Interserve, the international support services and construction group, has completed an epic cycle ride covering the distance from John O’Groats to Lands End in three three days on a static bike, to help raise money for a new Academy for the Exeter Royal Academy for Deaf Education.
Members of the A team of Interserve South West Regional Building and Infrastructure teamemployees, through the company’s Give A Day Of Your Time (GADOYT) initiative started their cycle challenge on Wednesday 22nd July at 4pm in Tesco, Exeter Vale, Exeter. on a turbo trainer position in Tesco’s at Exeter...
RGB Building Supplies’ Well Built Community Fund has been giving away £1,000 worth of building materials every other month to various different groups since its launch in May 2014.
Now the builders merchant is asking Exeter based charities and projects that support the homeless to nominate themselves to receive the grant.
With a 165-year history, RGB’s Community Fund is a way of giving something back to the community that has been such a support to them.
So, if a group needs materials to update a shelter, make repairs to a building, or perhaps help to create a new...
Exeter City Council’s Housing Revenue Account stands to lose nearly £8m as a result of the cut in Council rents imposed in George Osborne’s recent budget.
Having agreed a rent formula with councils two years ago that was designed to allow them to plan their housing finances with some certainty for the next ten years, the Government has now scrapped this agreement and instead imposed four years of rent cuts.
This will wipe £7.9m from the budget the city council uses to provide services to its tenants and invest in their homes.
A group of NCS participants will be hosting a fundraising event for Whizz-Kidz, the charity which provides disabled children with the essential wheelchairs and other mobility equipment they need to lead fun and active childhoods, in Princesshay this Friday (7 August).
The National Citizen Service (NCS) is a Government-backed initiative designed to inspire young people and help them improve their local communities.
The staff at Exeter City FC’s Football in the Community team are working with 120 16-17 year olds from around the region this summer and the first wave of...
The Manson’s Guitar Show (MGS), is back….. with a TWANG, at the Corn Exchange Exeter on Saturday 3 October 2015. The event, sponsored by Rocks Organic brings to the South West the industry’s leading brands, including Marshall, Fender, Ibanez, Orange, Vox, Laney, Mark Bass, Yamaha, Cort, Aguilar, Taylor, Faith and a selection of the UK’s prominent independent companies to showcase a magnificent array of all things guitar. All exhibition stands sold out in record time, and tickets to the event are expected to follow suit. So book now to enjoy a day that promises to be a guitarists dream....
Granny Eyeball doesn’t like people. Generally speaking, people don’t like her back. Actually, they're not too keen on her front, sides or top either. And definitely not her bottom!
Mad, bad OAP Granny Eyeball is set to terrorise audiences this summer. The geriatric grouch, whose hobbies include making complaints, hunting red squirrels and papier machete, will be hoping to make theatre goers quake in fear at Exeter's most exciting theatre venue, the Bike Shed Theatre (5 – 15 August 2015).
Following the adventures of the UK’s most unpleasant pensioner and featuring...
Leading local advice charity, Exeter Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB), has announced the extension of its successful apprenticeship scheme.
The charity, based in Dix’s Field, launched its first apprenticeship scheme in April 2014 when for the first time it recruited two Business Administration and Customer Service apprentices through Exeter College.
Steve Barriball, Chief Executive of Exeter CAB, said: “Both apprentices have exceeded our expectations. The experience for us has been a very positive one. Jenny and Vicki have found challenges in their first year, but they have met...
Are you looking to gain media experience for your CV?
We’re looking for help later this month for a media campaign to promote Hospiscare Week.
We'd love your your help for two days before the end of August to help pull our media campaign together.
We've joined forces with Radio Exe for this project and you would help record messages and interview staff, volunteers and supporters on what Hospiscare means to them.
You would get support from Hospiscare’s PR Officer and a briefing with Radio Exe. Please email fundraising@hospiscare.co.uk before Friday 14 August...
It will be five years on 10 August since Adam succumbed to bowel cancer.
The charity set up in his name to raise awareness of bowel cancer in the young and help promote a healthy lifestyle through football continues to work hard to achieve its aims.
Since we began we have helped over 5,000 children through supporting PowerChair football in Devon, Downs Syndrome football in Devon, FA Junior Football Leaders Awards in Devon, Somerset and Herefordshire. We have also supported over 100 junior football teams in all of the three counties Adam played in.
The pedestrian who died following a hit and run incident on the A380 in Newton Abbot on Sunday 26 July has been identified.
The victim has been named as Gareth Robert Toms, a 30-year-old from Paignton, who was also known as Frank Hunter.
Police were called at around 1.30am following reports of a collision involving a pedestrian on the A380 Torquay Road near the junction with Aller Brake Road.
Prior to the incident, police had received reports of a man walking in the road, from the direction of Penn Inn roundabout.
