For the second year running, Educated Recruitment are dusting off their walking boots ready to walk 19 miles for charity, Macmillan Cancer Support Following the huge success last year in fundraising for CATS (charity for Tay Sachs), the team have planned a 19 mile hike starting from Maidencombe, Torquay and finishing in Totnes. We are very much looking forward to getting a stomp on, on Saturday 24th June 2017! If you would like to make a donation to such an amazing charity, search the below page through Just Giving https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Emma-Woodhall1
Devon Birds is providing a great opportunity for amateur photographers with the launch of a new photo competition this Summer which is open to the general public.
Devon Birds is a charity which supports the study and conservation of wild birds.
Amateur photographers are invited to submit their bird photographs which must have been taken in Devon, and the winning entries will be displayed at Torre Abbey in the autumn.
Prize-winning photographers will be invited to receive their awards at an evening event in Torre Abbey in October. Details on how to enter the...
The 2017 prestigious South West Chef of the Year competition is open for applications.
The highly anticipated culinary contest is the only one in the UK with the aim to find the very best regional talent from not one but five categories including professional and young professional chefs, students and apprentices, junior cooks under 16 years and home cooks.
The South West’s culinary reputation has long been lauded, shaped by its bountiful lands and coastline that create outstanding produce and in turn inspire an increasingly long list of home grown Michelin starred chefs...
The fishing industry in the South West has been recognised, as individuals and businesses from the region landed five prizes in the UK’s only awards ceremony celebrating the commercial fishing industry, the Fishing News Awards.
A strong performance from the region saw success in a range of categories. Brixham once again enjoyed success in 2017, holding on to its crown of ‘Port of the Year’, thanks to its comprehensive range of services and high quality, diverse and sustainable produce.
Brackan Pearce, skipper of Mevagissey-based Spirited Lady III, sailed to victory in the ‘...
It’s back and it’s bigger and better than ever before!... Exeter is set to go barking mad for this year’s Great British Dog Walk at Canonteign Falls on Sunday 11th June at 10.30am.
The Canonteign Falls Great British Dog Walk is one of 20 fun-filled walks taking place around the UK to help ensure more hearing dogs can be trained to bring life-transforming benefits to deaf children and adults, like Joan Pinder.
Joan, from Taunton, who became deaf at 3 years old due to measles is now enjoying life so much more with her hearing dog Waffle.
THERE will be a celebratory feel when the 40th anniversary Dartmoor Folk Festival takes place in the foothills of Dartmoor at South Zeal, near Okehampton, from Friday to Sunday, August 11, 12 and 13.
It was 40 years ago that the festival was founded by the late Bob Cann, who lived in the parish of South Zeal. He had the dream of a folk event on his doorstep that would help to revive and preserve the music, song and dance traditions of Dartmoor.
Thanks to the efforts of Bob Cann, his family and friends, and lately his descendants and a strong committee, with the support of...
Over 100 Exeter Chamber members attended a special networking lunch recently which included a dedicated election question time, giving members a chance to meet Exeter’s parliamentary candidates.
Members had their business-related questions answered by Ben Bradshaw from the Labour party, Vanessa Newcombe from Liberal Democrats, James Tadgdissian from Conservative Party and Jonathan West an Independent candidate.
Questions and discussion topics involved arts and culture, health and social care, airport taxes, air pollution and the promotion of electric/sustainable travel in...
After an extremely successful launch at Bovey Castle last week, the Moor Otters can now be bid for online.
Bidding for all 100 Moor Otters opened on 1 June 2017.
Thirty of these, nicknamed the ‘Golden Otters’, will go on to a live auction hosted by Bearnes Hampton Littlewood on 30 September ’17, taking bids from the results of the online auction.
Dartmoor National Park hopes that auctioning off the 100 colourful Otters will raise invaluable funds for conservation and developing the work of the organisation across the vast National Park.
The England football team have been put through their paces during a top-secret trip to the Royal Marines’ Commando Training Centre in Lympstone ahead of their game against Scotland this Saturday.
England manager Garteth Southgate gathered his players and support staff in one of the national football centre’s dressing rooms, where a member of the Royal Marines informed them that they would immediately relocate to Devon for the next 48 hours.
The following days would see them experience an array of activities that Royal Marines recruits undertake, including a night camping...
Property Search Group is pleased to announce that, as part of its 20th birthday celebrations, the three South West offices have nominated Vision Aid Overseas to be their charity partner in 2017.
More than 640 million people worldwide cannot see properly simply because they need glasses. Ninety percent of the people affected live in developing countries. Vision Aid Overseas works with professional UK volunteers in five African countries to provide training to local eye care workers, to establish Vision Centres and to deliver outreach services in rural and isolated communities....
