The University of Exeter Students’ Guild is gearing up to manage the community impact of some 7000 new student arrivals with the deployment of trained volunteers to support student integration and provide a key community link.
Now in its sixth year, the Students’ Guild Welcome Team comprises 180 unpaid student volunteers trained to signpost, support and help new students around the city during the ten day ‘freshers’ period, this year beginning on 13th September.
The Welcome Team works in partnership with police, venue managers and Exeter City Council to reduce night-time...
Exhibition runs Saturday 20 September – Sunday 9 November
Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey, Devon, TQ13 9AF
The exhibition takes its direction from Common Ground, a Dorset charity who explored the relationship between nature and culture through areas such as music, sculpture, poetry and film. The Devon Guild is breaking new ground by using the media of craft to celebrate the charity’s idea of ‘local distinctiveness’ or ‘the unique characteristics such as customs, myths or plants’ - of a neighbourhood or small community.
Celebrating home-grown making with a showcase of 12 craftmakers who use materials which are locally distinct, natural or recycled. The show explores local heritage and environment using traditional skills and resources combined with contemporary approaches. Exhibits include organic sculpture, roadkill materials, installations and recycled jewellery. Open daily. Free. 10am-5.30pm
Exeter Chiefs may have started the new Aviva Premiership season with a bang at London Welsh last weekend, but head coach Rob Baxter knows a much tougher challenge awaits his side when Leicester Tigers arrive in town tomorrow (3.15pm). A 52-0 drubbing of the league's newcomers is always nice to crow about after week one, but Baxter insists the Tigers are a totally different kettle of fish and a quick glance at the league history is testament to that very fact. The Midlanders have been crowned Premiership Kings on ten different occasions and having missed out on their annual pilgrimage to...
Crowds large and small came out across Devon today (Thursday 11 September) as the Friends Life Tour of Britain raced through the county.
Stage Five of this year’s Tour, hosted by Devon County Council, was the eighth consecutive year that Britain’s biggest cycling race had visited the county. The Stage started in Exmouth on East Devon’s Jurassic Coast with a welcome from the fans as warm as the weather.
A huge crowd greeted the riders when they arrived in Exeter but along the route villagers (such as those pictured above in Bow) also lined the route.
Exeter Chiefs newcomer Thomas Waldrom says the Devon club can ill afford to take a backward step when they lock horns with his former club Leicester Tigers this Saturday at Sandy Park (3.15pm). Having departed the East Midlands this summer for a new start in the Westcountry, the experienced No.8 wasted little time in making his mark for Rob Baxter's side, scoring two tries on his league debut in Exeter's 52-0 thumping of newly-promoted London Welsh. It was a dream start not only for Waldrom and the Chiefs, but the England international knows a much stiffer test awaits his new club when the...
Teens with an interest in high-flying careers as architects, interior designers and structural engineers can meet the team behind a new specialist school opening next year in Ashburton at the town’s Food Festival this weekend.
Called Atrium Studio, the new government-funded school will offer students aged 13-18 an education focusing on the professions within the Built Environment, and will be the first offering this specialism in the South West. Construction of the £3.7m state-of-the-art complex – designed by the award-winning Satellite Architects – will begin in January 2015 on a...
On October 22nd, Exeter Chiefs supporters will again have the opportunity to team up and pit their wits against each other in the popular Sandy Park Corporate Quiz night.
The quiz will be set and hosted by the Chiefs’ official Away-Day Quiz Master, Haydn Thomas and the first 20 teams to sign up will be joined by a member of the Exeter Chiefs squad.
Teams can have up to six members and the entry fee is £150 +VAT, which includes a finger buffet.
Proceeds of the Corporate Quiz evening will go to the Chiefs’ Charity, the Exeter Foundation.
Browne Jacobson has appointed corporate and commercial specialist Lynne Rathbone who joins the firm’s Exeter office as a partner. Lynne joins from Exeter law firm Stephens Scown where she was a senior associate.
Lynne specialises in advising on all aspects of corporate and commercial work to public and private sector clients, with a particular expertise in corporate transactions, business sales, shareholders agreements, partnerships, joint ventures, procurement and private equity investment work.
Her public sector experience has seen her advising a variety of clients from...
