Cult coffee and wine bar, Artigiano, recently hosted Exeter’s highly successful PA Network for an evening of crafting cocktails, munching pizza platters and some essential networking with their peers.
Established in 2012, the Exeter PA Network is a professional networking group dedicated to supporting Executive Assistants, Personal Assistants, Secretaries and Administrators. With a mission to raise the profile of these vital roles within the business world, while delivering fresh and forward-thinking training and recognising the changes made to the PA role in recent years, the PA...
Your essential guide to what’s on in and around Exeter this weekend (5-7 August).
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Margo and Mr Whatsit Friday & Saturday, Exeter Phoenix Did you ever have an imaginary friend? A little piece of mischief only you could see? Someone that made you feel safe through new schools, new families, new homes? Sophia’s imaginary friend is called Mr Whatsit, and he’s always there with a new joke to tell and a new game to play – that is, until the day she unimagines him. Now there’s a new imaginary friend in town – the tea-drinking, lipstick-wearing, ever-confident Margo....
Devon law firm WBW Solicitors has strengthened its commercial property team with the appointment of experienced commercial property solicitor Ashley Bevans to its Torquay Office.
Ashley joins WBW as an associate solicitor from Ashfords in Exeter. He is one of four new solicitors to join WBW’s property department.
Ashley specialises in commercial property and has extensive experience dealing with commercial leases and licensed trade properties.
Anthony Fripp, Head of Commercial Property said: “We are delighted to welcome Ashley to the team at what is an exciting time...
Fun for all the family is assured at the 39th Dartmoor Folk Festival, all at modest prices or free-of-charge.
The festival, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, August 5, 6 and 7, will take place in the foothills of Dartmoor at South Zeal, near Okehampton.
Friday, August 5, the date the 39th festival opens, would have been, co-incidentally, the festival founder, the late Bob Cann's 100th birthday.
It will include a packed programme of events and activities suitable for all ages, including a hugely-successful dedicated children's festival which will run alongside the main...
Hillside Product Design, based in Teignmouth, Devon have been instrumental in designing the Xyloband led wristbands used by Coldplay at Glastonbury in June and on their current, and previous world tours.
Coldplay headlined the famous Glastonbury festival’s Pyramid stage to a crowd of over 100,000 waving their LED wristbands.
This was the fourth time the band have headlined the Somerset Festival. The enormous field lit by the audience made for a different experience making the entire area look, and feel part of a piece of artwork that the millions on TV could only admire...
East Devon District Council Chairman Cllr Stuart Hughes has thrown his weight behind a community’s fight to keep its Lloyds Bank branch.
Parishioners of St Andrew’s Parish Church in Colyton have written to the Chairman of Lloyds Bank, Lord Norman Blackwell, appealing to him in the strongest terms to keep their bank branch open.
In their letter, the rector of the church the Rev Hilary Dawson and her two church wardens Christine Sansom and David Fouracre, say: “It would appear in the world of big business, small is not beautiful: however, to a community like ours such a...
People who are feeling low or depressed are being offered the opportunity to take part in a study exploring the effectiveness of a simple new therapy online. Behavioural Activation (BA) was recently found to be as effective as the “gold standard” talking treatment of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
Now, researchers at the University of Exeter are seeking participants from across the South West to help them assess BA’s effectiveness when accessed online. The programme consists of a series of eight weekly modules which aim to help people re-engage in positive. These activities can...
Big Screen in the Park returns to Exeter this summer with not five, but six nights of cinematic magic under the stars.
A different film will be showing on each of the six nights in Northernhay Gardens, from 9-14 August.
With Mexican street food, local ale and ciders and delicious coffees from the BikeCaffe, grab your friends and celebrate the biggest Exeter Big Screen in The Park ever.
Gates open at 7.30pm with films starting at 9pm daily.
Tickets are £5 in advance or £6 on the gate. It costs an additional £1 to bring your own chair chair.
Join us at Sandy Park for our Autumn Wedding Fair, taking place on Sunday 6th November.
Between 10.30am and 3.00pm exhibitors in the Exeter Suite will be showcasing an extensive range of local wedding suppliers. Sandy Park's Chiefs Suite will also be set up for a Civil Ceremony and Wedding Breakfast to display our facilities as a Wedding Venue.
Our dedicated Events Team will be on hand to assist you with every detail of your big day and for you to find out more about Sandy Park's unique wedding packages.
Entry is free for all guests with a complimentary glass of...
