Halloween Extravaganza

Event Date: 
31/10/2013 - 5:00pm
Venue: 
The Donkey Sanctuary, Sidmouth

Visit the Sanctuary after dark for some spooktastic Halloween fun!

We dare you to try the scary menu at the Hayloft Restaurant too! Fancy dress welcome.

Activities individually priced.

5pm – 7pm

Details: www.thedonkeysanctuary.org.uk

Bat Box Building

Event Date: 
30/10/2013 - 10:00am
Venue: 
The Donkey Sanctuary, Sidmouth

Join the Sanctuary's own Bat Man, James, in making a special box for bat roosting in your very own garden.

£8 for each bat kit, it comes with everything you need to create a bad B&B!

10am – 1pm

01395 578222

www.thedonkeysanctuary.org.uk

Spider Day

Event Date: 
29/10/2013 - 10:00am
Venue: 
The Donkey Sanctuary, Sidmouth

Arguably the creepiest of the creepy crawlies, you either love or loathe spiders! Pop along to Box 16 and meet some of the most amazing species found locally.

10am-1pm

Donations welcome

More details: www.thedonkeysanctuary.org.uk

Police charge man for child sex offence in Sidmouth

Authored by Huw Oxburgh
Posted: Wed, 09/25/2013 - 9:21am

Daniel John Pratley, 38, from Okehampton, has been charged with engaging in a sexual activity in the presence of a child and bailed to appear at Exeter Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday 15 October. The charge relates to an incident in Sidmouth on 8 April 2013. Mr Pratley was arrested on Tuesday 24 September following a BBC Crimewatch appeal.

Exeter City FC offers Social Action training with a difference to city’s young people

Authored by fridayanimal
Posted: Tue, 09/24/2013 - 11:28pm

Local voluntary support agency Exeter CVS are teaming up with Exeter City FC and the British Council to offer free Active Citizens training to the city’s young people, with an unusual twist.

The 5-day course in November will show learners aged 18-25 how they can engage in social action: making a difference through volunteering, campaigning, or engaging with authorities to improve services and make change. The course provides support to develop and conduct projects on a local, national and international level; following the programme’s premise –“Globally connected, locally engaged...

YouRock crowdfunding success

Beginning a new venture used to mean applying for funding or getting a loan from the bank, but Ian Clifford from Sidmouth took a gamble on a new way of raising money for a new online venture called YouRock. He decided to try crowd-funding, a method of pitching an idea to the internet and gathering multiple pledges of support.

Ian said, “Asking people on the internet to back your idea is a very rewarding way of raising money for your project. You know that they will only part with hard earned money if they see real merit in what you are trying to do”. In August local papers ran...

Fungi Foray with Nigel Pinhorn

Event Date: 
19/10/2013 - 9:00am
Venue: 
Politmore House, Exeter

Join local fungi expert, Nigel Pinhorn, on an exciting fungi hunt in the grounds of Poltimore House.

Booking is essential.

Tickets available from www.poltimore.org/events or call 01392 248938

The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in concert

Event Date: 
17/10/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
The Great Hall, Exeter University

Programme:

Elgar : Introduction & Allegro Beethoven : Piano Concerto No.3 Elgar : Enigma Variations

Performers:

Conductor : Owain Arwel Hughes Soloist: Leon McCawley (Piano)

Bristling with energy the Introduction & Allegro is an intricately wrought concerto grosso for strings. Abandoning the expansive lyric nature of the Enigma Variations, the work that first brought him to public attention, or the imperial swagger of his marches, Elgar instead took the opportunity to explore a modern approach in a complex and densely packed masterpiece which still...

City of London Sinfonia: The Faure Requiem Tour

Event Date: 
16/10/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Cathedral

This concert tour celebrates the beauty of our magnificent and awe-inspiring churches, with performances of some of the most well known and uplifting sacred music. The Orchestra and the cathedral choir perform works by Thomas Tallis and Ralph Vaughan Williams, along with a new commission by Gabriel Jackson and Fauré's enduringly popular Requiem. There will also be a chance to hear the cathedral organist. perform French composer Francis Poulenc's grand and masterful Organ Concerto, in the 50th anniversary year of the composer's death.

The Fauré Requiem tour celebrates the beauty of...

Sidmouth Science Festival

Event Date: 
14/10/2013 - 9:00am
Venue: 
Sidmouth

Sidmouth Science Festival is being staged throughout the week of Monday14th October to Sunday 20th October 2013.

The aim of the festival is to inform, educate and inspire all parts of our community with regard to the importance and wonders of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) subjects. In addition we wish to engage widely to create a truly community led science festival. The theme of the event will be Science in our lives.

The festival will aim to show how science, technology, engineering and mathematical disciplines impact on our everyday lives by...

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