An RD&E physiotherapist and three other Exeter women are set to take on the challenge of their lives by rowing more than 3,000 nautical miles across the Atlantic Ocean in record time.
Rosalind West, a Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, will be joined by team-mates student Abby Jones, Scientific Consultant Kate Salmon and Landscape Architect Kirsty Barker to take on the gruelling Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge in December 2018.
The quartet plan to row unaided across the world’s second largest ocean in less than 40 days...
With the world feeling more accessible than ever before, sometimes the UK can feel a little underwhelming for some. It’s easy to forget that Blighty is host to some of the most beautiful countryside worldwide, and has a reputation for having the greener grass - both literally and as the saying goes. Because of this, people are now making the most of the English countryside, Scottish Highlands, and Welsh springs over budget flights to Benidorm. Kent is no exception of destinations on the home travel list, and here is why people choose to stay there, sometimes permanently. So what is it...
Keen to eat more veg? These two-hour, hands-on cooking classes are the best way to get inspired and try out a Riverford veg box. Together we’ll turn a brimming box of veg, fresh from our farm, into an inspirational organic feast. You’ll get stuck in, learning lots of essential skills – such as the best way to slice greens and segment citrus, and how to make sure your onions never catch in the pan. You’ll leave inspired to cook with a veg box at home. It’s very relaxed – people of all abilities are welcome, and class sizes are kept small so there’s lots of opportunity for questions and...
Keen to eat more veg? These two-hour, hands-on cooking classes are the best way to get inspired and try out a Riverford veg box. Together we’ll turn a brimming box of veg, fresh from our farm, into an inspirational organic feast. You’ll get stuck in, learning lots of essential skills – such as the best way to slice greens and segment citrus, and how to make sure your onions never catch in the pan. You’ll leave inspired to cook with a veg box at home. It’s very relaxed – people of all abilities are welcome, and class sizes are kept small so there’s lots of opportunity for questions and...
Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) is delighted to be one of the chosen charities for the Exeter City Community Trust Santa Run in Exeter on Sunday 3rd December, and is looking for volunteers to help marshal the event.
Volunteers would be needed from 8.00am – 10.30am on the day of the run which starts and finishes in Princesshay, so you can then continue the festive spirit with a bit of Christmas shopping at the Christmas market afterwards!
In addition, the charity also has ten free charity places for the run available. Sponsorship raised from CHSW runners could help to...
Sunday 8th October will see the much anticipated Muddifords Cheese five-mile Fun Run take place.
Over the past three months Muddifords Court Country House, owned by Nicky Baker have been eagerly creating a family fun day for all, in aid of dementia awareness.
Nicky has been directly affected by dementia with both her parents living and lived with the disease. Nicky was keen to support the Exeter Dementia Action Alliance in her quest to reduce the stigma and increase wider awareness in the community and beyond in whichever way she can.
You are invited to come along and sing with Howard Ionascu and the Exeter Philharmonic Choir in a choral workshop at the Mint Methodist Church in Exeter.
Mozart’s Requiem is undoubtedly one of the most cherished and well-known works in the choral repertoire.
Cost: £18 Score hire: £2 (Novello edition)
To book: on-line at www.exephil.org.uk or by post using the form on-line Queries to EPC tickets: 01392 278168
YMCA Exeter Job Club staff and their trained volunteers are teaming together with professionals from agencies and employers, on Wednesday 11th October at Belmont Chapel, for their Big Job Club – a day which helps to connect job seekers with employers and help with everything from CV writing to job applications.
YMCA Exeter has been offering job clubs in the community for the last eight years, but with their Big Lottery Funding coming to a close at the end of the year, the charity wants to encourage more people to make use of their all-age service while it is still available....
It comes with great excitement that The Gro Company, the UK’s leading baby sleep brand, announces the arrival of Amy Walker as Design Manager.
Amy’s appointment will see her create fluid collections with a unique and recognisable handwriting for the Gro brand that families have become to know and love over the past 17 years.
Amy brings with her over 10 years’ experience and joins the team from Lazy Jacks, a successful lifestyle brand in Devon, where she was the Senior Designer. Before that Amy worked for hugely influential brands including Reebok and Weird Fish. Amy’s...
Almost 100 Exeter-based entrepreneurs and innovators attended Exeter Library’s Start-up Day on 21st September.
The exceptional line-up of speakers and creative workshops were full of information and advice to help people kick-start their business ideas, and attracted crowds from across the city to hear more about the secrets to start-up success.
Sponsored by Exeter City Council and run by Libraries Unlimited, Start-up Day was designed to motivate budding business minds, and help them turn their ideas into a reality, whilst providing the opportunity for like-minded people to...
