Thanks to a £5k funding grant from the Norman Family Charitable Trust, Exeter’s charity for people who are homeless, St Petrock's, has been able to set up a new specialist Welfare Rights service to help the significant majority of its clients who experience complications, sanctions and delays with their Benefit payments.
Mel Hartley, project manager at St Petrock’s, explains, “Recent welfare right reforms have detrimentally affected the rough sleeper client group, many of who have significant support needs and are frequently unable to meet the stringent demands to maintain and...
Apprentice Lily Woodworth has won the ‘Apprentice of the Month’ award from local apprenticeship provider Skills Group. Lily started as an apprentice with Exeter-based DanSci Dance Studio and has recently been promoted to Studio Manager, while simultaneously showing outstanding commitment to her apprenticeship. Lily, 20 and from Heavitree, is currently undertaking an apprenticeship in Customer Services with DanSci, having previously studied A Levels at college before realising full-time education no longer suited her. After speaking to Careers South West, Lily made contact with Skills Group...
A LATE PENALTY from Jayden Stockley salvaged Exeter City a point in the final home game of the 2015/16 Sky Bet League 2 season.
In a game that bore the hallmarks of an end of season encounter, Kevin Ellison looked to have secured all three points for the visitors in the eighty-sixth minute. But it was Stockley who had the final say, restoring parity from the spot in the dying stages as City rounded off the home campaign with a point.
There were two changes to the City side for the penultimate game of the Sky Bet League...
The team at Rusty Pig in Ottery St Mary has been busy testing traditional English recipes to help a food writer with her research for an Oxford Food and Cookery Symposium.
Dr Jan Davison is presenting a paper looking at how offal was not always viewed as food for the poor, but was instead served up for the very wealthy, including the royal court.
“Although the principal ingredients in black pudding are seemingly modest, the expensive seasonings used as flavourings indicate it was held in high regard,” Jan explained. She asked chef Robin Rea to make up the recipes as he is...
Business Profiles by Sampson Hall has launched a new online mental toughness test for individuals and businesses around the world.
Sampson Hall created the test working alongside Sir Clive Woodward, England’s Rugby World Cup-winning coach, and Team GB’s Director of Sport at the Beijing, Vancouver and London 2012 Olympic Games, who has spent over a decade working with individuals in business and sport developing his DNA of a Champion model.
The online test is aimed at high performing organisations and their leaders, managers and teams who aspire for continual improvement and...
A DEVON public health campaign that helps parents care for their children when they have minor illnesses like common coughs and colds, without the unnecessary use of antibiotics, has been shortlisted for a national award.
The Listen To Your Gut campaign, led by Devon County Council (DCC), the Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust (NDHT) and the Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), is a finalist in the inaugural Antibiotic Guardian Awards.
The awards celebrate those who have done the most to tackle the growing issue of antibiotic resistance...
Stagecoach South West is to introduce brand new timetables for one of their most popular routes which will now connect Devon with Dorset.
The new Service 9 will replace the existing Service 52 from 2nd May 2016, connecting Exeter to Sidmouth, Sidford and Honiton. A new Service 9A will operate between Exeter, Sidmouth and Seaton, replacing the 52A and including a new extension to Lyme Regis.
The service will run hourly Monday to Saturday and every 2 hours on a Sunday. These new timetables will give customers an enjoyable and convenient coastal connection as the summer season...
Imagine feeling left out of conversations because you can’t understand what your family are saying to you or the enormous sense of isolation because you can’t make yourself understood by your school friends or workmates.
Sadly, for many Deaf people this can be an everyday reality in the wider hearing world.
During National Deaf Awareness Week, 2-8 May, Exeter Deaf Academy opens registrations for a brand new challenge event called ‘Voice Off’. This is a fun communication challenge where individuals, schools, businesses, clubs and groups switch off their voice and find other...
When I was four years old, my Dad was told our surname might be stopping him from getting a job. So we changed it. It worked.
Worklight Theatre’s award-winning show Labels draws on writer and performer Joe Sellman- Leava’s experiences of being mixed heritage to explore broader issues of racism, immigration and displacement. Labels examines how we use words, the line between curiosity and fear, and the rise of anti-immigration rhetoric.
Despite being born in Gloucestershire, Sellman-Leava grew up constantly being asked where he was really from. Cheltenham! Here, he calls for...
