One of the UK’s leading builders merchants will bring a £3,000 boost for charities and community groups when it opens a new branch in Exeter later this month.
Selco Builders Warehouse will open the doors to its 73rd UK branch on Filmer Way in Marsh Barton on Tuesday, April 26.
The opening will produce an economic boost for the local area, with 30 jobs being created.
To mark the new opening, Selco is also inviting charities or community groups from in and around Exeter to submit an application for its Selco Community Heroes scheme for the chance to win £1,000....
Latest figures show that Devon is home to more than 60,000 companies for the very first time – highlighting its popularity as a place to do business.
There are now 60,428 businesses registered in the county according to company secretarial software specialists Inform Direct, based on statistics from Companies House and the Office for National Statistics.
The milestone announcement follows Devon enjoying a record year for company formations during 2021, when it recorded 6,825 new businesses.
John Korchak, Director of Operations at Inform Direct said: “These...
A team of riders from national law firm, Foot Anstey LLP, will be swapping their suits for lycra for a two-day bike ride in support of the Disasters Emergency Committee's (DEC) Ukraine Appeal.
The two-day bike ride will start on 5 May from Foot Anstey's Truro office and see the team cycle to Foot Anstey's offices in Plymouth, Exeter, and Taunton before finishing at the firm's Bristol office on 6 May.
The fundraisers will be able to make use of the firm's CSR Hours initiative, which allows employees to take two additional days off per year to support local charitable...
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Hundreds of children across Devon aged 5 to 16, who are eligible for benefit-related free school meals, begin an action-packed Easter holiday this week, as part of Devon County Council's government-funded Holiday Activities and Food programme.
The programme is to provide free activities and healthy meals during school holidays, and the council has joined up with activity providers to arrange the activities across Devon.
And with a very wide range of activities on offer, organisers say that that young people are in for a treat this Easter.
Exeter Living Award winners Boo To A Goose Theatre, start a tour of Devon libraries this Easter with their latest show: Shipwreck Sam - Return to Dead Ghost Island.
Expect pirates, puppetry, sea shanties and hornpipes as the audience are trained up as the ship’s crew. Bonny Betty, named after her grandma’s ship, takes on terrible naughty pirate, Big Bill Bucketbelly, in a race to recover her grandma’s buried treasure (with the children’s help of course).
This interactive adventure, full of of fun and participation, will be coming to a library or venue near you between...
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Independent charity Devon Communities Together (DCT) has launched a new wellbeing programme, Wellbeing Works, to support people and businesses in Devon to prioritise their wellbeing and resilience as we continue to recover from the pandemic.
People can access free 1-2-1 wellbeing check-ins with trained volunteers or join one of a series of online workshops designed to share tools and techniques for better wellbeing. There are a whole range of two-hour workshops on offer, from the ‘Five Ways to Wellbeing’, to ‘Wellbeing at Work’ and even ‘Doodling for Wellbeing’, plus many more....
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Rural residents with oil storage tanks are being warned to check their security amidst increased fears that thieves could target them.
William Nicholl, client director at rural insurance broker Lycetts, said people are stockpiling oil supplies before the sanctions imposed on Russia cause even greater price increases.
“Storage tanks can contain hundreds – and sometimes thousands – of pounds of oil, so they are an obvious target.
“In recent weeks there have been a number of nationwide thefts by organised gangs who have siphoned-off oil. This is no hi-tech,...
