy to the local community and children in need after donating 205 chocolate eggs and ‘bags of hope’.

The treats were gathered through a collection donation drive organised by the team at Co-op Funeralcare Exeter on Cowick Street, in St Thomas Shopping Centre, with some of the Easter eggs donated to children living in temporary accommodation in the city.

The Bags of Hope initiative, run by The Salvation Army, aims to spread joy and kindness during the Easter period. The Exeter team spotted the project and launched a call-...

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Staff from Exeter City Community Trust and volunteers pack up parcels at St James Park

Families brought to tears of gratitude following festive support

Hundreds of Exeter families facing a bleak Christmas have benefited from two recent initiatives to help them feed their children this December.

CITY Community Trust has been supporting families through the Exeter Festive Appeal. In addition to this, it has provided hot meals and free sports activities to young people attending special PL Kicks sessions.

Over the last two weeks, CITY Community Trust has handed out 400 food parcels, more than 300 books and over 150 toys to local families.

Jamie Vittles, chief executive of CITY Community Trust, said as so many families...

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Broadband, Technological

Rural communities benefit from voucher scheme investment

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 12/21/2020 - 11:24pm

Rural communities in mid Devon and west Somerset have received a huge boost to their broadband, thanks to Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) in partnership with Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and Exeter based broadband provider Technological. A £350,000 investment through the Rural Gigabit Voucher scheme and CDS’ Community Challenge Programme has enabled Technological to deliver a full fibre network to over 180 premises in a number of hard to reach rural areas – with a further 400 in construction and 120 scheduled to be connected early next year. The full-fibre...

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Sanchos

Exeter's Sancho's wins High Street Shop of 2020 Award

Exeter’s Sancho’s , founded by Kaldidan Legesse & Vidmantas Markevicius, has won the High Street Shop of 2020 Award in the inaugural Holly & Co The Independent Awards 2020 , winning an incredible, life-changing £10,000 cash prize.

Sancho’s was amongst 50,000 UK small businesses nominated for The Independent Awards 2020 via the @Holly.co Instagram community , and was announced a winner at the virtual Holly & Co Independent Awards ceremony on Thursday 17 December 2020, following a public vote & by impressing the expert panel judges including Mark Constantine OBE,...

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Devon, Weather

Highways teams prepared as more heavy rain forecast

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 12/21/2020 - 3:08pm

Devon County Council’s highways teams are bracing themselves for the possibility of further issues on the county’s roads later this week, with another spell of heavy rain forecast.

Rain and strong winds on Friday and Saturday made it a busy weekend for the County Council, and there is more to come with a Yellow Weather Warning for rain issued by the Met Office for the whole region from 6am on Wednesday until 6am on Christmas Eve.

On Friday and over the weekend, flooding was reported on the A390 Gulworthy, A381 Abbotskerswell, A377 Umberleigh to Bishops Tawton, and A39...

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Home-Start

Home-Start help from the Freemasons

Across Exeter, East & Mid Devon Home-Start volunteers visit families in their homes each week, with services extending as far as Axminster and Crediton, including Exmouth, Sidmouth and Honiton. They are supporting parents in situations as diverse as isolation, bereavement, multiple births, illness, disability or who are just finding parenting a struggle. They provide non-judgemental practical and emotional support and help build the family’s confidence and ability to cope.

All kinds of families can find it hard to cope for all sorts of reasons, maybe because of the illness or...

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Cooking up Christmas cheer for the community

Authored by Sue Cade
Posted: Sat, 12/19/2020 - 11:26am

The MD of a family-run garden centre in Ottery St Mary wants to make sure that no-one in the local community will go short of a festive meal on Christmas Day.

With the annual free Christmas lunch in the town unable to take place due to the pandemic, Jacqui Taylor and her team of willing helpers at Otter Garden Centre are offering to provide a roast turkey dinner complete with a Christmas cracker and mince pie to the elderly, infirm, isolated or anyone otherwise in need, at no cost. The meal will be freshly cooked and delivered at lunchtime on December 25.

She says, “It’s...

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New mental wellbeing service for Devon businesses launching in January

A Devon charity is launching a pilot ‘Listening Ear’ service to provide a safe space for Devon business owners to chat about the challenges of running a business during a pandemic.

Listening Ear has been developed by a partnership of independent charity Devon Communities Together and Devon County Council, as a response to a need for business owners to have somebody to talk to about their general stresses and concerns, especially if they would rather not talk to their family and friends about these issues. This need has been identified by Heart of the South West Growth Hub and other...

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Exeter City Football Club

ECFC completes successful search for missing shareholders

Exeter City has successfully rehomed around 3,300 shares following a recent drive to find missing shareholders.

Over recent months, volunteers at the club have worked to find people - or relatives of those - who had bought £1 shares in the club, which had been issued a number of times to raise capital.

Most people acquired them because they were fans and wanted to support the club, and as such were primarily of sentimental value. The earliest shares dated back to the 1930s and had been passed down through people’s families.

A spokesman for the Supporters’ Trust,...

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Darts Farm

Darts Farm collaborate with Exeter Foodbank to provide Christmas feast boxes for local community

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Fri, 12/18/2020 - 12:27pm

Topsham based Darts Farm is working with Exeter Foodbank and seven-year-old schoolgirl Sienna Littley to provide 70 ‘Christmas Feast Boxes’ to families that need it most in the local community this festive season. Sienna, has raised a colossal £2,100 from selling her homemade ceramic Christmas decorations, and the team at Darts Farm have match funded this with some help from customer donations and supplier gifts to bring the total to an incredible £4,200.

Michael Dart, Director of Darts Farm, comments: “ We have been working closely with Exeter Foodbank all year, delivering 160...

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Skills bootcamps set to enhance employment opportunities in the region

Authored by Program
Posted: Fri, 12/18/2020 - 8:43am

The Heart of the South West LEP (HotSW LEP), Digital Skills Partnership, has launched ten free Digital and Technical bootcamps, providing people in Devon, Plymouth, Somerset and Torbay with the opportunity to access free training worth up to £3,000.

The Government-funded #Train4Tomorrow bootcamps will help adults develop digital and technical skills that lead to higher-paid roles within growth sectors, opening up opportunities to move into careers such as cyber security, data science, software development, digital marketing, IT, digital healthcare, welding, engineering and...

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