The Dame Kelly Holmes (DKH) Legacy Trust’s team of world-class athletes will be in Plymouth this June to help inspire the next generation.
The double Olympic champion’s charity is running its ‘Get on Track’ programme, where elite athletes mentor young people to get them into employment, education or training, as well as motivating them to lead healthier lifestyles and take part in sport on a regular basis. The DKH Legacy Trust will be working alongside Active Devon and the Plymouth YMCA to help support the group.
Paralympic Swimmer David Hill, Olympic Swimmer Cassie Patten...
Sport clubs across the Exeter, East and Mid Devon area are taking up the opportunity of free support to help them run their club and grow their membership, making the most of the workshops on funding and marketing through social media on offer on the night.
County Sport Partnership Active Devon is delivering the Club Support evening on Monday 10 June at Exeter City Football Club, St James’ Park, Exeter and are urging all sports clubs to utilise this free resource.
The evenings offer clubs the opportunity to find out about the latest programmes and the workshops will focus...
An apron featuring the signatures of 14 celebrity chefs will be raffled at Darts Farm on 15 June to raise money for a local charity.
Plucky Lesley Weeks from Exmouth contacted the world-famous chefs, including Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay, Paul Hollywood and Heston Blumenthal, in September last year after she signed up to complete a 450k cycle challenge across Vietnam and Cambodia.
This will be the fourth fundraising adventure Lesley, resident hairdresser at Hospiscare, has embarked upon since 2007, raising more than £23,000 for the charity she has worked for over the last...
SwankyApple has been identified by e-commerce software provider Shopify as one of their recommended ‘expert’ developers.
Shopify is a global platform enabling businesses to create and manage their own online retail stores. They currently host over 50,000 e-commerce websites, with 5,000 new clients signing up every month.
The ‘expert’ scheme recommends local web design companies with a proven track record for helping clients do more with their website.
SwankyApple Director Dan McIvor said: “We’re delighted to have been recognised in this way by Shopify. We’ve worked...
Police are appealing for witnesses to come forward following a serious collision between a Honda motorcyle and a Vauxhall Astra on the westbound carriageway of the A30 near Honiton on Friday (31 May) afternoon.
Officers are particularly keen to speak to the driver of a blue car seen in the area at around the time of the collision who may be able to assist the investigation.
The male motorcyclist was treated by paramedics at the scene then airlifted to Derriford Hospital. He remains in a serious condition. The male driver of the Astra was uninjured.
A project to help unite a mission community has raised nearly £3,000 for the diocese Sand Dam Lent Appeal. This now takes the total to £8,874.
“I’m absolutely thrilled!” said the Revd Chas Deacon, Diocesan Companion Links Mission Officer. “This will help us to make a good start towards assisting water security in the Thika Diocese in Kenya. There’s a lot to be done!”
The Five Alive Mission Community was the first mission community to be created in the Exeter and undertook the fundraising project to promote unity. Simultaneously they also followed a Lent course called, ‘...
Exeter-based Space commercial property advisers have helped a long-established firm of solicitors to merge two traditional offices into a new modern location. Law firm Dyne Drewett called in SPACE to help merge their Sherborne and Wincanton offices into new premises at Sherborne Business Centre, which offers an open plan environment, more parking, and room for growth. SPACE worked with Dyne Drewitt through the whole process, sourcing and shortlisting suitable premises, negotiating terms of the lease and then project managing the conversion of the new site from cold and tired premises to a...
Professor Roy Sambles is to be the new president-elect of the Institute of Physics (IOP). Prof. Sambles was elected by the IOP’s Council and will serve as president-elect from 1 October 2013 to 30 September 2015, and as president from 1 October 2015 to 30 September 2017.
Prof. Sambles has been professor of experimental physics at the University of Exeter since 1991, where he is academic lead of the large electromagnetic and acoustic materials research group.
Born in Cornwall, Prof. Sambles has worked at the University of Exeter for 40 years and currently lives in Crediton...
Wild Beef, a family-run Chagford farm specialising in naturally reared and nutritionally superior beef, has announced the official launch of the Wild Beef West Country Farm Shop.
The farm shop stocks the finest artisan food and drink from Devon, Cornwall and Somerset. The shop’s produce is available at Wild Beef’s market locations at Borough and Broadway, in London, and Wells, in Somerset. The range is also available by mail order.
Supporting boutique farms and suppliers, the shop brings together exceptional produce not easily accessible outside the fertile South West...
Proving that any space can be a theatre and anyone can tell a story, Ignite is a 6-day celebration of new live performance work from the South West and beyond that will host events in a number of venues across Exeter.
It is an affordable opportunity for artists, performers and companies to preview their Edinburgh shows or as a local, alternative, exciting festival experience, aiming to create a diverse and inspiring summer festival programme.
Over 50 performances are to take place across the city at venues including Exeter Phoenix, The Bike Shed Theatre and The Cygnet...
