This September Devon’s leading Contemporary Arts centre, Exeter Phoenix, will present a significant showcase exhibition of emerging and established contemporary visual artists from across the UK and beyond. Exeter Contemporary Open is an annual, open submission exhibition, which over the last eleven years has built national and international reputation as a prime opportunity for artists to showcase their work, drawing audiences and attention from across the country. This year’s exhibition includes a shortlist of eight artists, selected from several hundred submissions by Cheryl Jones (...
Visit South Devon is this week launching a new holiday special offers app to help visitors pack a punch with their pound. Offering a one-stop shop for discounts on local accommodation, food and drink, activities and entertainment, the app has been launched at the start of the school holidays to give a boost to last-minute bookings and to help families make the most of their money over the summer holidays.
Thought to be one of the first apps of its kind to be launched by a Destination Marketing Organisation, the ‘South Devon Holiday Offers’ app is free to download now on both Apple...
Come rain or shine, The Donkey Sanctuary in Sidmouth has plenty of fun-filled events for all the family.
With free admission, free parking, daily activities throughout the holidays and a free Hopper Bus from Sidmouth, The Donkey Sanctuary in Sidmouth is a great value option this summer. Open from 9am every day, enjoy face painting and animal-themed crafts, such as making a donkey out of modelling clay, and take the whole family on a holiday hunt around the farm.
Get outdoors and meet some of the 500 donkeys who are cared for at the Sidmouth site, including giant Poitou...
On Thursday 21 July the Ashfords Burgh Island Swim took place at Bigbury-on-Sea in South Devon from 6pm organised by national law firm, Ashfords LLP.
The event saw over 75 courageous participants swim for approximately 1 mile in open water around the iconic Devon beauty spot Burgh Island, raising as much money as possible for charity.
All money raised from the swim will go to the event's three selected charities: Parkinson's UK, Exeter City FC Football in the Community and Surf Life Saving GB.
The Ashfords Burgh Island Swim attracted keen swimmers from a number of...
Northcott Beaton, one of Devon’s top insurance companies, has launched a new affinity scheme designed to raise funds for charities and community groups across Devon.
The Exeter Leukaemia Fund is the first charity to sign up to the Free Tenners scheme which will enable charity supporters to raise funds through the purchase of day-to-day insurance products.
The scheme, the first of its kind, will assist charities and community groups with their fundraising efforts when they sign up as a Free Tenners Partner. When supporters of the registered charities and groups purchase...
The South Devon Link Road project has won two awards at a major regional industry award ceremony, held on Friday 8 July.
The project was presented with the ‘South West Project over £1 million’ award and the ‘People’s Choice award’ at the Institution of Civil Engineering (ICE) South West annual awards.
Devon County Council collected the award on behalf of the project team, which also comprised Torbay Council, WSP Parsons Brinckerhoff, construction company Galliford Try and their designer Ramboll.
The ICE South West Civil Engineering Awards celebrate outstanding civil...
Teignbridge has introduced new on-the-spot fines of £400 to reduce fly-tipping offences in the district.
The new get-tough powers to issue fixed penalty notices for small-scale fly-tipping offences by an individual or companies came into force following a delegated decision by Teignbridge’s Portfolio Holder for Health and Wellbeing Cllr Sylvia Russell.
Teignbridge has seized the opportunity to take advantage of the law changes that make it easier to take action against offenders. It means that anyone caught fly-tipping may be issued with a fixed penalty notice of £400....
A leading South West renewable energy lawyer has been shortlisted for a national award for her work promoting the renewables industry. Sonya Bedford who is head of renewable energy at Stephens Scown LLP has been shortlisted in the Community Energy Champion category of the Community Energy Awards 2016. The Awards will be announced at an event in Oxford in September. Sonya has built Stephens Scown’s renewable energy team into the biggest in Devon and Cornwall. Her work in the community energy field has included ground-breaking progress on grid sharing agreements for solar schemes, which has...
A new £8 million student housing development in Exeter is gearing up for the next intake of students after local contractors Midas Construction finished the 159 room residence this month ahead of the new academic year starting in September. As part of the project, Midas also took down the former cricket pavilion at the Prince of Wales Road venue, replacing it with a new, state-of-the art, two-storey pavilion complete with changing rooms, kitchen, bar and office space which was all built in conjunction with the student accommodation site nearby. The site was built on behalf of developers...
Thirteen of the best South West food entrepreneurs have been chosen, by a panel of regional food experts, to go through to the next stage of Exeter’s Find a Foodie search.
Launched by the team behind Exeter’s Queen St. Dining, ‘Find a Foodie’ is set to discover the next big thing in the region’s thriving food and drink sector.
The winning enterprise will have the opportunity to join the West Country’s most exciting culinary hub and receive an impressive support package, including a 3-month free occupancy of a kiosk in Queen St. The winner will also receive expert business,...
