Rainbow Run

Event Date: 
13/06/2015 - 1:00pm to 4:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Racecourse

Get showered with every colour of the rainbow in the UK’s craziest 5k!

Fancy taking part in a 5k run with a difference? Rainbow Run is not a race or about speed or fitness; it’s about celebration, having crazy fun with friends and raising a smile for your local children’s hospice.

Exeter’s Rainbow Run will take place at Exeter Racecourse on Sunday 13th June 2015. All runners dress in white and as they reach the ‘Rainbow Zones’, they are showered with fluorescent powder paint – reaching the finish line covered in 5 different colours. Participants are able to run, jog or walk...

Why Not? What If?

Event Date: 
28/02/2015 - 7:00pm
Venue: 
Studio 36, St Leonard's, Exeter

Studio 36 in the unlikely setting of an artist’s studio in St Leonards, Exeter, will host a lively tongue in cheek performance by skilful musicians, song writers, poets, & artists of various kinds challenging authoritarian notices on Saturday 28 February.

Do Not Do This! Watch Out for That! No guns, drugs, biking, ball games, jumping from bridges, dogs, parrots or balloons. Look out too for lethal electrics, biting donkeys, vertical drops, heavy seas and submerged objects!

These notices which have inspired the ‘ Why Not? What If?’ event have poured in from family and...

Fairies found in Exeter!

Authored by mrowl
Posted: Tue, 02/17/2015 - 7:46am

Are there fairies at the bottom of your garden?

Maybe not, but Exeter's Fizz Photography have created a magical wonderland in their studio that will have you rubbing your eyes in disbelief.

Award winning photographer Jill English is now offering a Fizz Fairy photo session at her luxury studio in Bowhill House Exeter.

Jill says: "Every little girl has a Tinkerbell just wanting to escape, and we have so much fun the children pretty soon forget I'm taking their photos".

It makes for a fab fun fairy experience, and the photos are so natural,...

Highbullen Hotel appoints Ronnie Orr as Resort Director

Authored by SophyNorris
Posted: Tue, 02/03/2015 - 11:08am

3rd February 2015. Highbullen Hotel, Golf and Country Club is today announcing the appointment of Ronnie Orr as Resort Director.

Ronnie is already in post, having joined the team in November, and is focused on developing all aspects of the guest experience throughout the Resort as plans to grow the existing business continue.

Since being bought by new owner and property entrepreneur Frank Chapman in 2013, the hotel has undergone a significant transformation, with £5 million being invested in improvements across the estate.

All 37 rooms have been modernised and...

Snap up tickets for TEDxExeter 2015

Now in its fourth year, it is expected to be more popular than ever. Last year all 460 tickets for the event were snapped up in a week. This year, organisers expect them to go even faster.

TEDx is a programme of local, self-organised events licensed by TED and made possible by local volunteers who want to engage their communities. The organisers have brought together an inspiring range of speakers who will take the long view in their talks. “We aim to take the long view back into the past, and explore how it has shaped the world we now live in,” said Claire Kennedy, licensee &...

Cyclists donate over £6000 to Foundation

Over £6,000 has been raised for the Exeter Foundation by a group of nine cyclists, who cycled approximately 300 miles around the borders of Devon.

The Tomahawk Tour raised a total of £12,271, which has been split between the Exeter Foundation and Exeter Youth Rugby.

Foundation XV member South West Communications Group (swcomms) played a major role in the Tomahawk Tour, which took place between the 3rd and 6th of September.

The company’s managing director Harry Langley helped organise the 300-mile event and two swcomms’ employees, Dave Maskill and Timm Sharples, were...

Win a pair of Joules wellies

If you are brave enough to venture forth into the sometimes torrential rain, by heading to Princesshay this autumn you will be sure to pick up the latest trendy boot, the welly.

Who would have thought that trendy and welly could go next to each other in the same sentence? With autumn finally upon us it is indeed time to get out those boots that most ‘trendy’ people dread wearing.

In 2014 the welly really did come back with a bang with London Fashion Week seeing the Hunter welly hitting the catwalks along with their new water-resistant clear smocks. As well as Hunter,...

Neville Staple (of the Specials)

Event Date: 
14/11/2014 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Exmouth Pavilion

One of the forerunners of the Ska movement, Neville Staple of the band the Specials will be heading to Exmouth Pavilion this November 14th.

He has worked with legends such as Elvis Costello and has shared the stage with Rankin Roger.

Tickets are available from the link below at £18.15 including booking fee:

http://www.ents24.com/exmouth-events/exmouth-pavilion/neville-staple/384...

Indoor Athletics - Sportshall

Event Date: 
02/11/2014 - 2:30pm to 4:00pm
Venue: 
Clifton Hill Sports Centre

Sportshall, the popular and successful program of indoor athletics which teaches and improves children core sporting skills is back in Exeter. Running at Clifton Hill Sports Centre on selected Sunday afternoons between October 2014 and March 2015, children and their families can enjoy throwing nerf howlers and light up glitter shot balls, trying their hand at long jump and triple jump, or joining in the fun of relays and hurdles.

Family Creative Writing Workshops: Kaleider's Ancient Sunlight - Leadership

Event Date: 
26/10/2014 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Central Library, Meeting Room 4

Creative Workshop with Writer Shiona Morton

Location: Meeting Room 4, Exeter Central Library, Castle Street, Exeter

For Extrememe Imagination we would like to invite you, your brothers and sisters and friends, your parents and carers, your grandparents, even your great grandparents, to come and create stories with us in Exeter Central Library.

In the workshops you will work with some brilliant writers, artists and scientists to create stories around the themes of Love, Leadership, Food, Technology and Justice. The workshops might involve creative writing, poetry,...

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