The Exeter Dementia Action Alliance has now been established in Exeter with the aim to develop awareness of dementia and dementia support within businesses and other organisations across the city.
Over the next 10 years dementia will increase significantly from the existing 850,000 people nationwide currently with a diagnosis.
Community initiatives like these aspire to raise awareness across the city. Currently there are 26 alliances across the South West.
This work will be guided by needs based strategies which will involve the voices of those with dementia and...
Thirty businesses in Devon and Somerset have received around £800,000 of grant money to help boost the region’s economy and create jobs.
Funds were secured in 2012 by Devon County Council from Defra (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) and the RDPE (Rural Development Programme for England) for the Heart of the South West Rural Enterprise Grant Scheme at the beginning of last year.
84 jobs will have been created by March 2015 and a further 33 by March 2017 totalling 117 giving a GVA (Gross Value Added) increase of £4.9m by March 2017
Devon law firm Kitsons has teamed up with Exeter City Football Club to offer supporters of Exeter City the opportunity to make or update their Will, in return for a donation to the Club’s charity arm, Football in the Community.
Through the scheme, for every new will completed by the Private Client team at Kitsons Solicitors in Exeter, the firm will donate a proportion of its fees for those wills to the Football in the Community Charity.
Football in the Community is an award winning registered charity, established 24 years ago and now managed by former Grecians player, and...
Come and experience the ultimate ‘Sevens Heaven’ as Exeter prepares to welcome the European Grand Prix 7s Series to Sandy Park in July.
The award-winning home of rugby in Devon – which has already been selected as one of 12 venues for this year’s Rugby World Cup – is set to welcome the cream of European Sevens talent for a star-studded weekend of action.
With qualification for the 2016 Olympics in Brazil on the line, the July 11-12 event promises to be an vital competition for the seven-a-side game – and will see the home unions of England, Scotland and Wales, tackling...
The Lympstone based South West Comms Band will again be performing at one of the most popular charity events on the Devon musical calendar. Led by new musical director Rich Harvey, they will take to the stage for the fifth Classics Galore! concert.
Classics Galore! is an extravaganza of entertainment that features familiar and uplifting music performed by a 200-hundred strong ensemble - a full orchestra, the Lympstone brass band and two choral societies.
The event is staged to raise money for local cancer charity FORCE and this year’s concert will be at the University of...
People are being encouraged to ensure they don’t miss their chance to vote in this year’s elections.
Exeter City Council is urging any local residents not yet registered to vote, to go online now and register. National Voter Registration Day, which encourages people to get involved in the democratic process by ensuring they are registered to vote, is being held on 5 February, although voter registration can take place at any time.
There are less than 100 days until voters go to the polls to elect a Member of Parliament for the Exeter and East Devon constituencies. Local...
Live Nation presents Count Arthur Strong : "Somebody Up There Licks Me!"
Fresh from donkeys years on his award winning BBC Radio 4 series and the huge success of his BBC2 TV Show, Count Arthur Strong gets back to doing what he does best. This show. In 'Somebody Up There Likes Me' he'll be doing all sorts of wonderful things for you to sit there staring at as you quietly suck your Maltesers and don't get up to go to the toilet, applauding loudly at the appropriate moments. You'll laugh, cry and the other one. Here's a personal message from Arthur himself.
The Unthanks is a family affair for Tyneside sisters Rachel and Becky Unthank, with Rachel married to pianist, producer, arranger and composer, Adrian McNally. Using the traditional music of the North East of England as a starting point, the influence of Steve Reich, Miles Davis, Sufjan Stevens, Robert Wyatt, Antony & The Johnsons, King Crimson and Tom Waits can be heard in the band's 7 albums to date.
Since releasing three project albums in one year back in 2012, The Unthanks have been hiding away in Northumberland, quietly working away on an ambitious follow-up to 2011's Last...
For more than 40 years the Exeter Dance Festival has celebrated the very best dancing in the South West. From Ballet to Hip Hop and Greek to Song & Dance. Individuals, duos, trios and groups, all compete as part of the National Federation of Dance Festivals. We are very pleased to welcome the festival back to the Corn Exchange.
Championship Evening - Friday 20 February
See dancers from the week's championship classes compete for trophies in ballet, tap and modern. £6 (£5 concessions) 5.30pm (doors 5pm)
‘What mean those fierce lions, those monstrous centaurs, those fighting soldiers and horn-blowing hunters?’
Join John Campbell and wade through the weird and wonderful to uncover the theories behind the iconography of the early font at St Mary in Luppitt, Devon.
Tickets from 01392 285983 or online www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/boxoffice
