With the festive season nearly upon us, Sands, the stillbirth and neonatal death charity, is organising a series of twelve ‘Lights of Love’ evenings across the UK for parents, family and friends of those whose baby has died.
In Exeter, the non-denominational evening of traditional carols, inspirational readings and beautiful musical performances will be hosted at St Thomas’ Methodist Church, 110-111 Cowick Street, Exeter, Devon, EX4 1JE on Friday 4th December at 7.30pm.
Those attending this service will be able to add a special message in memory of their son or daughter to...
Arts groups, organisations and artists in Exeter are being invited to apply for grants from the City Council.
Exeter City Council’s Arts Annual Core and Project Grant Fund for 2016/17 will be open for application from Tuesday (1 December).
The funds are available to provide annual core support or one off projects to Exeter based organisations in 2016/17 that aim to benefit residents of Exeter or improve access to the arts and increase participation in arts activity by all of Exeter’s diverse communities
Core Funding applications will only be accepted from fully...
Enjoy a meal while watching England's opening RBS 6 Nations fixture against Scotland on February 6th and England v Ireland at Twickenham on February 27th.
Doors will open at 4.00pm for a 4.50pm kick off.
Tickets are £15 (per game) and can be purchased at www.sandypark.co.uk/book
Congratulations to Exeter School pupil John Dunlop who has been cast, alongside another boy, as Tiny Tim in the Christmas production of ‘A Christmas Carol’ at the Northcott, running 4 December - 3 January 2016.
The trailer featuring Year 8 Exeter School pupil John can be seen here .
FabLab Devon, in association with FabLab Plymouth at Plymouth College of Art, is offering a range of free FabLab digital fabrication laboratory workshops to members of the public, in FabLab Devon, which is based at Exeter Library, beginning on Monday 30 November.
The workshops will offer an introduction to FabLab processes through the use of cutting-edge technology such as 3D printing, 3D scanning, laser cutting and 3D design.
This is an excellent opportunity to find out first-hand about the potential offered by 3D printing and FabLab technology. All materials and expert...
Devon vineyards lead the way as English fizz climbs to 4th most popular in the wine trade English sparkling wines are now the 4th best selling sparkling wines in the UK market.
Its producers are enjoying an extraordinary year of growth, with sales up by 48.5% compared to the summer of 2014, and has now overtaken New Zealand, which has slipped from fourth to sixth behind South Africa, according to Nielsen figures seen by wine web site Grapevine.
Right up there are the leading Devon sparkling wine producers with a string of international awards.
Two Devon based charities have donated a new ultrasound scanner to the Vascular Access team at the Royal Devon and Exeter hospital to help them care for patients with cancer.
FORCE Cancer Charity and the Exeter Leukaemia Fund (ELF) jointly donated the machine to give the team more flexibility when preparing patients to receive chemotherapy treatment on the hospital’s oncology and haematology wards.
The ultrasound scanner is used by a specialist nurse to find a suitable vein to insert a long thin tube or line to administer chemotherapy drugs through. The new machine will...
A new card designed to help people with autism is launched by Devon partners this week.
Devon & Cornwall police are hoping the autism alert card will help officers and other emergency services identify people on the autistic spectrum, and will support improved engagement.
Police officers will also be provided with awareness information as to how they can adapt and improve their communication style according to an autistic individual’s needs, and better respond to situations involving autistic people.
Carried by people with the condition, the card can potentially...
The Exe Estuary Trail between Topsham and Exmouth will again see a colourful convoy of Santas on bikes in the build-up to Christmas.
This year’s FORCE Cancer Charity Santa Cycle is on Saturday (December 5) when 100 people with red suits and white beards will set out for the coast from Topsham Rugby Club and return by boat.
Naomi Cole from the FORCE fundraising team said: “The Christmas adverts have started now and we’re already looking forward to our Santa Cycle. This ever-popular event is already sold out and we’d like to take this opportunity to again thank Stuart Line...
The Exeter Community Energy Share Offer, which has been running since November 7th, closed on Thursday, having reached an astonishing investment figure of £390,000.
ECOE have been raising funds via a community share offer to install solar panels on 9 community and commercial buildings across Exeter and East Devon. This Share Offer was due to run for only three weeks so investors can qualify for the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) tax relief which closes for community energy organizations on Nov 29th. The Share Offer was expected to raise only a part of the total £390,000...
