A SOUTH Devon care firm is inviting anyone wishing to do more for their rural community to sign up to its good neighbours’ initiative to provide care in the area where they live (January 2018).
Guardian Homecare, which has offices in Exeter, is offering people the opportunity to train as a carer to provide services in their own hamlet or village. Katie Jewell, Regional Manager for Guardian Homecare, said: “If a person has limited transport or wants to work closer to home, it can become difficult to find work, so we’re offering people interested in becoming a carer the opportunity...
A world-famous chamber orchestra with a 70-year musical pedigree joins Exeter Philharmonic Choir for one night only for an unmissable performance of The Creation.
Exeter Philharmonic Choir, the city’s oldest choral ensemble, will be performing alongside the UK’s longest-established chamber orchestra, The London Mozart Players, which celebrates its 70th anniversary season in 2019.
The two distinguished musical ensembles will come together to perform Haydn’s masterpiece for a special Lord Mayor’s Concert.
The audience at Exeter Cathedral will also be treated to...
Teign Valley Golf Club has chosen Exeter Dementia Action Alliance as its Charity of the Year for 2019.
Gina Awad, Lead of the Alliance said: “I was delighted to meet everyone and share our community work with Teign Valley Golf Club. We received a very warm welcome and very much look forward to collaborating with them."
The Exeter Dementia Action Alliance empowers and inspires organisations and businesses to raise awareness and deliver dementia-friendly services for people living with dementia and their families.
Jane Summers, Ladies Captain for 2019 at Teign Valley...
A fast-growing charity that supports suicide bereaved families is appealing for new trustees to help shape its bright future. Award-winning Pete’s Dragons, which has received national and international recognition, is on the lookout for volunteers to join its board as it continues to expand ‘exponentially’.
The Exmouth-based charity supports families and individuals across Devon and also provides market-leading suicide prevention training around the country and abroad.
Pete’s Dragons currently has a caseload of 91, which equates to around 300 people across Devon.
Educated Recruitment are thrilled to announce that their Finance and Compliance Officer, Kate Anderson has made it through to the Semi Finalists of the Venus Awards 2019!
The Educated Recruitment team are extremely excited since receiving the news yesterday evening at the Venus announcement event held at the Plymouth Gin Distillery.
The Venus Devon and Cornwall Awards was created to applaud working women and is a celebration of excellence recognising business women across the region. Nationally, this engages over 12,000 women and we are extremely honoured to have been...
The Boards of Flybe and Connect Airways, a company bringing together Virgin Atlantic Limited, Stobart Group and Cyrus Capital, are pleased to announce that they have reached agreement on the terms of a recommended cash offer for Flybe. Following which Connect Airways will acquire the entire issued, and to be issued, share capital of Flybe. Stobart Group will contribute Stobart Air and Propius, Stobart’s aircraft leasing business into Connect Airways. Concurrently with announcing the Acquisition, Cyrus, Stobart Group and Virgin Atlantic have committed to make available a £20 million bridge...
Devon County Council’s Cabinet has agreed an updated streetlighting policy to continue to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions.
The energy costs of operating more than 88,000 streetlights and other lighting assets across the county is around £3 million this financial year – and it accounts for a significant amount of the County Council's carbon emissions.
Over the past three years, the County Council has converted over 25,000 street lights to low energy LED technology and has replaced more than 5,400 streetlighting columns.
Those looking to draw cash from the value of their properties have to grapple with a wide range of products. Confusingly, even the equity release market itself uses the terms “equity release” and “lifetime mortgages” interchangeably, when they are two entirely different things.
Here, The Exeter Daily explains the most common types of equity release in an easy to understand way.
What is a lifetime mortgage?
A lifetime mortgage is the most common form of equity release and it involves borrowing a sum of money against the value of your home. As its name suggests,...
New Season, Trend Lead Homeware At Great Value Prices From The Original Factory Shop!
This January The Original Factory Shop is the savvy shopper’s one stop shop to spruce up the home with great looking products that won’t break the bank.
From a new range of affordable, functional and stylish homeware to top quality household brands the discount retailer will enable shoppers to transform their homes with great products at great value prices.
The retailer has released a number of different ranges for the home, from warm and plush winter themed items to cosy up the...
The start of this week – January 7th – is ominously dubbed D-day as it’s the most popular time of year for divorce lawyers and solicitors. After the giddy heights of the festive period, couples often wake up in the New Year unable to handle the headache of their marriages. Richard Scott, Head of Family Law at Howells Solicitors, has helped us pinpoint the reasons why couples go their separate ways in January:
Christmas Party Regrets
All the way back in 65AD, philosopher Seneca the Younger stated that “drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness” which, if you’re fond of a...
