Exeter city will unfold into a week-long festival of play, colour and kindness in the middle of June.
As we re-emerge from lockdown, families, children and adults are all invited to play games, make music and have a lot of fun in the green spaces of our city centre. Watch out for kindness ninjas roaming the streets, playful yoga in the park, origami, quizzes and a scavenger hunt. After months of being deserted, the city centre will blossom once again as we celebrate Kinder Exeter. This event will be ticketed, limited to smaller groups, keeping in line with current Covid-19...
There was a record increase in demand for electric car home charging grants in 2020, according to figures from the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles.
Over 42,000 grants for home charging devices were made last year, worth nearly £17m, which was over a quarter of the value of grants since the government launched the scheme in 2014.
Electric Vehicle Homecharge Scheme (EVHS) grants provide 75% of the cost of installing electric vehicle devices at domestic properties in the UK.
The south east leads the UK for the highest percentage of devices under the EVHS – 735...
CHILDREN in Exeter are being called to pen a short poem about hunger and what it means to them, as part of a national competition run by anti-poverty charity the Trussell Trust, which supports a network of food banks across the UK.
The charity is calling on youngsters, aged nine and under, to create and draw a hungry character and tell its story in the form of a short poem – as part of its Bye Bye Hunger competition.
The top twenty entries will be published in a poetry book and one star prize winner will see their character brought to life in the Trussell Trust campaign...
A new South West business using artificial intelligence to accurately assess risk in the commercial property insurance sector has raised close to £1 million as it launches in the UK and USA.
Founded by entrepreneur and innovator Anthony Peake, Exeter-based Intelligent AI has been backed by investors and the Government through funding from Innovate UK.
The company has developed an online Intelligent Risk platform using 300 real-time data sources ranging from weather and flood risks to crime rates and fire service response times. It could help to save the sector over £500m...
A project to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere will be crucial to the UK’s bid to reach Net Zero by 2050 – and is set to spark the biggest change in land use since the Second World War.
The NetZeroPlus project, led by Professor Ian Bateman from the University of Exeter Business School, is one of five interdisciplinary projects that will receive a total of £31.5m from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) – with each project investigating a different method of removing harmful greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere.
A COVID-19 pandemic is a worldwide event that has affected the lives of many businesses and employees. It has led to some businesses having to close permanently while leaving others having to operate remotely from home.
In addition to these changes, what would have been affected as well is employees’ attitudes to workplace benefits and what they value as being the most important aspect to have as a result of working for a business, particularly during these challenging times.
According to Cezanne HR’s employee workplace benefits study , 42% of firms have either made or...
Plans for Cats Protection’s trailblazing adoption centre in Exeter have been revealed and given the green light to proceed this summer, featuring pioneering facilities for cats, staff and visitors, including an enrichment garden.
The first building works, which will see a new adoption centre replace the feline welfare charity’s existing Exeter Axhayes Adoption Centre at Clyst Honiton, are scheduled to begin by mid-June.
Stockport architects Bowker-Sadler have designed a bespoke centre on the current site, taking inspiration from historical local architectural forms...
Ventilation is essential in a business environment but, air leakage occurs when conditioned air flows irregularly into and out of a structure through cracks and holes are external unpermitted air that infiltrates a building or environment through cracks, holes, or any other structural damage.
Just as the impacts and explanations have been complex so far, so is the cost of solving such problems. Manufacturing plants lose up to 20%-40% of generated air to air leaks (the larger the building, the higher the percentage of air loss).
There are some distinct advantages and disadvantages to leasing a car compared to simply outright buying it. The choice of which avenue you choose to go ultimately depends on your current, individual situation and where you are financially. Today we will explain how car leasing works, what the advantages and disadvantages are, and how leasing a car may be beneficial to you.
How car leasing works
If you were to buy a car, you are free to use it however you please. However, you’ll also be responsible for covering the costs of any repairs needed - and repairs are always inevitable...
During the Spring 2020 lockdown volunteers from across the nation plotted a network of walking routes that connect all of Great Britain’s towns and cities.
Without leaving home over 7,000 ‘Slow Ways’ walking routes were mapped using existing paths, trails and roads. Combined, the routes stretch for 100,000km and lap the equator twice.
The team behind Slow Ways is now looking for people from every town and city in Great Britain to walk and review the routes to make sure they work in practice.
Dan Raven-Ellison started the Slow Ways initiative just before the...
