Life Skills with Mrs T based in Sampford Peverell, Mid Devon will be given a spell in the limelight as part of this year’s Small Biz 100 , a national campaign highlighting some of the UK’s most inspiring small businesses.
Marking 100 days building up to Small Business Saturday on 5 December 2020, the Small Biz 100 provides a major profile boost to small businesses across the UK, particularly at this challenging time.
Showcasing a daily celebration of the Small Biz 100 through social media, the campaign aims to support and celebrate a vibrant range of small, community...
Plan a fantastic and child-friendly Halloween party! With our top tips and tricks for treats, party games, and decor, you will get into the Halloween spirit within no time. Also, we have provided some simple ideas for festive invites and spooky party themes.
Be Creative with the Invites
You can easily grab the interest of even the busiest friend or relative with a creative DIY invitation you can make right at home. Design the invite to match your party's theme and follow it up with a similarly creative take-home bag or trinket. The point here is to start and end on a...
Crowdfunder.co.uk & Theatres Trust have launched a nationwide crowdfunding campaign to help save theatres across the UK. The #SaveOurTheatres campaign was launched on 8th September with theatre fundraising pages going live up and down the country.
In Exeter and across the county, theatres are suffering. Cygnet Theatre is at the heart of our community: it is a place to come together, to be entertained and to be inspired. Training theatres like Cygnet are where our best-loved actors learn their craft. Cygnet has a long history of training ‘swans’ who go on to work in the West...
Spain is one of the richest countries in terms of culture. It boasts numerous world-famous monuments and cathedrals. However, tourists must be extremely cautious: they may get robbed right in public transport or in the street.
While robbers scare tourists, property owners, or those who want to buy cheap Spanish properties , are literally terrified by someone else – “Okupas”. The topic has gained popularity in social media during the quarantine. Let’s pay a closer look at who the okupas are, where they come from, and why they are a threat to property owners.
Are you bored at home with nothing to do? Don't worry anymore; you can keep yourself busy by sewing. Sewing is one lucrative activity you can do during your free time and does not require much expertise and materials. You don't have to carry out the expensive designs and such. You can take the simple sewing projects just for fun and use the finished products to furnish your home or use them in your day-to-day activities. Get yourself some threads and materials, and keep on this article for some simple sewing projects. Here is the list.
A vacant vegetable plot in Exeter has been used to grow potatoes for people struggling to feed themselves during the Coronavirus pandemic.
Harvested spuds from the Exeter City Council-run plot at Guys Hylton Allotments have been given to people in need.
The potatoes were grown by plot holder Kathy Northcott and her green-fingered friends at the St Thomas Allotment Association, Dave, Charlotte, Les and Shaun.
Kathy said the idea came to her in a “eureka moment” just before ‘lockdown’. The plan was to use surplus unsold potatoes from The Trading Shed – an...
It was a great honour to be able to present Devon County Show’s former Crafts and Gardens Steward, Joan Mitchell, with a bouquet of flowers to mark her 90th birthday last Sunday 6th September.
Joan, whose history with the Show dates back decades, used to live in Ottery St Mary in Devon before relocating to Taunton in 1994.
Whilst living in Ottery, Joan was an active and committed participant in Devon County Show, stewarding at the show for 36 years when the Show was at Whipton in what was then the floral crafts tent.
The global health crisis has forced people to practice social distancing measures and forego shopping at physical retailers. As a result, many entrepreneurs and business owners have focused their energy into moving to online marketplaces or building their own ecommerce websites. This has created a massive increase in digital sales, and in fact, the ecommerce market in the UK is projected to be worth €222.5 billion (£201.9 billion) by the end of this year. However, not all businesses that migrate to the digital landscape will be a success. While listing your business in online marketplaces...
Energy generation, distribution and use is changing radically. Today, renewable energy is cheaper than ever, whereas fossil-fuels are dangerous for climate change. Meanwhile, new technologies could radically re-shape our homes, workplaces and communities. Therefore, ECOE wants to improve people’s energy literacy. We want everybody to know about the changes that are coming so that no-one is left behind. So we are now running webinars to provide trustworthy information about the technologies and changes to come.
Inheriting money or property is wonderful luck of the draw that should be handled with care. While it may be easy to go the whole hog and have a crazy bacchanalian feast to celebrate, this isn’t necessarily wise, or practical. There are many things you need to do to get your estate in order, the first of which is to hire an attorney with extensive experience in this particular area of the law. This might seem superfluous to you right now, but it’s the best thing you could possibly do for yourself and your loved ones. The following are a few more concrete reasons to hire an estate attorney...
