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Exeter Racecourse partners with ELF to launch Festive Gifting Programme

Exeter Racecourse is delighted to announce a new partnership with The Exeter Leukaemia Fund (ELF) for ELF Raceday, taking place on Friday 5th December 2025.

Through this collaboration, ELF and Exeter Racecourse will launch a special gifting programme aimed at bringing joy to children and families supported by the charity during the Festive season.

Exeter Racecourse will support ELF’s work by gifting toys to children who are patients or family members affected by blood cancers and blood disorders. Racegoers, owners, trainers, jockeys and the local community are being...

The RD&E launches new People’s Choice Awards

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 03/26/2019 - 7:53am

Members of the public are invited to nominate and vote for their outstanding RD&E heroes in the brand new People’s Choice Awards.

Patients, staff and members of the public can nominate and then vote for any member of staff at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust who they feel has provided exceptional service, care, or made a difference, no matter their role.

The RD&E already has an extremely successful awards scheme where patients can nominate staff for the Excellent Care award, however the new People’s Choice Awards allows a much wider audience to get...

Nearly two thirds of UK teachers want car-free roads outside schools

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 03/26/2019 - 7:09am

Nearly two thirds (63%) of teachers would support a ban on motor vehicles outside the school gates during school drop off and pick up times, new figures reveal, as 29 schools in Devon start the annual Big Pedal challenge to walk, scoot or cycle their journeys.

A YouGov poll, carried out for Sustrans, the walking and cycling charity, surveyed 840 teaching professionals across the UK about their attitudes towards air pollution and the actions they think should be taken to improve air quality outside the school gates.

More than half (59%) of those surveyed want the Government...

Cheers as Devon park's new show-stoppers take the stage

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 03/25/2019 - 8:23pm

Six sensational entertainment artists gained a unanimous "Yes!" vote from cheering staff at Budleigh Salterton's Ladram Bay Holiday Park this spring.

The talented team staged a special preview of their 2019 shows for employees at the park's annual conference as the business prepared to open for the new season.

Ladram Bay says its entertainment line-up is stronger than ever this year, and will once again be relying almost exclusively on shows produced in-house.

The two male and four female entertainers are employed full-time throughout the season at the park, and...

Art exhibition and first conference of people with no ‘mind’s eye’

The first ever exhibition of paintings and works of art created by artists who have no “mind’s eye” will cast new light on the creative brain when it goes comes to Exeter in March.

It combines with the first ever conference to bring together people at either extreme of the visual imagery spectrum.

Extreme Imagination: Inside the Mind’s Eye will feature works by people who have aphantasia, meaning they cannot visualise, alongside works by those who have particularly vivid mental imagery.

Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the exhibition will come to...

Cash boost for volunteers and communities in Devon to help themselves

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 03/25/2019 - 5:47pm

Devon county council is to open up its funding opportunities to benefit a wider range of local groups and community projects.

It’s launching three new funds worth nearly £460,000 to support local voluntary and community organisations, groups and projects that help to make communities stronger, and that improve people’s wellbeing.

The aim is to encourage people to work together to feel part of their communities and to be active in them.

A priority this year is to support projects and groups that help tackle loneliness or isolation.

The Council has been...

Cranbrook town centre area. Photo: C Still Imaging.

Councils call for High Streets Fund for new towns

Council leaders have jointly called on government to extend funding to create and improve town centres in new towns.

East Devon District Council and Cranbrook Town Council Leaders have written to the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Jake Berry MP, to request eligibility criteria for the Fund be changed to include new towns.

The £675 million Future High Streets Fund was launched in December 2018 to help modernise high streets and town centres. The fund was launched following recommendations from retail...

End in sight for Castle Drogo’s monumental restoration project

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Mon, 03/25/2019 - 10:37am

Following six years of major restoration work, the National Trust’s ambitious project to save Castle Drogo, the last castle built in England, is nearing completion. Building work will still be visible, with some external work to be carried out during 2019, however, for the first time in its life the building will be watertight.

Staff now have a big task ahead of them as they begin the huge job of moving all the contents, many of which have been in storage, back in. It’s a job which is expected to take all year. There’s plenty to do - from painting and decorating, to rediscovering...

RD&E ward visiting times are changing

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 03/25/2019 - 9:00am

Ward visiting times at the RD&E will change to 10.30am-8pm from 1 April, 2019, following a year-long pilot to test out more ‘open’ and flexible public visiting times.

For several years, public visiting at the RD&E was limited to afternoons and evenings, but in February 2018 the Trust began piloting 8am-8pm visiting, in line with many other local and national Trusts.

Since then we’ve been gathering and listening to feedback on the changes from public and staff. The feedback has shown some real positives from the change, such as relatives assisting in care, easier...

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Dawdle for Donkeys' fundraising challenge

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Sat, 03/23/2019 - 10:00am

Help celebrate The Donkey Sanctuary's 50th anniversary with the inaugural 'Dawdle for Donkeys' fundraising walk. It is the perfect way to get out and about with family and friends to enjoy the beautiful countryside surrounding the Sidmouth sanctuary and raise vital funds to help donkeys and mules in need.

Held on Saturday 15 June, the route takes in stunning views over the world famous Jurassic Coast and gives people the chance to meet many of the friendly resident donkeys in their paddocks, showing how the money raised directly helps improve their lives The walk is split between a...

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